Home of NLC Teacher Education and Coaching
Montessori-based guidance for teachers and whole schools. Preschool to Middle School.
Drawing, building, crafting, exploring, losing track of time. That is flow state, a child’s own playful way of learning. The NLC training shows you how to build your learning environments around it.
Nobody has to push. The motivation comes from inside. The child chooses, tries, and keeps going.
The NLC training shows you how to build your learning environments around that. You learn to work with children as partners, to guide and to follow, and to trust their own drive to learn.
Here's a small glimpse of a much larger world. In the NLC training you will see hundreds of photos from flow-based, Rebeca Wild-inspired schools across Europe and beyond.
At the heart of NLC Teacher Education is one guiding question:
Play-based, flow-based learning works when four things are in place:
The environment is well prepared.
Boundaries are clear and consistent.
Parents and teachers are on board.
You reflect on your practice regularly and update what isn't working.
Choose your path:
Join the next NLC teacher training cohort, starting in May 2027 cohort OR receive an NLC coaching series especially for your school.
Next Cohort starts May 2027 • Apply now for early bird pricing
Learn how to teach any subject through non-invasive lessons, create inspiring hands-on learning environments, and accompany children in their natural development.
An 11-month professional training with monthly live teaching and coaching, practical teacher manuals, and an international learning community.
For educators, parents, and learning community builders who believe that education can be different and want to know how to make it happen.
This program is for you if you are:
Building something new: Leaders and co-creators establishing a school, microschool, or learning center from the ground up.
Transforming your teaching practice: Educators in alternative, hands-on, or play-based schools who want to give children greater freedom.
Homeschooling and want to create a vibrant learning community.
Reimagining education: Educators who want to develop their own authentic approach and create a learning culture rooted in human connection.
Especially powerful for parent-teacher partnerships and school teams who want to build a shared vision.
You believe in freedom for children, and you’re not sure how to make it work safely.
You’re building a microschool or learning space and need a solid model to start from.
You love Montessori, Waldorf, and Reggio and are looking for ways to combine them.
You want to offer a rich learning environment without exhausting yourself in the process.
If you recognize yourself here, the NLC training is for you.
No previous teacher education required. Whatever background you bring: Montessori, Waldorf, Reggio, psychology, child development, or simply years of being with children...the NLC model helps you keep what serves you and build from there.
Every session blends teaching and coaching, so you make what you learn your own as you go.
Next cohort starts May 2027.
Starts anytime, anywhere in the world• Reach out to Carmen Gamper directly
Your whole school learns together. Your team receives a series of trainings made especially for you, shaped around your children, your classrooms, your challenges, and your community. Built on the NLC teacher training, my writing, and my books.
You might be here if...
You want hands-on, play-based learning environments and teaching tools that work and lead to flow, self-motivation, and learning.
Your teachers come from different backgrounds. You want an approach that brings everyone together.
You serve diverse children with unique needs and need diverse offerings.
Your team needs a shared language and vision for what you are building.
You'd like parents to understand and support your approach
Your team and your parents learn one approach, together, with your own school as the classroom.
Send me a short note, and I will reply within a few days to set up a conversation. No commitment.
"Carmen is bringing Montessori education to the next level.
She helps teachers see and support each child as the magical being they are."
Lynn Twist, Mother, Montessori Teacher, Founder / The Pachamama Alliance
"NLC is exploring what this next generation of children really needs:
complete faith in their capabilities and environments that nourish true, authentic learning with joy.”
Vicki Abrams, Mother, Director of the Childbirth & Yoga Programs at the Chopra Center
"In the NLC training, I gained the courage to follow my family's dreams for education. I moved out of a disempowered "what's available" attitude into a "whats our dream learning day look like?" I participated in the creation of our homeschool co-op, and we have spent the last year weaving together very satisfying and rich learning days for myself and my daughter, and other families in our town. "
June McGrory, West Marin Free School
“Carmen Gamper is hands-down the most inspiring, visionary teacher-trainer, I have ever had the honor of learning from. As a Montessori teacher, I thought that I had a firm grasp of what holistic, child-centered education looked like. But Carmen has blown my mind and heart wide open and I now have a much deeper understanding of how to truly serve children. I am so grateful for this transformation!”
Cristan Norman, Mother, Montessori teacher
Founder/ Learning Companion / Teacher Guide
Hi, I'm Carmen, I created this training to offer accessible, practical support for inspired educators who feel in their hearts that children learn best when they are truly seen and supported as individuals. I'm your guide; and honored to walk with you a stretch of the path.
I fell in love with education in my twenties, working at a summer camp run by SOS Children's Villages, set up Montessori-style. For the first time I watched children learn with genuine eagerness, showing me things with glee, fully present, having fun, and connecting with me. It was revelatory.
I'd tried public high school teaching before that. It broke my heart, and this healed it.
I became a total geek. Read everything, visited schools and was lucky to be mentored by Rebeca and Mauricio Wild and other experienced educators in the field.
The research on flow state confirmed that this is not just a feel-good way to learn, but the most sustainable, empowering, healing way to learn. For children and adults alike.
I wrote several books on flow state in children and adults; and I wrote in flow state, so I could experience the concept every day in my bones and feel its nuances. I keep experimenting with my own capacity to be fully present.
Getting to share this work with you and growing together is the greatest gift. I am so glad you are here.
with Carmen Gamper to ask questions and see if this training is right for you.