How can our learning systems find balance, harmony and dynamism, like a healthy forest, desert or coral reef?

Our learning systems have been disrupted, as have our learning ecosystems. I’m on a collaborative quest to rewild and bring harmony back to our learning spaces. I’m experimenting, working with families and children and with my local community in my neighborhood and with friends and colleagues across the world to reimagine, recreate, try things out, and in the process, learn, laugh and grow together. 

Practically, I facilitate a small nature based children’s community in South London called Free We Grow, where the children are free to self direct their learning in communion with each other and the world they are a part of. 

I am also intimately involved with the establishment and slow growth of a community garden/urban rewilding project/learning coop in my neighborhood called Putney Community Gardens where, as a group of neighbors from a diversity of backgrounds, we’re getting to know each other, tuning into our own, and each others’ diverse backgrounds and knowledge roots; getting to know, caring for and learning to become better custodians of the land around us.

I bring a background in nomadism, humanitarian work, diplomacy, international development and conservation work, as well as experience in mainstream teaching. I like to work locally, and at a scale and pace that feels good for everyone, nature included (learning to listen to that!). I use amongst other things, storytelling, art, writing and making, the idea of pilgrimage and a fascination with crafts and ethnobotany in my practice. I also play. A lot. 

Moving forwards I’m looking to engage in how a healthy learning ecosystem can contribute to healthy ‘alivelihoods’. 

If these ideas fascinate you too, please feel free to get in touch and have an explore together.