A bridge for families, children and adolescents — between education and the places where knowledge is lived.
EnterOn one side: families who wish to complement school with lived experience — school families, worldschoolers, homeschoolers, online-school families — and the schools and programmes that walk with them.
On the other: a living network, growing place by place — artisans and elders, keepers of ancestral traditions, ecovillages and sustainable communities, integrative schools and educational projects.
Between them, Casa Viva curates, connects, and designs each experience — so that what is lived returns home into daily life.
We don't replace school. We widen where learning can happen.
Curated places to discover at your own pace.
View →Seasonal immersions in Sardinia, and curated journeys in places around the world.
Enter →Research, modules and exchange between families — and the other partners in this bridge.
Join →What are you looking for? We are listening to families to build what comes next. Tell us how you complement your children's learning today, and what you haven't found yet. Write
Before choosing a school, a programme or a year abroad, find what matters to your family. The Compass gathers 32 criteria across eight dimensions, from languages and ancestral cultures to emotional resilience and the path to university. Answer it yourself, with whoever decides with you, and with your children. Then rate the options you are considering, and see what none of them offers yet.
Enter the compassCasa Viva grows between two homes: Switzerland and Sardinia.
It is rooted in intercultural learning, ancestral knowledge, craftsmanship, and the quiet rhythms of daily life.
We translate curriculum into lived experience, and lived experience into curriculum — an education where encounter, guidance, and practical life shape one another, preparing adolescents to participate consciously in the world they will help create.
We build bridges between generations — between the elders, who hold a living library of memory and craft, and the children and young people who carry it onward into their own time.
Casa Viva is the space between — where perception happens on its own.
What if learning didn't have to be separated from living? What if the village, the workshop, the table, the seasons — the world itself — could be the real classroom?
For more than fifteen years I have been a researcher and writer of living ancestral cultures and traditions, and of interactive education.
For the past five years I began to travel and live intentionally with my children, letting each place teach us in its own way: craftspeople, elders, daily work, the different rhythms of each community. What I saw changed me. The learning was deeper because it was lived, not taught.
With the wisdom we gathered along the way, we brought this into our daily life. And it grows larger when it is shared.
Casa Viva grew from that. It is my way of opening this to other families and schools — not as a programme to consume, but as a way of living and learning together.
— Sue Gomes, founder of Casa Viva
Curated journeys and village residencies where daily life becomes your children's education.
Enter →Programs, immersions and tools shaped together with educators for their own children, adolescents and teachers.
Enter →Integrative educational journeys lived together with my own children across Switzerland, Europe, and beyond. Each is drawn from living cultures and learning traditions around the world, and shaped by the educational approaches that give the journey structure. Each place becomes part of daily life, where travel turns into education, and local traditions into lived knowledge. Every curated destination unfolds as a Living Guide, available in two ways:
View the guidesSeasonal immersions in a Sardinian village, with Sue and her own children, alongside a small group of families: days lived together in the village — the artisans' workshops, shared meals, the village table.
EnterSmall-group ateliers for parents and children, one a month across the season: Nonviolent Communication, etiquette and social confidence, young entrepreneurs, money and emotional intelligence, and a conversation on ancestral wisdom and the passage to adolescence. In person in Geneva, online, and woven into our Sardinian immersions.
View the agendaPlaces researched and lived by Casa Viva, opening for families to journey together in curated territories around the world — sometimes with Sue, sometimes among other families themselves — with a Living Guide and local partners.
View the guidesCasa Viva also designs learning experiences for schools and educational programmes seeking lived learning beyond the classroom.
The starting point for every educational partnership. Rather than a fixed programme, we design together — listening first to the school, its educators and the children and adolescents themselves, to their needs, their values and their rhythm, and shaping an experiential pathway that belongs to them. The conversation begins here; everything that follows is built from it.
EnterAdoLab is an immersive educational programme where adolescents learn through lived experience. Inspired by Montessori principles, integrative education and ancestral knowledge, it accompanies adolescents through real life, meaningful work, and intercultural experience. Built on intergenerational learning, practical life, and real-impact projects — with curriculum-equivalence documentation. For schools whose path ends before adolescence, it also serves as a bridge for students moving on.
EnterThe gathered materials of the Casa Viva approach — modules, templates, experience guides and reflection journals — shaped for a school's own context. A practical foundation that an institution can carry within its own walls.
Join the membershipA living space for families — and the other partners walking this bridge with them — to go deeper, exchange and grow together.
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Join the membershipFor families, partners, and those who wish to walk alongside us.
For schools, institutions, and professional conversations.
Our visual archive — a quiet collection of the experiences as they unfold — lives on Instagram.