The Free Learning Festival is a community-based festival where families around the world come together to connect, share life, and learn from each other. You are welcomed to enjoy the company of like-minded people who love freedom and work together to build a better world around them. This festival is for you if you are homeschoolers, worldschoolers, unschoolers, and open-minded individuals passionate about holistic education.
The culture around us is encouraging us to disconnect more and more from each other, so with this Festival, we would love to help families reconnect with themselves, with nature, and with other like minded families.
If you plan on coming, please know that the families who would benefit more from this get-together are families who chose an alternative way of educating their children and are curious to see and learn about different options outside the traditional system. Please do not register to come if you are not already practicing a non-traditional way of schooling your children and are just in search of company.
Since we are a community-based festival, everyone is responsible and in charge of their schedule, food, trash, children, and pets, and there will be opportunities for all of us to get involved, get our hands dirty, and participate in making the time we spend together memorable.
Our Values
This is not a traditional camp or festival.
The goal is to connect, interact and share life with like minded people, surrounded by nature and form a community that will last beyond the festival.
However, since we aspire to create an inviting and loving space for everyone who is attending the festival, we want to make sure that if you do come, you know what we value, what we stand for and what to expect.
COMMUNITY
Maybe the most important and unique aspect of this get together is the fact that we want to make sure that everyone feels included, served and appreciated in finding a place here. Which is why….
CONTRIBUTION
Everyone has to step in so that the festival will run smoothly, first with helping others to accomodate, participate and navigate the festival and second, with workshops or other activities that might bring a pleasant experience for everyone, small but very important things. And what better way to help our children learn than by example and by getting our hands ”dirty”.
CONSIDERATION
The beauty of this festival is that we will get to interact with a lot of different and interesting families. So please be respectful of other people’s families (and children), schedules, belongings, and pets. The nature around us is beautiful, generos and life-giving. Please be considerate of that too.
COMMUNICATION
For us, it’s important to serve you well and better each year. So for that, please make sure you communicate any information that is required of you in due time. We have forms and other means of communication that are not always fun, but are strategic and vital. This helps us organise, administrate and improve your time here.