November 2023: Akilah Richards - Anchor Workshop #2: Treaties for all the Versions of Me/We
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Come back to your seedling - how did this month nourish what you’ve chosen to plant for yourself here? Bring that seed back in.
Workshop Description: In the second session of Invoking Your Savor Complex, we'll talk about modern-day treaty-writing. We’ll talk and play our way through instances of treaty-writing practice to honor without judgment, the very things that got us from one time one part of the timeline in the backstory, to another, For us today, treaty-work is about shared acknowledgement and accountability around the intention to settle into a rhythm, a harmony, in which all involved feel safe (enough) and free.
We will right treaties name and define rights, and prioritize reconciliation. Our treaties will be written+confirmed in order to form allyship; to recognize, not to deny, the differences of opinion, or the harm caused by versions of our lives/ourselves. Will we write and confirm in order to say where we are willing to start, what we are asking for, and moving toward.
Akilah is a mother, partner, and liberation worker who helps people unlearn the barriers to being our real selves together, in our homes and all the other ways we connect, work, and serve.
In July of 2016, Richards published the first episode of Fare of the Free Child podcast, now known among the short list of must-listen-to podcasts for anyone considering parenting and leadership from a liberation lens. The podcast focuses on Black people, Native|Indigenous people, and People of Color (BIPOC) families who practice unschooling and other forms of self-directed, decolonization-minded living and learning.
In May of 2019, Richards joined the celebrated TEDx Speaker village with her poignant speech, Raising Free People, where she shared the now widely-celebrated philosophy, “We can’t keep using tools of oppression and expect to raise free people.”
In November of 2020, she released her book, Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work (PM Press) which has been heralded as “the blueprint” for the type of self-inquiry and collective liberation that will help us free our children and ourselves.
As founder of Raising Free People Network, Richards and co-conspirators produce work to challenge and encourage social justice minded people to explore privilege and power in their relationships with leadership.
Akilah is a founding board member of The Alliance for Self-Directed Education (ASDE) and the mother of two teenage daughters. You can find her views on Self-Directed Education, Black joy, deschooling and decoloniality for leadership and community all over the Internet. Additionally her advocacy and organizing work has received national press including Forbes Magazine, Washington Post, National Public Radio (NPR), NBC TV, CBC Radio, and several print publications, including The New York Times.
https://raisingfreepeople.com
https://www.instagram.com/fareofthefreechild/
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