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Beloved FuturesS2 E18 | Chévanni Davids – Entrusted with Uncertainty: Reimagining LearningWhat if uncertainty is not something to conquer, but something we are entrusted with?What if the very instability we fear is an initiation into deeper relationship – with Earth, with our children, with our own souls?In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee is joined by her beloved brother Chévanni Davids – father, founder, listener, feeler, and steward of the Reimagined Learning Community in South Africa – for a profound and tender inquiry into what it means to live in a time of volatility with reverence rather than control. Together, they explore how modern...
2026-02-1952 min
Radical Learning Talks92. Unschooling as Initiation w/ Chevanni DavidsWhat if unschooling isn’t just an educational choice, but a sacred initiation into presence, connection, and becoming? In this powerful and poetic conversation, we sit with Chevanni Davids: educator, father, ritualist, and founder of Reimagined Learning in South Africa. Together we explore the wild force of learning, the decolonization of time, and the radical tenderness required to hold the unknown. Chevanni invites us to reimagine unschooling not as an escape from systems, but as an embodied response to life’s deepest questions. With stories, metaphors, and reverence, he offers a different map for lear...
2025-05-021h 01
Saving the Seeds of Self-Directed EducationSaving the Seeds: Soul Directed EducationIn episode 4 of ASDE’s podcast, Saving the Seeds of SDE Bria and Meghan sat with Compendium contributor, Chevanni Davids to talk about grief and how it relates to our periods of transition. He speaks candidly about the ways we shed parts of ourselves, how we grieve those parts and even what unschooling invites us to do with it. He articulates the way that young people expressing their full range of emotions, in public even; allow us to disrupt the systems that limit us by embracing the negative capacities. Listen in to this episode to hear about risk, grief, in...
2025-04-0745 min
Beloved FuturesE12 Chevanni Davids - Reimagining Learning and the Beloved Futures of EducationWhat does it look like when we reimagine learning separate from the structure of ‘school’? When we admit that schooling is more about normalizing dominant culture than it is about seeing the children for their uniqueness, we can begin to reimagine the structures and containers of learning that serve more Beloved Futures. From Chevanni Davids, my dear friend and founder of Reimagined Learning:“Our times have normalized the compartmentalization and the siloing in people, thoughts, and practices. We live in a world overwhelmed by isolation and scarcity. This is an existence we refuse to live by. The tim...
2023-08-271h 05
Fare of the Free ChildEp 267: It Ain't About Just Doing School Tings at Home!Moving away from school-centric culture and the performances we got going on is a very real thing that one listener voiced and we're sharing it here in this episode. We're diving deep into this topic, addressing the importance of honoring our children's confident autonomy and moving away from the ingrained schoolishness we perform at home. We're exploring this through one listener's transformative story, lessons from my personal parenting journey, and the integrated perspectives that Savorism has allowed.Embrace this journey with us as we navigate the shift from school at home to more liberated and nurturing...
2023-07-2144 min
Fare of the Free ChildEp 146: Deschooling Relationships & Regenerative PracticesThis week, Chevanni Davids takes us through a reasoning that connects regeneration to liberation and deschooling in brilliant, thought-provoking ways. If you are the type to geek out on the ways that personal leadership and community organizing collaborate and create a person’s drive and shifts their thinking, this is an episode just for you! Enjoy! “This is an intention that is constructed on convergence of human creativity and working together towards a sustainable future. It's a meeting point for diverse amounts of knowledge, ability, intellect and spirituality. It's a holistic space . A place where sciences, art, self...
2019-11-2043 min