It feels hard and it doesn't look anything like what you expected. The kids aren't behaving the way you imagined - they seem bored, apathetic, and unmotivated. You're starting to feel anxious. You're wondering what the f-ck you're doing wrong and ask yourself if this is the way it's supposed to be?
You catch yourself wanting to control, push and manipulate the kids to be more creative and take more initiative. But you're met with resistance. Can you relate?
The history of the school system, how the very oppressive intentions for it’s existence has harmed us and how it continues to harm the ways we show up with and for kids.
Other views on learning and why it's time to shift into a new paradigm.
What deschooling is, what it looks like (for both kids and adults), and what it has to do with social justice.
The importance of trust and why it's so hard to learn to let go of control and lean into trusting kids.
The basic principles of Self-Directed Education and why it works.
How to support kids' freedom, autonomy, choice and learning.
To understand and embrace multiple intelligences.
The importance of free play and how to support it in young people.
The role that authenticity plays in creating an emotionally safe environment.
How to reframe mistakes and failures.
It is possible to thrive in this exhilarating journey, there is opportunity for self-discovery and healing. It's also a massive re-set of your understanding and thinking around kids, what they need to learn, develop and grow and how to support them.
That being said, you get what you put in. This course was created for you to take your time, to look at yourself, your patterns, beliefs and to engage in the courageous act of questioning and reflecting. This practice allows space for you to learn how to identify when you have fallen into old patterns, and with time learn how to catch yourself and do things differently.
Consider taking this course with a partner, colleague, or co-op community and explore the various themes that come up together.
We hear you. Life without school is definitely not for the faint of heart! It's hard work, and most of that work has nothing to do at all with our kids and their learning. It's all about us and the effort we put into looking at our programmings, learning to identify them, our fears and limiting beliefs, and little by little re-train our thinking so we can shift the ways we see, talk to and behave towards our kids.
The content of our course is thorough and substantial, but it's not enough to just watch the videos. The true work lies in going through the accompanying workbooks and spending a lot of time with the reflective questions.
If you want to truly change, you need to learn to understand yourself, reconnect with your essence and realign with your core values. It's not about a quick fix or fast results. It's a process, an inner journey and it requires time, patience, love, ease and joy. Be gentle with yourself!
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!
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.
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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We’re Sari González and Becka Koritz, founders of Radical Learning™.
Together we have 35+ years of experience supporting kids, parents, educators and educational organizations.
What do we support with?
We humanize the approach to education by empowering parents and educators to support young people’s learning, autonomy and agency outside of the conventional school system. We do this through innovative tools of connection, communication and consent.
We offer in-person trainings, coaching programs, online courses and consulting.
We also run Explora ALC, an Agile Learning Community that offers pop-up immersion programs where self-directed learners and their families come together to explore, play, learn and grow together within a supportive and emergent community.
