Fare of the Free Child
Fare of the Free Child podcast focuses on Black people, Native Indigenous people, and People of Color (BIPOC) families who practice unschooling and other forms of Self-directed, decolonized living and learning. Each weekly episode examines a particular way that we’ve accepted coercive, emotionally and physically damaging habits as a normal part of adult-child relationships. With a focus on deschooling one’s self, decolonizing education, and exploring radical self-expression, this podcast challenges and informs us to walk toward a model for living with children that believes in trusting and respecting children and ourselves. #fofcpod #raisingfreepeople
Fare of the Free Child
Ep 257: Spirituality and Intuition in This Self-directed Life
This is the first episode of Season 9 and we’re delighted to dive into the work of shifting our spiritual and intuitive work to include our raising free people practice. This feels important because while some of us might already see the connection between our commitment to raising free people and the cultivation of our spiritual and intuitive practices, not all of us do. For some of us, the weight, pressure, and pace of our daily responsibilities make that particularly difficult to name, let alone practice. For some of us, the fatigue and frustrations that come with lack of community, for example, can have spiritual work feeling like a luxury we just don’t have time to get into. Our intention is that this season will offer you pockets of education and examples for how to begin exploring what spirituality and its first cousin, intuition, in your specific life and relationship work. And then, through that exploration, it is our hope that you can begin to clear away the not-it shit that’s taking up way too much space in your thoughts and actions, so that you can plant or nurture new seeds, seeds that align with your right and your connection to liberation work. This work is not just for, or because of our children. It is for us first, and then for all the relationship circles we are in, that require our nurturing.
Voices we’ll center this season:
- Chemay Morales James of My Reflection Matters
- Naazneen Mookadam (aka Fatima) of Raising Free People Network (RFPN)
- Vanessa Molano of Empathematics and RFPN
- Dr. Crystal Menzies of EmancipatED
- Akilah S. Richards of RFPN
With special guest conversations about Spiritual Technology by Jasai and Stori, the mother|daughter team behind Alaiyo Waistbeads
MADD QUESTION ASKIN’ MOMENTS (MQA’S)
- Are we afraid to talk about manifestation in relation to raising free people?
- Is there something solid to this practice of believing something into existence?
- Is Self-Directed Education basically intuitive lead education since it is, in part about listening to our inner voice, and respecting that voice in children?
- Did Chemay Morales James create My Reflection Matters as a result of following her own intuition?
- When y’all feel connected to us, know that it’s because there is also a thing in you that is looking to connect
- When is it best to wait for answers before making a move, versus moving so that the answers can show up?
EP 257 JOURNAL PROMPT
As you listen to this episode, let's think about the prompt that would help you think through your current imperfect conditions.
What would you describe as your version of “$2 status?”
What are some of the realities that you feel are stalling your i
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The Raising Free People Practice Card Deck
https://schoolishness.com/market/rfp-a-practice-deck/
Peek at the details of Personal Manifesto Path (will be available exclusively through our make-it-happen family on Patreon)
https://www.rfpunschool.com/p/manifesto
Our Youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@fareofthefreechild
The Village:
https://my-reflection-matters.mn.co/
