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Project ParenthoodHow to join a self-directed learning community with Chemay Morales-JamesHave you ever considered educating your BIPOC child outside of the traditional school system due to the ways it can replicate social injustices? In this episode, Dr. Nanika Coor talks with Chemay Morales-James about her online co-learning community for BIPOC families and non-BIPOC co-conspirators interested in self-directed education and who want to support and educate free people.In this episode:https://my-reflection-matters.mn.co/chemay@myreflectionmatters.org Project Parenthood is hosted by Dr. Nanika Coor. A transcript is available at Simplecast.Have a parenting question? Email Dr. C...2024-01-2947 min
The Unschool Files2.6 my reflection matters with Chemay Morales-JamesIn this episode, you're going to hear from Chemay Morales James - a multi talented organizer and space holder, unschool Mama and Founder of My Reflection Matters Village.
She tells us all about how they came to unschooling as a family and what led her to create MRM and the way it grew from a culturally responsive resource library to a Village!
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Fare of the Free ChildEp 269: Let's Notice How Whiteness Shows Up in Us Too, Boo!Have you ever wondered how grief and loss might pave a pathway toward spiritual growth? In this penultimate episode of Fare of the Free Child podcast, I share with you the fourth path in my care package to this community. Sharing Season 9 reflections, Chemay Morales-James, Vanessa Molano, Jasai Madden, Stori, and I bring to life our experiences in this liberation walk. Engaging in a candid exploration of spirituality, manifestation, magic, and money, we unravel the ways it has shaped our lives. We also dive into our origin stories and the leveling up it has brought us to....2023-08-0729 min
Fare of the Free ChildEp 257: Spirituality and Intuition in This Self-directed LifeThis is the first episode of Season 9 and we’re delighted to dive into the work of shifting our spiritual and intuitive work to include our raising free people practice. This feels important because while some of us might already see the connection between our commitment to raising free people and the cultivation of our spiritual and intuitive practices, not all of us do. For some of us, the weight, pressure, and pace of our daily responsibilities make that particularly difficult to name, let alone practice. For some of us, the fatigue and frustrations that come with lack of co...2022-11-0933 min
Fare of the Free ChildEp 256: Season 9 Preview - Tuning In To The ThemesAs we continue our preparation for Season 9, you are invited to listen as Naaz (also known as Fatima) Mookadam tell us what showed up for her as she listened to Akilah S. Richards’s conversation with Dr. Crystal Menzies. You’ll hear much of that conversation in Season 9, so for now, hear Fatima’s insights and Akilah’s invitation to you. If you missed our first teaser, listen to it here. We are so excited to be centering the voices of five women who are deep in their own deschooling journey!Chemay Morales JamesDr. Cr...2022-10-2006 min
Fare of the Free ChildEp 255: Season 9 Preview - Notes from the other side of the PauseWhat's on the other side of a pause? Last season, we leaned into a focused pause, over and over, episode by episode. We also took that pause with us when the episode ended, and now we are ready to slow-walk our way into what arose for us, and for you.Listen as Naazneen (also known as Fatima) Mookadam and Akilah S. Richards speak to some of the themes we'll be sharing this season. You'll hear the voices of all five women who are centered in season 9. Here they are in the order you heard them in this e...2022-09-2822 min
Radical Learning Talks27. Decolonizing Education w/ Chemay Morales-JamesIn this episode, we dive deep with Chemay Morals-James, founder of My Reflection Matters Village and a social liberation & equity coach.
We talk about her virtual deschooling community and deschooling as decolonization work, what's wrong with the school system and the importance of learning - and unlearning - in community.2022-08-1942 min
Where We LiveWhat is "unschooling"? My Reflection Matters believes "it takes a village"The number of homeschoolers in Connecticut has increased since the start of the pandemic. The Connecticut State Department of Education reported a "slight decrease" in students returning to public school in 2020, "attributed to an increase in homeschooling. "Families are asked to log their "exit" from public school with the state agency. There were 550 exits reported in 2019, and that number rose to "around 3,500 in 2020." By 2021, that number was at 2,300, though the Department of Education notes "students who have not returned to school by October 1 could still have returned to school any day after that for the r...2022-07-2648 min
Where We LiveWhat is "unschooling"? My Reflection Matters believes "it takes a village"The number of homeschoolers in Connecticut has increased since the start of the pandemic. The Connecticut State Department of Education reported a "slight decrease" in students returning to public school in 2020, "attributed to an increase in homeschooling." Families are asked to log their "exit" from public school with the agency. There were 550 exits reported in 2019, and that number rose to "around 3,500 in 2020." By 2021, that number was at 2,300, though the Department of Education notes "students who have not returned to school by October 1 could still have returned to school any day after that for the remainder o...2022-06-0349 min
Waking Up Wealthy with Isha VelaRaising Free People with Chemay Morales James Chemay Morales James is a recovering school teacher turned social liberation eduvist/unschooling mama. Like many parents who educate their children at home, her journey into unschooling opened organically through the needs of her children. In this conversation, we address how unschooling and self-directed education (SDE) has opened up her healing path by recognizing how traditional schooling and authoritarian parenting shut down her intuition, curiosity, and creativity. In 2016 she founded My Reflection Matters (MRM), an organization whose mission is to provide the tools necessary to support and nurture the development of healthy racial and ethnic identi...2021-11-0444 min
Parenting for LiberationEpisode 46: Unschooling with "My Reflection Matters Village"In this episode, we talk with Chemay Morales-James about all things unschooling! We discuss what self-directed education looks like, the power of learning in a village and how to best support our children in their learning and liberation. Learn more about the virtual learning village at “My Reflection Matters”.
Chemay is a social liberation & equity coach who founded My Reflection Matters, LLC in 2016. She is an unschooling mom of two brilliant, TriniRican boys. She loves traveling, going on adventures and exploring new things with her sons, reading, decorating, yoga, photography, and collecting funky art.2020-11-1948 min
The Balanced Parent Podcast024: Liberated Living - Decolonizing Parenting and EducationWhen my guest this week on the podcast, Chemay Morales-James, who is a social liberation education activist, became a parent and looked the educational resources available to her family, she didn't see her child in any of the materials. She wanted them to grow up seeing themselves and knowing that their histories, perspectives, and futures matter. Out of this, My Reflection Matters was born. She writes more about why we should really think hard about going back to schooling as usual, when we can choose freedom instead here, and she raises a lot of great points.In...2020-09-1539 min
Fare of the Free ChildEp 183: Choosing Learning Over Schooling. Dommie talks about listening to her children and discovering real learningToday's episode is full of liberation and healing talk with life learner Dominique of DommiesBlessed. She shares some insights on natural learning, which we’re hoping will usher in changes around learning and relationship-building. Check out Dommie’s blog on natural learning.WHAT WE DISCUSSBefore we talk to Dommie, Akilah gives a shout out to entrepreneurs, Kim and Jamal Hester, creators and developers of Life Strength & Health holistic center. Listen to their podcast for more healing work!Also, as we are raising free people and nurturing self-care habits, check out the latest epis...2020-08-2638 min
Fare of the Free ChildEp 182: Genesis Ripley on Partnering with Our Pain. Modern Shadow Work in Conscious ParentingEpisode 182 is a mix of communal spaces, tools, resources and of course liberation talk. Genesis Ripley will be joining us to chat about shadow work and the importance of being more aware of our unconscious as we are moving into a more self-directed way of being. Genesis is an LA-based mother, natural learning advocate, decolonizer by design and unschooler momma. We’ll also be sharing some great resources and invitations to continue through this healing and self awareness process, and you’ll hear from Kelly Limes-Taylor and Chemay Morales-James about ways to do that work.WHAT...2020-08-1951 min
Fare of the Free ChildEp 166: Resources for Connection & ConfidenceThis episode is a combination of resources and links to invitations that will help you as we are raising free people:My dear friend Trelani Michelle, writer, storyteller, and founder author of Krak Teet, shares her experience with her 10-year-old daughter, Kobe, in response to my question about some of the wonderful, deschoolish things we might be noticing nowadays.If you pay attention, you’ll notice how Self Directed Education helps to build healthy self-governance skills for our children, like Trelani mentioned. It can also, as you’ll hear from...2020-04-1615 min
Fare of the Free ChildEp 125: 4 Conditions in Support of Raising Free PeopleWhat can a home environment look like when the adults practice raising free people? This is the question of longtime member of the FOFC community, Chemay Morales-James. She founded the organization My Reflection Matters, a movement to provide personal and educational resources for young Black and Brown people to think critically about themselves and feel empowered to combat racial injustices wherever they are. She asked Akilah to speak to the home environmental conditions that are likely to nurture and support the development of free people, so Akilah does just that, talking about healthy ways to set boundaries, hold accountability...2019-06-2016 min