Have you ever been inspired to set up your own learning community, to create something different to mainstream schooling?
If so, we hope you’ll be excited about this new collaboration…
Limitless podcast host, Alex O'Neill and Progressive Education founder, Jo Symes have teamed up to launch a webinar series for learning community start-ups. This is your chance to learn from the experts and ask any questions you might have.
In the first webinar on 4th July, you’ll get to meet Sophie Christophy, co-founder of consent-based, self-directed learning communities, The Cabin and The Lodge.
These communities, based in the UK on the Hertfordshire/Essex border, cater for home-educated young people on a part-time basis. They provide a space in which young people can be themselves, follow and explore their own curiosity and interests, get to know their personal boundaries and the boundaries of others. Young people get to know their needs and personal ways of being, strengths, and challenges, in a supportive and affirming community. The founders say:
“The Cabin and the Lodge are examples of the environment that we believe people need to live and grow in a whole, healthy, and authentic way. They provide a regular, consistent, community experience, a place in which you can be yourself, build and navigate relationships, and feel a sense of belonging that extends that which you feel in your home and family. We believe that young people and families that choose to walk an unschooling, self-directed and consent-based path, deserve the opportunity to do so in community.”
Join the Webinar
If you would like to meet Sophie and find out about how to set up a community like this, please come along to our live webinar at 7.30pm BST on Tuesday 4th July. You can sign up here.
You can find out about other webinars in our series on the Progressive Education website.
Hope to see you there!