Thank you for this priceless information, regardless of how late in the game it is for me.
Though I never heard/read the term “counterwill”, I think it is at the foundation of Radical Unschooling, as taught by Sandra Dodd. This is the educational philosophy I learned after finally taking my son--then in the early days of 7th grade, now in his 20s--out of school. I had tremendous luck with it.
It was an unschooling dad/friend who lifted the concept of "counterwill" out of Neufeld's work for me. Then I became obsessed with it. It makes sense to see it as the foundation for unschooling which is about trust and freedom where compulsory schooling is about conditioning conformity and dependence (triggering counterwill.) The trust is so incredibly important, I believe, for unschooling to work--and this is the hardest for so many parents. It's really difficult to overcome the societal expectations.
Thank you for this priceless information, regardless of how late in the game it is for me.
Though I never heard/read the term “counterwill”, I think it is at the foundation of Radical Unschooling, as taught by Sandra Dodd. This is the educational philosophy I learned after finally taking my son--then in the early days of 7th grade, now in his 20s--out of school. I had tremendous luck with it.
It was an unschooling dad/friend who lifted the concept of "counterwill" out of Neufeld's work for me. Then I became obsessed with it. It makes sense to see it as the foundation for unschooling which is about trust and freedom where compulsory schooling is about conditioning conformity and dependence (triggering counterwill.) The trust is so incredibly important, I believe, for unschooling to work--and this is the hardest for so many parents. It's really difficult to overcome the societal expectations.