PERMIE KIDS LLC.
FALLS CHURCH, VA

The PERMIE KIDs "Inspiration Grows" 26 page e-book (PDF) showcases the framework that can help you use interconnected ethical edges, natural thinking tools, community virtues… Learn personalized educational design techniques and tools to help children observe, explore, ask questions, pursue passions, learn naturally, and connect with family, community, and nature. Together with our children, we co-design a permanence of culture that honors and values not just natural resources, but also natural relationships. The only ethical solution is to take responsibility for ourselves, families, communities, and the earth by helping children learn how to integrate such values into their life’s passions to become solutions-based thinkers who can solve the problems of tomorrow. Taking responsibility in learning and life begins within and spirals out to the world around us. It means valuing each individual, recognizing intrinsic worth, and trusting that we each can find and forge our own path, in our own time, and in our own way. Sometimes it takes a “whole child” to raise a village. We believe education is about the intentional cultivation of culture based on the ethical principles of connection, love, empathy and transcendence. To this end, our mission is to help you remember what you know, but may have forgotten – the art and wisdom of designing beautiful relationships that nourish life and honor the inherent worth, dignity and curiosities of our young people in the context of nature and supportive community. PERMIE KIDs is a Community Supported Education (CSE) network of families, children and youth educators and community organizations. We feel education is our greatest resource to intentionally create culture that honors the inherent worth, dignity and curiosities of our young people in the context of nature and supportive community. If you want to learn to design and facilitate education with children and youth that supports both their free and responsible search for truth and meaning and a deep loving connection with themselves, others and Earth, we will help you learn the art, science and wisdom to work with our young people to co-create a more just, compassionate and beautiful world for all. is dedicated to helping our children come to know their essential “life story.” The unfolding of our children’s life stories is the conscious creation of life. It is a process, not a destination, that connects our children to the past, transforms the future and enables balance in the convergence of science and spirit in their learning and life landscapes. Our children have a keen longing to have their authentic self, voice, talents and passions honored and valued while at the same time being connected to others, community, ancestors and the natural world. In the early and primary years, we work closely with families to help the parents learn the art, science and wisdom of mentoring our children on their unique journeys in learning and life. The Swedish word for business is närings – liv. It means . In English the word business means “to be busy” – “a state of being much occupied or engaged”, or “what one is about at the moment,” (comes from What are we about in every moment we are in the “business” of education and child development? Yes, business. What has happened over the past 100 years is a burgeoning of business (busy-ness) in education and youth development which some have termed the “child industrial complex”… a far cry from the idea of business as “nourishing life.” Just as we map out and design the physical landscape like our garden or backyard, we can help our children to apply this same methodology to map, design, and explore their learning landscapes. Parents and educators learn to use whole systems The PERMIE KIDs "Inspiration Grows" 26 page e-book (PDF) showcases the framework that can help you use interconnected ethical edges, natural thinking tools, community virtues… Learn personalized educational design techniques and tools to help children observe, explore, ask questions, pursue passions, learn naturally, and connect with family, community, and nature. Together with our children, we co-design a permanence of culture that honors and values not just natural resources, but also natural relationships. The only ethical solution is to take responsibility for ourselves, families, communities, and the earth by helping children learn how to integrate such values into their life’s passions to become solutions-based thinkers who can solve the problems of tomorrow. Taking responsibility in learning and life begins within and spirals out to the world around us. It means valuing each individual, recognizing intrinsic worth, and trusting that we each can find and forge our own path, in our own time, and in our own way. Help Inspiration Grow… and GROW YOUR COMMUNITY Want to help inspiration grow and grow your community at the same time? We are looking for contributing writers for the news blog, facilitators for Edge Alliances, audio recordings for podcasts, reviews and resources to share, and photos, songs and stories from artists and musicians that can help us learn to love and live in deep connection with ourselves, others, Nature and all our relations.