Workshop Recap: From ‘Teacher’ to ‘Learning Guide’

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 was an invitation to step outside the rules of conventional education and reimagine what’s possible. Together, we explored unschooling. Not just as a process for kids, but as a deep shift in how we see learning, power, and relationships. We unpacked 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.