Nature-based education prioritizes emergent, child-directed learning that’s individualized for each child, but we don’t often follow the same principles when it comes to our own professional learning.
In this UnPD forum, we’ll give one another permission to design and facilitate (un)professional development for ourselves that authentically meets our individual and collective needs, rather than subscribing to the traditional school model (hence “unPD”).
For the past year, Cassandra Ellis and Colton Running have been working in community with one another and other professionals to co-create, offer reciprocity, and nurture a sense of accountability for one another’s projects. In the forum, they’ll model this approach to professional development, and give participants the opportunity to learn experientially with mutual support to push their projects forward.
To try out this approach, come with a project (job-related or not) you want to start, you’re in the middle of, or you’ve stalled and lost momentum on. Projects might be a workshop series you want to breathe life back into, a podcast you’re eager to begin, or a publication series you’re unsure of how to sustain. This forum centers thriving in solution-oriented community and healing from isolating silos. We don’t promise you’ll leave this experience more “professionally developed,” but rather experience alternative and innovative approaches to support you as a person, practitioner, and professional.
The forum will took place on Tuesday, October 26 at 3 pm PT/6 pm ET.
Watch recording here
