Revolutionary Love for Young Children:

Building Cultures of Belonging

“Love is a form of sweet labor: fierce, bloody, imperfect, and lifegiving—a choice we make over and over again. Love can be taught, modeled, and practiced.”

- Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger

An Eight-Week Course for Educators

February 3 -March 28, 2025

  • Building Cultures of Belonging

    In education, we often speak about instilling a love of learning in children, but what about our responsibility to help children and ourselves develop a love of loving? A well-lived life is undoubtedly full of learning; the questions and demands of love that are central to the human experience require equal tending to grow. Preparing children to live well is preparing them to love well. It’s giving children concrete tools to respond to beauty, complexity, and challenges through an ethic of love. Despite this, it’s relatively rare to hear adults speak explicitly or offer children methods for loving well.

    Revolutionary Love is an orientation, a commitment, a way of moving in the world that offers a definition of love that matches the depth of children’s lives. Revolutionary Love is defined as the choice to labor for others, for our opponents, and for ourselves in order to transform the world around us. It is not a formal code or prescription but a set of practices that offer an orientation to life that is personal, educational, political, and sustained by joy. Developed by Valarie Kaur, visionary civil rights leader, lawyer, and educator, in her bestselling book See No Stranger, it has been adapted for children by pedagogista Nicole Marie, who will lead this course. 

    The course will focus on the eleven core practices of Revolutionary love and how they apply to children and adults in educational settings. We will ground the work in educational theories of moral development and meaning-making while learning practical techniques for embodying and reflecting on Revolutionary Love. 

  • A Guided Experience

    In this 8 week course, you will receive: 

    - A coherent framework for love with concrete practices for children and adults that orient toward justice, dignity, and transformation. 

    - Practical skills and tools for love that you can offer children and use in your classroom. 

    - A dive into educational theory on how we make meaning and develop ethically.

    - The nearly two-hundred-page Educator’s Guide to Revolutionary Love.

    - Spaces to reflect in community on Revolutionary Love.

    - Opportunities to dialogue with The Revolutionary Love Project’s Founder, Valarie Kaur, and pedagogista, Nicole Marie.

    - Access to The Studio for Playful Inquiry Through Lines and Guide Lines.

    - Continued access to content through August 1, 2025.

  • Learning With And From Each Other

    Here’s what past participants are saying:

    “Revolutionary love is a framework that I work with consistently now. I don't think I will ever work without it. I've always supported social-emotional and moral development in children, and this framework has elevated these areas of children's development. Having a more powerful vocabulary provides a more interesting way to communicate with children about our challenges and emotions. It's changed me. It's part of what and how I teach now. “

    - Iwonka Dzaig, Early Childhood Educator

    “Previously, I would add social-emotional work to the curriculum or daily schedule as time allowed, but now I see that the Revolutionary Love curriculum is a powerful platform to build impactful educators from the heart. This child-centered approach to meaningful education will set a positive course for change and social justice.“ 

    -Anonymous

    “In our country, caregivers do not get seen and heard, which can be very isolating. When I share this curriculum or quotes from Valarie, caregivers say, ‘Thank you so much for doing this and talking about these things.’ People feel seen and identify with the practices in a loving and inclusive way, and it resonates with them.”

    -Karen Greensmith, Parent and Early Childhood Educator

Our commitment to making this experience available to all educators - regardless of financial backing - leads us to offer this course at different rates.

Supported - US $250 (For those who would like to pay a little more to offset the costs of another)

Base - US $190 (Reflecting the costs of providing this service)

Discounted - US $125 (For those with more restricted budgets)

If finances are restricted beyond that discounted rate, please send us an email letting us know what you are able to pay for this offering and we’ll do our best to meet your budget.

To establish payment for a group, to pay by check or bank transfer, or if you have other questions, contact us here.

The images on this page are excerpts from Valarie Kaur’s latest work, WORLD OF WONDER, a lyrical, rhyming picture book about a young child who learns to navigate the world with a sense of wonder, by activist and award-winning documentarian Valarie Kaur. Illustrations are by Cynthia Alonso, an award-winning illustrator, picture book author, and graphic designer from Buenos Aires, Argentina.