Practicing Liberation-Centered Education
5 Sundays | August 2-30, 2026 @ 11am CST | Virtual
Early enrollment open through July 19th
The systems not designed for our wellbeing have us disconnected from ourselves, each other, and the land.
What if, for five weeks, we practiced returning – to our bodies, to relationship, to the web of life that’s been holding us all along?
Once we feel and experience Indigenous education – we’re open to a renewed world of liberated imagination, collective care, and aligned actions.
So we gather to navigate these waves of individual and collective change, healing, and transition, together.
No doubt it’s a lot… deep breath.… and we are built for these times.
The Change
We’ll develop three core capacities that change how we show up in our learning spaces, relationships, and the micro moments of life…
→ Returning to Body
We’ll learn to breathe ourselves to presence and stay grounded when conflict arises.
So the next time a child or loved one melts down, or the old panic rises, you stay. You respond instead of react — and your body becomes a place you can live from, not one you flee.
→ Returning to Relationship
We’ll practice moving toward rupture, not away from it. We’ll learn restorative language that repairs rather than defends.
So conflict stops ending things — and starts deepening them. You’ll know what to say when you’ve hurt someone, and when someone’s hurt you.
→ Returning to the Web of Life
We’ll remember we’re not alone. We’ll feel our belonging to ancestors, land, community, and the ones coming after.
So you stop carrying it all on your own shoulders — and start making decisions from interconnection, not the lonely grip of “it’s all on me.”
We’ll gather every Sunday in August at 11am CST to practice these capacities through the Liberated Learning Model’s four pillars: Relational Ecology, Embodied Learning, Restorative Culture, and Reciprocal Belonging.
This cohort is co-creative in design – we bring questions, ideas, context, lived wisdom, and together, we weave learnings and connections.
We all teach and we all learn.
The Journey – Five Weeks of Practice
Week 1 – Coming Home to Our Bodies
Core Teaching – You cannot hold space you haven’t created within yourself first. Learning begins in relationship.
We’ll explore parts of self we want to reclaim and map our learning village.
Week 2 – Building Our Capacity
Core Teaching – The body is the first teacher. Learning happens through sensation, movement, and experience.
We’ll learn to notice sensation and grow somatic awareness.
Week 3 – Restorative Repair
Core Teaching – Healthy conflict is the portal to authentic belonging. Repair is a practice.
We’ll practice repair and experience how staying through discomfort deepens relationship.
Week 4 – Practicing Belonging
Core Teaching – We belong with all of life. Right relationship with ourselves allows us to mirror love and co-create cultures of reciprocal care.
We’ll create a belonging ritual and feel our interconnection viscerally.
Integration Circle
Wisdom Harvest circle and closing ceremony
We’ll name what we’re taking forward, create a commitment, and know we’re never alone.
Aligned Seasonal Timing
We begin August 2nd — late summer, harvest season, the fullness before the turn.
A Solar Eclipse lands in Week 3 — a threshold that shifts the ground beneath your feet, right as we practice Restorative Culture together.
This is learning with the seasons.
Flowing with ancestral rhythms. Letting the sky be our elder.
This is for…
This is for those ready to practice.
You’ll actually DO the things. In your body, within your context, and with support.
How We’ll Gather
Every Sunday @ 11am CST, ~2 hours live
Opening practice – we land together, ground in bodies
Practice exploration – teaching, activity, embodied experience
Community weaving – sharing practices, questions, learnings
Integration closing – what wants to be carried forward?
All circles are recorded if you can’t make it live.
This cohort is intentionally small (max 20 participants) so we can deepen into community.
Don’t take my word for it
We first gathered this past March.
Here’s what participants carried out of the circle in their own words:
“I pause more when emotionally triggered and am able to use the body practices to move those emotions through my body instead of suppressing and storing it.”
“One shift I’ve noticed is that I don’t allow my anxiety to take over when conflict arises. I still acknowledge it, but I don’t let it take control. This allows me to move through conflict more logically.”
“It felt like this group was made up of lifelong friends from the very beginning. I truly feel that a strong community has been established, and it will continue to grow.”
“I didn’t have one teacher, I had many in this group. I learned that before I can teach others, I must connect within myself, with the land, and my ancestors. We are a living ecosystem, and together we all blossom.”
This is capacity that lives in the body and stays — the kind a book can’t give you.
We won’t just know ABOUT liberation-centered education. We’ll have lived it for five weeks. We’ll know the way back.
Time Commitment
~5 hours per week, designed to nourish, not deplete
You’re welcome to adjust your depth of engagement – some weeks go deep, some weeks the minimum.
Investment
$444 early bird until July 19th · $555 after
No one is turned away for lack of funds.
Sliding scale, scholarships, and payment plans are here because money has never been the measure of who belongs in this work.
Reach out to info@liberatedlearning.org and we’ll find a way.
What’s included
This cohort is collaborative by nature because we all carry medicine.
If you feel called to co-weave in some way – whether that’s offering a practice, sharing a teaching, or supporting the container – let me know.
Open to those who desire collaboration – info@liberatedlearning.org
Pass the light along
Whisper to the ones who are tired. Who are grieving and angry at systems that keep harming people we love.
And those who are hopeful and dreaming.
Ready to move from dreaming into doing.
If this is you – if you’re reading these words and something in your body is saying yes, this, now – then know, you are not alone.
We are the momentum co-creating a more healed, whole way of learning and being together.
We need each other. And we are not alone.
The systems are cracking.
That’s not only frightening – it’s an opening.
What we practice now, in our bodies and our small circles, is what will be standing when the old forms finish falling.
This is capacity for the times we’re in.
About the Space-Holder
Dahlia is the founder of Liberated Learning and creator of The Liberated Learning Model. A certified somatic movement healer reconnecting with her Rarámuri ancestral lineage, she holds a Master’s in Curriculum & Instruction with a decade of diverse learning and teaching experiences.
Dahlia is a weaver – someone who holds space for transformation, asks the questions that matter, and trusts what emerges in community. Dahlia guides parents, educators, and healers in unlearning colonial patterns and practicing right relationship in education.
Learn more: www.liberatedlearning.org
Read her work: https://liberatedlearning.org/library/ & https://substack.com/@liberatedbody
