October 2023: Akilah Richards - Anchor Workshop #1: Where We Meet Each Other Now: Part Archivist | Part Futurist
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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: Join Akilah for a series of listening, storytelling, and collaborative creating all in service of building your “savor complex” skills as part of your spiritual know-how!
Savor Complex skills invite us into a personal leadership process where we become part archivist, part futurist. Invoking a savor complex is about addressing a present need or an in-recent-moments-passed need.
A savor complex is a short-term stance we invoke when we realize our life is calling for the languages of new skills and potent rituals to support urgent change. This type of savoring is about the designation of sacred space to notice and name these new skills and presence these potent rituals. It’s a type of accelerated intimacy with our own selves; making way for an intimacy we can experience with each other.
This workshop is our first in a 3 month slow-play-space series with Akilah.
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/
