Remembering What Education Forgot
“Learning for Life”
THE CHALLENGE
As young people journey through education, their backpacks fill with facts and formulas. But the future awaiting them asks for more. Many are carrying unspoken worries, growing up in divided communities and trying to find their place in an uncertain world. No textbook prepares them for this. Learning for Life begins here.
These resources are offered as a gift, trusting that together we can grow the kind of learning the world is calling for
THE ESSENTIALS
Young people need more than knowledge to thrive, they need foundations for life. To know themselves. To belong with others. To feel their place in the living world. These are not extras, they are essentials. Research across psychology, neuroscience and ancient wisdom all points to the same truth: without them, no education is whole.
THE JOURNEY
Imagine a classroom where learning feels alive. Where a lesson does not begin with facts to remember but with a question that opens space. Who am I becoming? Where do I belong? How am I part of nature? Here, knowledge is not delivered. Wisdom is discovered.
THE PEDAGOGY
Here, students think with their heads, feel with their hearts and act with their hands. They reflect, they question, they try things out together. A lesson feels less like a lecture and more like a campfire conversation. A place to pause, share stories and find meaning. This is learning that prepares you for life.
Every journey starts with a choice. Where will yours begin?
Personal + Social + Earth Journeys
Each journey offers a pack of ready-to-go inquiries. Editable PowerPoints you can shape your way for 15, 30 or 60 minutes across subjects and ages.
Differentiated for learners aged 5-18
450+ editable PowerPoint lessons
Supports OFSTED standards
“Learning for Life resources draw on more than a decade of action research in regenerative education and align with the Triple WellBeing Framework. Young people grow courage to face uncertainty, kindness to walk alongside others and awareness of everyday choices that shape their world. For schools, this means real substance behind a simple promise: education is not only about knowing, it is about becoming.”
Rachel Musson, ThoughtBox Director of Education
The journeys are connected
These are not separate paths. They move together, shape one another and are always in conversation. How a young person understands themselves affects how they relate to others. How they experience belonging shapes how they meet the wider world.
And how they feel connected to life around them feeds back into who they are becoming. Learning for Life is not a linear route. It’s a set of journeys that loop, overlap, and deepen over time. You don’t complete one before starting another. You return to them again and again with new questions, new awareness, and more care.
These resources are a gift: a starting point. For schools that want to embed this kind of learning more deeply, our programmes and courses offer the support, skills and community to make it part of everyday practice.”
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