Ancestral Alchemy Academy is a changemaker-maker
offerings
Ancestral Alchemy Academy delivers customized learning experiences, aka offerings, to district schools, independent schools, home schools, micro schools and youth-service providing organizations.
Masters of Mindfulness
Socio-Emotional Literacy and
the Mysteries of Mindfulness
Research shows that children who practice mindfulness everyday strengthen their brain power and their will power, and enhance their overall life condition and sense of well being. Are you wondering how to support your young one(s) with integrating this healthy practice into their daily lives?
AAA's Master of Mindfulness curricular offering equips our children with the tools to both autonomously practice mindfulness, and to also build wise foundations of emotional intelligence mastery as a motive for transforming their lives.
The DREAM
Liberation School
Divergent Remembering of Education And Montessori
Dr. Maria Montessori was a revolutionary. Her first students were institutionalized children and the rebel youth of Italy's barrios.
The DREAM Liberation School remembers the revolutionary roots of Montessori education by using the Montessori Method as a vehicle for change. Via both innovative and classic Montessori math, language and cultural materials, The DREAM dreams into being new possibilities for accessibility to Montessori's approach and philosophy.
Forest Fridays
Youth Freedom Mystery School held under the redwoods of Ohlone Land
Forest Fridays, our end-of-week forest school offerings, invite children into the living classroom of the Redwoods of Ohlone Land. Through Forest Friday’s storytelling, adventurous clue-finding, mystery-school teachings and play, youth learn practices for growing their leadership strengths., their mindfulness muscles, their sense of camaraderie, & their capacities to persevere.
"We Show Challenges Who's the Boss!"
Growth Mindset and
Confidence Cultivation Curriculum
"Can't" is not a word used by our innovators! We Show Challenges Who's the Boss growth mindset and confidence cultivation curriculum supports our children in developing perseverance stamina, excellent esteem, and invincible conviction as they learn to walk their path of purpose.
Our confidence cultivation curriculum empowers our children to maintain determined, visionary, reflective, collaborative, courageous attitudes when it comes to approaching and embracing challenge.
The 5 Great Lessons
A Foundational Framework for Cosmic Education
The DREAM Liberation School is making Montessori mobile, and The 5 Great Lessons are amongst the first of The DREAM's offerings. Considered by Montessorians as the foundation of all learning in the elementary environment, The 5 Great Lessons strike the imagination of the child and provide a framework for illustrating to young ones micro and macro cosmic becomings.
The 5 Great Lessons:
The Coming of the Universe
The Coming of Life
The Coming of Humanity
The Coming of Language
The Coming of Numbers
Indigo Child
Mystery School
Invisible Energy Science for Children
Who See the Truth in Everything
Mystery Schools are ancient. While modern education seeks to funnel our children into a machine in order to further energize the norms of the status quo, the Indigo Child Mystery School holds space for our youth to strengthen their indigo-awareness, to see the truth in everything, to polish their capacities for discerning truth from illusion, and to explore the invisible sciences of the non-material, Ancestral world.
Griot's Sagas
Enchantress Storytelling and Read-a-louds
Griot’s Sagas carries the fire of the first storytellers, passing ancestral wisdom into the hands of the rising generations. Youth will learn the full craft of story creation - developing characters, building settings, shaping obstacles, and crafting meaningful endings rooted in The Hero’s Storytelling Journey. This offering strengthens essential literacy skills, supporting youth in expressing their ideas with clarity, structure, and creativity, while cultivating a lasting confidence in their voice and storytelling power.
Audio Arts
Where young griots craft songs of healing and harmony, recording their voices as heroes of our time.
Calling all musicians! Little Hill Heroes Audio Arts is a stellar music enrichment offering where youth are invited to step into their power as modern-day griots! During the upcoming Winter Break program, youth will explore the history of songs as medicine, practice mindfulness as part of their creative process, and learn to weave stories of peace, nature, and resilience into original compositions. With support from a Grammy Award winning engineer at Revival Studios in El Cerrito (Little Hill), CA, each young hero's final tracks will be featured on radio/podcast platforms with the opportunity to perform live in front of thousands in January at the 2026 MLK Day March! Through music and story, our youth rise as guardians of the earth, voices for peace, and creators of harmony in community.
Peace & Upstanding
A Radically Healing Response to Bully Behavior
Many people know about the various pollutants (air, water, soil, noise, light and plastics) that are impacting our environment, but what about the social toxicities that are enmeshed in how we think, feel, and dream?
Bully Behavior Exposure Alert curriculum supports our children in developing a sophisticated understanding of the micro and macrocosmic implications of toxic behaviors. This unit also shows our children how to become Active Upstanders in the face of corruption, how to keep ourselves safe, and how to radically heal with *CARMA* in order to create lasting individual, interpersonal & institutional change.
*CARMA*
(Culture, Agency, Relationships, Meaning, & Aspirations)
Peace Begins
with You
Parent Dialogues, Retreats and Workshops
Peace Begins with You parent dialogues, retreats and workshops create opportunity for parents and caregivers to immerse in Ancestral Alchemy Academy's youth - learning experiences, and are delivered in accompaniment of each of our curricula offerings.
Legacy Lupine Playdates
Lupine Class Youth Gatherings
for Lupine Scholars 2016 ~ 2019
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Ancestral Alchemy Academy Home Campus
Xučyun, Huichin, Ohlone Territory
El Cerrito, Ca 94530
