Practical prompts and reflection questions: No heady explanatons.. No overwhelm. Just grounded tools that help you pause, notice, and shift in the exact moment your old patterns kick in.
Hands-on guidance for everyday connection: Real examples. Real language. Support for those moments — at home or in youth-centered spaces — when you want to show up differently but your nervous system pulls you back toward control.
A compassionate approach to communication, trust, and repair: For the parent who wants to stop yelling. For the educator who’s tired of being the enforcer. For the adult who knows compliance isn’t connection and is learning another way.
How we show up matters more than anything we say.
Create relationships rooted in safety, respect, and presence. These six keys help you show up with more honesty, tenderness, and courage.
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Explore the 6 Keys for Building Relationships with Kids
6 Keys offers a simple, heart-centered framework for navigating the messy, beautiful, deeply human work of being in relationship with young people. Inside, you’ll find six core practices: - Listening - Speaking - Building Trust - Repair Work - Navigating Triggers - Lowering Expectations Each key supports you in meeting kids — and yourself — with more presence, empathy, and clarity. This isn’t a rulebook. It’s an invitation. A practice. A remembering of what connection feels like when you’re no longer ruled by fear, shame, or urgency. For the parent who whispers, “I want to do this differently, but I don’t know how.” For the educator who feels the weight of systems and wants to lead with heart. For the adult who freezes, spirals, or falls back on control when things get hard. Nothing is too late. Trust can be rebuilt. Repair is the relationship. 6 Keys will help you return to what matters most: - connection over control, - curiosity over compliance, - presence over perfection.
Connection is an art — one we’re all still learning.
These six keys help you build relationships where kids feel safe, seen, and respected — and where you feel proud of how you show up.
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About the Creators
Radical Learning is a movement for self-directed education, youth liberation, and reimagining how we live and learn together. We support parents, educators, and changemakers to unlearn coercive patterns and rebuild trust through connection-centered learning. Founded by Becka Koritz and Sari González — unschooling mamas, facilitators, and lifelong advocates for youth rights — Radical Learning exists to challenge schoolish thinking and grow something freer, braver, and more human — together.