Screening of "Being and Becoming" - Etre et Devenir

Being and Becoming (http://www.etreetdevenir.com/EED.en.html#Accueil) explores the theme of trusting children and their development, and invites us to question our learning paradigms and options.

The filmmaker takes us on a journey of discovery through the US, France, the UK and Germany (where it's illegal not to go to school.) We meet parents who have made the choice of not schooling their children, neither at school nor at home, but of letting them learn freely what they are truly passionate about.

It is a quest for truth about the innate desire to learn. It belongs to a wider theme than education, connected to a change in our belief system and to our society's evolution, as well as to the importance of reclaiming one's life and self-confidence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jGgei8iua4

This documentary has mixed language of French, English and Spanish. It will be

screened with English subtitles wherever necessary.

The "plan":

18:45 - Arrive, meet & greet

(Our host Thoughtworks (https://www.thoughtworks.com) has generously sponsored the drinks for the evening)

19:00 - Hello and introduction

19:10 - Screening "Being and Becoming"

20:45 - Short break

20:55 - Panel discussion (see below!)

21:35 - Networking and mingling - open end

Tickets: On donation, give what you can!

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Panel discussion with:

1. Juri Wolf, supporter and example of the Unschooling and Homeschooling Movement

Juri Wolf has grown up unschooled with his brothers till the age of twelve. While he has finished school and is currently studying UX Design at the Univerity of applied Sciences in Potsdam as well as working as self employed developer, he is still very well introduced into the unschooling comunity in germany. He was part of the »Schulfrei-Festival«-Team and is responsible for the layout of the magazine »Die Freilernerzeitschrift«. If you're interested to read more, you'll find several articles in german newspapers. A few of them are collected here: www.bude.life/presse/

2. Jessica Dzubilla, coach and soon to be founder of www.freiwärts.de

3. Antje Bittner, school teacher and curiosity-driven learning enthusiast

Testimonials:

"Being and becoming is a key that permits exiting a social system built on fear, a key that allows one to look at life differently for and with our children, and for ourselves as well.

This film, in dazzling ways, has brought answers to my own inner child who has become worn out, like everyone else, for having too long sustained her survival without daring her life.

This film, through the liberating testimony of these pioneer families of "becoming self", is a hymn to internal necessity."

Isabelle Adjani

"It strikes a blow to the ideas that everyone, or almost everyone, has about learning and education !

Absolutely a must-see for teachers and for parents, except for those who don't want to be challenged or disturbed. Not for those who don't want to question."

Bernard Collot, a State School teacher

We look forward to hosting you and making meaningful connections

Thank you

Narmada for SHYFT (http://www.shyft.org)Hamburg

(SHYFT is bringing people together and facilitating CHANGE through inspiring, meaningful and paradigm shyfting films and documentaries alongside local changemakers that shyft you and your world - http://www.shyft.org )