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Learning for a Liberated Future

Let's unlock the knowledge needed to birth a new world

Live, cohort-based courses by scholars, artists, and practitioners building systemic change. Small groups. Real dialogue. Deep learning.

Our Approach

A New Kind of Learning Space

These courses shape how we teach, learn, and build new possibilities.

Liberation-Focused

Every course is grounded in one question: What knowledge helps us build a better world?

Intimate Cohorts

10-25 learners per course. Real-time dialogue. Genuine community that extends beyond the classroom.

Faculty Autonomy

Instructors control their topics, pricing, and schedules. We handle the platform, you teach what matters.

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Live, cohort-based courses by scholars, artists, and practitioners — small groups, real dialogue, deep learning.

Fall 2026
8-Week Course

Giving Yourself Permission to Dream: Building Hope in Dystopian Times

There are countless, pressing issues in the world as it is. But now more than ever, it's critically important to imagine more hopeful futures and dream of the world as it could be.

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Keaton Wadzinski
Keaton Wadzinski · Imagining and Building More Hopeful Futures
Live Online25 students max8 sessions
Fall 2026
8-Week Course

The Undergrowth Sanctuary: Practicing Freedom as Strategy

This course is offered as a collective reflection, imagination and practice sanctuary – for leaders who need to remember that you are already free. You will be held with embodiment practices, peer reflection, visionary storytelling, and create your own Strategic Compass to navigate systems collapse and create futures of collective thriving.

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Shawna Wakefield
Shawna Wakefield · Social justice and embodiment facilitator, strategist and guide
Live Online20 students max8 sessions
Fall 2026
4-Week Course

Engaging in Feedback Dialogues for Liberation

This workshop explores feedback as a relational, dialogical encounter to foster meaningful feedback happenings, grounded in emotional safety and equity, in diverse spaces: from educational contexts to workplace and community spaces.

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Sam Passeport
Sam Passeport · Relational Coach, Education Disruptor, Feminist Killjoy
Live Online20 students max4 sessions
Fall 2026
4-Week Course

Beyond Sustainability: Connecting Deeper to the Environmental Conversation

This course invites you to explore sustainability from a place of empowerment, connection, and inspiration rather than fear and urgency. Drawing on environmental psychology, storytelling, and ancestral wisdom, it focuses on embodying practices that create meaningful impact. By the end, you’ll feel equipped to engage with environmental work authentically, reconnect with the land and community, and lead initiatives grounded in purpose and care.

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Najla Abdellatif Vallander
Najla Abdellatif Vallander · Environmental Advocate
Live Online25 students max4 sessions
Fall 2026
8-Week Course

Tending to the Roots of Conflict in a Divided World

Deepen your capacity to unearth and tend to the unconscious beliefs, protective patterns, and survival strategies at the root of conflict, division, dehumanization, and polarization.

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Lena Papadopoulos
Lena Papadopoulos · Award-winning educator and leadership coach working at the intersection of personal and collective liberation
Live Online10 students max8 sessions
Fall 2026
8-Week Course

The Architecture of Community

Exploring the invisible architectures shaping belonging, leadership, governance, and collective life, and how we might design more conscious, participatory, and life-supporting systems together.

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Hadil El-Baba
Hadil El-Baba · Architect | Systems Designer & Community BuilderFounder and Though Leader of Harmonia
Live Online14 students max8 sessions

Voices from Our Learning Community

“This is unlike any educational context I've experienced — in the best way. The space was warm, rigorous, and genuinely transformative.”

Learner

Designing for Liberation (Jan 2026)

“The vision of the School aligns so deeply with my own sense of what 'school' could be. I felt seen, challenged, and inspired.”

Learner

The Classroom is Burning (Jan 2026)

“This School helps me feel rooted in chaotic times. The discussions were intimate and the faculty brought both rigor and imagination.”

Learner

Embodying Liberation (Jan 2026)

Our ethos

The School is a place where…

  • Radical

    We understand that the status quo does not work and re-examine the roots of the problem.

  • Co-learning

    We recognize that everyone has something to teach and something to learn.

  • Intersectionality

    We hold that all life is sacred, and understand that everything is connected.

  • Agency

    We focus our attention on possibility and power.

  • Emergent

    We listen deeply and stay in relationship.

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