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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
6-Week Course

Writing Elsewhere Geographies

a collective (un)learning and generative writing space serving as a container for grief praxis | generative refusals | prefiguring for liberation | co-creating-curating liberatory present-futures

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Shraddha Shah, PhD
Shraddha Shah, PhD · Neuroscientist | Writer | Activist
Live Online14 students max6 sessions
Fall 2026
4-Week Course

Being Human: How to Reclaim Agency & Flourish in Uncertain Times

Modern systems and capitalism are eroding humanity. We live disconnected from ourselves, others, and the planet. How can we build a stronger sense of self? How can we cultivate the conditions for change and the foundations for a better way to live?

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Sheila Pontis, PhD
Sheila Pontis, PhD · Professor & Researcher in Imagination, Wellbeing and Design
Live Online14 students max4 sessions
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

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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