Pioneers with a mission
Our vision is to reinvent education by unschooling ourselves and meeting our children from a place of trust instead of fear.
We guide children aged 8-11 years in their own learning process, focusing on their passions and personal interests while providing a basic framework.
Through the art of storytelling, (written, visual, digital, rhythmical, artistic, verbal) they will be encouraged to express themselves and to share their self-discovered wisdom with the world.
Task walks in nature, problem solving challenges, meditation, and breath work will be part of their daily structure. They will receive empowering tools that will help them to cultivate self love, critical thinking, and authenticity. Furthermore, they will practise compassionate communication, radical honesty, conflict resolution and do body & boundary work so they will be able to navigate resiliently and without fear through chaos, face challenges with grace, and transform shadows into light.
Family Focused
Including the families is fundamental to this community learning initiative.
There are monthly meetings in which we discuss organizational and logistical matters, plan fundraising events, brainstorm about content and discuss education and values.
The monthly women and men circles for the mothers and fathers (educators take also part) provide a space for more personal subjects to arise and for everyone to be witnessed in their process.
Contribution:
We work with a financial sliding scale hoping to support families with lower income. Monthly tuition is between €330-360 per child + at least 4 working hours per month. We follow a 10 month payment cycle.
In order to compensate for the immense amount of work that has been done by the families that have been there from the beginning we ask for an application fee of €300 from every new member.
LEARN, EXPLORE, AND CONNECT OUTSIDE
2022/2023
September 2022 Admissions
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COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOPS
Bodies & Boundaries for kids & parents
Are you interested in this one day workshop? Either for yourself and your family, for your own learning community or for your school class?
How will the day look:
We’ll start the day with a short sharing circle together with parents and children.
Then we’ll playfully explore through hands-on exercises our full body yes and our fully body no, work with our boundaries and learn healthy ways to communicate them.
After a shared lunch we will split up the groups. Through ‘stories as medicine’ both parents and kids can share in separate circles about their experiences.
Short closing circle with everyone.
Katjalisa
Katjalisa has a background in Anthropology and somatic sex education.
She is the co- founder of the community learning project “Restore Nature for kids’ and the founder of the Slow Sex Experience (for adults).
Her vision is to create a new culture of relating by providing pioneering education for children, teenagers and adults. She is mentored by Sanderijn van der Doef, a leading authority in the Netherlands and abroad in the field of sexual education.
Mattie
Mattie grew up on a biodynamic farm in the Netherlands and has a background in Anthropology.
He is the founder of the Restore Nature Foundation and the co-founder of the community learning project “Restore Nature for kids’.
He is dedicated to restoring natural ecosystems and to reinventing education. Empowering the younger generation by sharing his work is the most hopeful thing he can do!