Artemis Bear

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT ARTEMIS BEAR

I\'m a start up founder, movement builder, community organiser, facilitator, project manager and culture change strategist, with over a decade’s experience working in communities, grassroots networks, and co-operative projects. My work sits at the intersection of education, systemic change, and justice; always centred on relationship, playfulness and care.Having started my career working in climate / behaviour change policy, I realised how our systems of governance and our wider culture was a barrier to the serious change required to address the era of polyconsequence. The majority of my work in the two decades since has been focussed on metarelational learning for regenerative futures. Practically, this means co-creating the conditions for serious culture change, through deep deschooling and decolonising in community, as well as queering ideas of relationality, as entangled liberatory practice. I founded The Garden, a self-directed learning community, in 2016, as a metarelational inquiry and praxis (from a then relatively colonised perspective) to see if it was possible to create the conditions for a less hierachical and competitive culture, in order to produce new systems of governance. It has also been a much needed community both for families who hold a deep commitment to deschooling and decolonising, as well as for families who have had difficult experiences with the school system. I now work with and for a wide range of entities to shift from a reductionist, hierarchical, transactional and competitive to a systems thinking/being, collaborative, reciprocal and relational way of operating. I\'m also personally experimenting with ways to decouple work and finance, in order to live more reciprocally than transactionally. If you would have the capacity and inclination to support my work in this way you can do so here: https://liberapay.com/ArtemisBear