Resources
Inquire and Thrive
Pathways to Sustain Joyful Liberation Re-Source List
Empowering Resources focused on Unschooling, Self-Directed Education/Learning, Deschooling & Decolonization, Epigenetics of Racism and Trauma, Liberation and Cultural Psychology, Healing the Impact caused by a Systemic Capitalist Patriarchy, Self-Inquiry, Play and Emergent Ancient Ways
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Listed in no particular order but will eventually be organized and categorized ...
RECOMMENDED READING:
- PARENTING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE by Teresa Graham Brett (if there is one book to read to have an understanding of the self-work involved in liberating our children for a life of joyful liberation it is this one. Highly recommended pre-requisite for this gathering and the deep dive of conscious parenting for social change)
- THE DAILY GROOVE: How to Enjoy Parenting... Unconditionally! by Scott Noelle
- THE GARDENER AND THE CARPENTER: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children by Alison Gopnik
- PLEASURE ACTIVISM by Adrienne Maree Brown
- THE UNSCHOOLING JOURNEY by Pam Laricchia
- EMERGENT STRATEGY by Adrienne Maree Brown
Podcasts:
(there are many more unschooling and social justice podcasts, this just a short list of great ones)
Akilah Richards' Fare of the Free Child
https://akilahsrichards.com/podcast/
https://soundcloud.com/radicalselfie
Pam Laricchia's Exploring Unschooling
https://livingjoyfully.ca/podcast-2/
Kate Werning and Team's community of practice in collective healing & social change
https://www.healingjustice.org/
A liberation spell ~ healingjustice.org/spell
Other valuable resources for communities and families working with unschooling, social justice, self-directed and agile learning, healing, liberation, deschooling/decolonizing our minds, re-building and deepening our understanding and connection to our earth's resources and our ancestors:
Alliance for Self-Directed Education is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to informing people about the benefits of, and methods for, allowing children and adolescents to direct their own education. This link takes you directly to their resource page.
Harriet's Apothecary is an intergenerational, healing village led by the brilliance and wisdom of Black Cis Women, Queer and Trans healers, artists, magicians, activists and ancestors. We are committed to co-creating accessible, affordable, liberatory, all-body loving, all-gender honoring, community healing spaces that recognize, inspire, and deepen the healing genius of our vessels.
Soul Fire Farm is a BIPOC-centered community farm committed to ending racism and injustice in the food system. We raise and distribute life-giving food as a means to end food apartheid. With deep reverence for the land and wisdom of our ancestors, we work to reclaim our collective right to belong to the earth and to have agency in the food system. ON-FARM PROGRAM: http://www.soulfirefarm.org/food-sovereignty-education/youth-program/
Maleka Diggs' Eclectic Learning Network in Philadelphia
https://www.eclecticlearningnetwork.com
https://www.facebook.com/eclecticlearningnetwork/
Agnieszka Golasik* founded this Holistic Learning Community in Newark, NJ
http://www.ambercolibricenter.org/
*the exceptional resources compiled on her site is copied below
Homeschooling and Unschooling
A Collection of Articles on the Benefits of Unschooling by Peter Gray
Coercive Schooling by Peter Gray
Sir Ken Robinson- Books and TED talk on Homeschooling
Nature Immersion
Leave No Child Inside- Orion Magazine
Books about Nature Immersion and Learning by Richard Louv
30 Books about Raising Outdoor Kids
Forest School Study- Loughborough University
Outdoor Learning at a Japanese School- Video
How-To: Get your Kids off Screens and in to Nature
Neurobiological Evidence
Why Dance is Just as Important as Math- TED Ideas
ADHD and Early School Enrollment- Harvard Study
Drawing Better Than Writing for Memory Retention
Becoming a Life-Long Learner
The Cost of Academic Kindergarten
TED Talk Why We Shouldn't Teach for Tests
"Intense Interests" in Early Childhood
Hyperfocusing and Productivity
Parenting a Balanced Person
Nature is Best for Learning Life's Harder Lessons
Approach to Academics
Improved Mathematics- Time Magazine
TED Talk Roadblocks to Learning and Schools Should Nurture Creativity
Play vs. Academic Kindergarten
http://www.native-languages.org/
http://libpsy.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/challenging-psychology-and-the-psychologist.pdf
https://mary-watkins.net/library/Bibliography_Liberation_Psychology.pdf
http://libpsy.org/sources-on-liberation-psychology/
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.718326!/file/11.Meloni2017.pdf
https://en.unesco.org/news/international-symposium-healing-wounds-slavery-towards-mutual-recovery
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3034450/
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786608109/Liminal-Subjects-Weaving-(Our)-Liberation#
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/decolonize/decolonization-starts-inside-of-you-20180326
https://psmag.com/news/how-slavery-changed-the-dna-of-african-americans
http://muse.jhu.edu/article/520501/pdf
https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/101136/Sato_Brandy_r.pdf
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030048211
https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/OSUL/TC-OSUL-1988.pdf
https://sarweb.org/media/files/sar_press_for_indigenous_eyes_only.pdf
https://everydayfeminism.com/practical-decolonization/
https://everydayfeminism.com/practical-decolonization-2/
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-166X2013000200011
https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-27/edition-11/liberation-psychology-history-future
https://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/564/html
https://www.dennisfox.net/courses/socpsy-readings.html
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-epigenetics-of-being_b_4094226
https://freechild.org/youth-and-unschooling/
https://boldorganizing.org/what-we-do/
… and much more.
Additional books to help us understand the psychology of healing generational trauma and how to work with our innate body-spirit wisdom to heal the wounds we have inherited:
Freud
https://www.verywellmind.com/books-by-sigmund-freud-2795862
Reich
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/118694.Wilhelm_Reich
Lowen
https://www.lowenfoundation.org/lowenbooks
Jung
https://exploringyourmind.com/carl-jungs-11-best-books/
Neumann
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/74468.Erich_Neumann
Campbell
https://www.biblio.com/joseph-campbell/author/8346
Levine
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/142956.Peter_A_Levine
Bessel van der Kolk
http://besselvanderkolk.net/index.html
Bertrand and Bertrand
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Womb-Awakening/Azra-Bertrand/9781591432791
...Share what books, articles and experiences inspired and helped you survive and thrive as individuals-parents-children, embrace life and experience joyful liberation. Email sustainjoyfulliberation@gmail.com to add to this list.