Roundtable: How to Deschool Ourselves as We Unschool
The biggest stumbling block to happy unschooling is the parent. It can be extremely challenging to let go of our old ways and beliefs. We'll be talking about tools and strategies that can help you move forward. ​​
Annie Friday is an SDE parent; Editor-In-Chief of Tipping Points magazine (ASDE); host of the Out of Line podcast; co-founder of Blue Bridge ALC and Grand Rapids Flying Squad; and former educator focused on early childhood play and nature programmes. She supports families in centering relationships and navigating moments of struggle, and enjoys creating connections in order to increase access to unschooling.
Iris Chen is an unschooling mother, certified parenting coach, and founder of the Untigering movement. Through her writing and speaking, Iris now shares her healing journey of shifting from power-over to power-with in her relationship with her children. You can read more about her adventures in her book Untigering: Peaceful Parenting for the Deconstructing Tiger Parent and on her blog at untigering.com.Â
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Manish Jain is one of the leading planetary voices for unlearning, deschooling our lives and reimagining education. He is co-founder of some of the most innovative educational experiments in the world—the Swaraj University, Jail University, Complexity University, Tribal Farmversity, Sacredversities, the Learning Societies Unconference, Udaipur Learning City and numerous others. He and his wife Vidhi have been unschooling themselves with their 23 year old daughter, Kanku, in Udaipur, Rajasthan.
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Danii Oliver is an unschooling cognitive scientist and lifelong learner devoted to raising curious, capable humans. They are the founder of Chi’Va, a neuroscience-informed mental performance platform, and have worked across fields including natural earth building science, permaculture and beverage fermentation for holistic living. Danii's storybook series, Unschool Discoveries, is the only collection of unschooler stories highlighting exploration and self-directed education. As author, illustrator, and animator, Danii creates entertainment that honours children as whole people.
May Ling Thomas is a self-directed education facilitator, an unschooling mother of two, an organising member of the Freedom to Learn Network and a transformative coach and healer. Still recovering from internalised neo-liberal capitalism and white supremacy, her latest achievements include Lvl 431 in “Drop the Cat” and a 17 day streak of remembering to put the dishwasher on before bed.
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