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For individuals and families who want to craft resilient relationships with earth and each other

Join the L✧E✧R✧N Village

Life ✧ Ecology ✧ Resiliency ✧ Now

a farm based 4 day School alternative for Sensitive middle and high schoolers

Talent, OR

Ages 11-18

There's a secret third option between school-as-usual and stepping away entirely.

L.E.R.N. is a 4 day farm based alternative school program for youth built by two mentors — Sunny Lindley and Aaron Boyd — for sensitive young people ready to respond from a deeper knowing, belong to a place of their own, and start having an impact now.

Now as a discipline: learning to respond to what's real — in this body, this season, this room, today. It means meeting what's actually here, not what we wish were here, or fear might come. LERN is practicing skills that are useful today and for the future.

Now as imagination: it’s going to take immense creativity to grow the world that is possible. LERN is engaging imagination to grow and make art with natural dyes, build farm technologies and shelters that build the neuropathways for a generative tomorrow.

Now as expanded perception: the recovery of sensory awareness that high control schooling and high tech often trains out of young people. LERN is inviting the whole nervous system to come online improving capacity to create unique and meaningful lifeways.

Life, Ecology, and Resiliency are what we're building toward. Now is how we get there

The days are long; the years are short…

The time is now to slow down and create

a deliberate life


One of the things I found out early on as a single mother and earth-centric artist was that if I followed the path of success I was told to want, I’d never enjoy the vision I had for my life, I’d miss my kid's’ precious childhoods… and I’d be too stressed to relish this incredible, mysterious existence that IS life!

I discovered a self-determination in me to live life on my own terms, and I decided to nurture it. I’ve come to believe we all have this deep reservoir of power within…

You get to decide who you are and defy convention to create a life that feels soulful, rich and nourishing to you.

I knew that I was up against a stark cultural narrative… a single mother of three, no college degree, widowed.

I couldn’t bear to let these three facts limit me or supersede everything else I knew to be true about myself.

Shifts began when I started living in alignment with my dream life as much as I could, making choices from potential instead of limitation.. This kind of mindfulness was not a privilege that came easily, but it’s been essential for cultivating self-determination amidst so many outer challenges.

Now, my passion is helping you to do the same. I’m right here with you, still making mistakes, still facing challenges and definitely still healing. So I don’t have all the answers. But I can help you make some powerful decisions and guide you to embracing strengths you didn’t know you had.

The power to decide lives within all of us. As soon as you decide to live a deliberate, self-determined life, honoring your needs and values, you will feel things lighten and change, opening up a new world of possibilities…

This goes for youth, families and communities as much as for individuals. Explore my Family Crest :Program, Read My Full Story & Find recent posts & events below.

I’ll be seeing you out and about in this wild world.
Love,

~Sunny

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