Living to Learn: transforming education with Rachel Musson of ThoughtBox

How can we make learning a genuinely transformational experience? One that's fun, and inspiring and that teaches us HOW to think, not WHAT to think? Rachel Musson had given her life to asking this question and ThoughtBox is her answer.

Suppose we all learned three things at school: empathy, critical thinking and systems thinking... imagine how different the world would be. Suppose we learned how to think clearly, how to communicate, how to understand our own feelings and express them without feeling the need to trash other people just because we were hurt, or angry.

Rachel Musson, founder and educational director of ThoughtBox, a radical, new co-learning programme speaks of her journey to create the system, and how it's working - in over a thousand schools and fifty four nations across the world. Rachel believes in co-learning: no more lesson plans, but a classroom of peers who take the core of a topic and build on it together. The result is a flexible learning environment where everyone thrives, where each individual is given space and encouragement to grow to be the best of themselves.
Imagine a world where this is possible. Where it is happening. Where it is growing...

About Rachel

Rachel Musson is a teacher, trainer, writer and thought-leader on

sustainable education and wellbeing in schools.

Working for 13 years as a Secondary English teacher, Rachel has taught

students and trained teachers in schools across the world including the UK,

Ireland, Australia, Nepal and Tanzania. She is the Founding Director of

ThoughtBox Education – a social enterprise fostering triple wellbeing by

helping young people deepen relationships with themselves, society and the

natural world. She is the pioneer behind Changing Climates: a free climate

change curriculum currently being used in 1500+ schools across 56 countries.

Rachel is currently working with industry leaders on education reform policy

and standing as an international thought-leader on climate-change education

and triple-wellbeing in schools.

ThoughtBox: https://www.thoughtboxeducation.com
ThoughtBox Community Network: www.thoughtboxeducation.com/community
New free membership for global educators: https://www.thoughtboxeducation.com/teaching-for-a-better-world
Freedom to Think: Blog on the new anti-capitalist ban in UK schools: https://www.thoughtboxeducation.com/blog/freedom-to-think