Self-Directed at Home
Event Information
Description
This is the 8th webinar in our series put together by facilitators across the ALC Network as an introduction to the philosophy, tools, and practices from our self-directed education communities. It is our hope that the content offered in these sessions will be useful to families adapting to having kids unable to physically attend their usual learning centers, schools, and other facilitated meetups. Profits from registrations will go to supporting awesome facilitators in continuing to offer online support and sessions even as covid-19 closures of centers and side-hustle spaces strain folks' finances.
Trust and authenticity are central to the practice of both Self-Directed Education and parenting.
Screen time, household responsibilities, work, sharing space, learning, time together, alone time, conflict, daily activities — all of this and more comes up during regular days living and learning together alongside our young people. But now more than ever we are facing these daily, and consistently, without much time to adjust. What does SDE at home look like? How can you take the SDE mindset of ALC and other facilitators and apply it to your parenting and family relationships? What does it mean to facilitate SDE with a young person?
SDE and the partnership mindset can really support us in navigating our relationships with one another, and especially with our young people. Join us to work through ways you can shift your mindset, support yourself, your young person, and your household, and see the ways learning can, and is, happening through all of this.
*If you have current struggles you are experiencing and want to work through feel free to bring those examples and we will strive to work them out with you
This webinar is hosted by Bria (she/her), a parent who has the daily joy of being in relationship with a self-directed young person, a facilitator and founder of PDX Flying Squads, a born and raised unschooler, and an organizing member of the Alliance for Self-Directed Education. Bria loves living and learning alongside young people and is so grateful for the joy, silliness, and learning they bring to her life.
