Aaron Eden’s mission is to re-humanize how we work, learn, live, and lead. Aaron is Executive Director at the Institute for Applied Tinkering, the parent organization of Brightworks which is consistently listed as one of the most innovative schools in the world. He is also a founding partner at Eliad Group, a transformation design firm, where he works with schools and businesses around the world to shift from command-and-control to co-creation as the basis for purposeful, innovative endeavor.

He helps start new schools that are trying to re-humanize education, and help existing ones transform to new paradigms of learning. He also coaches parents and learning facilitators that are working to support Self-Directed Education in non-formal learning environments.

Key Takeaways:

1:30 Parents - Reconnect with your Why

10:00 Aaron talks about Adult Power

28:00 Advice to Frustrated Parents

32:40 Two Things to Look for in a School

41:30 Entrepreneurial Enterprise Program

45:05 How do you help students without forcing yourself to be in the process?

52:00 Screen Time, COVID and meeting Learners’ Social Needs Health

1:05:02 How do you see College for your kids?

Quotes:

"I believe every human being should be allowed to do whatever it is they're choosing to do as long as it's not hurting somebody else or them in the very short term."

"The most important thing is that we are consistent in our relating with our kids."

"I would say the underlying philosophy of all of the work that I do, whether it's in corporate spaces and like high-performance teams and all of that, or kindergarten or graduate school, it's all the same, which is that when we shift from a language of blame and judgment to a language of need and appreciation, we all get more of what we want."

"What I think is the beauty of all of this is that the recipe is the same for every challenge, which is to be honest about why we care."

"Every kid, every human can choose, how they want to do things and enrich their life."

Social Links:

Aaron Eden

LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronmeden/

Twitter- https://twitter.com/edunautics

Blog- https://edunautics.com/

Talks

Education Reimagined - Accelerating Innovation: Education Disrupted, Education Reimagined online conference, WISE and Salzburg Global Seminar

Re-Humanizing Education: Keynote, Inspiration Fest, Goa, 2018

HOMEBOUND PARENTING - Tools for Thriving (Video Playlist)

RE-THINKING ADULTING / Self-Directed Education Short Topics (Video Playlist)

Interviews

Re-Humanizing Education - Off Trail Learning podcast with Blake Boles [audio]

Educators Who Inspire Spotlight Series [video]