This bundle is for learners who are excited about our upcoming 6 week Unlearning Through Teaching Course, but would prefer more live time to support their practice. It includes the 6 week course (which has 3 optional live discussion spaces), access to a daylong virtual retreat, and two 1:1 coaching sessions.

Core Dates:

• The 6 week course begins on June 1 and completes by the end of July with continued access to the content indefinitely.
• Optional live discussions for the 6 week course take place on Tuesdays - June 3rd, June 24th, and July 29th from 6-7 PM ET / 5-6 CT / 3-4 PT.
• The remaining content is asynchronous so you can fit it in whenever works best for you and book both of your 1:1 coaching session at a time and date that works for your schedule.
• The Liberatory Facilitation Retreat is fully virtual and will take place on Friday May 23rd, 2025 from 8:30am-2:30pm PDT / 9:30am-3:30pm MDT / 11:30am-5:30pm EDT with a 1 hour break from 11:30am-12:30pm PDT/ 12:30pm-1:30pm MDT/ 2:30pm-3:30pm EDT. 
  

bluelight academy's Unlearning Through Teaching 6 week intensive course is an opportunity for teachers, facilitators, and leaders to learn more liberatory pedagogy and hold more engaging, dynamic, inclusive, and equitable learning spaces. This multimedia course provides videos, readings with audio recordings, coaching, and grounding practices to support you in integrating everyday liberatory education into your practice.

The daylong Liberatory Facilitation retreat is great for anyone who facilitates learning experiences, whether they are teachers, trainers, community accountability facilitators, or leaders. Through dismantling notions of what ‘should’ happen in facilitated spaces and how people ‘should’ learn, participants learn skills to lead people and spaces towards differentiation and self-directed learning.

Registration for this bundle gives you a 20% discount on the registration price (as much as $350 off), and includes FREE access to the Holding Grief + Race in Facilitation pre-recorded webinar and toolkit.

More About the Curriculum

Both the six-week course and daylong retreat have been designed and developed in community and collaboration with teachers, educators, students, facilitators, and teacher trainers to answer the question, how do you design spaces that are conducive to participatory education? Facilitating learning spaces that balance freedom, self determination, access, and harm response can be a challenge, but educational environments can and should be pivotal in practicing liberation together.

Our curriculum is rooted in the real world experiences of educators and community facilitators, and models how we hold space, and how we take care of ourselves while teaching. Through scenario analysis, peer sharing, practicing tools, and historical analysis of education and care fields, together we will explore how to equitably use our power, practice consent, and sustain ourselves in what can be both nourishing and draining work.

This course is for you if: 

• You believe that education can be a catalyst for more options and success in life, but you can tell that education isn’t working for everyone.
• You want to experience freedom as a learner in order to create that experience in the spaces you hold and facilitate.
• You want to facilitate spaces with diverse learners where people can be themselves, ask questions, and take risks without fear. You want to make learning spaces that are accessible to different learning styles including neurodiverse and disabled learners; inclusive of queer, trans, and nonbinary learners and LGBTQIA+ families; and welcoming to Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and immigrant people and communities. 
• You don’t feel like teaching for the test or focusing on memorization truly helps everyone learn new information, but you are not sure how else to structure learning that will be more inclusive and effective. You want to hold engaging spaces that people remember and draw on for the rest of their lives. 
• You feel good about the content you teach, you are just unsure if how you are teaching it aligns with your core values. 
• You panic when something goes wrong in your learning space and are unsure of your role in intervening or correcting the behaviors. You want to have a respectful and grounded learning environment without depending on control, coercion, and punishment.
• You want to move away from white supremacy culture and learn how to decolonize your thinking and your lesson plans. 
• You want to practice power with participants, rather than power over learners. You want to practice consent with young people and people with more or less power than you.
• You want to be able to effectively navigate conflict with co-teachers / other facilitators, administrators, parents, community members, and learners.
• You want to be sustainable as an educator and not feel constantly overworked or burnt out. You want to have better boundaries with your work, colleagues, and learners. You want to have a plan for how to care for yourself and create a nurturing environment for learners and community members.