Resources

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

Learning through Play Video

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 Kindergarten Video

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

Right Brain Development

​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

Too Many Toys​

​Managed Risks- BBC

Nature is Best for Learning Life's Harder Lessons

Approach to Academics

Improved Mathematics- Time Magazine

Reading for Literacy​

​TED Talk Roadblocks to Learning and Schools Should Nurture Creativity

​Coding

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.