From Teacher to Learning Guide – Reimagining Education for Your Own Kids

Leaving behind the structure of traditional schooling can feel like both a relief and a reckoning. If you're a former teacher or someone questioning your role in the system, you might be wondering: What does learning look like without control? How do I unlearn the habits and mindsets that were drilled into me? What happens when others question whether I'm "doing enough"?

This workshop is an invitation to step outside the rules of conventional education and reimagine what's possible. Together, we'll explore deschooling. Not just as a process for kids, but as a deep shift in how we see learning, power, and relationships. We'll unpack the hidden ways coercion shows up in education, the conditioning we carry from our own schooling, and how we can move toward collaboration over control, trust over instruction, and connection over compliance. Whether you're supporting your own kids or working with young people in another capacity, this session will help you unlearn, reframe, and step into a way of being that feels aligned and liberating even when it challenges conventional ideas of what education should be.

Takeaways:

• Recognizing how traditional education has shaped our beliefs about learning, success, and control and how to shift toward trust.
• Letting go of the "teacher" identity and stepping into a more collaborative, facilitative, and co-learning role.
• Shifting from authority and control to shared decision-making and meaningful collaboration with young people.