Accidental Gods

How can we make learning a genuinely transformational experience? One that's fun, and inspiring and that teaches us HOW to think, not WHAT to think? Rachel Musson had given her life to asking this question and ThoughtBox is her answer. 

Suppose we all learned three things at school: empathy, critical thinking and systems thinking... imagine how different the world would be. Suppose we learned how to think clearly, how to communicate, how to understand our own feelings and express them without feeling the need to trash other people just because we were hurt, or angry. 

Rachel Musson, founder and educational director of ThoughtBox, a radical, new co-learning programme speaks of her journey to create the system, and how it's working - in over a thousand schools and fifty four nations across the world.   Rachel believes in co-learning: no more lesson plans, but a classroom of peers who take the core of a topic and build on it together.  The result is a flexible learning environment where everyone thrives, where each individual is given space and encouragement to grow to be the best of themselves. 
Imagine a world where this is possible. Where it is happening. Where it is growing... 

About Rachel 

Rachel Musson is a teacher, trainer, writer and thought-leader on
sustainable education and wellbeing in schools.
Working for 13 years as a Secondary English teacher, Rachel has taught
students and trained teachers in schools across the world including the UK,
Ireland, Australia, Nepal and Tanzania. She is the Founding Director of
ThoughtBox Education – a social enterprise fostering triple wellbeing by
helping young people deepen relationships with themselves, society and the
natural world. She is the pioneer behind Changing Climates: a free climate
change curriculum currently being used in 1500+ schools across 56 countries.
Rachel is currently working with industry leaders on education reform policy
and standing as an international thought-leader on climate-change education
and triple-wellbeing in schools.



ThoughtBox: https://www.thoughtboxeducation.com
ThoughtBox Community Network: www.thoughtboxeducation.com/community
New free membership for global educators: https://www.thoughtboxeducation.com/teaching-for-a-better-world
Freedom to Think:  Blog on the new anti-capitalist ban in UK schools: https://www.thoughtboxeducation.com/blog/freedom-to-think

What is Accidental Gods ?

Another World is still Possible. The old system was never fit for purpose and now it has gone - it is never coming back.

We have the power of gods to destroy our home. But we also have the chance to become something we cannot yet imagine,
and by doing so, create a future we would be proud to leave to the generations yet unborn.

What happens if we commit to a world based on the values we care about: compassion, courage, integrity?

What happens if we let go of the race for meaningless money and commit instead to the things that matter: clean air, clean water, clean soil - and clean, clear, courageous connections between all parts of ourselves (so we have to do the inner work of healing individually and collectively), between ourselves and each other (so we have to do the outer work of relearning how to build generative communities) and between ourselves and the Web of Life (so we have to reclaim our birthright as conscious nodes in the web of life)?

We can do this - and every week on Accidental Gods we speak with the people who are living this world into being. We have all the answers, we just lack the visions to weave them into a future that works. We can make this happen. We will. Join us.

Accidental Gods is a podcast and membership program devoted to exploring the ways we can create a future that we would be proud to leave to the generations yet to come.

If we're going to emerge into a just, equitable - and above all regenerative - future, we need to get to know the people who are already living, working, thinking and believing at the leading edge of inter-becoming transformation.
Accidental Gods exists to bring these voices to the world so that we can work together to lay the foundations of a world we'd be proud to leave to the generations that come after us.
We have the choice now - we can choose to transform…or we can face the chaos of a failing system.
Our Choice. Our Chance. Our Future.

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