Rachel Musson - FOUNDER & DIRECTOR OF LEARNING
After thirteen years as a Secondary English teacher, Rachel left the formal profession to spend time exploring and researching regenerative education in schools, living and working across the global North and South, engaging in a wide range of action-research in schools alongside self-directed study. Alongside her university degrees, she has an accreditation in Eco-Psychology, a Fellowship from the RSA and is a Fellow of The Bioleadership Programme.
Rachel founded ThoughtBox Education – a social enterprise – in 2015, to support schools with learning programmes to enable the knowledge, skills and practices needed to create and sustain a thriving world. Rachel is currently hosting professional development and delivering keynote speeches on Triple WellBeing and transformative education at international conferences and working alongside global industry leaders and education leads on systems-change in education.
When not working, Rachel can usually be found wandering on Dartmoor, swimming in the sea, meandering up a mountain or outside having adventures somewhere.
Learn more: rachelmusson79.com
Contact Rachel: rachel@thoughtboxeducation.com
SHORT VIDEOS Transforming education together
PODCASTS Transforming education together
Accidental Gods Podcast
Suppose we all learned three things at school: empathy, critical thinking and systems thinking… imagine how different the world would be…
Listen to how ThoughtBox is helping to make this a reality.
Flourishing Education Podcast
What does it mean to cultivate your inner salmon? How can education enable and allow our innate selves to flourish? What does it mean to be our authentic selves - both inside and outside of the classroom?
Coconut Thinking Podcast
What would happen if daydreaming was part of the National Curriculum? What role does education play in supporting learners to care for and thrive in the world we are co-creating? How can we all dare to care?
10,000 Swamp Leaders Podcast
The work of reimagining education is complex and messy. Rachel and her team practice at ThoughtBox practice Active Patience to keep it all moving. Maybe we could all benefit from some active patience….
BLOGPOSTS Transforming education together
The anti-wellbeing blog. It’s not what you think!
Why we can’t just teach climate change
