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MEET-Up Calls
Meditation, Education, Ecology for Transformation
Weekly Monday Zoom calls, 12–1:30pm Eastern. Each call begins with 15 minutes of meditation, followed by introductions, breakout conversations, and whole-group reflections. A space for people who care about reimagining education to think together, slowly.
MEET started in 2021 under One Room, One World Schoolhouses (orows.org). 26 episodes across six months — from a first conversation on spirituality and education through to a closing arc on dialogic dialogue practice.
Dialogic Dialogue — intro
Episode Archive
Archive recovered from orows.org/meet/meet-up/ via the Wayback Machine.
Voices from MEET
"All youth work is self work. We are getting in the way because we're broken, so we end up breaking our kids."
— Matt Barnes, E013
"Authentic Relating is the solution, and everything else we do is a stopgap built by adults still dealing with their trauma — our one shared experience of trauma in school."
— Ameet, E013
"A rite of passage can't be the means to an end — it has to be an end in itself. It can't involve any kind of coercion or violence. There has to be consent, a sense of self, community. Rides to passage."
— Sayantan, E012
"There are two groups of children. Children who have never been in school, who could just go. Then children and adults who have been in school — there needs to be a process of healing to be able to access something beautiful and new."
— Selby, E013
"Maybe all this authentic relating I've been doing for 11 years is not just a side path from my purpose, but the core."
— Mihai, E013
Regular Participants
Mihai Banulescu, Selby Beebe-Lawson, Matt Barnes, Matt Marsan, Moona, Ameet, Karema Akilah, Dan Rudolph, Andreea, Sayantan Chowdhury, Megan Mastro, Delaney Bucker, Ellen Whiteside, Mukul S, Lily Root, Steve.
Guest speakers: Manish Jain, Zak Stein, Felicia Chavez, Rob MacLeod, Randy Kritkausky.