This peer and adult-supported learning experience is intended to enhance our children’s unschooling experience.

Through unschooling, we offer our children freedom. But alongside that freedom, they need our support to activate skills, adopt helpful structures and create individualized systems. We see this further development of their freedom as the next step in creating the life they want.

How will we facilitate this? The learners at Knotwork Collaborative will learn in 9-week ‘arcs.’ The learners will be presented with a theme at the start of each arc. Over the weeks, the kids will Explore the theme by researching to discover which aspect of the topic most interests them. They will Express that interest in a project plan and archiving process. Finally, they will share their finished project and discoveries in a public Exposition.

Knotwork Collaborative will be facilitated by Lane Clark, Amber Dohrenwend, and Jamie Kitchel. We are unschooling parents with collective background and experience in teaching, social work, midwifery, art, community building, mentorship, and music – with an overall commitment to imperfectionism and self-led learning.

We created Knotwork with the intention to make space and time to chase ideas. To turn an idea into a skill. To follow curiosity into understanding. And to share our learning and mastery with the broader community as we showcase ourselves as unschoolers and lifelong learners publicly.

Are you a homeschool/unschool/self-led learning family looking for facilitated project based learning? Join our waitlist.

Are you a family who has schooled kids but love the idea of play-based, self-led learning? Learn about our BIG PLAY DAY for in-services and Spring Break.