The Unschool Space

By: Esther Jones
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  • Unschooling isn't just about education, it's a life choice! For most parents, embracing unschooling requires some serious unravelling of old paradigms around parenting, learning and childhood, and that can be both challenging and exhilarating.

    Join me, Esther Jones, a mindful parenting coach and unschooling mother-of-three, as I take a look at the many opportunities for reflection that naturally arise in an unschooling home. Each episode, I chat with other parents about their family’s experiences.

    From self-care, neurodiversity and mindfulness, to how to live consensually and trust our children, this podcast is here to help parents navigate the everyday challenges so they're free to create a healthy, nourishing and enriching space for themselves and their family.

    Thanks for listening!

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    Instagram: @_esther.jones
    Facebook:@theunschoolspace
    © 2024 The Unschool Space
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Episodes
  • #68 Unschooling and neurodiversity—the power of community and keeping our own balance, with Melissa Crockett-Joyoue in New Zealand

    #68 Unschooling and neurodiversity—the power of community and keeping our own balance, with Melissa Crockett-Joyoue in New Zealand
    Sep 16 2024

    Today I'm chatting with Melissa Crockett-Joyoue from New Zealand. Melissa was on the podcast about two years ago, so it’s great to catch up with her again. Melissa and her partner have two neurodivergent children, who are now 6 and 9 and they came to unschooling after their son had an extremely challenging time at school. We talk particularly about the challenges of learning beyond school when that is never how you expected life to look, the importance of being able to regulate our own nervous systems, particularly when we have a PDA child or one who struggles to self regulate, and how essential it is to have a supportive community. And we also talk about Weave, the wonderful online community that Melissa runs for unschooling parents of neurodivergent children.

    Weave community link

    Weave Instagram

    Connect with Melissa on Instagram

    You can find my blog, workshops and courses at:
    www.esther-jones.com

    Or, connect with me on
    Instagram: @_esther.jones
    Facebook:@theunschoolspace
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    53 mins
  • #67 A journey back to ourselves, with Francine Wise in Kent, UK

    #67 A journey back to ourselves, with Francine Wise in Kent, UK
    Sep 2 2024

    My guest today is Francine Wise. Francine lives in Kent in the UK with her husband and two daughters, who are 8 and 6. They chose this route when their eldest daughter was four years old and school just didn’t feel right. Francine tells us about how she imagined home education and learning would look and the process she went through of trying out lots of different things from Waldorf to Charlotte Mason, and all the frustration that came with that. Eventually she came to the realisation that this was really about living in a way that felt authentic and letting go of expectations, rather than piling on more. how deep our own conditioning goes, some of the ways we can become more aware of how it, and as Francine says, learn to keep shifting our lens and accepting that this is always a journey back to ourselves.

    Connect with Francine
    Instagram: @wise_girls_at_home

    You can find my blog, workshops and courses at:
    www.esther-jones.com

    Or, connect with me on
    Instagram: @_esther.jones
    Facebook:@theunschoolspace
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    49 mins
  • #66 From Silicon Valley to roadschooling, with Stacey Yates Sellar in Scotland

    #66 From Silicon Valley to roadschooling, with Stacey Yates Sellar in Scotland
    Jul 17 2024


    I’m chatting today with Stacey Yates Sellar, a Conscious Parenting Coach and author of Conscious Parenting Your ADHD Child. Stacey and her husband have two boys, who are 13 and 10. Until four years ago, they lived and worked in California, but had many misgivings about the highly competitive schooling system. Eventually they decided to sell their house and travel, and have been worldschooling ever since, and are now in Scotland. Among many other things, we talk about how to let go of our social conditioning and our expectations, embrace our children for who they are and embrace our own imperfect selves.

    Connect with Stacey
    https://www.happierbytheminute.com

    You can find my blog, workshops and courses at:
    www.esther-jones.com

    Or, connect with me on
    Instagram: @_esther.jones
    Facebook:@theunschoolspace
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    45 mins
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What a lovely podcast. So many different quests with so much to add and thing about. This podcast is truly helping me embark on this new journey. Thank you so much.

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