Supported by Somerset Art Works Artist Development Programme Bursary.

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In 2020, I was awarded an Artist Development Bursary by Somerset Art Works to develop the Freedom Learning Project to support families during the Lockdowns.

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Freedom Learning has many other names:- Unschooling, Free Range Learning, Autonomous Learning, but all adhere to the educational philosophy that human beings learn best from the world around them.

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As well as a practising artist, I am a mother of two children. We have been a home educating family for thirteen years using a Freedom Learning approach. With the encouragement of Zoe Li of Somerset Art Works, I created a downloadable booklet of invitations for families to create and learn through the natural world. I used the word Invitations rather than Tasks or Activities as these two words often fill us with dread and can make learning feel like a chore for children.

 

Through daily walks and explorations into the landscape around them, I invited families to deepen their connection with nature in ways that may be unfamiliar. I also invited families to experience the healing and relaxing elements of working with plants. To understand the power and creativity of Plant Medicine as a path to learning and healing.

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The full PDF can be downloaded from the Somerset Art Works website via https://somersetartworks.org.uk/luminara-star-florescu/

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