You believe in freedom… in child-led learning… in curiosity as a birthright.
And then — bam.
You hit the wall.
Kids who were supposed to be “thriving” suddenly look bored, shut down, dysregulated, or resistant.
Your nervous system panics.
Your mind spirals: What if I’m doing it wrong? What if I ruined everything?
You catch yourself wanting to push, prompt, or “encourage” (aka control) them.
You want them to show that this is working.
But you’re met with resistance — or collapse.
Can you relate?
The history of the school system: How its oppressive roots shaped all of us — and why those patterns still show up in our homes, relationships, classrooms, and community spaces.
Other ways of understanding learning: Why it’s time to break from school logic, productivity culture, and performance-based worth.
What deschooling is: For kids and adults. How it works. What it looks like. And why it’s deeply tied to liberation and social justice.
The importance of trust: Why letting go of control feels terrifying — and how to build the internal stability needed to trust young people and yourself.
The basic principles of Self-Directed Education: Why SDE works and what makes it radically different from schoolish thinking.
How to support kids’ freedom, autonomy, and natural learning: With clarity, confidence, and coherence — not micromanaging or fear.
How to understand multiple intelligences: So you stop measuring your kid by school metrics and start seeing them as whole.
The role of free play: Why play is learning — and how to support it without hijacking, over-structuring, or fixing.
The power of authenticity: How your emotional honesty creates the safety young people need to explore freely.
How to reframe mistakes and failures: So you stop bracing for “wrong” and start welcoming the real work of learning.
We support you in unlearning these patterns so you can actually walk this path with your child — with more confidence, coherence, and emotional freedom.
This journey can be exhilarating, healing, disorienting, and freeing all at once.
It’s a complete reset of how you see kids, learning, power, and trust.
And like all liberation work, you get what you put in.
This course invites you to take your time — to question everything you inherited, notice when old patterns pull you back, and learn to gently interrupt them.
Over time, you begin to catch yourself sooner.
Shift your tone.
Breathe instead of brace.
Trust instead of tighten.
And that’s when things change.
Consider taking this course with a partner, friend, educator team, or co-op community.
The conversations it sparks are powerful.
We hear you.
Life without school is not for the faint of heart.
It’s deep inner work — and most of it has nothing to do with your kid.
It’s about examining the beliefs you inherited, meeting your fear with compassion, and slowly retraining your thinking so you can show up differently.
The videos offer clarity.
But the transformation comes from the reflection work — the journaling, the noticing, the brave honesty.
If you want to truly change, you’ll need to reconnect with your own essence and values.
This is not a quick fix.
It’s a healing process.
Be gentle with yourself.
Yes — and we’re so glad you’re here.
This course will deepen your understanding of what’s actually harmful about conventional schooling, how those harms live in your body and beliefs, and why you feel the way you do.
It will reconnect you to why you chose this path and give you a solid foundation for supporting self-directed learning with more trust and coherence.
You’ll walk away with practical tools and a clearer sense of how to create conditions where kids can truly thrive.
And then — the work is yours.
There is no one version of “doing this right.”
This course is for anyone who wants to shift from control to connection, from coercion to consent, from fear to trust.
We’ve all absorbed schoolish thinking — even if we never attended school.
This course helps you understand how those patterns formed, how they show up now, and how to interrupt them with awareness and intention.
When you can name the pattern, you can change it.
And when you change… everything shifts.
This is an interesting and important question. We obviously don't know what your actual situation looks like, and there are as many versions of homeschooling as there are homeschoolers! But, we truly believe that all adults could benefit from the content of this course and the reflective journey that is sets us on.
We are all affected by what society values as important, regardless of whether we've been to school or not ourselves. It has disconnected us from our core, our values and what we truly feel is right for us and our kids. It's easy to fall into confusion and get lost on the way.
This course helps you understand how and why that has happened, and how it's been harming both you and your kids. When you can understand this, you'll also be able to see how you've unknowingly been perpetuating those very same systems and patterns. In our experience, it's most likely that the mismatch or lack of alignment you see in your kids has everything to do with these patterns.
And when you can name it, you can change it and start finding and trusting your own personal path in spite of the loud societal voice that tells you what life (and learning) should look like.
Yes it is, and we're so happy to see you here!
This course will support you in deepening your understanding of what's actually wrong with the conventional school system, how it harms us and what effects it has not only in how we live our lives but also how we think about, talk to and behave towards kids.
Furthermore, it will most likely reinforce the reasons why you want to shift direction in your journey to youth support youth, and give you more stability and confidence in your decision.
It will also give you a solid understanding around what free, self-directed learning is about, how it happens, what it can look like and how to support it.
You'll get concrete tools to optimize the conditions for learning and create a safe environment where kids can thrive.
And then it's up to you to do the work!
A little note before you begin
Why are we here?
Where did it begin? History of the school system.
Other views of how we learn: Gray, Holt & Ilich
How our schooling affects us
How our schooling affects how we behave towards kids
A new paradigm: unschooling/self-directed education
What is deschooling?
Deschooling and society
Centering relationships
Why we dont trust kids
Consequences of not trusting
How can we learn to trust our children?
Introduction to the four principles of SDE
Learning happens all the time
Context instead of content
The importance of free choice
Empowerment & autonomy
Support kids' freedom & choice
Embrace multiple intelligences
Free play as a vehicle for learning
Maximum support & minimal interference
Authentic relationships & a safe environment
Support emotional intelligence & reflections
Reframe mistakes & failures
Deschooling in kids
Our own deschooling
How our deschooling affects those around us
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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.
