The distinct boundary Between teacher and student should not exist. We are all educators and learners (See Aucademys’s Educator-Learner ethos) depending on context. Sometimes I will teach, other time I will learn. Education should feature omni-directional learning rather than a hierarchical system.
Neuroqueer Learning Spaces Manifesto – Stimpunks Foundation
Omni-directional learning framed in the language of ecologies of care is at the core of all Autistic collaborations.
Decolonising education | Autistic Collaboration
In small human scale societies without abstract formal authorities, everyone learns from everyone, primarily by observation, imitation, and asking for assistance. For small children in human scale societies the household and extended family provide a rich environment for omni-directional learning.
Ecologies of Care | Autistic Collaboration
The ones who need to learn are not those who think and live outside the box of “normality”, but those who are “well adjusted”, and those who don’t yet see the internalised ableism they have absorbed. As Nora Bateson reiterates, ecologies of care are complex living systems that transcend our individual and capabilities and limitations. The collective path that humanity finds itself on is a transdisciplinary, transcontextual journey of omni-directional learning. We are (re)discovering and (re)learning the sacred language of life.
Life in the compost heap of the industrialised mono-cult | Autistic Collaboration
I like to use the term De-powered Dialogue to refer to the kind of conversations and ways of communication that are needed for omni-directional learning and genuine compassion – the mutual deep desire to understand a precious living being. Let us compare notes. See these notes on cultural and psychological safety and this article on de-powered dialogue.
Decolonising education | Autistic Collaboration
Life inevitably includes exposing ourselves to risks and unsafe spaces. However we can only learn if we are embedded in a safe social ecology of care – if we have a genuinely safe place to retreat, compare notes, and engage in omni-directional learning. This is how we contextualise and consolidate new experiences into new insights, tapping into the collective lived experiences that are available to us at human scale, via trustworthy relationships.
Neuroqueer Learning Spaces Manifesto – Stimpunks Foundation
The online blog format is a great way for catalysing de-powered dialogue and omni-directional learning, one or two steps away from corporate controlled social media environments.
Trust in Human Scale | Autistic Collaboration
Over the course of months and years, de-powered dialogue and omni-directional learning amongst Autistic, Artistic and otherwise Neurodivergent people results in trustworthy relationships, and in a diverse network of evolving intersectional ecologies of care.
Trust in Human Scale | Autistic Collaboration
Regular Open Space is a tool to pick people up from where they are now, to jointly embark on a journey of omni-directional learning and intersectional community co-creation that leaves no one behind.
Events | Autistic Collaboration
With the help of written language, WEIRD societies and powered-up empires emphasise and formalised a top-down perspective on the propagation of cultural practices and values. With the context of empires, education is no longer primarily about omni-directional learning at human scale, but it degrades into various forms of uni-directional indoctrination, administered by those in formal positions of “authority”.
In small human scale societies without abstract formal authorities, everyone learns from everyone, primarily by observation, imitation, and asking for assistance. For small children in human scale societies the household and extended family provide a rich environment for omni-directional learning.
A visual language for describing wellbeing | Autistic Collaboration
We are catalysing intersectional solidarity via quarterly participant driven Open Space events that provide a safe space for neurodivergent, indigenous, and otherwise marginalised people to engage in omni-directional transformational learning and mutual aid.
Events | Autistic Collaboration
