Education Guild 25-26

Hello! We are the Education Guild, a group of three interdependent bodies which are at the same time part of a larger institutionalised collective (Les Mòniques, from the Santa Mònica), formed by other groups (the guilds), which relate to each other in a diverse, tentacle-like and self-organised way, through different dynamics that take on a sense of unity over time thanks to listening, caring and reflective review.

This year, we are working on the intersections between art and education to encourage the creation of diverse teaching methodologies, seeking a critical and experimental approach to education. Specifically, we are investigating the relationship between methodologies derived from somatic theories and therapeutic practices, as well as everything related to the notion of educational needs and the pedagogical unconscious. We understand this unconscious as a tactic to investigate invisible educational processes, which are not named, but are present, and also as a tool to point out that within educational programmes there are parts of the curricula that work in the background, shaping the institutions and the people who work there.

With this approach, we explore the practices of therapists such as Deb Dana and Brigitte Hansmann, combining notions of polyvagal theory, somatic pattern recognition and archetypal pattern analysis, with some tools from the anthropology of education. At the same time, we are involved in cross-union dynamics, such as the organisation of the Les Mòniques for Palestine assembly, which promotes actions of solidarity with the resistance of the Palestinian people and, from within a Western cultural institution, explores strategies to denounce the genocide and colonialism perpetrated by Israel.

Anita García, Juani Ávila Rodríguez and Roc Domingo Puig