Roundtable: What Do Consent & Autonomy Look Like in Action?
What does it mean to respect our children's autonomy and to live in a consensual way with them? Our panellists discuss what it looks like to parent from a place of trust and partnership.
Pam Laricchia has been living and exploring unschooling for more than 20 years. She is the author of five books on unschooling, the founding host of the Exploring Unschooling podcast and co-host of the Living Joyfully Network, an online community for families around the world. Through her books, podcast, and community work, Pam has helped thousands of parents rethink long-held cultural assumptions about relationships, learning, and school. Her work goes beyond educational choices to explore paradigm shifts around control, independence, relationships, and trust. She is passionate about helping families move from fear and societal expectations toward connection, curiosity, and lives grounded in respect.
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.
Adrienne Miller is a queer, AuDHD unschooling mentor, podcaster, and parent who helps families reimagine learning, healing, and life beyond the classroom. Her work centers liberation, decolonization, nervous system awareness, consent, and questioning the systems we’ve been taught to accept as normal.
Ramin Farhangi is a French unschooling advocate, educator, and community builder with over a decade of lived experience in self-directed education. He is the founder of École Dynamique in Paris, one of France’s first democratic schools, and has inspired hundreds of thousands via his TEDx conferences. Through his Enfance Libre initiative — a civil-disobedience movement defending the right to freedom of education in France — he mobilises families to protect and expand the liberty of instruction, challenging restrictive norms and supporting families in claiming their rights to self-directed learning. Ramin is also father to a nine-year-old unschooled child
Adele Jarrett-Kerr (she/they) is a Trinidadian mother, writer, thinker, facilitator and activist focused on working towards culture change through decolonising and deschooling. Their wiring involves finding the language for everyday experiences around consent and trust, then taking action and supporting others to do the same.
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