2 Free Events & A Coupon Code!

Radiant Humans!
I wanted keep you in the loop on some upcoming events and a new COUPON CODE for 20% off private & group sessions with me. I’m gonna keep this short, so click below for the deets!

THIS SATURDAY March 10th
we’ll be getting together to talk Unschooling & Self-Directed Learning!

Intro to Energy Psychology
& Muscle Testing

Register now to attend live and/or watch the video replay.

Use coupon code: LOVEMYSELF for 20% off Energy Psychology with me.
Click on one of the products below and enter LOVEMYSELF at check out.
EXPIRES April 15 – Use that tax refund to Love Your Self!

Sacred Circle meets in a Zoom Virtual Conference Room
and video replays are available to all members.

Face to Face Sessions can be done via Video Chat or In-Person

Please email radiantlivingandlearning @ gmail .com (without the spaces) if you have ANY questions and remember to share the love!  The coupon code is only for email subscribers & members of our closed Facebook groups, so invite your friends to join us so they can grab the coupon!

Shareable links:
➡️ Radiant Living & Learning Retreat Facebook Group
➡️ The Art of Conscious Creation Facebook Group
➡️ Subscribe to Radiant Living Emails
➡️ Subscribe to The Art of Conscious Creation Emails

Thanks for reading!
Love, Light & Laughs,

 

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Reclaiming our Personal Power

It’s time for humans to reclaim our personal power.
The days of giving our power away to institutions and “experts” are over.
YOU have the ability to discern what is true or right FOR YOU.

Intuition is one tool for that, but we also have another, built-in biofeedback mechanism that we can access to confirm and verify what our intuition is nudging us toward.
Once we become confident in our own discernment abilities, we can move forward in life with FEWER DOUBTS. We can stand FIRM in our own power and create the lives we WANT to live AND the world we WANT to live in.

I want EVERY SINGLE HUMAN to know this power.
It’s why I do the work that I do.
It’s is why I have a policy of “no one turned away for financial reasons.”
People need to know about and learn how to USE this power!

Muscle Testing is a method of biofeedback.
Our bodies will be STRONG in the presence of things and ideas that are congruent or harmonious with our mind/body/spirit system.
Our bodies will be WEAK in the presence of things and ideas that are are incongruent or disharmonious with our mind/body/spirit system.

By using this “True/False” method of communicating with our bodies, we can uncover answers for ALL KINDS of healing AND for clarity as we navigate our daily lives.

Using Kinesiology has been a life changing (and sometimes earth shattering) experience for me. Always in a good way!

My first experience with Muscle Testing was in 2002 when the acupuncturist permanently healed my toddler’s allergies WITHOUT DRUGS!
I didn’t understand exactly how it worked, but I SAW the results.  At that point I didn’t care HOW it worked, I was just SO glad to get my BABY off of daily prescription drugs and breathing treatments!

My next experiences with Kinesiology were during my own emotional and physical healing adventures.  First in 2008 when I began to using Energy Psychology and later in 2011 with another “alternative” healthcare practitioner to heal my liver and gall bladder and avoid surgery. (I still have my gall bladder and I plan on keeping it FOREVER!)

Since 2008 my husband and I have used Muscle Testing to help us gain clarity on almost all MAJOR decisions and over the last few years we have come to use it on a daily basis. We muscle test to determine what limiting beliefs we need to clear during our spiritual/healing practice each morning. We muscle test for the right foods and supplements for ourselves and our children. And we even use muscle testing to help make decisions at work.

In 2015 I began a healing practice working with individuals using Energy Psychology. Although I SHOULDN’T be surprised after all these years, I am continually ASTOUNDED by the unexpected ways that Muscle Testing + Intuitive Guidance lead us STRAIGHT to the heart of the matter for profound release and healing.  My clients use the words “miraculous” and “magical” on a regular basis to describe their experiences with this work. This is not something that only certain people can use and benefit from. We ALL can use this tool for greater clarity and healing.

I can’t imagine what life would be like without Muscle Testing.

And I HATE that so many people try to learn these techniques but then give up out of frustration or lack of confidence in the test results.

I have found that just learning the mechanics of the techniques is not enough for many of us, so I have created a Muscle Testing workshop that goes beyond the nuts and bolts and assists students in identifying and releasing the limiting beliefs they have about Kinesiology or about their own abilities to use this tool with confidence and accuracy.

Muscle testing takes practice, but everyone CAN learn how to use it to reduce guess work and doubt from daily life.

During this interactive, hands-on workshop you will learn:
☀️ Muscle testing basics for partner testing
☀️ Self testing options when a partner is not available
☀️ A surrogacy process so you can test things for loved ones
☀️ How to test for physical substances (food/supplements)
☀️ How to test for non-physical ideas (beliefs, goals, guidance)

☀️ We will also clear limiting beliefs you might have about muscle testing accurately or confidently.

If you have tried muscle testing in the past and it hasn’t worked, chances are you need to clear the subconscious beliefs blocking you from successful testing. Everyone CAN learn it, but sometimes it takes a little bit of investigation to discover and dissolve the unconscious blocks that sabbotage our accessing this information clearly.

If your intuition is nudging you toward this workshop,
I hope you’ll join us!

Click here for upcoming dates and registration info.

 

Heaps of Love,
Christina

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Ask an Unschooler – Video #1

This has turned out to be a fun way to share info about Unschooling!

I’ve had some requests for easy access to the videos after the live broadcast is over, so I’m going to collect them in blog posts under the category “Ask an Unschooler.”

To see more videos, click here!
(you can also find them in the menu under “Unschooling”)

[will update this post ASAP with a list of all the topics we discussed in this video]

Video: Top 3 Myths of Home Education + College & Life Prep for Unschoolers

Here’s the replay of my first Live Stream on Home Education!
If you want to participate LIVE and ask questions in my upcoming “shows,” follow me on Periscope!
(click here to download the app for iOS or Android and then search for RadiantLivingED)

Videos 3MythsThis “Scope” will be helpful for anyone NEW to Home Education and Unschooling, so share it with your friends and family who are just beginning to learn about this wonderful educational alternative!
Easy share buttons are at the bottom of the page!

For in-person support on educational alternatives to school and “school-at-home” check out our upcoming events page here!

And I would LOVE to hear feedback or additional questions anyone has after watching the video!  Please comment below!

(To see the feed of all the comments and questions that the live audience sent in during the broadcast, click here to view it on the Katch website.)

And here’s the short “sneak peek” Scope I referred to in the above video.

But I thought we ALREADY deschooled . . .

In Home Education circles Deschooling has two meanings – both important – yet very different in scope and process.

Deschooling is often referred to as the initial period of transitioning from school to home education: allowing kids (and parents) to decompress after leaving the “rat race.”  Taking a break from everything academic and relieving any pressure that school put on the family.  Many consider it a finite period and once a family is “done” then they can really get busy with their chosen style of home education and never look back.

But Deschooling is much, much more if you’d like to Unschool successfully. 
In this context Deschooling is the process of letting go of our schoolish “programing” and the beliefs that our upbringing and culture have instilled in us.

The first Deschooling link below includes the popular formula: “1 month of Deschooling for every year the child [or parent] was in school,” but I’ve found that for many people it takes MUCH longer.  And it can vary depending on the kind of experiences or trauma that a person had in school (or even later in life surrounding education.)

Parents are usually the ones who need to deschool the most.  We are the ones who have lived in this “culture of school” the longest.  Most of us spent our entire childhoods and young-adulthoods in school, so deschooling can take us WAY longer than the formula above.

Deschooling can be challenging for parents . . .

  • even if we have spent MUCH time and effort learning about and understanding Unschooling
  • even if we have consciously let go of the “schooling” we received in our youth
  • even if we have been Unschooling successfully without “incident” for years

For our whole lives we have been steeped in a culture that values “academic” activities over other activities that children enjoy.  We are overtly bombarded AND subtly influenced by beliefs and judgements that support the dominant culture full of “shoulds” and deadlines (i.e. age 6 for reading, age 18 for adulthood) that are totally antithetical to the natural unfolding of the process of Unschooling.

It’s very common for long time unschoolers to think we are “done” letting go of our school-ish beliefs and then ***BAM*** our kids hit a certain age/milestone or our mother-in-law makes a comment that shows us we’re not quite done after all.  The resulting negative feelings we have show us that we still have some doubts, fears or anxiety about Unschooling and about allowing our kids to TRULY follow their interests without judgment, coercion or otherwise inserting ourselves in their process.  Sometimes these doubts can be released by reading, conscious reflection and further “letting go.”  Sometimes schooly beliefs are held deep in our subconscious and it takes more effort to change them.

(If you’re having trouble with a certain belief you can’t seem to shake here is a list of techniques that myself and others have found useful for changing stubborn subconscious beliefs.)

Parents’ willingness or resistance to the process of Deschooling CAN have an effect on how easily our kids’ transition from School to Home Education, or from School-at-Home to Unschooling.  It will DEFINITELY have an effect on the Unschooling lifestyle once the transition period is over (or even if there never was a transition period because they’ve been Unschooling since birth.)

Our doubts, fears and anxieties about the things our kids are doing or NOT doing are REALLY caused by our residual “schooly” beliefs.  The more willing we are to explore that connection, the easier it is to work with those beliefs and continue the process of letting go.

My advice: Go easy on yourself.  You are undoing decades of habit and societal programing.  Just continue to read and reflect.  Observe your children as objectively as possible and practice REALLY listening to them.  They are showing us the way.

My favorite deschooling practice and one I recommend often to new and experienced Unschoolers alike, is this:

 

Anytime I notice doubts, fears or anxieties about my kids’ education or development I take that as a reminder to focus inward and work on another layer of deschooling myself.  When those negative emotions above tempt me to “meddle” in their process of Unschooling, I instead take action to further MY process of Deschooling.

Here are some great descriptions of Deschooling from the Unschooling Mom 2 Mom group on Facebook.  The first is from Linda Wyatt:

“Deschooling has less to do with what kids DO, than it does with how the family is THINKING and FEELING about learning. That’s what changes during deschooling. It isn’t some sort of temporary break from educational things, like a vacation, it’s a complete restructuring of perceptions of what learning IS, what it looks and feels like. 

This processing takes time. Sometimes LOTS of time. Even those of us who have been unschooling for a very long time occasionally find little “blips” of school-based thinking we had been hanging onto without realizing it, and need to clear those out.”  

And this from Brie Jontry:
‘[I] have been doing this long enough to also experience when something innocuous prompts me to step back and go, ‘wow! How did that fear/nervousness/clenchy feeling slip in there?’

A few years ago another long (long) time unschooling mom and I realized we stumbled over our kids being X age and not knowing how to ride a bike! Silly, right? Like there’s some window of learning for bike-riding. Or tying shoe laces! 

Recently, my child and I have been talking about deschooling as a model for de-gendering – noticing how ideas of binaries: either/or as the only possibilities (educational/entertainment) crop up in the ways we view the world, experiences, and the choices people make. 

Just like with ideas about gender, I think it’s a good idea to remain open to the possibility that your experiences – which for most of us include school – can (and probably will) crop up at various times in the background of our thinking and need some deeper exploration, in terms of bias, both conscious and unconscious. 

Something many of us have talked about at various times is the idea that we never finish deschooling, [which] could be helpful to keep in the background.”

Here is an eloquent post from my friend and co-moderator on Unschooling Special NeedsDelia Tetelman:
“Deschooling is a very mild description. For me it’s been like deprogramming. There are so many norms that I feel are branded into me like with a hot iron. I’ve had to peel the layers back slowly.

My acupunturist said today that in Eastern Medicine and Native cultures, body parts are not named after some male scientist, like Fallopian Tube, or Broca’s Area. In Western medicine, it’s all about the ego and recognition and not about the spirit and the purpose of nature.

The patriarchal and academic status quo exists throughout our culture. Challenging authority, especially patriarchal authority is difficult, and realizing that authority is not “science” or “nature” is even harder. My conclusion: it’s my children who are teaching me. I’m the one who is unlearning.”

Delia also compared Deschooling to Cult Deprogramming (!) in this post:
“Deprogramming someone out of a real cult is a process where the deprogrammer chips away at the false assumptions that the person has about the cult and exposes the cult’s lies and contradictions. It’s a process whereby the person goes from a ‘sacred regard’ for the cult, to a realization of the coercion and manipulation being used to control members. 

It’s useful to study the similarities of all cults which boils down to what is known as ideological totalism. After exiting a cult, a person has to rebuild his/her entire belief system and can often feel like they are “floating”. They feel lost, ungrounded, and still have emotional trauma.  

Although public school is not a cult, there are parallels. There is a whole unsubstantiated belief system behind it and participants are prohibited from going against it. Deschooling is allowing new thoughts about the assumptions that you’ve had drilled into you, and chipping away at them until you are free from the ideological constraint that your children must go to school and they must follow a curriculum or else they won’t be educated, i.e. ‘saved,’ or ‘enlightened.’  Freedom of thought should be a civil right, but if it were, we could sue public schools for violating it.”

More perspectives on Deschooling:

http://www.livingjoyfully.ca/…/what_is_deschooling.htm

http://sandradodd.com/deschooling/

http://unschoolery.com/de-schooling

http://www.naturalchild.org/jan_hunt/deschooling.html

2015 Retreat is ON!!!

Registration for the Fall Retreat is almost ready!

[update – it’s READY – click here to REGISTER]

We are so excited for our community to gather again November 5th – 9th!  This year we are making some changes to the schedule with the goals of:

  • RadRetreatMaximizing the support attendees receive during the Retreat
  • Helping new folks assimilate into the group more easily and
  • Enabling ALL of our Radiant Community to get the most out of the workshops, activities AND just being together!

As we finalize registration details, we wanted to go ahead and announce prices so everyone can plan their finances accordingly.   In order to make the Retreat happen, we’ve had to raise some of the prices a smidge.  But don’t worry!  There are still plenty of opportunities available to reduce the fees for your family.

Since it’s its inception in 2013, we have tried to keep the Radiant Retreat affordable for as many families as possible.  So the prices started out very low compared to other conferences. We want you to know that we have wrestled with the numbers to keep it as affordable as possible, but due to everything that is involved in putting on the Retreat, we feel that the prices this year are still very fair for everyone.  The organizers make a considerable investment of time, energy, expertise and money to plan and execute the Retreat, and the prices must support that.

We also want to highlight the fact that this event takes a considerable amount of COMMUNITIY EFFORT to make it happen because we don’t have a hotel staff taking care of us and the facilities like many other conferences.  We have to take care of it ALL – and that’s what’s so great about the Radiant Community – the way members step up to help where help is needed!

In 2013, when I was planning our stay at Cleburne State Park, the Rangers said that because our group would be over 50% kids, the park would be littered with trash by the end of the weekend and they were sure that “something would get torn up” because middle school aged kids were included.  I assured them that our group would not be typical in that manner and they just laughed.  Sure enough, the “Radiant Tribe” was very respectful of the grounds and facilities and we proved those Rangers wrong!

The Radiant Tribe IS remarkable and EVERYONE’S contributions make the Retreat GREAT!

So here are the prices so you can plug them into your budget.  If it turns out that you need “Tuition Assistance” you can apply for Radiant Staff jobs here in exchange for Registration Credits to reduce your fees.

{f1} 2015 Registration Prices

Early Bird (until June 30)Regular Price (until Oct 31)Late Registration – Space PermittingAt the Door
First 4 Household Members$50 each$60 each$70 each$80 each
Household Members #5 – 8 (including grandparents)$25 each$30 each$35 each$40 each
Kids 3 and under who will NOT attend Kid Village ChildcareFreeFreeFreeFree
Single Day Pass (per person) $25 each

 

LodgingNightly Price
Private Campsites – Screened Shelter, Tent, RV – (up to 8 people)$25-$35per SITE
Group Campsite – Tent Only$9per TENT
Bunkhouse – Heat & AC – Bathrooms Adjoining$10per PERSON

Click here to learn more about the different Lodging Options.
Click here for MORE lodging options for NON-CAMPERS.

Please contact the Radiant Team if you have questions about the Retreat, and keep an eye out for registration in the next few days so you can take advantage of the Early Bird prices!

Heaps of Love,
Christina and your Radiant Team
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