Learn to listen, speak, and set boundaries in ways that build trust, empathy, and genuine connection — in families, learning environments, and communities.
If you’re here, it’s because you care deeply about your relationships — with kids, with families, with yourself.
And you can feel when communication isn’t landing the way you wish it would.
Maybe you freeze.
Maybe you snap.
Maybe you hear your own voice and think,
“I swore I would never talk like this.”
You love your kids, your family and your community with your whole heart —
and still, in the hard moments, your nervous system leads before your values can catch up.
This course helps you change that.
The way we listen, speak, and respond shapes the world between us.
Most of us grew up in systems that valued:
So when conflict hits, our bodies do what they learned to do — shut down, explode, defend, or retreat.
These aren’t character flaws.
They’re communication barriers — patterns that were modeled for us, practiced for years, and absorbed into our relationships.
Communication That Transforms Relationships helps you understand these barriers with compassion and gives you tools to replace them with clarity, curiosity, and collaboration.
Through examples, guided reflection, and practical frameworks, you’ll learn to communicate in ways that build trust — even when things feel tense or messy.
CTR is for parents and educators who want relationships that feel grounded, respectful, and real — not perfect. Through videos, reflection prompts, everyday examples, and tools you can use immediately, you’ll learn to:
Stay connected under stress – Recognize when you’re activated and return to yourself before reacting.
Listen to understand – Move past assumptions and judgments so you can meet needs — yours and theirs — with empathy.
Set boundaries with integrity – Speak your truth without guilt, control, or collapse.
Repair with honesty and care – Rebuild trust after ruptures and create safety for growth.
CTR weaves insight with practice.
Each module blends real-life examples, reflection prompts, and simple tools that help you recognize your patterns, regulate your nervous system, and communicate with more intention and ease.
You’ll leave with:
language that feels natural
clarity in moments of conflict
the ability to stay rooted when things get messy
a deeper understanding of what’s really happening beneath behaviors and emotions
This isn’t about perfect communication.
It’s about becoming the adult you needed — and creating relationships where everyone feels safe to be human.
After taking CTR, you'll be able to:
Communication that transforms begins with awareness — take the first step.
Video lessons that take you from understanding patterns of power and control to embodying communication rooted in empathy, honesty, and consent. You’ll see what it looks like in action through real examples and guided demonstrations.
A written guide to deepen your learning — full of reflection prompts and practice invitations that help you move from understanding to embodiment.
A full collection of materials designed to support your journey — including needs and emotions lists, the Chaos Model, reflective frameworks, and practice sheets like the 90-Second Reset and Boundary Builder. Everything you need to keep this work close in your daily life.
A little note before you begin
1. Introduction
2. What are equitable relationships?
3. Time travel
4. What kind of relationship do you want to have with your kids?
1. Why we mess up communication
2. Communication barriers: how we mess up communication
3. What kind of listener are you?
4. What are we listening for?
1. Introduction
2. What are the needs behind a behavior?
3. How do we meet kids and their needs?
4. Accountability leads to empowerment
5. Strategies
6. Emotions
1. The 3 tools introduction
2. Observe and process
3. Identify and guess
4. Connect through sharing & requesting
1. The tools in action
2. Tips on using the tools
1. Explosions vs. self-control
2. Judgments & assumptions
3. Setting boundaries
4. Conflict resolution
5. Pseudo-emotions
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Co-founded by unschooling mamas and facilitators Becka Koritz and Sari González, Radical Learning was born from years of sitting with families in the mess, the magic, and the radical possibility of something different.
We support parents, educators, and changemakers to unlearn coercive patterns, cultivate consent-based relationships, and build environments where young people feel seen, safe, and free to grow.
We’re not here to tell you how to do it “right.” We’re here to walk with you — to reconnect you to your own knowing, your values, your courage, and the world you want to build with your kids.
Radical Learning exists to challenge schoolish thinking and grow something freer, braver, and more human — together.
