what is the unlearning community school?

a third space for learning liberatory cultural and political education

  • addressing community-identified needs using decolonial pedagogy

  • emphasizing learning through community-led peer and intergenerational mentorship

Restorative Justice

REVOLUTIONIZING RELATIONSHIPS

  • Critical Positionality

  • Conscious Relationship Building

    • Communication Styles (Levels of Listening)

    • Navigating conflict (Clarify, Connect, Choose)

    • Holding boundaries for Accountability

    • Unlearning Practices

a community-based capacity-building organization

  • cultivating durable skills needed in community building, relational awareness, and collective responsibility

mission

Activate and cultivate 3rd spaces for liberatory education across communities of practice focused on restorative justice, transformative justice, and healing justice.

Vision

Community coalitions in 3rd spaces addressing community-identified needs by integrating liberatory education through restorative justice, transformative justice, and healing justice.

Transformative Justice

RECKONING & RESISTANCE

  • Pyramid of Hate

  • 4 I’s of Oppression

  • Intersectionality

  • Community Cultural Wealth

RETURN & RECONNECTION

  • Forms of Colonialism, Colonization & Decolonization

  • Integrating Indigenous knowledge systems & practices

hEALING Justice

REGENERATIVE RECLAMATION

  • Roles & tools of cycle breakers

  • From Trauma-Informed Care to Healing-centered Engagement

  • Historical & Intergenerational Trauma + Lineage Gifts/Power

  • Activating and cultivating Liberatory Communities of Practice