• SPECIAL: Heal from school lab August/September 2023

    Poland

    30 August - 3 September 2023

    Warsaw area - Poland

    With Anne-Chloé Destremau and Clinton Callahan.

    Please click on the button below for more info.

    Remember, this is a Possibility Lab, so it is required that you have already attended an official Expand The Box Training.

     

  • ABOUT

    You carry wounds from being in public school, ranging from being adaptive, disavowing your own authority, refusing to be creative, and holding on to negative assessments from testing and teacher's comments as voices in your head. These impressions and experiences stay in you for the rest of your life and shape what is possible for you, until you do the adult and archetypal healing and initiatory processes that change your wounds into gateways.

     

    What most people learn in school is that they hate learning, cannot write, despise math, and fail on purpose to succeed because when you win it means others must lose.

     

    You are forced to survive in a school culture and cannot begin finding out who you are or what you really want until you get out of school.

     

    Public school was invented 150 years ago to prepare workers to endure life as a production worker and soldiers to obey orders from 'superiors'. To send a child to school in the 21st Century is physical, emotional, intellectual, and psychological abuse.

     

    Each day a child spends in school is one less day they have to prepare themselves for what is coming.

     

    Through specific, strong, transformational, healing and adulthood initiatory processes you can heal from school and enter Life.

     

     

    A Nation of Slaves

     

    We hear, more or less constantly, that schools are failing in their mandate. Nothing could be more wrong. Schools are succeeding all too well, accomplishing precisely their purpose.

     

    What is the primary purpose of school?

     

    To answer this, ask yourself first what society values most. We don't talk about it much, but the truth is that our society values money above all else, in part because it represents power, and in part because, as is also true of power, it gives us the illusion that we can get what we want. But one of those costs of following money is that in order to acquire it, we so often have to give ourselves away to whomever has money to give in return. Bosses, corporations, men with nice cars, women with power suits. Teachers. Not that teachers have money, but in the classroom they have what money elsewhere represents: power.

     

    We live in a culture that is based on the illusion - and schooling is central to the creation and perpetuation of this illusion - that happiness lies outside of us, and specifically in the hands of those who have power.

     

    (...)

     

    Pretend you wish to make a nation of slaves. Or, to put it another way, you wish to procure for your nation's commercial interests a steady supply of workers, and a population pacified enough to not resist the expropriation of their resources.

     

    (...) The primary drawback of each of these approaches (direct force, choice between starvation or wage slavery, force the slaves to pay taxes and enter the cash economy) is that the slaves still know they're enslaved, and the last thing you want is to have to put down a rebellion. Far better for them is to believe they're free, because then if they're unhappy the fault lies not with you but with themselves.

    It all starts with the children. If you don't start young enough, you'll never be able to acculturate them sufficiently so that they disbelieve in alternatives. And if they honestly believe in alternatives- those not delineated by you- they may attempt to actualize them. And then, where would you be?

    ~ Derrick Jensen (walking on water)

     

     

    Away From Ourselves

     

    God knows the real massacres continue. But the machine gun isn't really what is to be feared most in our civilized Western world. It just isn't needed all that much. The kids leave Miss Jones' class. And they go on to junior high and high school and college. And most of them will never need to be put in an internment camp. Because they're already there. Do you think I'm overstating it? That's what's so frightening: we have the illusion that we're free.

     

    In school we learn to be good little Americans--or Frenchmen--or Russians. We learn how to take the crap that's going to be shoveled on us all our lives. In school the state wraps up people's minds so tight that it can afford to leave their bodies alone.

     

    Repression? You want to see victims of repression? Come look at most of the students at San Diego State College, where I work. They want to be told what to do. They don't know how to be free. They've given their will to this institution just as they'll continue to give their will to the institutions that engulf them in the future.

    ~Jerry Farber (The Student as A Nigger)

     

     

    The word education (...) comes from the latin root e-ducere, meaning to "lead forth" or "to draw out". Originally it was a midwife's term meaning "to be present at the birth of". I would contrast that with the root of the word seduce, which is closely related, but with a striking difference. To educe is to lead forth; to seduce is to lead astray.

     

    (...) I wish I had suggested that our departments of education be called, if we were honest, departments of seduction , for that is what they do: lead us away from ourselves.

    ~ Derrick Jensen (walking on water: reading, writing and revolution)

  • A Message to the youth

    by Clinton Callahan

  • COMING BACK TO OURSELVES

    Fear of Failure // Become An Experimenter

    Envy of Success // Winning Happening

    Absurdity // Become Magic

  • UNLEARNING

    "Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children. Many 'well-adjusted' adults are bitter, uncreative, frightened, unimaginative, and rather hostile people. Instead of assuming they were born that way, or that that's what being an adult entails, we might consider them as people damaged by their education and upbringing."

    - Keith Johnstone

    Linear vs. Nonlinear Learning

    Defensive vs. Expansive Learning

    Building Matrix

  • BEING ON THE team

    When you try to be on a Team in school, you are cheating...

    School is based on competition.

    Expansive Learning, Transformational Learning takes a Team

    It takes a Team to do this kind of learning

    Next Culture Learning (Learning In Archearchy) Takes Place In A Torus

    Teams within Teams, Circles within Circles

    http://torustechnology.org

  • EXPERIMENTS

    ".... ultimately, it's about creating your own game world." (Christine Ploschenz)

    COMPLETE INCOMPLETE EMOTIONS

    Matrix Code HEALSCHO.01

    Read through this website: complete incomplete emotions
    Find a person to hold space for you in this process and gradually go through all the situations in your time as a child going to school where you felt shame. This could be situations with teachers, friends, parents siblings …

     

    After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code HEALSCHO.01 in your free account at StartOver.xyz.

    This Experiment is worth 3 Matrix Points.

    GRADE YOURSELF

    Matrix Code HEALSCHO.02

    For one week, give yourself grades for everything you do and are.
    Grade how you are dressed, grade your work, grade your communication with your mother, grade the condition of your houseplants, grade your home-cooked lunch, your living room decor, and your nighttime dreams.
    Hang a large sheet of paper on the wall and write down all the grades with a red pen. Grade your writing as well.
    Write down your feelings and emotions about this experiment in your BEEP!Book.

     

    After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code HEALSCHO.02 in your free account at StartOver.xyz.

    This Experiment is worth 3 Matrix Points.

    GRADE OTHERS

    Matrix Code HEALSCHO.03

    Grade others for a week. Grade everything that others give you or share with you. Grade the sausage sandwich you got a piece of, the music someone plays for you, the health insurance service you called, the dentist who fixed your teeth. Grade the bus driver, the cashier at the supermarket, and the newscaster on the TV.
    Write down your feelings and emotions about this experiment in your BEEP!Book.

     

    After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code HEALSCHO.03 in your free account at StartOver.xyz.

    This Experiment is worth 3 Matrix Points.

    EVERYTHING IS COMPETITION

    Matrix Code HEALSCHO.04

    For one week, do the experiment of seeing competition in everything. Everyone around you is a competitor.
    You're parked your car next to another car at a red light? Who's ahead of you as you pull away?

    You're walking toward the checkout line at the supermarket at the same time as another person? Be a little faster and get there first. Push ahead wherever you can.

    Always be a little better than the others, faster, further ahead.

    Make sure everyone on the job knows you're the best, tell them about your exploits, be the "employee of the month".

    Your plate is empty first, your tip is the highest, your car is in the best parking spot.
    Write in your BEEP!Book every night all the contests you won today. How do you feel?

     

    After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code HEALSCHO.04 in your free account at StartOver.xyz.

    This Experiment is worth 3 Matrix Points.


     

    BEST FRIENDS

    Matrix Code HEALSCHO.05

    Who was your best friend in elementary school? Take some time to recall these memories. What was his/her name, what did he/she look like, how did he/she talk? Where did he/she live, where did you meet to play? What games did you play?
    If you've lost touch with this person, maybe it's time to find him/her again. Research where he/she lives today and then get in touch with him/her. Set up a meeting with him/her, preferably offline, for real, in a real place.
    At this meeting, tell him/her how important he/she was to you back then, what he/she meant to you. Tell him/her what you liked about him/her and how happy you were when you were together. How you forgot about time and school in his presence.

     

    After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code HEALSCHO.05 in your free account at StartOver.xyz.

    This Experiment is worth 1 Matrix Point.

    OLD HABITS

    Matrix Code HEALSCHO.06

    School is training camp. In a training camp, you practice things until you do them without thinking. Automatically. Always in the same way. If you always do things the same way without thinking, they slip into your subconscious as a habit. Or have you ever thought about how to walk? Which muscles you need to activate? For example, which muscle has to be activated first to get the whole machinery of bones and muscles going?
    The experiment lasts a total of 7 days and works like this:
    On each day, you observe one of the activities listed below in detail.

    You pull it out of your subconscious and watch yourself doing it. Specifically. Very precisely. Very consciously.

    In the evening of each day, find a person (can be done online) and explain the process to them in detail, as if that person had never heard of it before. Tell the person to immediately chime in on any ambiguity.


    Here come the 7 habits for this week:
    - getting up from a chair
    - drinking from a glass
    - walking
    - holding a pen and writing with it
    - singing
    - riding a bicycle
    - sleeping

     

    After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code HEALSCHO.06 in your free account at StartOver.xyz.

    This Experiment is worth 3 Matrix Points, when you do the hole week.

    DO IT DIFFERENTLY

    Matrix Code HEALSCHO.07

    All of these activities that you looked at in the previous experiment, you can do a hundred different ways.
    Experiment with each of them for three days.
    In the first three days, find quite a few variations on how to get up from a chair. Quickly, in slow motion, shakily, with help, with a stick, falling on the floor, singing, crying, screaming....

     

    After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code HEALSCHO.07 in your free account at StartOver.xyz.

    This Experiment is worth 3 Matrix Points, when you do it all.

    LOOK THROUGH YOUR OWN EYES

    Matrix Code HEALSCHO.08

    When I was a child and went to school, I was firmly convinced that the teacher was always right. That meant at the same time that I thought right and wrong existed. And what I thought as well was, if the teacher is right, I am wrong.
    I have changed my mind now and in most cases I think there is no such thing as right or wrong.
    This is about experimenting with looking through your own eyes at what you've created for yourself. It's about a change of perspective. It's about looking out of yourself at your world and noticing what's there. It's no longer about what your parents think, whether your friends like it, or what your teacher would say. It's solely about what you notice, what you see, what you want to keep or change.
    Here's how:
    Take an hour every day for a week to look at a section of your room/home. Pick up individual items: why do you have them? Are they in the right place there? Do you want to keep them? Do you like the way things are put together? Do you like these colors? What feeling emerges when you are in this part of the room? Do you like being here? Why, why not?
    You can also slowly start to change some things if you want. But it's not about doing things right. It's about finding variations and staying in touch with the effects of the change.

     

    After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code HEALSCHO.08 in your free account at StartOver.xyz.

    This Experiment is worth 1 Matrix Point.

    RULES

    Matrix Code HEALSCHO.09

    For one week, write down every rule you set for yourself. For example, one rule is, "Brush your teeth first, then drink coffee." Another rule is: "I must not talk to Mrs. Müller, otherwise she won't stop talking."
    Write all the rules one below the other in your BEEP!Book.
    Rules can be small and you might miss them. "Only 2 sheets of toilet paper, that's enough!" is also a rule. Write them down.
    When the week is over, read through the list again.
    You might be following rules that you didn't make up yourself.
    Who made them? Write the name after the rule.

     

    After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code HEALSCHO.09 in your free account at StartOver.xyz.

    This Experiment is worth 1 Matrix Point.

    BREAK YOUR RULES

    Matrix Code HEALSCHO.10

    Take a closer look at the rules you didn't make yourself. Do you want to keep them? Why? Why not? If you don't want to keep them, put them down. The image is that you throw them in the trash like an old, worn-out pair of shoes. The experiment needs no further description.
    Just one hint: You might replace the old rule with a new rule. The new rule would then be, "Drink coffee first, then brush your teeth." Hm...

     

    Variation: just for fun, and because of the joy of experimentation, and no matter who made the rules: break them. Spend three days without all these rules. That would be a day when you drink coffee while brushing your teeth, miss the bus, and hitchhike to work. Mrs. Müller stops at the side of the road and gives you a ride, and she doesn't speak a word the whole time. After work, you go to buy toilet paper.
     

    After completing this experiment, please register Matrix Code HEALSCHO.10 in your free account at StartOver.xyz.

    This Experiment is worth 1 Matrix Point.

  • A Message

    by Joana Ribeiro

  • SPACES OF HEALING AND TRANSFORMATION

    Trainings & Workshops

    Heal From School Possibility Lab - a 'specialty Lab'

    5-day residential training by Anne-Chloé Destremau and Clinton Callahan

    30 August - 3 September 2023 The Heal From School Possibility Lab is 5-day radically safe healing space for the dozens of deep wounds and disempowerments that we carry - consciously or unconsciously - as a burden that seriously restricts our ability to create and relate and be late.

     

    On the one hand, it can feel very scary to actually heal these wounds and get your power of presence back.

     

    On the other hand, what a wonderful way to create a great future for yourself and your kids.

    Prerequisite: Expand The Box Training.

    Heal From School Lab: Details and Registration are HERE.

    Heal From School Workshop

    3h, held by Anne-Chloé Destremau and Clinton Callahan

    From having been to school for 14 years or more, we carry - consciously or unconsciously - dozens of deep wounds and disempowerments as burdens that seriously restricts our ability to create, relate and be.
    This 3-hour Heal School workshop is a radically safe place to start healing those wounds and practicing skills that were not allowed in school such as asking authentic questions, going nonlinear, speaking from the unknown and much more.
    On the one hand, it can feel very scary to actually heal these wounds and get your power of presence back, on the other hand, what a wonderful way to create a great future for yourself and the next generations.

    Sharing from a Participant in a 3-hour online Heal From School workshop:

    navigated by Anne-Chloé Destremau and Clinton Callahan

    Aloha I wanted to share what an impact Heal From School has had on me. Since our session, I've been in a kind of altered state of experimenting - particularly around discernment and artwork. It's been amazing! I think it was about 6 years ago I participated in a rage hold and had a reset that lasted many years. I'm very grateful to you for sharing your work with the world.

    Mahalo.

    Letta Jones

     

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