Saving the Seeds of Self-Directed Education

Host Bria Bloom is joined by Antonio Buehler and Peter Gray to discuss how parents, and facilitators, can support and partner with young people to shift their relationships from hierarchy to partnership, and the challenges that can get in the way. Show Notes Check out this article for more on how fostering agency is actually the way to protect kids from the dangers we are so worried about, a theme...

In episode 10 of Saving the Seeds of SDE, we talk with Iris Chen, founder of Untigering , and an ASDE Compendium contributor, about the link between decolonizing and SDE, her and her family’s journey to unschooling, some of the deep internal work we need to do to deschool ourselves. The ASDE Compendium Guided Cohorts are open! Learn more and sign-up here . ——— We recently made all of our podcast e...

In episode 9 of Saving the Seeds of SDE, we talk with Melissa Crockett-Joyoue, an ASDE Compendium contributor, about her family’s personal journey, and finding connection and support for ND families in SDE. The ASDE Compendium Guided Cohorts are open! Learn more and sign-up here . Resources Mentioned Today: Weave ND Community Weave ND Instagram The Unschooling Summit 2026 Alliance for SDE is a rea...

In episode 8 of Saving the Seeds of SDE, we talk with Chantrisse Parks, an ASDE Compendium contributor, about her experience and wisdom about conflict engagement in SDE spaces. The self-guided version of The ASDE Compendium is now available! Get it here! Alliance for SDE is a reader/listener-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscrib...

in episode 7 of Saving the Seeds of SDE, we talk with Nollaig Rydz, an ASDE Compendium contributor, about her approach to screens. We cover a wide range of hot screen topics, including scarcity mindset, addiction, safety on the internet, and outside time. Note: This episode was, in fact, recorded over a screen. ;) Alliance for SDE is a reader/listener-supported publication. To receive new posts an...

In this conversation, Bria and Meghan (staff people for ASDE) speak with a Compendium Contributor from Denton Texas, Aspen who attends Wild Roots . She tells us all about what her days are like there, how they spend their time, make decisions and even CLEAN UP aka “Contributions”. Aspen wrote about her Day-in-the-Life for the Compendium to give folks a glimpse into the life of a self-directed teen...

In episode 5 of ASDE’s podcast, Saving the Seeds of SDE; hosts Bria and Meghan speak with long time unschooling parent Domari Dickinson. She shares so much wisdom on parenting wounds and triggers in this interview and in her contribution to the ASDE Compendium . We hope you listen in on this and join the conversation to let us know what you took away from this episode. If you missed the opportunit...

In episode 4 of ASDE’s podcast, Saving the Seeds of SDE Bria and Meghan sat with Compendium contributor, Chevanni Davids to talk about grief and how it relates to our periods of transition. He speaks candidly about the ways we shed parts of ourselves, how we grieve those parts and even what unschooling invites us to do with it. He articulates the way that young people expressing their full range o...

In Episode 3 of Saving the Seeds of SDE, hosts Bria and Meghan are speaking with Compendium 1 Contributor, Jonie Broecker. They have a conversation about the internal work of deschooling. Jonie speaks about this individual work she was doing and how there were some internal strings for Jonie, that seemed to have tuned to a particular resonance. Bria and Meghan ask her to share how things physicall...

content warning : the first 5 minutes have an introduction to Vivek’s lived experience that include child abuse and violence. In Episode 2 of Saving the Seeds of SDE, hosts Bria and Meghan are speaking with Compendium Contributor, Vivek Patel. They have a conversation about raising children with Non Coercive Collaborative Parenting . They examine the inherent power of parents and discuss ways to c...

Welcome to the latest offering from The Alliance for Self-Directed Education, our podcast! Saving the Seeds of SDE was born out of our organization’s desire to preserve the seeds of knowledge, wisdom and lived experiences of people all over the world practicing Self-Directed Education. Your hosts are 2025 Staff Members, Bria Bloom and Meghan Suniga-Davies - they will be bringing you conversations...