DELIBERATE DETOUR
SUPPORTING TRAVELING FAMILIES
DELIBERATE DETOUR
SUPPORTING TRAVELING FAMILIES
WELCOME TO DELIBERATE DETOUR
Deliberate Detour supports traveling families in making their dreams come true. With more than 30 years of experience living, working, volunteering, backpacking, and worldschooling in nearly 50 countries, we provide knowledge, strategy, empathy, and solutions you need to plan a successful journey for your own family.
A successful journey– one that’s most impactful and life-changing– addresses the needs, goals, hopes, and constraints unique to your group. It gives you the outcomes you hope to achieve, whether closer family bonds, a slower pace of life, knowledge acquisition, mental and emotional wellbeing, or healing.
OUR GOAL: We help your family create the worldschooling journey that’s right for you by arranging all the moving parts into a plan that will blow your minds and change your lives.
For those new to worldschooling, our comprehensive course gives you the tools, information, and support needed to plan your journey. It’s perfect for those who enjoy a self-paced, independent work experience.
WELCOME TO DELIBERATE DETOUR
Deliberate Detour supports traveling families in making their dreams come true. With more than 30 years of experience living, working, volunteering, backpacking, and worldschooling in nearly 50 countries, we provide knowledge, strategy, empathy, and solutions you need to plan a successful journey for your own family.
A successful journey– one that’s most impactful and life-changing– addresses the needs, goals, hopes, and constraints unique to your group. It gives you the outcomes you hope to achieve, whether closer family bonds, a slower pace of life, knowledge acquisition, mental and emotional wellbeing, or healing.
OUR GOAL: We help your family create the worldschooling journey that’s right for you by arranging all the moving parts into a plan that will blow your minds and change your lives.
For those new to worldschooling, our comprehensive course gives you the tools, information, and support needed to plan your journey. It’s perfect for those who enjoy a self-paced, independent work experience.
WHAT WE DO
When families decide to leave a conventional lifestyle to travel the world for an extended period of time, our to-do list blows up. We must consider how to budget and afford a worldschooling lifestyle, keep our children well-socialized and connected to peers, tie up our lives at home, educate our children, and much, much more. While the outcome of this work is a transformative experience that can expand our minds, bring on profound personal growth, and strengthen family relationships, the process can be daunting.
Deliberate Detour is here to help. We meet each family where they are.
WHAT WE DO
When families decide to leave a conventional lifestyle to travel the world for an extended period of time, our to-do list blows up. We must consider how to budget and afford a worldschooling lifestyle, keep our children well-socialized and connected to peers, tie up our lives at home, educate our children, and much, much more. While the outcome of this work is a transformative experience that can expand our minds, bring on profound personal growth, and strengthen family relationships, the process can be daunting.
Deliberate Detour is here to help. We meet each family where they are.
OUR SERVICES
COURSES
For Independent Workers
Check out the ONLY comprehensive worldschooling course on the market!
- Learn everything you need to begin your worldschooling adventure
- Receive 1.5 hours of content over 19 lectures
- Download 14 valuable resources, including worksheets, tips, hacks, and secrets!
- Work at your own pace to plan the trip that’s right for your family
- Set your goals and develop a plan that meets your family’s needs
- Learn answers to the most common questions like how to afford a worldschooling lifestyle and how to keep children socialized
- Become inspired by tales of travel failures, successes, and lessons learned
- Gain insights and advice from a dozen contributing worldschooling experts
GROUPS
For Those Who Like Teams
Join a community of other beginning worldschoolers to learn, plan, and prepare together.
- Meet twice per month online to discuss important worldschooling topics
- Hear from experts in subjects such as using points and miles, traveling slowly versus quickly, educating children with different approaches, working abroad, and more
- Share your concerns along with your expertise, research, and golden finds
- Ask questions and share ideas in a private, supportive, non-judgemental Facebook group
- Receive tips, discounts, hacks, and just-revealed hub opportunities as a member
- Build a community of travelers to gather with abroad
- Keep active and accountable as you plan your journey with the support of others
COACHING
For Those Who Prefer Partnership
Work with a worldschooling expert to plan and launch your journey.
- Identify your family’s specific needs, dreams, constraints, and hopes for your journey
- Gain support on questions and concerns unique to your family
- Shape the trip that’s right for you, selecting destinations, educational approaches, work balance, and more
- Work with your accountability partner to stay on track as you prepare
- Turn the conceptual to the concrete, utilizing a valuable set of tools and worksheets
- Access a network of authorities and experts on topics like neurodivergent children, traveling while Black, solo-parent travel, and more
- Maintain your connection as you travel for continued support
OUR SERVICES
COURSES
For Independent Workers
Check out the ONLY comprehensive worldschooling course on the market!
- Learn everything you need to begin your worldschooling adventure
- Receive 1.5 hours of content over 19 lectures
- Download 14 valuable resources, including worksheets, tips, hacks, and secrets!
- Work at your own pace to plan the trip that’s right for your family
- Set your goals and develop a plan that meets your family’s needs
- Learn answers to the most common questions like how to afford a worldschooling lifestyle and how to keep children socialized
- Become inspired by tales of travel failures, successes, and lessons learned
- Gain insights and advice from a dozen contributing worldschooling experts
GROUPS
For Those Who Like Teams
Join a community of other beginning worldschoolers to learn, plan, and prepare together.
- Meet twice per month online to discuss important worldschooling topics
- Hear from experts in subjects such as using points and miles, traveling slowly versus quickly, educating children with different approaches, working abroad, and more
- Share your concerns along with your expertise, research, and golden finds
- Ask questions and share ideas in a private, supportive, non-judgemental Facebook group
- Receive tips, discounts, hacks, and just-revealed hub opportunities as a member
- Build a community of travelers to gather with abroad
- Keep active and accountable as you plan your journey with the support of others
COACHING
For Those Who Prefer Partnership
Work with a worldschooling expert to plan and launch your journey.
- Identify your family’s specific needs, dreams, constraints, and hopes for your journey
- Gain support on questions and concerns unique to your family
- Shape the trip that’s right for you, selecting destinations, educational approaches, work balance, and more
- Work with your accountability partner to stay on track as you prepare
- Turn the conceptual to the concrete, utilizing a valuable set of tools and worksheets
- Access a network of authorities and experts on topics like neurodivergent children, traveling while Black, solo-parent travel, and more
- Maintain your connection as you travel for continued support
WORLDSCHOOLERS:
Innovative Parents Turning Countries into Classrooms
Our book captures the unique worldschooling experiences of 22 authors. Get ready to read about what curriculum we use, how we get our worldschooled children into college, how we earn money while traveling, how personal growth emerges from travel, and much, much more.
Growing up about an hour from New York City, Stephanie Tolk became fascinated at a young age by different foods, dress, customs, and languages and has been entranced by the world’s cultures ever since. She took her first solo trip at age 15 and has visited nearly 50 countries. She’s spent more than five years of her life abroad, including living in a small African village in Mali for two years.
Now a mother to young teenagers, Stephanie is one of the world’s authorities on how to immerse into cultures, attain transcendent personal growth through travel, and worldschool with children. Through Deliberate Detour, she joyously shares her wisdom, tips, and experiences with families interested in life-changing, long-term travel.
