Podcasts on unschooling and parenting
I have always loved having a good, long conversation. The kind where you sit down with someone who has thought deeply about something, and you just talk, knit and drink coffee. That is what I try to recreate with my podcasts.
I share because I wish someone had shared with me, back when I was starting out. I spent years figuring things out on my own – about unschooling, about motherhood, about choosing a radically different life – and so much of what I know now, I learned in conversations with other women who had been through it.
I have three podcasts. Two in English, which you can read about below, and then one in Danish, called Unschooling for Beginners - If you understand Danish, then you can listen to that one here.
Podcast om Unschooling - The Ladies...
It all started in Normandie, France, during a worldschooling event, when I was solving all the problems of the world in deep dive conversations with my amazing friends: I realized - wuauv, if only I had had the chance to listen in on something like this, when I was first starting out on my unschooling journey. If I had only known! Fixing the world over a cup of tea or a meal or a walk, I realised technology today allows us to share with a much larger group than the ones around us. Via long-format podcast, I learn a lot, and this is my contribution: Listen in, when I fix the world with my co-hosts.
Podcast: Self Directed
Self Directed is a podcast I make with my husband, Jesper Conrad. We have recorded more than 150 episodes, almost all of them about self-directed learning, unschooling and being a parent.
The podcast consists of conversations with guests who live and think differently about learning, life and family life, exploring how to create space for children where freedom, responsibility and curiosity have room.
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Here you can read what others have said:
"In the realm of unschooling, this podcast is one of the most thought-provoking yet informal, Great Work!"
- Marie Louise: 5 stars on Apple Podcast
"OMG YES 🙌 🔥 I can’t tell you how much I love this talk"
- Ganaia
"Love, love, loved this episode and boy did it come at a time when I needed it! Thank you for putting a new label to the way I’m raising my family.💗"
- Jenna-Gaye Hollis
"I love these deep conversations. This may be my favourite yet!! Cecilie- your thoughts and words on unschooling are exactly what I’ve been thinking, but haven’t said out loud (yet). It has brought me some liberation and freedom. I especially loved the conversation around “teachable moments.” So good"
- Heidi Schrum
"These discussions have been so helpful to me. I really look forward to the topics that are discussed, the stories each of you ladies shares, and the genuine insights you bring from your own unschooling journeys. Thank you for creating this space and for the time you put into supporting the unschooling community."
- Kristen
"Thank you for this podcast! As a new-to-unschooling mom, the wisdom you three share here is enlightening and thought-provoking. I found this conversation about "self regulation" extremely interesting. I am definitely guilty of hoping my kids will "self regulate" to meet my expectations, and therefore feeling uncomfortable and anxious when they are making choices that I think reflect poorly on me as a mom, or I think will negatively affect their health or well-being. I am guessing that everyone experiences times in the course of deschooling/ unschooling where you realise you had been hoping a child would self-regulate in a certain way. Thanks again."
- Camilla Carlyon
Welcome to a universe of reflections on the radically different.
Podcasts and writing on childhood, feminism, unschooling, modernity, consumer culture, inner and outer journeys, nomad life, spirituality, paths and detours.
Life is not an experiment – it is far too important for that. But it is also not just another package on the mainstream sausage factory line. With all senses open and infinitely vulnerable – also and perhaps especially to my own limitations – I have challenged what life can be, to find a way of being in it that makes sense.
I felt it was important to share, in the hope that the path might be easier to find for others who feel the box is a little too small. Here you can find it all, in writing and as podcasts.
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