We offer our gratitude to the many beings who nourish our work.
We draw deeply from the visionary insights of Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures, who guide us to unlearn colonial patterns and reclaim pathways toward collective liberation. We walk alongside Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, hospicing modernity with tender rigor, acknowledging the beauty and necessity of letting go. We spiral through seasons of transformation with Joanna Macy’s Active Hope, attuning ourselves to the regenerative rhythms of life and the expanded Spiral of The Work That Reconnects, weaving webs of resilience and courage. Our imaginations ignite in the fiery playfulness of The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination and Selçuk Balamir, courageously dreaming up worlds beyond capitalist realism, alongside our fellow disruptors from the Disobedient Art School and Artivist Network, who remind us that creative dissent is a life-giving force.
We are humbled and nourished by the ancient wisdom and teachings generously shared by our Andean teachers, whose living cosmologies root us firmly in reciprocal relationships with Earth. In the quiet, patient beauty of Weaving Remembrance, we honor ancestors and listen to silenced stories, stitching back together fractured pasts and possible futures. We cultivate strength, clarity, and strategic compassion through Training for Change and Ulex, and ground our visions in the powerful magic and earth-based activism of Starhawk. Drawing insight from Emergence Strategy, we nurture fluid, adaptable, and responsive modes of being, embodying the visionary practice of becoming collective beings attuned to life's interdependence.
We embody the liberatory healing practices from Prentis Hemphill and The Embodiment Institute, as well as Staci K Haines, whose wisdom guides us into embodied action. Dancing to the rhythms of grief work and intersectional healing with Camille Sapara Barton, we honor the body as both compass and sanctuary. We stand in solidarity with land protectors like Eduard Hernández, Reparative Land Justice Collective, Aseed, and La Via Campesina, listening intently to the voices that defend seeds, soils, and food sovereignty. With artist–researcher ro heinrich, we learn relational aesthetics and what it means to genuinely encounter one another amidst the end of the world as we know it. We weave radical pedagogies alongside Umunukunu Pluriversity, embracing earth-knowledges that resist monocultures of the mind.
Through the attentive work of Michelle Teran and the relational provocations of SPIN collective, we deepen our ability to sense, engage, and act within complex social ecologies. We honor the fierce dedication and creative disruptions of Fossil Free Culture to unravel toxic ties between cultural institutions and extractive industries. And through the tactical frivolity learned with Tools for Action and Bambi van Balen, we remember the power of collective play and imaginations to reclaim public spaces and dream new realities into being. Without the radical and irresistible visual design of Karoline Świeżyński, this work would look flat, just meh. And thank you Joel Galvez for translating the designs with your smooth website magic.
And there are so many more teachers –visible and invisible, past, present, and yet to emerge– composting and sprouting with us in this fertile soil of transformation and resistance.
With deep gratitude to our board: Shila Ishwardat, Stijn Verhoeff, and Wan Ing Que, for their unwavering support in difficult times.
reschooling-with is made possible thanks to the financial support of VriendenLoterij Fonds, the Culture of Solidarity Fund, powered by the European Cultural Foundation, Guerilla Foundation and Patagonia International Grants Program.
