Earthlings Learn Things
Professional learning sessions
Support for educators who want practical ways to bring nature, movement, curiosity, and real-world learning into the spaces they already lead.
Homeschooling can feel lighter, slower, and more human than you might have been told.
How Earthlings began
I always wanted to be a teacher. As a kid I lined up my soft toys and taught them lessons in my mum's oversized black boots. After high school I trained as a nurse — two years in, I realised where my energy actually was, and switched to Primary Education.
While I studied, I worked as a nanny and homeschool educator, and that job changed how I saw education. The curriculum didn't need four walls — it could happen in the garden, on a walk, in the kitchen — with kids leading a lot of it themselves and building skills that stick because they actually mean something to them.
The biggest lesson wasn't how to teach children. It was realising children can teach us too. Homeschooling turned out to be something a family does together — curiosity moving in both directions, not just adult to child.
Earthlings grew out of that: 1:1 support, NSW planning guidance, and nature-based workshops for Sydney families who want calm next steps, not more overwhelm. There's also a second strand of this work — helping educators and community leaders hold the same kind of real-world, relational learning spaces. That offer lives under Train the Trainer.
For educators
Train the Trainer
Parent support is the heart of Earthlings. Train the Trainer is the educator-facing strand for schools, facilitators, community leaders, and parent groups who want help translating these values into the way they teach.
The goal is not to turn Earthlings into a generic professional development brand. It is to help other adults learn how to hold calmer, more real-world, more relational learning spaces.
Workshop design support
Help shaping programs, talks, or community learning experiences so they feel human, grounded, and genuinely useful for the people in the room.
Parent-community talks
Conversations for schools and community groups that help parents understand how real-life learning, rhythm, and confidence can work at home.
What Earthlings believes
- Learning is living — a coastal walk, a recipe, a story under a gum tree can all be part of the curriculum
- Parents do not need to prove themselves by recreating school at home
- Seasons guide us — we learn differently in each one
- Curiosity and connection matter more than pressure and performance
- The opportunity to learn with your kids only comes once in a lifetime
- When we do support educators, it should still feel relational, local, and deeply human