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Our Learning Offerings
We facilitate Small Group Learning Clubs and Individualized Learning Partnerships for ages 5 - 18, as well as Coaching Sessions for Caregivers. Meetings are scheduled online or in-person in the Los Angeles area. We do our best to customize learning offerings that fit family and community preferences.
Listed below are our Small Group Learning Clubs for the Fall 2025 Season. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​
In-Person Clubs
in South Los Angeles
Online Clubs
Nature and Nurture
Ages 5 - 12
Mondays 10:00am - 12:00pm
Outdoors in South LA
Learners build understanding of the core academic principals of modern natural sciences as well as Indigenous ancient knowledge of the natural world. We connect with the natural elements through various outdoor activities including meditation, plant exploration and classification, soil work, foraging, play, insect investigations, scenic observations and nature journaling. We delve into concepts of sustainability, self- and community care as we learn from the ecosystems in nature.
Creative Expression
Ages 5 - 12
Mondays 12:00 - 2:00pm
Outdoors in South LA
Our learners take space to express themselves through various mediums in this club. With an admiring lense on nature and all her powers, we use movement, poetry, creative writing, improv, art and music to express our connection and gratitude.
Dishes of the Diaspora
Ages 6 - 15
Wednesdays 9:30 - 12:00pm
in South LA
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In this club, our youth explore ancient and modern culinary art through the preparation of traditional African and Caribbean plant-based dishes. Bringing forward the grandmother’s science of the recipes, we prepare nutritious meals from cultures of the diaspora that ancestors have been using for years. As we chop and grind, measure, stir, and blend, we also travel through history, geography, languages and traditions of people of West Africa and the Caribbean.
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As has been long known, food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. We learn about the nutritional value of plants such as Moringa, Ginger, Garlic, Collards, and Sea Moss.
Fully interactive and communal, we share taster meals that create core memories for youth on their learning journey. As we cook and clean, we enjoy deep conversations about preserving ourstory.
Restore
Ages 7 - 15
Wednesdays 12:00 - 2:00pm
in South LA
Restore is a gentle and powerful learning space where sound, reflection, and the restorative practices circle process come together to nurture emotional well-being, nervous system care, and community connection.
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In this intimate gathering, learners practice the art of presence, strengthening resilience, expanding their emotional awareness, and learning to communicate with care and compassion. Together, we co-create agreements, share stories, and experience the restorative power of being seen and heard in community.
Rooted in Indigenous talking circle traditions, this offering invites learners of multiple ages into grounding rituals, light somatic movement, and guided sound journeys that are both calming and soothing. In these moments of deep listening and reflection, learners cultivate the ability to slow down, feel into their bodies, use their voice, and honor both their inner landscapes and the shared wisdom of the circle.
​Restore encourages learners to tend to their hearts, deepen their sense of belonging, and recognize the cultural wisdom that lives within and around them. Meeting each learner where they are and adaptable for multi-age learning environments, this weekly club offering is a loving invitation to remember that healing and learning are not separate, but connected in a harmonious way. The offering is facilitated by a licensed clinical therapist and former school social worker, and it grows with learners week by week, offering consistent practice in emotional awareness and reflection.
Wholehearted Writers Workshop
Ages 13 - 16
Wednesdays 2:00 - 4:00pm
in South LA
In this club, our learners fall in love with themselves as writers. They build a repertoire of strategies to draw upon as they sense in to various sources of information, visualize, generate ideas, free write, draft, revise, edit and share their work. They develop a willingness to take risks, a commitment to be true to themselves, and to use writing as a vehicle to create mirrors and windows. They learn to nurture themselves as writers and to reflect on what makes their own writing process go smoothly.
As they study mentor texts by Black writers, our teenagers hone their leadership skills of intent listening, critical thinking, thoughtful questioning, and logical reasoning. They then enhance their own writing skills that could include descriptive writing, argumentation, creative writing, summarizing and recapitulating, etc.
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Our community culture is the essence of our workshop model. Learners and facilitators work together to sense into ideas, tinker, invent, reflect, revise, and grow. They give and receive feedback with joy and kindness, and they learn to admire each of their peer’s agency, voice, skill and style.
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Art Technique and Skill
Ages 7 - 15
Thursdays 10:00am - 12:00pm
in South LA
Learners get into the fundamentals of art and design elements. We explore lines, space, color theory, composition, proportions, form, shape, balance, movement, pattern, rhythm, unity, texture, value and variety. We practice these fundamentals through various mediums including painting, drawing, and clay.
Art and Intentions
Ages 7 - 15
Thursdays 12:00 - 2:00pm
in South LA
Who am I? How do I stand for myself and my community? What is important to me? How do I want to express what I want to say in my art? What are my intentions and messages?
As we study the heartful intentions and profound messages of great artists like Bisa Butler, we explore our own self identities, intentions, and messages. We tune in as we create our art, and we pay attention to our selves as we flow in our creative decisions and artistic expressions.
Teenage Think Tank
Ages 13 - 16
Thursdays 3:00 - 5:00pm
in South LA
This club is an offering to the future, where we bring together the teenage vanguard of autonomous minds and righteous builders of our community and world. We hold space for a meeting of the minds, focusing on Philosophy, using the tools of personal and creative as well as persuasive writing. Teenagers continue to hone their leadership skills of intent listening, critical thinking, thoughtful questioning, logical reasoning, mindful observing,and energetic regulating. They are invited into philosophical conversations around ideas that surface from song lyrics, poems, speeches, historical and current event reports, works of art, etc. While the facilitator supports the ease of the dialogue, our teenagers lead themselves and each other in authentic discourse.
Young Math Minds
Ages 5 - 7
Fridays 10:00 - 12:00pm
in South LA
Our youngest learners come to this club with intuitive understandings about counting and problem solving. We use the context of their lives, communities, interests, ourstories, and dreams to invite their mathematical thinking. We create and play with math tasks that welcome multiple perspectives and strategies, and we facilitate conversations that inspire them to engage in each other’s mathematical ideas.
With confidence, joy and curiosity, our Young Math Minds continue to develop their counting skills of one-to-one correspondence, sequencing and cardinality. They grow in their natural understandings of skip counting, one less and one more, place value, classifying and measuring. As they create drawings, models, and equations that represent their problem solving strategies, they begin to recognize beautiful relationships between numbers and operations.
Wonders of Water
Ages 8 - 15
Fridays 10:00 -- 12:00pm
in South LA
The most precious resource on our planet, water has the power to soothe, hydrate and heal. From the geometric and scientific construction of water, to how it behaves on Earth and in our bodies, to how the Earth and people treat the flow, we connect to the many wonders of water. As we read articles, watch documentary clips, enjoy stories, read data, and conduct experiments, we learn about the intelligence and power of water. We analyze the political and capitalist practices around water, and we dialogue about our responsibility to protect and preserve its vitality.
Tinkering Club
Ages 5 - 9
Fridays 12:00 - 2:00pm
in South LA
Tinkering is about hands-on experiences, learning from failures, and unstructured time to explore and invent. We tinker as we take things apart, put things together, figure out how things work, and attempt to build and make creations using tools.
With support and safe structures, our young people have space to ask questions, make plans, work individually and collaboratively, imagine, visualize, brainstorm, test ideas, solve problems, revise, and share our creations with others.
We upcycle, using resources from around our homes and community to innovate. We use our senses to explore the physical properties of materials, and build our vocabulary as we describe and make predictions. We explore how others around the world are successfully creating Earth-friendly contraptions for great utility, and we honor the value of reducing waste, refurbishing, reusing, and repurposing items.
Cyberworld Navigators
Ages 8 - 15
Fridays 2:00 - 4:00pm
in South LA
In this club, we share and learn about practices, strategies, and resources that support us with safely navigating the digital world. We discuss the benefits and dangers around us when engaging in online research, using social media, chatting online, and gaming with others. We explore the impact of wifi signals on our health, and the advantages and disadvantages of ai. We practice safe online etiquette as we collaborate in creating content.
Fractional Relationships and Algebraic Thinking
Ages 11 - 15
ONLINE Mondays
8:30 - 9:30am PST/11:30am - 12:30pm EST
During these club meetings, our growing mathematicians are invited to dig into relationships amongst the fractional understandings that they intuitively bring with them. With culturally relevant tasks, we also support them in their experiences with the language and beauty of algebra. ​
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creating visual models of fractions that support the conceptual understanding of operations with fractions
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grouping, joining, separating, measuring and partitioning with fractions
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writing and solving equations
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describing and evaluating algebraic patterns
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graphing and analyzing data on an x-y coordinate plane​​
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As they explore and expand their mathematical understandings, our learners are engaging with each other's ideas and perspectives, inspiring each other to see their own brilliance, and collaborating with comfort and joy.
Fluency and Flexibility
With Numbers and Operations
Ages 7 - 11
ONLINE Mondays
1:30 - 2:30pm PST/
4:30 - 5:30pm EST
Learners engage in open-ended tasks and games that promote math fluency and flexibility. We solve culturally-relevant story problems in ways that make sense to each of us, and compare and build upon each other’s mathematical strategies. We joyfully and curiously discover our own ways to describe mathematical patterns and make deep connections across number and algebraic properties. We explore mathematics in art and nature, and enjoy strategy games from around the world.
In these sessions, learners do much more than memorize math facts and algorithms. They come to see themselves as profound mathematical thinkers who have the confidence and the habits of mind to tackle new problems.
Cup of Joy
Ages 5 - 9
ONLINE Tuesdays
9:00 - 10:00am PST/12:00 - 2:00pm EST
A playful heart-centered club where our littles explore joy through movement, songs, stories, and reflection. Each gathering includes a "joy cup" breath moment, a read aloud, creative play, and a sharing circle to help children express gratitude and connect with their emotions. ​
Word Alchemy
Ages 10 - 15
ONLINE Tuesdays
10:30 - 11:30am PST/ 1:30 - 2:30pm EST
This is a creative and intuitive writing workshop that invites our learners to explore storytelling, journaling, free writing and expressive writing as a way to transform thoughts and feelings into language. We take time to recognize the energy and frequency that is held in words, and we learn how to organize ideas, express emotions through writing, and share voices in a structured and supportive setting.​​
Earth Codes
Ages 10 - 15
ONLINE Wednesdays
8:30 - 9:30am PST/11:30 - 12:30pm EST
In this earth science and cultural medicine club, we explore herbal metaphysics through global traditions - African, Native American, South and Central American. We learn about plants, regions, and ecosystems, exploring how different cultures understand the relationship between nature and well-being.​
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Each week highlights a plant or natural element, its cultural significance, and its resonance with the body and emotions. Learners engage in storytelling, drawing, and simple science-based projects while learning to see plants as teachers and healers.​
Nervous System Explorers
Ages 9 - 15
ONLINE Wednesdays
10:30 - 11:30am PST/ 1:30 - 2:30pm EST
Together, we explore the anatomy and energetics of the nervous system in a fun and gentle way. We learn how messages travel in the body through the brain, spinal cord, and nerves. We explore how the nervous system helps us respond to stress, and how we find calm again. We discuss Fight, Flight, Freeze reactions, and we connect the nervous system to our chakras and energy flow. We explore the power of breath and stillness, and movement to release stuck energy.
As we continue to integrate this learning, we empower ourselves with the tools to befriend our nervous system for life.
Body Compass
Ages 10 - 15
ONLINE Thursdays
10:30 - 11:30am PST/1:30 - 2:30pm EST
This wellness and body awareness club blends somatic sensing with Traditional Chinese Medicine wisdom to help our learners regulate emotions and connect all the layers of their selves. We explore how different organs are linked to specific emotions (e.g., lungs ↔ grief, liver ↔ anger, heart ↔ joy). We practice mindfulness, breathing, body-mapping, and movement activities for emotional regulation and resilience.
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Each session includes guided activities like “organ sound healing,” “emotion-mapping art,” and grounding practices so students can recognize, release, and re-balance energy.
Individualized
Learning
Partnerships
Scheduled with each family
Whether the focus is math, literacy, knot-tying, Spanish, sound healing, plant science, or another area of study, this is much more than a tutoring session. A learning facilitator partners with your child to build a trusting relationship, engage in easeful conversations, and develop conceptual understandings in depth. Every session offers a supportive space for reading, writing, mindfulness, and joy. Learners bring their intuitive knowledge, skills and curiosities, and we gently nudge them along their learning journey.
Coaching Sessions
for Caregivers
Scheduled with each family
As a parent, do you feel guilt, anxiety, shame, helplessness about how your child is “performing” academically? Well, we know and believe that your child is not behind. Rather, each one is on their own divine timeline. Let’s partner together to admire what they are intuitively understanding. Let’s enjoy witnessing the brilliance in their choices, their perceptions, their gifts. And let’s talk about how we can follow their lead into deeper explorations. In our coaching sessions, we respectfully listen and support you as you explore ideas, philosophies, resources, programs, logistics, and communities. We lean into the details of your child’s thinking, and we offer questions and options for you to consider as you plan, reflect, and problem-solve through your adventures of home learning.
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