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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.

Agile Learning Facilitators

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.

Andrew Swart, Psychologist

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.

Another Way

a course for visionary educators seeking to liberate kids to learn naturally

Bria Bloom, Parent Coach

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.

Deschooling Ourselves

Deschooling Ourselves is a community that helps people recognize and escape the assumptions of modern schooling.

Disco Learning

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.

Divergent Labs

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.

Eliad Group

Coaching and workshops for parent educators and learning facilitators supporting Self-Directed Education.

Esther Jones

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.

Futuresc

Centro de Aprendizaje Ágil. Colectivo de familias por la educación autodirigida. Asesoramiento a las familias y servicio personalizado.

Geniī: A 5 Pillar Genius Community

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.

Leslie W. Bray

Intentional Living Coach & Community Mentor, specializing in presence counseling, deschooling, parenting on purpose, life-learning, self-care support, and intentional community mentorship.

Liberated Learners

Liberated Learners supports teams to create self-directed education centers in their community.

Market Square Education

Through a nationally accredited high school, students get guidance and the ability to follow their passions with self-design and direct learning.

Open Path Homeschooling Resources

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, Sage Family Coach

Rachel takes frustrated and exhausted parents by the hand and offers them another way — radical parents who hear the call of “gentle, natural, simple,” but have lost their way in the noise of mainstream advice.

Recess Revolution

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.

Roya Dedeaux, MFT

Grown homeschooler and licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, offering individual, couple, family, child, and group therapy online, as well as, homeschool coaching.

Scott Noelle, parent 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.”

Transformative Mentoring for Teens

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.

Unschooling Ohio

Consulting services, information, links, and documents for those looking for unschooling information in Ohio. Feel free to post, share or ask questions.

Untigering

Group or 1-on-1 coaching for parenting and unschooling.

Wellness Guide

Therapeutic Coach and Home School Mentor who specializes in Trauma recovery.

Z the Matriarch

“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.

Andrew Swart, Psychologist

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.

Eric F. Nielson

SDE-friendly psychotherapy for individuals, couples and families.

Esther Jones

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.

Infinite U Yoga

Redefining the way we think about Autism, Asperger’s, & other neurological differences...a somatic-oriented approach to neurodiversity.

Jessica Witmer, LMHC-A, Holistic Psychotherapist

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.

Kirstin Eventyr, MA

Offers virtual spiritual counseling & energy work. Has worked with many unschooling families and is an unschooling mom herself.

Lauren M. Mac Neill

Offering SDE-friendly mediation and individual, family, & couples’ therapy.

Nathen Lester, LMTF

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.

Rachael Baskind Counseling

SDE-friendly counseling for adults, families, and partnerships. Always happy to be a resource regardless if she works with someone directly.

Radical Therapy Center

Provides trauma informed, client-centered services and products that have an intentional anti-oppression lens. SDE-friendly.

Roya Dedeaux, MFT

Grown homeschooler and licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, offering individual, couple, family, child, and group therapy online, as well as, homeschool coaching.

Sam Robinson, LCSW

SDE-friendly therapist for teens. Offers therapy services in-person in Austin, TX and virtually to residents of Texas in general.

The Infinite U

Redefining the way we think about Autism, Asperger’s, & other neurological differences — a somatic-oriented approach to neurodiversity.

Therapy That Liberates Directory

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

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.

Wellness Guide

Therapeutic Coach and Home School Mentor who specializes in Trauma recovery.

Z the Matriarch

“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.

Infinite U Yoga

Redefining the way we think about Autism, Asperger’s, & other neurological differences...a somatic-oriented approach to neurodiversity.

The Infinite U

Redefining the way we think about Autism, Asperger’s, & other neurological differences — a somatic-oriented approach to neurodiversity.

Other Professional Services

SDE-friendly professionals who don’t fit any of the above categories.

Divergent Labs

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.

Liberated Learners

Liberated Learners supports teams to create self-directed education centers in their community.

Open Path Homeschooling Resources

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.

Wise Soul Homeschool

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.

Agile Learning Facilitators

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.

Another Way

a course for visionary educators seeking to liberate kids to learn naturally

Desescolarizados

Offering trainings for SDE facilitators, workshops to deschool educational institutions, deschooling courses taught by a disciple of Ivan Illich, and more!

Eliad Group

Coaching and workshops for parent educators and learning facilitators supporting Self-Directed Education.

Esther Jones

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.

Freechild Institute for Youth & Social Change

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.

Geniī: A 5 Pillar Genius Community

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.

Liberated Learners

Liberated Learners supports teams to create self-directed education centers in their community.

Orvita

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.

Radical Learning

Unschooling & Deschooling trainings, support & tools for SDE families & communities.

Recess Revolution

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.

Untigering

Workshops to support those who are exploring unschooling.

Wellness Guide

Therapeutic Coach and Home School Mentor who specializes in Trauma recovery.

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