Big Education Conversation for Alternative Learning Practitioners SW

You are warmly invited to be part of one of the Big Education Conversations happening around the world.

Come and spend a cosy evening with local educators, practitioners, leaders and facilitators of alternative learning experiences to examine, reimagine and co-create the purpose of education.

Together we will explore the questions:

What do you believe is the purpose of education? 

If you could reimagine education and learning today what changes would you make and why? 

What is one small step you, or our community, could take to get closer to that dream? 

This evening session will seek to connect and inspire over food and conversation our shared commitments to co-creating alternative education futures.

Together we seek to learn and support each other by

• Sharing our stories of the beauty and the challenges involved in creating alternative learning environments
• Exploring our wildest dreams for learning and education
• Co-creating individual and community commitments through peer support, exploring how we might remake learning!

Is this for me?

If you’re looking to meet and network with supportive fellow educators and facilitators of alternative learning in South Devon then please come along. 

We ask you to please RSVP to the invite by booking your ticket. This event is either free, or £3.50 if you feel like donating.

This event will be hosted on Wednesday 17th May 4.30 - 7.30pm at The Albatross, Totnes “At the top of town” opposite The Bull, Rotherfold Square, Totnes, TQ9 5SN 

We’ll start at 5, so ask that you arrive anytime from 4.30 so we can start on time together and share tea.

A light vegan dinner will be included. 

About the Hosts

jae and Tallula are committed to supporting alternative ways of learning and being that help every person to flourish. 

jae spencer-keyse (she/they/he) is a skilled facilitator, community builder, learning designer, and mentor. They are captivated by the question: What if learning and education supported individuals and the world to thrive? This curiosity led to the development of radical reimagination, a collection of initiatives aimed at addressing the urgent need to re-envision and co-create learning experiences and life as a whole.

For the past 13 years, jae has held various positions in the fields of education and systemic change. They recognize that traditional education systems often dictate what is considered "good" and "right," leaving many students feeling like "failures." Based on academic and industrial models, these systems tend to undervalue creative and imaginative practices. Rather than attempting to reform the existing system, jae is focused on radically reimagining it by exploring deeply relational, creative, regenerative, anti-oppressive, and embodied practices.

jae has collaborated with organizations such as the United Nations, FutureLearn, Samsung Not A School, Huddlecraft, Big Change, and HundrED, and co-founded YouthXYouth and The Weaving Lab. They hold a degree in Politics and International Relations from Warwick University and a BPS-accredited master's degree in Psychology and Neuroscience from the University of St. Andrews. They’ve also completed 3, 6 month long Peer to Peer learning journeys exploring the role of imagination, learning, intuition, joy and regeneration today.

As a learning facilitator Tallula values whole person learning and reflective practicum through rhythm, locality and imaginal practices. She offers creative mentorship, exploring ways of knowing through somatic communication and first person inquiry. She fosters a sensibility to the bodily arts and is a life long student of holistic studies in human anatomy, exploring the dynamic relationship between mind and body.

She finds interest in the fact that the origin of the word education is to draw out, which is the opposite of what the education system imposes. There is this idea that to educate is to put ideas into our head, its first meaning, was 'to draw out,' that is to say, to liberate, to release potential. If that is the core of education, how to release the potential of self-knowledge and of knowing, contemplating the form and quality of this within a connective learning culture.