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Deep Lounge Place
Dreamer’s Deschooling Camp
Parenting for Collective Liberation - An ASDE Community Call
ASDE’s New Discord server
Seeking SDE Graphic Designers
Tipping Points Open Call
Upcoming Events

Greetings All,

For those in the northern hemisphere, summer may feel like it’s peeking over at us. Many SDE centers are wrapping up for the season, and summer planning (if your summer looks different than the other seasons) is in full swing. It can still feel strange to measure the year in this way, given that summer “break” is a concept based on the school calendar, but it’s so deeply rooted in many of our systems that it’s hard to imagine what a rhythm outside of it may look like. What do seasonal rhythms feel like for you all? Does summer just feel a little bit different? Or do you gauge the shifts of the year in another way?

In any case, there are lots of announcements, sharings, and summer things from the SDE community that we are sharing here. We hope you can build these next few months in the way that you desire.

Deep Lounge Place from Maleka “M”

Where individuals, parents, educators, and learning centers interrogate their indoctrination.

"Deep Lounge Place is my 8-month long moving meditation in support of individuals, parents, educators, and education entrepreneurs. It is where I tap into the six senses and my forever love of Deep House and Lounge music, in service of people who are raising children, educating families, and building safer spaces for learning and community-building to happen."

To learn more about the Deep Lounge Place, click here.

To learn more about how Speak and Be Easy (SBE) emerged, click here.

Starts June 16th!

Dreamers Deschooling Camp

From Lou:

“I’m super excited to share something close to my heart – the Dreamers Schooling Camp. It’s a virtual summer camp designed for teens and young adults to take charge of their future, highlighting their unique strengths, skills, and talents.

We offer a variety of engaging workshops and activities, from building personal websites and resumes to discovering new passions and setting meaningful goals.

Please do share this information with whomever in your network of organizations, schools, friends, and family that you think could use it. Reach out if you have any questions!”

Learn more here

Friday, June 28 · 4 - 5:30pm PDT / 7 - 8:30pm EDT

Parenting for Collective Liberation - An ASDE Community Call

The Alliance for Self-Directed Education is hosting our second community support call! Our topic for June is Parenting for Collective Liberation. Our panelists are Yolanda Williams, Gruff Madrigal and Erin Jantz.

Join us for this opportunity to discuss the urgent need for a shift in parenting dynamics - to honor and respect young people and divest from domination and power for Collective Liberation.

ASDE’s New Discord Server

We’d like to invite you to join the ASDE Community Discord Server for connection, conversation, and virtual events with others who are also exploring Self-Directed Education.

Seeking SDE Graphic Designers

ASDE is looking for a graphic designer or designers for a potential consultation on some of our projects. We’d really like to find someone who is part of the SDE community. If you’d like to be considered, send an email to janice@self-directed.org. Please include your experience level and connection to SDE and anything else you want us to know.

Tipping Points Open Call

Let’s have some fun! This Open Call is all about coming up with Unfactual Facts. The premise is to come up with fake facts about schooling culture to bring attention to some of the negative aspects in a somewhat absurd way. Each one should start with, "100% of people...(fill in the blank)."

Examples: