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Schools, co-ops, resource centers, and social programs that bring people together with the intention of supporting SDE.
Organizations and groups that advocate SDE and support SDE practitioners, facilitators, and/or community organizers.
Online and in-person events that promote, or are likely of interest to, SDE practitioners.
Recommended books, videos, websites, blogs, podcasts, research, news, and other SDE information sources.
Service providers who have SDE-related knowledge and/or who serve with respect for the needs and values of those engaged in SDE.
Resources to support SDE-aligned collective liberation and anti-oppression.
Opportunities for work that support families practicing SDE.
Resources for which no other category is applicable.
Professional Services
Service providers who have SDE-related knowledge and/or who serve with respect for the needs and values of those engaged in SDE.
Consulting & Coaching
Includes support for educational planning, deschooling, parenting, special needs, and more.
ALFs run a network of schools, home school groups, and other initiatives that fundamentally empower young people to create their own lives. ALFs collectively grow and hold the ALC Network with facilitator trainings and ongoing collaboration.
A registered Psychologist working at Riverstone Village SDE community and available for Zoom and Skype sessions internationally, supporting SDE families with trauma, counselling, therapy and SDE-friendly resilience coaching.
SDE/deschooling facilitator and consultant.
I have worked at one Sudbury school and co-founded another and would love to help, free of charge, anyone looking to form a local SDE community in San Diego County.
a course for visionary educators seeking to liberate kids to learn naturally
I support parents in shifting from practices based in power-over and control to a relationship with your young people that is based in partnership, respect, and mutual support.
Services include: unschool and self-directed education coach; academic advisement; course and curriculum development; facilitation and mediation; accountability and thought partnership; project management.
Deschooling Ourselves is a community that helps people recognize and escape the assumptions of modern schooling.
Supporting folks to create a learning environment for their kids that is based on joy, trust and regeneration! Offering 4-week DISCO deep dives for those new to unschooling and Circle Memberships for current unschoolers.
We are creating autistic spaces that make it possible for the genius, integrity, concern for details, and specialized focus that are the trademarks of the autistic mind to be expressed to and to create value.
Clinical psychologist and SDE mother, working remotely from Hove, England.
Coaching and workshops for parent educators and learning facilitators supporting Self-Directed Education.
Unschooling mentor and mindfulness teacher, based in the UK, specialising in helping parents deschool and in helping them and their neurodivergent children thrive. Online workshops, courses and one-to-one sessions.
Neurodiversity-affirming educational strategist that deeply understands twice-exceptional and neurodivergent learning through strengths, talents and interests. Lived experience, 1:1 2e student mentoring, parent support/coach creating joyful pathways.
Centro de Aprendizaje Ágil. Colectivo de familias por la educación autodirigida. Asesoramiento a las familias y servicio personalizado.
Network of micro K-12 Self Directed Learning communities. DEcentralized Learning, rooted in DEcolonized Parenting and perpetuated by DEschooling. Offers online support network for unschoolers, including mentors, workshops, meetups & more.
Providing support, encouragement, guidance, and partnership on your unschooling journey.
Jenni has been doing homeschool consultations and helping self-directed families with paperwork since about 2014.
Consulting in the field of Self-Directed Education and child development.
Justine coaches young people with dyslexia and supports families through reading and writing development in remote consultations and tutoring sessions (based in Portland, OR).
Life coaching and education consulting for exceptional individuals of all ages and their families.
Intentional Living Coach & Community Mentor, specializing in presence counseling, deschooling, parenting on purpose, life-learning, self-care support, and intentional community mentorship.
Liberated Learners supports teams to create self-directed education centers in their community.
Through a nationally accredited high school, students get guidance and the ability to follow their passions with self-design and direct learning.
Mental health consulting, parent coaching, and child therapy for differently wired, highly sensitive, and autistic children.
Homeschooling/unschooling support services including consulting, Vermont state year-end assessments, and help with state paperwork to help you fulfill state requirements through self-directed education.
Rachel Rainbolt, founder of Sage Family, is a coach and therapist to gentle parenting and unschooling families. With a MA in marital and family therapy, she has spent decades guiding struggling families to peace, freedom, connection, and joy.
A non-profit organization that educates parents, teachers and the community about the importance of self-directed free play. We offer parent seminars, staff training and host free play with loose parts workshops.
Grown homeschooler and licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, offering individual, couple, family, child, and group therapy online, as well as, homeschool coaching.
“I serve growth-oriented parents who are committed to creating a culture of partnership in their families. I have two decades of experience in SDE, attachment parenting, and teaching parents how to have power with (not over) their kids.”
Consult with organizations and individuals wanting to identify, develop, and integrate applications of community-based education and self-directed learning into their mission, events, and programs.
The Unschool Files Youth Partnership Directory is a community resource for homeschooling, unschooling, and self-directed families.
Transformative Mentoring for Teens offers 1:1 coaching and a 12-week group course both designed to transform their lives (and yours). Teens need tools & autonomy to self-direct their healing in order to thrive for life.
Spark your kids’ love for learning: say goodbye to power struggles and worry.
Consulting services, information, links, and documents for those looking for unschooling information in Ohio. Feel free to post, share or ask questions.
Group or 1-on-1 coaching for parenting and unschooling.
Therapeutic Coach and Home School Mentor who specializes in Trauma recovery.
“My hope is to help you, as an individual, and as part of something bigger, to work through your past and into a brighter future. Transgenerational and intergenerational healing is possible through decolonized therapeutic practices.”
Mental Health & Counseling
Includes counselors and mental health professionals who understand SDE and support parents who choose SDE for their children.
A registered Psychologist working at Riverstone Village SDE community and available for Zoom and Skype sessions internationally, supporting SDE families with trauma, counselling, therapy and SDE-friendly resilience coaching.
Clinical psychologist and SDE mother, working remotely from Hove, England.
SDE-friendly psychotherapy for individuals, couples and families.
Unschooling mentor and mindfulness teacher, based in the UK, specialising in helping parents deschool and in helping them and their neurodivergent children thrive. Online workshops, courses and one-to-one sessions.
SDE-friendly therapy and consultation for young people, adults & families.
I offer individual psychotherapy for parents doing self-directed education with their families. I am a therapist with 7 years of SDE facilitation experience. Teletherapy services to PA residents & educational consultation around the world.
Redefining the way we think about Autism, Asperger’s, & other neurological differences...a somatic-oriented approach to neurodiversity.
Jessica is an EMDR-trained holistic psychotherapist practicing in the state of Indiana. Jessica is an advocate for self-directed learning, and is happy to serve self-directed learners and their families.
Offers virtual spiritual counseling & energy work. Has worked with many unschooling families and is an unschooling mom herself.
Offering SDE-friendly mediation and individual, family, & couples’ therapy.
SDE-friendly individual, marriage, and family therapist, offering services in-office in Yucca Valley and through video with California residents. Also counselor at Not Back To School Camp.
Mental health consulting, parent coaching, and child therapy for differently wired, highly sensitive, and autistic children.
“I work with individuals and couples. I also have expertise working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals (age 14+).”
SDE-friendly counseling for adults, families, and partnerships. Always happy to be a resource regardless if she works with someone directly.
Rachel Rainbolt, founder of Sage Family, is a coach and therapist to gentle parenting and unschooling families. With a MA in marital and family therapy, she has spent decades guiding struggling families to peace, freedom, connection, and joy.
Provides trauma informed, client-centered services and products that have an intentional anti-oppression lens. SDE-friendly.
Grown homeschooler and licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, offering individual, couple, family, child, and group therapy online, as well as, homeschool coaching.
SDE-friendly therapist for teens. Offers therapy services in-person in Austin, TX and virtually to residents of Texas in general.
Redefining the way we think about Autism, Asperger’s, & other neurological differences — a somatic-oriented approach to neurodiversity.
Each specialist in the directory has either received a consultation with Shawna Murray-Browne, LCSW-C on her Liberation-Focused Healing framework, or completed the intensive Decolonizing Therapy for Black Folk training.
Transformative Mentoring for Teens offers 1:1 coaching and a 12-week group course both designed to transform their lives (and yours). Teens need tools & autonomy to self-direct their healing in order to thrive for life.
Therapeutic Coach and Home School Mentor who specializes in Trauma recovery.
“My hope is to help you, as an individual, and as part of something bigger, to work through your past and into a brighter future. Transgenerational and intergenerational healing is possible through decolonized therapeutic practices.”
Physical Health & Wellness
Includes SDE-friendly doctors, chiropractors, occupational therapists, nutritionists, alternative/holistic health practitioners, and more.
Redefining the way we think about Autism, Asperger’s, & other neurological differences...a somatic-oriented approach to neurodiversity.
Redefining the way we think about Autism, Asperger’s, & other neurological differences — a somatic-oriented approach to neurodiversity.
A home-based learning & development center focused on creating whole food, whole families, whole children, whole communities & a whole world.
Other Professional Services
SDE-friendly professionals who don’t fit any of the above categories.
We are creating autistic spaces that make it possible for the genius, integrity, concern for details, and specialized focus that are the trademarks of the autistic mind to be expressed to and to create value.
Photography aimed at capturing the spirit and soul of self-directed education.
Liberated Learners supports teams to create self-directed education centers in their community.
Working with SDE children to start their own business.
Homeschooling/unschooling support services including consulting, Vermont state year-end assessments, and help with state paperwork to help you fulfill state requirements through self-directed education.
Licensed teacher documentation required for home study students in Vermont (in person and virtual); writing on unschool life.
Workshops & Training
Organizations and businesses (not specific events) that provide training and experiential learning related to the practice of SDE.
ALFs run a network of schools, home school groups, and other initiatives that fundamentally empower young people to create their own lives. ALFs collectively grow and hold the ALC Network with facilitator trainings and ongoing collaboration.
a course for visionary educators seeking to liberate kids to learn naturally
Offering trainings for SDE facilitators, workshops to deschool educational institutions, deschooling courses taught by a disciple of Ivan Illich, and more!
Clinical psychologist and SDE mother, working remotely from Hove, England.
Coaching and workshops for parent educators and learning facilitators supporting Self-Directed Education.
Unschooling mentor and mindfulness teacher, based in the UK, specialising in helping parents deschool and in helping them and their neurodivergent children thrive. Online workshops, courses and one-to-one sessions.
Learn how to create a learning environment that respects the unique strengths and interests of young people and supports them to create a meaningful life and education.
Promotes youth + social change, especially among traditionally disconnected young people. We learn, share, grow and support youth + social change through projects, training and research around the world. Also offers anti-adultism resources.
Network of micro K-12 Self Directed Learning communities. DEcentralized Learning, rooted in DEcolonized Parenting and perpetuated by DEschooling. Offers online support network for unschoolers, including mentors, workshops, meetups & more.
Online training and support for Self-Directed Education Facilitators in unschooling homes and SDE settings – a powerful path of personal growth that enables participants to become effective assistants rather than well-meaning saboteurs.
Liberated Learners supports teams to create self-directed education centers in their community.
Online, group coaching sessions for parent educators, with expert Self-Directed Education coach Aaron Eden. Online courses are offered regularly throughout the year and provide an opportunity to grow deepen our practice.
A summer camp, school start-up, and training center for SDE parents & facilitators, centered around the eight pillars of connection, trust, self-management, play, democracy, agility, inclusiveness and holism. Locations in Ghent and Mortsel.
Unschooling & Deschooling trainings, support & tools for SDE families & communities.
A non-profit organization that educates parents, teachers and the community about the importance of self-directed free play. We offer parent seminars, staff training and host free play with loose parts workshops.
Workshops to support those who are exploring unschooling.
Therapeutic Coach and Home School Mentor who specializes in Trauma recovery.
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