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Carmen Viktoria Gamper, author of Flow To Learn and the original New Learning Culture approach, is preparing to open the next wave of offerings.

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These classes are rooted in Carmen’s work with hundreds of educators and parents across Europe and beyond—and they are just the beginning of a new chapter.

Introduction to the New Learning Culture Model

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Discover the ideas and science behind the New Learning Culture Model. Find out about Rebeca and Mauricio Wild and the grassroots movement of the over 800 alternative schools they inspired in Europe and all over the globe. Meet school founders and learning companions of Rebeca Wild-based schools and get inspired by their experiences.
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Essentials for Creating Flow Environments for children in school and homeschool pods Pre-K-8

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This is a general introduction on how to create a variety of hands-on learning environments where children move freely and safely, and follow their inner learning compass.
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House Rules and Healthy Boundaries in Flow Environments

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Allowing children freedom to move and play is only effective within a clear structure that allows everyone to feel physically, emotionally, and intellectually safe. Explore the house rules and healthy boundaries needed for curating your flow environments.
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Creating Threefold Safety in Flow Environments

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When children and adults feel emotionally, intellectually, and physically safe, the magic of child-motivated learning can happen. Emotional safety facilitates a self-organizing field in learning environments, where each child can learn the right things at the right time.
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Inner Child / Inner Parent Work for Educators

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Learn wholesome tools and wise strategies to take care of yourself as a mentor, create the classroom that suits you, and become the joyful, patient learning companion you know you can be. Grow to cherish your inner child and become the parent and teacher you wish you had when you were little.
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Helping Children Process Difficult Emotions

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Difficult emotions, tension release, conflicts between peers, and learning how to be friends – all of this is part of flow environments where children learn in pairs, in teams, and side by side. Instead of avoiding, learning companions take time to support children in learning the skills to overcome these challenges and develop inner resources and resilience.
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Child-friendly Academics and Non-Invasive Teaching

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Discover the many ways in which learning companions at Rebeca Wild-based schools and other schools skillfully place learning invitations (of the traditional curriculum and beyond) in the environment. Learn to create and use hands-on materials like Montessori teachers. Learn the art of non-invasive teaching to stay in tune with each learner in one-on-one and small group settings.
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Best Practices from Rebeca Wild, Montessori, Reggio Emilia, and others

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Let's take advantage of over hundred years of experiences in child-based education and use the most effective practices in flow-environments from educators and methods such as Rebeca and Mauricio Wild, Maria Montessori, Reggio Emilia, Waldorf, Friedrich Froebel, Forest Kindergarten, Lena and Boris Nikitin, Non-Directive Play Therapy, and Wilderness Education.
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Healing Math Trauma for Adults

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Are you one of the many people who hate math? If so, it's probably because of how it was taught to you at school. Discover how Montessori materials can heal your math phobia and reveal to you -as you play- the wondrous and perfect world of numbers. You'll learn to see math as a friendly language that helps you in daily life.
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The complete NLC School Model for Elementary and Middle School

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Discover the NLC model's 20 elements that help you create a thriving elementary school where children are allowed to learn on their own terms in flow environments supported by learning companions.
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Sybille's times tables lapbook

AVAILABLE NOW / Child-friendly Academics

Sybille's Lapbook Corner

Enjoy Sybille Kramer's beautiful, unique lapbook tutorials. Discover this artful way of child-friendly academics and connect with children as partners as you learn and craft together.
Enjoy our FREE CLASSES that are helpful for beginners. 
Explore the Lapbook Corner

What participants say...

“The NLC program has opened up my eyes to new ways of being in the classroom. It inspires me to create opportunities and spaces that support, nurture, and honor children’s natural learning processes.”

Joy Gallina

Public school teacher, California

“In the NLC Course I gained the courage to identify and follow my family's dreams for education. 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

Mother and Educator, California

“The NLC Training offers an expansive and comprehensive vision of child-based learning. I am very inspired.”

Margaret Hirsh

Montessori Teacher, California

"It was truly a blessing to learn this material and put it to practice with my child and other children. Thank you, Carmen!”

Nancy Chavarria

Mother and Educator, California

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