Resee School
A slow, unwinding course and community rooted in the practice landscapes within ourselves;
For those working to reimagine schools and learning and willing to engage in deep personal exploration of the latent logics that live within themselves.
We are here to regenerate foundational soils for liberatory learning and being.
This is inner work.
It will be personal.
Raw and real, tended through trust.
We’ll travel slowly.
We’ll hold each other (and ourselves) softly.
We’ll do the rigorous work of inner excavation with
grace, curiosity, courage, and compassion.
Are you called to tend what’s within you as you’re held in a community of support?
Are you ready to explore your inner curriculum to release and resee school?
Please complete the application of interest by September 5. We begin the week of September 15-19.
If you have questions before you complete the application, please reach out. I’m happy to answer any questions.
To resee school with roots for wildflower fields of liberated learning, we must release “school” from our bodies and mindsets.
What content will we explore?
Each month we’ll look deeply into one thread of logic that tethers us to unliberatory practices and systems. We’ll examine how and where this logic shows up in contexts of learning, and how and where it lives within ourselves. Example threads include: Future-thinking (“in order to”); Solution mindsets (“problem”); Ways of motivation (“if _, then _”); Justification and Proving (“because”).
Alongside this inquiry, we’ll explore (what might feel like) “opposite” logics and stretch into ways of being that have deeper resonance with liberatory learning.
We’ll also explore the layers of story held within the words we hear and speak, such as effort, success, outcome, improve, play, rigor, freedom, belonging, curiosity.
Although we’ll share a common frame for what we’re exploring together, you’ll engage in your own personal journey of practice. Each month I’ll share invitations for multiple modalities of practice so you can choose what feels most resonant for you and your body.
Modes for personal practice:
Noticing practices—to support you to find where logics live within you and observe how they show up in your day-to-day life.
Somatic practices—to support you to rattle, dislodge, and release the logics you no longer wish to hold.
Restorative practices—to support you to welcome the shadows of the logics, to witness and tend to them, and find ways to restore yourself to the whole of you.
Imaginative practices—to support you to grow congruent roots to resee and restory learning (and yourself).
Reflection—questions to guide you to integrate, connect, and apply what you’re learning into your everyday life.
We resee school through our attention to the roots of how we see, think, speak, feel, trust, create, and grow as mycelial networks of learning.
What will the online sessions be like?
Invitation Sessions will be 90-minutes and take place during the first full week of each month. During these sessions, I’ll introduce a new layer of content for us to consider and pose beginning questions and opening practices. There will be time allotted for reflection and discussion, but primarily these will be presentations to deepen our understandings and open our curiosities about the logic threads and their implications for learning and liberation. I’ll also outline the various practice invitations for the month, and you’ll have a chance to ask questions.
Invitation sessions will be recorded and stored on our private webpage for you to (re)watch as you choose.
Who we are is the foundation for everything that pollinates on the surface.
Our Schedule
The exact dates and times for our online sessions will be selected by the participants within our community. If you’d like a say in your preferred days and timeframes, please complete the application by September 5.
September 2025
Opening invitational content shared on our community webpage
1:1 conversation with Melissa (via zoom, prior to the opening session)
Opening session (90 minutes; week of September 15-19)
October 2025-April 2026
First full week of the month = 90-minute Invitation Session (recorded)
Third week of the month = 60-minute Conversation Session (not recorded)
Monthly content, practice invitations, and resources added to webpage the first week of each month
May 2026
Closing session (90 minutes; TBD by the group)
1:1 conversation with Melissa (optional, for continuity and support)
Conversation Sessions will be 60-minutes and take place during the third week of each month. These gatherings are for sharing small stories and reflections with each other as we learn and grow together. I’ll offer simple protocols to guide how we give and receive within our space. Over time, we’ll co-create a supportive process unique to our group.
Conversation sessions will NOT be recorded.
Please note that in September and May we will have only one session (90 minutes) that will be a hybrid of invitation and conversation as we open and close our community.
What’s included?
A 9-month container of support to hold you, and your inner landscapes, with deep attention, reverence, and care
9 (live + recorded) Invitation Sessions, 90 minutes, to examine nuances of liberatory and unliberatory logics and their implications for learning, and invite curiosity to how and where these live within ourselves
7 (live) Conversation Sessions, 60 minutes, to share stories, reflect, and support each other
Monthly multi-modal practice invitations for your personal engagement (noticing, somatic, restorative, imaginative)
Monthly reflection questions for integration, connection, and application in your daily life
Access to all recordings, practices, resources, and additional supports on a private webpage
Community connection with other humans who are also working to reimagine learning and want to restore coherence within themselves
2 private conversations with Melissa, one before the course begins (for connection and contextual relevance) and another in May (for continuity and additional support)
Q+A
Who is this course and community for?
This community is for humans who are in some way working to resee school or reimagine learning. This might mean: you advocate for new systems or approaches; you work in a role where you make decisions about programs, policies, or their funding; you lead a small independent school, are launching a new kind of school, or are organizing an unschooling or homeschooling community; you run your own small business or nonprofit designed to support new iterations of learning design; you work within an organization that provides support for children, families, communities, or educators; you are an educator trying to do things differently (and it feels like you’re always pushing against something); you sit on a board or are in a position of gate-keeping and door-opening for new ideas; you’re retired and want to support holistic learning for your grandchildren or neighbors; you care deeply about contributing to the pollination of liberatory learning and sense that you have logics to notice and dislodge within yourself.
Most importantly, Resee School is for those who are willing to engage in deep, messy, and (perhaps) triggering inquiry about themselves.
Is this a course or a community of practice?
It is both. Resee School is a course rooted in a community of practice. Each month invites a new layer of course content and the monthly invitations will support you to explore this content through modes of practice within yourself. Our community conversations will allow our individual experiences to connect and weave together as we support each other
Will we discuss the contexts of where we work?
Although you will notice and examine how you show up (what you see, think, say, feel, try) within your daily life, which includes where you work, the focus of our community of practice is on our inner contexts. The course content, practice invitations, and conversations will support you to attune to what’s happening within you (not what’s happening outside in your work context).
I’m concerned about the vulnerability required to engage with the course material. If I don’t want to share with others, is this okay?
You have full agency to engage in whatever ways feel most supportive for you. The primary opportunities to deepen into places of vulnerability will take place within yourself (through the practice invitations) that you’ll be able to structure within your days (e.g., morning journaling, audio messages while you take a walk, evening meditation). During our community conversations, you may participate in the ways that feel best for your body (e.g., camera on/off, speaking or not). It’s possible to fully participate in our conversations through the depth of your listening (rather than speaking). With all of our online sessions, I invite you to come as you are.
Will we have rules of confidentiality?
Yes, we will have a strong and clear container around confidentiality for our community. No personal details of anyone in our group will be shared outside of our group. We will discuss this, along with other group agreements, during our opening session. To further ensure confidentiality, our conversation sessions will not be recorded and on the rare occasion that you may want to speak during a recorded invitation session, you can choose to be off-camera and/or remove your name.
Do I need to attend all the online sessions in order to engage with the material?
No. The invitation sessions will be recorded and posted to our webpage so you may watch them when it works for you. All practice invitations, along with supportive resources, will be added to the webpage at the beginning of each month. The only sessions that will not be recorded are the community conversations. If you can’t attend these live, you will miss what happens, but missing one or two of these sessions doesn’t need to be a “problem.”
What are the dates for the online sessions?
As of now, the dates are open for feedback from those who complete the Application of Interest. If you’d like to have a say in the dates, I encourage you to apply soon. I will gather input and post the finalized dates by September 8.
What’s the application process?
First, I encourage you to read through the full description of Resee School and sense how it resonates with you. If you feel a YES inside you, the next step is to complete the Application of Interest. I will then reach out to you for a 1:1 conversation. This conversation will allow us both to determine if this course and community is a good fit for you. We’ll discuss registration and payment details as well as your next steps to prepare for the Opening Session.
What is the cost?
You will be able to select from a sliding scale of financial exchange when you complete the application. I ask that anyone with organizational support for personal-professional development choose the highest payment option so others with more limited budgets may participate at a lower cost.
May I participate with a colleague?
Yes, participation with a trusted colleague or friend can be a beautiful way to support your personal practice and reflection, especially between our group sessions. This would give you more opportunities to share your experiences with the invitations you try (e.g., noticing, somatic, restorative practices) and more opportunities to hear about another’s experiences. If you have a colleague/friend in mind, it is important that they be equally invested in engaging in the personal practice material of this course. And, they’d need to apply separately.
I’d like to do this with a team within my organization. Is this possible?
Yes. If you are interested in a customized Resee School community of practice for a group of 3-12 people within your organization or community, please email me and we can set up a conversation to discuss possibilities. If this is your primary interest, you don’t need to complete the application form. The Application of Interest for this online course and community is for individuals. It may turn out that you want to participate in the online version of Resee School to support yourself, while we also work together to grow another community of practice within your organizational context.
What if I have a question before I decide if I want to apply?
I’m happy to answer any questions you have. Please email me.
It takes time to regenerate soils for liberated learning.
Our work now is to tend our roots.
Is Resee School is for you?
I trust you to find and listen to your own knowing. And also, here are a few thoughts that may help you in your process:
Resee School may be for you if…
You care deeply for the liberation of learning and have been working (maybe for a long time) to create beautiful changes in schools, and for children, educators, and communities.
You sense contradictions in how “new” ways of learning are intended (and described) and what you witness in real-time practice with the children, adults, and communities involved.
You often look outward for things to “do” and ways to “fix” what you see.
You feel a strong call to do more and also to do less, and you’d like to make time to listen and explore this within yourself.
You resonate with the idea that liberation is “inner work,” but you’re not quite sure how to engage with this in a way that’s meaningful and sustainable.
You crave a community where you can safely explore your feelings and beliefs without judgment and find new layers of curiosity and grace for yourself.
You are able to make a financial investment in your personal learning at this time.
Resee School may not be for you if…
You primarily want support to revise or reimagine a specific product, program, or idea for learning.
You are committed to current systems of change, including problem-solution mindsets, outcome-based plans, and improvement models, and aren’t interested in bringing rigorous curiosity to these.
You aren’t in a place within your body where deep, inner explorations feel safe or possible at this time.
