EU405: A Field Guide: Choosing Unschooling

EU405: A Field Guide: Choosing Unschooling

From Exploring Unschooling by Pam Laricchia

March 26, 2026 · 48 min

About this episode

In this episode, Pam Laricchia discusses the initial phase of the unschooling journey, focusing on the decision to choose unschooling as a lifestyle.

Welcome to a new series on the podcast that we’re calling A Field Guide , in which we’re working our way through Pam’s book, The Unschooling Journey: A Field Guide . We’re using the chapters of the book as monthly themes in the Living Joyfully Network, which is bringing everything top of mind for us, and got us excited to share our thoughts here on the podcast as well. The book, framed around the hero’s journey, is a weave of myths, contemporary stories, and tales from Pam’s unschooling journey. The monomyth of the hero describes an individual who somehow stumbles upon clues to a truth that lies outside of conventional belief, and begins a quest—physical, spiritual, or both—to understand and eventually embody that truth as their new way of life. Sound familiar? Unschooling unquestionably lies beyond today’s conventional wisdom around learning, parenting, and childhood. And through our journey to understand unschooling, we will learn and grow and change as we come to embrace this new lifestyle. It’s an inner, or spiritual, journey and, by the end, we will see our ordinary world in a new and extraordinary way. And while no two journeys are the same, there…

People in this episode

Host: Pam Laricchia

Topics covered

  • unschooling
  • parenting
  • education
  • hero's journey
  • personal growth

Keywords

  • unschooling
  • parenting
  • education
  • hero's journey
  • learning
  • childhood
  • personal growth

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Books & works: The Unschooling Journey: A Field Guide

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