INTRODUCING SHOWCASE for children
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INTRODUCING SHOWCASE for children
For parents of free-thinking kids!
Are you beginning your journey in homeschooling and concerned about your child's ability to stay connected with their peers? Or perhaps are you finding yourself in a place of frustration and overwhelm after you have been home educating for a while. Are your children struggling to stay engaged? Are your children coping with loneliness, asking for connection with others? Are you finding their craving for socialization turns into a desire for unlimited screen time for entertainment? Does your child want to expand their social circle with others who are doing similar amazing things?
As we break free of the systems which have bound us, it is easy to feel like we are moving through the forest alone and isolated, solo in our homeschooling, unschooling or alternative education journeys. Children also feel this sense of disconnection, often yearning for peers and community. The desire and benefit of learning with others is natural, however many of us only have experienced it in a coercive and indoctrinating way within an institutional education model.
What if there was a space for them to connect, share, celebrate and discover with other like minded children? You don’t have to walk this path alone! We are offering SHOWCASE, a weekly community container to support your children’s learning, to share their stories, their creations and their discoveries, no matter which path they are on, creating a sense of belonging which we all yearn for.
As a special offer for our Unschooling the Mind community members to join for $17/ month!
Families are taking many paths with a common drive to support children in their individualized learning. The capacity to witness and support others is part of our humanness, and an essential skill. Sharing what they love and find challenging on this new path, whether it’s what they have done this week or what they are excited about next in a space of mutual respect and delight is an experience every child craves. Within their container of SHOWCASE each child gets an allocated time to share, nurturing curiosity, socialization, empathy, and allowing them to see what other home-learning children are doing which fuels their own internal creation process.
Here is Charlie showing off the spinning wheel.
The format is simple for the meeting. Kids will sign on, and a skilled educational facilitator will do a check in and introduction, centering the group and creating a space to listen respectfully to one another. Next we will show any art, discoveries, book work, projects, and plans that the children may want to show off. This creates intrinsic motivation to do their home learning projects by having a place to share them with peers. In closing, we have a topic of choice each week to discuss and leave us with “Food for Thought” for the next call, oriented to the seasons, interests of the group, or other emergent topics. In addition to the children's group, there will be an email list and optional telegram group for parents to connect to one another and share their experiences too. Then your child is off to explore for another week with the encouragement of community support from their group.
These calls will be on the Zoom platform, you will receive the link after you sign up. We ask a donation of $27 to $17 sliding scale per child per month in a subscription which you may cancel anytime. Fill out the form at the bottom of the page to start the process of signing up!
You can still join even if you have children in the public school system. We also want to hear how things are going for them. How are they meeting authority, how do they hold their own in the system and thrive? How do you as a parent educate them on the indoctrination to equip them with navigation while being “in the system.” We want to know!
Let’s get talking, sharing and celebrating our lives together!
Steps to sign up:
* Read this page about Showcase
* Fill out the questionnaire at the bottom of the form
* Schedule a free consultation with a facilitator
* Be an observer in a Showcase call (optional)
* Purchase a subscription
We will pair you up with a group and send you the link to join!
In addition, we have SHOWCASE PARENTS which is about teaching parents about family council. Parents can be observers in the SHOWCASE pod, as observers where they do not interact. We ask parents to be in a separate room than their kids during the calls.
Visit our instagram and to see our videos and informational posts. You can learn how to create a curriculum plan for your child(ren) through Showcase Parents or through a consultation with a facilitator.
Let’s get talking, sharing and celebrating our lives together!
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