FIRESIDE CHAT

Reclaiming Indigenous Learning

In this rich conversation we discuss Indigenous perspectives on unschooling, exploring ‘remembrance rather than innovation’ in the movement away from colonised models of education and towards reclaiming Indigenous knowledge.

Chévanni Davids is a father, writer, and learning practitioner exploring regenerative approaches to education beyond schooling. Based between South Africa and global learning communities, his work weaves together unlearning, Ubuntu philosophy, land-based practice, and self-directed learning. He is the founder of Reimagined Learning Community, cultivating spaces where young people, families, and educators reconnect with curiosity, relational intelligence, and ecological belonging. Chévanni’s work centres Ceremonies of Remembering, which he curates as learning journeys, gatherings, festivals, and experimental spaces that invite participants into embodied, relational ways of learning. His current projects include What the Land Might Mean by Learning and The Great Unlearning. In collaboration with indigenous communities and wisdom keepers, he supports processes rooted in collective inquiry, grief work, and reconnection to land and ancestral ways of knowing. His facilitation invites a shift from compliance-driven education toward soul-directed and community-rooted learning as a living process.

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Ieishah Clelland-Lange is a writer and unschooling mother of two, who has travelled to over 50 countries and lived in seven. Currently residing in Florida, her work has been published in Ebony and Tipping Points Magazine for ASDE and she co-produced a podcast series with Akilah S. Richards. In 2024 Ieishah completed her Master of Indigenous Studies in Aotearoa, New Zealand and you can read her Masters thesis ‘All the Children are Indigenous’ here.

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Chemay Morales-James is an intuitive facilitator, embodied learning designer, ancestral guide, and steward of sacred land in Borikén (Puerto Rico). With over 20 years of experience, she translates complex social and cultural ideas into accessible, transformative learning experiences that support personal and collective growth. She began her career in public education and later spent nearly a decade at NYU’s Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools, where she co-developed culturally responsive, anti-racist teacher education programs before DEI became mainstream. After leaving NYU, she founded My Reflection Matters Village, a global unschooling and healing community serving over 1,000 members. There, she integrated self-directed learning, intuitive facilitation, and embodied liberation practices. Today, her work centers on land-based healing, ancestral reconnection, and supporting change-makers and visionaries in cultivating inner coherence as the foundation for meaningful, sustainable transformation.

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