Free Course · Sarah & Steve Pirie-Nally
Minimum
Viable
Parenting™
DESIGN THINKING FOR FAMILY DESIGN
We don't do perfect here. We do present. We do progress over performance. Apply the same design thinking framework used by the world's best innovators to the most important project of your life — your family.
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5 Kids
Between Us
3 Chapters
9 Lessons
Real Stories
Lived Experience
Design Thinking
For Family Design
The Framework
What if you applied
design thinking
to your family?
Design thinking is the methodology behind the world's most innovative products, organisations, and experiences. It's human-centred, iterative, and built for complex, ever-changing systems.
Sound familiar? That's exactly what a modern family is.
MVP — Minimum Viable Parenting™ applies the same five-stage design process to family life. Not to make it perfect. To make it yours.
Empathise
Understand every member of your family system — their needs, fears, and strengths.
Define
Get clear on your non-negotiables, your values, and the family you're intentionally designing.
Ideate
Co-create solutions with your kids — not rules imposed on them, but systems built with them.
Prototype
Test new rhythms, rituals, and routines. Not everything will work. That's the point.
Iterate
Families are living systems. Review, adjust, and grow — together, with grace.
The Curriculum
3 Chapters. 9 Lessons.
A lifetime of impact.
Each chapter builds on the last — from knowing yourself, to building your family system, to raising the next generation with intention.
Know Yourself First
The design brief starts with you
Every great design starts with deep user research — and in this chapter, you are the user. Discover your parenting style, your non-negotiables, and the patterns you inherited. Because you can't design a better family system until you understand the designer.
Welcome — You Are the MVP
~3 min · Welcome
Know Your Parenting Style
~3 min · Self-Awareness
Your Non-Negotiables
~4 min · Boundaries
Build Your Family System
Prototype, test, iterate — together
Design thinking is collaborative by nature. In this chapter you'll map your stakeholder ecosystem, co-create with your kids, and build a Family Operating System that everyone has a hand in designing. The best family systems aren't imposed — they're co-created.
Who Is Parenting With You?
~3 min · Stakeholder Map
Co-Create With Your Kids
~3 min · Co-Creation
Navigating Tough Times
~4 min · Resilience
Raise Future Humans
Design for the long game
The final chapter zooms out to the big picture: the humans you're raising. From modelling the behaviours you want to see, to understanding the science behind why kids do what they do, to protecting their mental health — this is family design at its most meaningful.
Monkey See, Monkey Do
~3 min · Modelling
Behavioural Science Made Simple
~2 min · Science
Mental Health & Parenting
~3 min · Mental Health
✦ Plus: Your Family Values Canvas
After the final lesson, you'll design your family's core values, non-negotiable rituals, and a family mantra — a living document you can print, frame, and revisit as your family evolves.
What's Inside
Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.
9 Video Lessons
Sarah & Steve share real lived experience from blending a family of 5 — honest, warm, and immediately practical.
Design Thinking Framework
Apply the same methodology used by the world's best innovators to the most important design challenge of your life: your family.
Family Values Canvas
A guided reflection tool to define your family's core values, non-negotiable rituals, and your family mantra — printable and frameable.
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About Sarah & Steve
We've blended a family
of five.
Sarah and Steve Pirie-Nally are the co-parents of 5 amazing kids. Sarah gave birth to 2 of them and Steve was involved in the creation of 3. Together they've blended their family — and learned everything the hard way.
The MVP framework was born from their lived experience: the snack box debates, the device time negotiations, the blended family logistics, and the deep belief that families are living systems — not static org charts.
Sarah brings her expertise as an AI strategist and design thinking practitioner to the most personal domain of all — and the result is a course that feels both deeply human and brilliantly structured.
This course is not about getting it right. It's about getting real, together.
What Parents Say
"I've never felt so seen as a parent. Sarah and Steve are the real deal — they've lived this, and it shows. The MVP framework changed how our whole family operates."
Mum of 3
Melbourne
"The lesson on non-negotiables alone was worth everything. I finally have language for what I need, and my kids actually respect it."
Co-parent
Sydney
"As a blended family we've tried everything. This is the first thing that felt like it was actually made for us — not some perfect nuclear family ideal."
Step-parent
Brisbane
Start Today — It's Free
Your family is not broken.
It's in Beta.
Your kids don't need you perfect. They need you present, curious, and willing to lead with love — even through mess. Start designing your family with intention today.
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