Reimagining learning through Ubuntu, unlearning, and belonging
Learning community exploring education beyond compliance, performance, and disconnection.
Families and Young People
For parents, caregivers, and young people seeking learning beyond pressure, performance, and narrow ideas of success.
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Communities and Organisations
For schools, collectives, NGOs, land projects, and community spaces wanting to gather, question, restore, and reimagine together.
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Supporters and Community
For people, funders, and friends who want to help keep this work alive, accessible, and rooted in community.
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Ceremonies of Remembering
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Ceremonies of Remembering 〜
Ceremonies of Remembering is one way we name learning at Reimagined Learning Community. Inspired by the spirit of Sankofa, it speaks to the wisdom of returning, of looking back with care so that we may move forward with deeper truth. For us, learning is not only about new information. It is also about remembering what has been buried, silenced, forgotten, or left behind, our relationship with land, with one another, with story, with spirit, and with the deeper intelligence of life itself.
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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Unlearning Out Loud
with Chévanni Beon Davids
Chévanni Davids is a co-founder of Reimagined Learning Community, a father, facilitator, and writer devoted to tending spaces where learning can return to relationship, curiosity, and aliveness. His work lives at the meeting point of unlearning, Ubuntu, grief work, land-based practice, and the slow remembering of what it means to be human together. Through gatherings, learning journeys, community experiments, and intimate circles, he accompanies children, parents, educators, and fellow seekers as they loosen the grip of inherited systems and listen for older, wiser ways of being.
At the heart of Chévanni’s work is a prayer: that learning might become a space of restoration rather than pressure, of belonging rather than performance, of remembrance rather than control. The spirit of The Great Unlearning moves strongly through his facilitation, inviting people to meet themselves with tenderness, courage, and honesty as they question the stories they were given about education, worth, success, and freedom. His presence brings a rare blend of depth, warmth, provocation, and care, holding open a space where something more spacious, soulful, and life-giving can begin to emerge.
Hear from the Community
One of the most inspiring learning environments I have seen, I would recommend everyone to pay a visit and get a sense of it, the people, old and young, and be ready to rethink learning.
More spaces like Reimagine are needed in this world. The space itself is magical; it allows you to escape from the city and its pressures. Young people are seen as real people; there is no oppressive power dynamics as we see in the schools, no. Here, young people are given the space and love to develop freely into the humans they would like to be, and the beautiful grown-ups are there to support, guide and facilitate.
Many people are sceptical of alternatives to school, worrying that children would "fall behind", or not be prepared for life in this society. But Reimagine really proves that the contrary is true - here, every young person knows how to read, write and do maths, because they are taken seriously, and are allowed to figure out for themselves why certain skills are beneficial to them instead of having them hammered in without understanding why. Young people live together, learn together, inspire each other and discover the many, many things that are possible in this life. It's really a beautiful place everyone should see and feel, young and old.
-Victoria Schneider-Gogo NoniMy 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.
10 years
Years this living inquiry has deepened its root.
20+
Partners, collaborators, elders, artists, educators, and community organisations walking with the work.
Friends of the Work
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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