Reimagining learning through Ubuntu, unlearning, and belonging
We host learning journeys, family circles, youth gatherings, and community experiences in South Africa and online.
Families and Young People
For parents, caregivers, and young people seeking learning beyond pressure, performance, and narrow ideas of success.
Join learning journeys, unlearning circles, and support spaces for parents and young people.
Communities and Organisations
For schools, collectives, NGOs, land projects, and community spaces wanting to gather, question, restore, and reimagine together.
Partner with us to host gatherings, festivals, dialogues, and land-based learning experiences.
Supporters, Funders, and Nurturers
For people, funders, and friends who want to help keep this work alive, accessible, and rooted in community.
Help fund learning beyond school, youth participation, community gatherings, and the wider ecology of the work
What’s Alive Now
What the Land Might Mean by Learning?
Next cohort to be announced. Join the interest list for dates, location and participation details.
Ceremonies of Remembering
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Ceremonies of Remembering 〜
Inspired by Sankofa, Ceremonies of Remembering invites us to look back with care so we can move forward with deeper truth. Learning becomes more than gathering information: it becomes a way of restoring our relationships with land, community, story, spirit, and the deeper intelligence of life.
Reclaiming Indigenous Learning
Reclaiming Indigenous learning is part of remembering that education was once a living relationship, held by land, story, spirit, community, ancestry, and daily life. It is a return to ways of knowing that were never designed to separate the mind from the body, the child from the elder, or knowledge from responsibility. In a world shaped by extraction, erasure, and disconnection, this reclamation becomes more than cultural preservation. It becomes a way of restoring dignity, belonging, memory, and our capacity to learn with life again.
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Reimagined Learning Community began informally in 2014, in a house in the east of Johannesburg. It emerged through a gathering of mothers who were tired of seeing their children labelled by systems that could not hold their brilliance, children who were weary of being measured as failures, and adults carrying wounds from forms of education that left little room for loudness, colour, restlessness, sensitivity, and difference. That house became a living space for artists, activists, farmers, parents, and young people to experiment, play, grow, and imagine other ways of learning and being together.
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Explore a growing collection of articles on Medium inspired by and translated from the work of Reimagined Learning Community. These pieces weave together reflections from the field, questions around unlearning, stories from our community, and deeper thoughts on learning, land, freedom, and becoming. For those wanting to journey further into the spirit and substance of our work, this is a place to read, pause, and wander.
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Living learning experiences across land and digital space, where families, young people, adults, educators, and communities can gather to explore, create, question, remember, and practice learning beyond the walls of school.
Knowledge in People: Unlearning Festival 2024 — Soweto, South Africa
Chévanni Davids is a co-founder of Reimagined Learning Community, a father, facilitator, and writer working at the meeting point of unlearning, Ubuntu, grief, and land-based practice. Through gatherings, learning journeys, and community experiments, he creates spaces where children and adults can loosen inherited ideas about education and return to relationship, curiosity, and aliveness.
with Chévanni Beon Davids
Unlearning Out Loud
Hear from the Community
One of the most inspiring learning environments I have seen. Young people are seen as real people and given the space and love to develop freely into the humans they would like to be.
— Victoria Schneider
My family found a safe place that aligns with our family values: freedom, creativity, and culture. This is a Space to remember and be accompanied to Emandulo.
-Gogo Noni
I’m deeply grateful for this space of free expression, not only for me, but for the young human walking this path beside me. It feels closer to how learning was always meant to be: alive, unforced, breathing, moving like water. There is room here for curiosity, for play, for feeling, for becoming. Nothing feels squeezed out of us. Instead, something more rooted, more expressive, more human is slowly and naturally emerging.
Rea leboha haholo. We are deeply grateful.
-Thandokazi Maseti
What We’ve Tended
1,000+
People reached through our gatherings, journeys, and learning spaces.
67
Learning events, circles, workshops, festivals, and community dialogues hosted.
20+
Partners, collaborators, elders, artists, educators, and community organisations walking with the work.
10 years
Years this living inquiry has deepened its root.
Friends of the Work
Ecoversities
Nic & Nic
Body as Earth
Unearthodox
Emandulo
Your contribution helps us host land-based learning journeys, family circles, youth gatherings, festivals, and spaces where education can return to relationship, dignity, and belonging.
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