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Unschooling Support Group: Discussion and Q&A
Unschooling Support Group: Discussion and Q&A
with Dhyana Jalande Kluth, Lisa Guillard, Ana Maria Nichim Luna Toporek and Michal Mehler
Partnering with Children on a Journey Toward Joy (1 hr)
Spotlight on "Trust" (1.5hrs)
The Unschooling Squad is doing a followup panel discussion and Q&A series of 3 live Zoom meetings, each with a focus on a particular theme, the first being "Trust".
What comes up for you around “trust”?
After reviewing the questions that came up during Joyspring’s online family festival earlier this month, we see there is so much more that can be addressed just around Trust: trust your kids, trust the way, trust media, trusting children's decisions, trust in the ability to return to a traditional path.
To answer your questions and dive into more self-inquiry we will focus on these questions and an overall theme of Trust at the next meeting. We hope you will join us live as we explore this subject together.
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Any donations you'd like to offer may be sent directly to JuntosNJ Mutual Aid Covid19 Relief for Undocumented Immigrants via facebook.com/JuntosNJ/
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Parents needing support during this unprecedented time are invited to sit in on this panel discussion with the Unschooling Squad Book Club.
Meet four women who have cultivated their own unique support group, where conversations center around creating a joyful family environment where there is no stress and pressure to perform and where learning happens naturally when children are engaged. We ask ourselves the tough questions and do a lot of self-inquiry to support ourselves and our families.
Be inspired to create your own community of support.
Listen in on what goes on during these monthly meetings and discover how much support setting up a group like this for yourself may offer you.
Following the panel, you will have an opportunity to engage in an Unschooling Q&A session.
FACILITATOR BIOS
FACILITATOR BIOS
Rev. Dhyana Jalande Kluth
As a mother, Dhyana weaves with her training in developmental psychology, mindfulness meditation, Buddhist psychology, animism and the balm of unconditional love to liberate herself and raise free embodied people with love, compassion, equanimity and joy. An essential foundation of Rev. Dhyana Kluth's work as a minister and psychospiritual therapist is to hold the vision of our individual and collective humanity as whole and sovereign.
Human at the core of all other defining attributes, Dhyana is continually learning how to love and live an embodied life, and open her heart to the multidimensional beauty and intrinsic joy of existence. Her journey into motherhood keeps taking her through unexpected unpalatable ugly edges and painful depths of awareness.
As her two unschooled daughters age through each annual rite of passage, Dhyana encounters new layers of residual resistance and control. Along the way -and with consistent effort- she reintegrates and embodies the memories and feelings of her own childhood, awakens from her defenses against unconscious bias, and surrenders to the deschooled experience of primal trust. Again and again.
Stay Connected: sustainjoyfulliberation@gmail.com
joyspring.org / dhyanahealing.com / wombawakeningnyc.org / spanda.org / wombandhara.org
Lisa Guillard
Lisa is a photographer, children’s rights advocate and novice musician who has spent the past 12 years discovering and being fascinated by how children learn. Her experience and interests span Nonviolent Communication, Self-Directed Education, meditation and yoga as well as building intentional communities.
Lisa is a mother to three unschooling humans who constantly inspire her in ways she never imagined. She believes that children thrive in an environment of authentic acceptance. A founding member of The Unschooling Squad, she loves to talk about the ways in which families can flourish by shifting the parenting paradigm and choosing a self-directed path.
Lisa provides practical and compassionate support to parents and welcomes contact from anyone interested in Unschooling and bringing more peace and connection to life with children.
Stay Connected: www.lisaguillard.com
Stay Connected: www.lisaguillard.com
Instagram @lisa_guillard_photo and @and_we_are_learning
Instagram @lisa_guillard_photo and @and_we_are_learning
Ana Maria Nichim Luna Toporek
Ana Maria is a mother of three unschooling children, wife, educator, artist and community organizer. She has spent the last 16 years in the practicum of holistic parenting and learning. Part of the LatinX community, Maya Mexican community and of mixed Jewish background, Ana Maria has integrated a multi cultural lens through all of her work. Inspired by her own indigenous roots, Ana Maria has followed the path of what she calls indigenous intelligence as it relates to family building, community building and learning.
In recent years, Ana Maria has been inspired by the work of Akila Richards, Maleeka Diggs and Pam Laricchia. In their wisdom she has found the guidance to delve even deeper into the deschooling process towards building and supporting a liberated life for herself and her loved ones. She welcomes you to connect with her with any questions, and is particularly interested in supporting LatinX folks who are wanting to join this path.
Ana Maria considers herself a lucky member of the Unschooling Squad, a book club turned support group of unschooling warrior mamas in North NJ.
Stay Connected: mamaluna@gmail.com
Stay Connected: mamaluna@gmail.com
Instagram: @saltandolunas
Instagram: @saltandolunas
Michal Mehler
All Michal ever wanted to be was a teacher. She had 18 years of experience as a special education teacher in Israel before moving to the US. Besides being a full- time radical unschooling mother to her 9 year old daughter, Michal is a holistic health practitioner.
Graceful Ease
Holistic Feminine Practice
Pelvic Floor * Childbirth * Postnatal * Menstruation * Physical Ailments
Stay Connected: www.gracefulease.com
Stay Connected: www.gracefulease.com
Unschooling Squad Book Club / Support Group Reading List
Lisa Guillard has gathered this list of resources for anyone interested in learning more. Use discernment as you read. Not all the books that we have read as a group are necessarily recommended for a brand-new-to-unschooling person because many of them have some language and attitudes that are perhaps antithetical to relinquishing control and building trust. As Lisa has listed them, the books that we feel really good about recommending are at the top and the other books that we read are below that. She has also added some books to recommend which we haven’t read together, yet. Feel free to use these resources or not.
- The Unschooling Journey: A Field Guide by Pam Laricchia
https://www.amazon.com/Unschooling-Journey-Field-Guide/dp/0994055552
- Parenting For Social Change: Transform Childhood, Transform the World by Teresa Graham Brett
- The Daily Groove: How To Enjoy Parenting Unconditionally! by Scott Noelle
https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Groove-Enjoy-Parenting-Unconditionally/dp/145375721X
I don’t necessarily recommend these titles
- Hold Onto Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
https://www.amazon.com/Hold-Your-Kids-Parents-Matter/dp/0375760288
- Loving What Is by Byron Katie
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QCSACW/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
- The Gardener and The Carpenter by Alison Gopnik
https://www.amazon.com/Gardener-Carpenter-Development-Relationship-Children/dp/1536617830
Books we haven’t read that I recommend for new Unschoolers
How Children Learn by John Holt
https://www.amazon.com/Children-Learn-Classics-Child-Development/dp/0201484048
Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children outside of the Conventional Classroom by Kerry McDonald
https://www.amazon.com/Unschooled-Well-Educated-Children-Conventional-Classroom/dp/1641600632
Free To Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students For Life by Peter Gray
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