1 hr 20 min
Conveyance of Culture Through Education with Elanne Kresser The Wild and Wise
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- Spirituality
Ep. #30
In today's episode, Mallika invites her friend, Elanne Kresser, to share a deep exploration of cultural healing and the hope for education that teaches our children to live within and honor the beautiful space we occupy, birthing a new paradigm of partnership, of tending and of caring for all beings.
Mallika and Elanne have been friends since 2013 and have been in conversation with each other about many topics, from conscious parenting and healthy relating styles, to the current paradigm of "compulsory schooling" and examining or shifting cultural constructs.
Elanne Kresser is devoted to the labor of birthing a world in which all voices, both human and otherwise, are honored. She has practiced in the Ordinary Mind School of Zen for two decades and directed The Dharma School for children for eight years, and her adult life has been dedicated to community-based, culturally-generative, earth-honoring education. She is a practitioner of ancestral and cultural healing and loves supporting others to reclaim their self-worth, life purpose, and sense of belonging. Her people hail from Bavaria, Bohemia, Jämtland, Sweden and England.
Elanne Kresser's Website
Peter Grey
John Taylor Gatto
"Weapons of Mass Instruction" By John Taylor Gatto
Things we touch on in this episode:
Feeling belonging with place Personal wellness = "how able am I to meet the changing conditions of life" Wellness is relational Animism, at it's foundation, is relationshipHow teaching in today's system that is devoid of meaningful workThe ancestors are who hands us our cultureDepth of cultural healing available through getting right with our ancestorsTending ancestral connection through education A new paradigm of relating and tending and caringThe natural friction when shifting from an old to a new paradigmDistinguishing between education and compulsory schooling and the values at the base of the current schooling structureWays that we can each play a role in starting this shiftThe possibility that we re-imagine schooling is hereHomeschooling, free-schooling, unschooling, democratic schooling, and the movement for self-directed educationWhat practical ways can this be implemented in a schooling settingThe clarity that can come from ancestral involvement in these projects
Quotes from Elanne:
Wellness requires relationally (12 min)
The ancestors are who hands us our culture (24)
Education is ultimately the transmission of culture (25)
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Mallika's Website
Ashley’s Instagram
Ashley's Website
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Ep. #30
In today's episode, Mallika invites her friend, Elanne Kresser, to share a deep exploration of cultural healing and the hope for education that teaches our children to live within and honor the beautiful space we occupy, birthing a new paradigm of partnership, of tending and of caring for all beings.
Mallika and Elanne have been friends since 2013 and have been in conversation with each other about many topics, from conscious parenting and healthy relating styles, to the current paradigm of "compulsory schooling" and examining or shifting cultural constructs.
Elanne Kresser is devoted to the labor of birthing a world in which all voices, both human and otherwise, are honored. She has practiced in the Ordinary Mind School of Zen for two decades and directed The Dharma School for children for eight years, and her adult life has been dedicated to community-based, culturally-generative, earth-honoring education. She is a practitioner of ancestral and cultural healing and loves supporting others to reclaim their self-worth, life purpose, and sense of belonging. Her people hail from Bavaria, Bohemia, Jämtland, Sweden and England.
Elanne Kresser's Website
Peter Grey
John Taylor Gatto
"Weapons of Mass Instruction" By John Taylor Gatto
Things we touch on in this episode:
Feeling belonging with place Personal wellness = "how able am I to meet the changing conditions of life" Wellness is relational Animism, at it's foundation, is relationshipHow teaching in today's system that is devoid of meaningful workThe ancestors are who hands us our cultureDepth of cultural healing available through getting right with our ancestorsTending ancestral connection through education A new paradigm of relating and tending and caringThe natural friction when shifting from an old to a new paradigmDistinguishing between education and compulsory schooling and the values at the base of the current schooling structureWays that we can each play a role in starting this shiftThe possibility that we re-imagine schooling is hereHomeschooling, free-schooling, unschooling, democratic schooling, and the movement for self-directed educationWhat practical ways can this be implemented in a schooling settingThe clarity that can come from ancestral involvement in these projects
Quotes from Elanne:
Wellness requires relationally (12 min)
The ancestors are who hands us our culture (24)
Education is ultimately the transmission of culture (25)
Mallika's Instagram
Mallika's Website
Ashley’s Instagram
Ashley's Website
Support the show
1 hr 20 min