The Reschooling Spiral is a year-long practice ground for unlearning coloniality and relearning relationality. It is a growing community of artists, educators, and cultural workers who gather every two weeks in Amsterdam to move through a full year of ecological cycles: solar, lunar, tidal, and seasonal, alongside agroecological rhythms of sowing, growing, harvesting, and fallowing.
Together, we practise holding the no and the yes: dismantling and building, resisting and healing. We unsettle dominant frames of knowing and doing, metabolise inherited colonial conditioning, and strengthen our capacity to respond to these times with discernment, humility, and care.
Sessions weave embodied practice, grief work, storytelling, and land-based ritual with critical inquiry, collective reading, and anti-oppression groundwork. Hands-on workshops in fermentation, composting, and seed-saving ground the learning in Earth-based practice, while relational tools such as emergent strategy, working with conflict as generative, and embodied facilitation build the infrastructure for collaboration and movement building.
Learning happens through peer exchange as much as through facilitation. Participants study alongside one another and alongside invited practitioners, encounter ancestral, decolonial, and embodied practices, and carry what they learn into their own artistic and community work. The Spiral is also where lasting relationships form: communities that sustain socially engaged, ecological, and transdisciplinary practice long after the course ends.
Guiding Principles
Decolonial and Regenerative Orientation
We commit to unlearning colonial logics in practice. This means growing in our discernment, accountability and humility, and nurturing ancestral and land-based ways of relating, grounded in reciprocity and care for all living systems.
Plural, Relational Activism
We honour the full range of forms of resistance and care—from ritual and storytelling to direct action– and refuse hierarchies between them.
Commitment to Solidarity and Repair
In times of deepening crisis, we ask: What is required of us? We practice embodied responsibility, naming harm, sitting with discomfort, and taking concrete steps toward repair, among people, communities, ecosystems, and the histories we inhabit.
Attuned to Seasonal Rhythms
The spiral follows the Earth’s cycles—sowing, growing, harvesting, and resting. Not as metaphor. We use seasonal rhythms as a genuine pedagogical framework, letting the land set the pace of our learning and the depth of our inquiry.
