Walking in the footsteps of educational visionaries Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed), Ivan Illich (Deschooling Society), and Marshall Rosenberg (Mutual Education), this session begins with grounding in learning as a voluntary and collaborative activity oriented to the needs and capacities of all involved. This, then, serves as the entryway into an exploration of larger systems built on principles inspired by Marshall Rosenberg, Genevieve Vaughan, and Manfred Max-Neef. Through presentation, interaction, and small group engagement, the purpose of this session is to give participants a felt sense of the possibility of a global maternal gift economy in which resources flow from where they are to where they are needed based on purpose, willingness, and capacity.

This resource was generously shared during a session [view recording here] at the Re-Imagining Education Conference 4.0.

Miki Kashtan is the seed founder of the Nonviolent Global Liberation (NGL) community (http://nglcommunity.org). NGL’s most radical experiment is prototyping a global maternal gift economy to restore flow. Everything that happens within NGL is based on gifts freely given: of thought, love, conversation, intimacy, tasks, teaching, and money. Miki blogs on The Fearless Heart (http://thefearlessheart.org) and has published many articles and four books.