Resee School
For individuals, teams, and communities working to reimagine schools and learning and willing to engage in deep personal exploration of the latent logics that live within themselves.
Together, may we regenerate foundational soils for liberatory learning and being.
Current systems of school are crumbling as new systems are emerging. Yet most of what appears “new” now is flimsy and formed from the roots of current systems. It takes time to regenerate soils for liberated learning.
Our work now is to seed new roots.
We have a sense of what is possible. We see glimpses of beautiful learning. We hear wisps of how it might be. We feel resonance in moments of synchronicity. We are remembering something true—something far and close, something outside of us and of us.
Who we are is the soil for everything that pollinates on the surface.
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. This isn’t metaphor. It’s practice. And the context for our practice isn’t outside of us, over there.
Our practice lies within.
We are the boxes that frame our ways of seeing and being. Their logics are held inside the structures of our bodies. Without our attention to the wells of beliefs and feelings lodged in our cells, we will continue to replicate systems of “school” and “change” that don’t have the resonance to root foundations for liberation of learning.
Reach out for a conversation about how we might work together to resee school, learning, and theories of change in your context.
For us to resee school with rooted wildflower fields of liberated learning, we must release “school” from our bodies and mindsets.
Ways to Work Together
Customized Community of Practice
This is deep work that requires time and spacious attention. A community of practice for a team within your organization or community is a beautiful way to begin a resee conversation in your context. This might look like monthly sessions over the span of a year, weekly sessions over the span of a quarter, or something else. We can create a structure and timeline that works best for you.
Consultation
A consultation is a good place to begin. This invites an outside perspective to help you see what’s hard to see when you’re inside it. I support you to notice and name specific threads within your context with the most potential for liberatory learning and specific threads that are currently pulling against this, maintaining mixed messages and unliberatory assumptions and practices.
Talks
A talk or facilitated conversation is a way to invite new questions, open possibilities, inspire, and nourish seeds within your organization or community. This is a good option if you want to open space to tend the soil, pique the interest of a group, or connect some dots between various layers of work within your context.
Workshops
If you want a little more than a talk, but not quite as much as a community of practice, a workshop (or workshop series) supports your team with active engagement around ideas, feelings, and practices. Participants explore the ways they see, talk, think, and hold “school” within themselves and examine the impact of this on your larger organizational and community work. Workshops let people try out and play with simple practices to rattle, release, restore, and resee learning.
Contact me to schedule a conversation about how we might work together.
Layered Content and Practice
Whether we work together within a community of practice, workshop, talk, or consultation, we’ll look deeply into the threads of logic that tether unliberatory practices within systems of learning.
We’ll examine how and where these logics show up in contexts of learning, and how and where they live within the humans working in these contexts. 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 divergent 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 (heard and spoken) about school and learning, such as effort, success, outcome, improve, play, rigor, freedom, belonging, curiosity.
Throughout our collaborative inquiry and conversations, I’ll weave invitations for various modes of personal and collective practice, including:
Noticing practices—to find where logics live within you and observe how they show up in your day-to-day life.
Somatic practices—to rattle, dislodge, and release the logics you no longer wish to hold.
Restorative practices—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 grow congruent roots to resee and restory learning (and yourself).
Reflection—questions to guide integration, connection, and application
Who we are is the foundation for everything that pollinates on the surface.
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.
Why work with me?
I know school. I know school from the inside, the outside, and the pockets between. And I know the pathways and best intentions of efforts to innovate and change school.
I spent decades as an educator in both boxes: “school” and “change.” It’s only when I stepped out of the boxes that I was able to see that the boxes lived inside me.
Over the past 8 years, I’ve studied in the realms of energetics and somatics. Through practice, I’ve learned ways to rattle, release, restore, and reroot who I am, how I create, and the ways I show up in the world. As I’ve stretched myself, I’ve stretched how I write, speak, and teach to include layers of somatic and energetic practice for others.
As I’ve played and shared in various contexts, I’ve been listening, tending, and weaving to create offerings resonant with our current moment for humans who are ready to practice for and as liberation.
Resee School is a scope of work designed for NOW, as we are amidst radical collective shifting into new structures, systems, and ways of living, and learning, together.
