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We invite you to join us from 11 September 2026 to 25 June 2027, gathering bi-weekly in Amsterdam. Moving through a full year of ecological cycles — solar, lunar, tidal, and seasonal, alongside agroecological rhythms of sowing, growing, harvesting, and fallowing — the Reschooling Spiral is a practice ground for deep reckoning and collective transformation.

Together, we practice holding the no and the yes: dismantling and building; resisting and healing; unlearning and learning to know and be otherwise. We gather to unsettle dominant frames of knowing and doing, metabolise inherited conditioning, reimagine other ways of being and relating, and strengthen our capacity to respond to these times with discernment, humility, and care.

Sessions weave together embodied practice, grief work, storytelling, land-based rituals, and ceremonies — alongside critical inquiry, collective reading, and unlearning exercises. Hands-on workshops in fermentation, composting, and seed-saving ground the work in regenerative, Earth-based practice. Relational tools — including emergent strategy, navigating conflict as a generative practice, anti-oppression frameworks, and embodied facilitation — build the necessary infrastructure for transformative collaboration and movement building.

This is an invitation to step down from the human-centered pedestal, to grow our response-ability, and relearn to sense, live, and act relationally — with one another, with land, and with the more-than-human.

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Practical details

If this resonates with you,
please fill in the application form before 10 July 2026.

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Arc of the Spiral: Themes & Practices

Autumn

• Building an accountable and courageous space: community agreements and learning rupture/repair practices.
• Anti-Oppression groundwork: establishing a shared political foundation: who we are, where we stand, and what we carry, before moving into the harder work of exploring implication, complicity, and contradiction.
• Somatic shedding and composting colonial conditioning: learning to identify and shift harmful behaviours, patterns, and logics.
• Grief ceremonies and somatic grief work.

Winter

• Decolonisation: moving beyond metaphor to embodied, relational decolonial action.
• Fallow time, rest, and darkness as source of wisdom
• Ancestral futures: Through speculative storytelling and non-linear imagination.
• Silence, humility and not-knowing as practice – unlearning urgency, certainty, and control.

Spring

• Ecological attunement and land-based reciprocity practices.
• Seed-sharing and planting rituals: acts of renewal.
• Relational tools — practising giving and receiving feedback, discernment, emergent strategy, collaboration across difference, relational facilitation, conflict as generative field, etc.
• Boundary-setting as decolonial skill: sensing and affirming the Yes and No.
  
  

Summer

• Solidarity and mutual aid.

• Gratitude rituals and offerings to the land.

• Harvest and celebration to honour growth, relationships, and capacities cultivated through the year.

• Designing post-course accountability and continuity.

Accessibility

Due to the building’s internal staircases, our in-person gatherings are unfortunately not wheelchair accessible at the moment. We acknowledge this limitation and are actively seeking ways to make future editions of the program more accessible. If you have specific access needs or questions, please contact us—we are committed to doing what we can to make inclusive participation possible.

Our courses and educational material is offered in English, with Dutch or Spanish translation upon request. Our events are generally spoken in English, unless otherwise stated. We aim to be attentive to language justice.

We are learning and taking steps to improve accessibility, both in terms of physical access and in making our programs more accessible to people with diverse ways of learning and engaging. If you have suggestions or feedback that can support this ongoing work, please get in touch with us: connect@reschooling.org