Inspiration in the field that we at Akahiao love and try to immerse in is vital. Other methods, ideas, and spaces always serve to broaden our own context and inspire how we do what we do and how we might evolve or tweak elements. And so, we too must spread a little and wander to find other organizations both near and far from ‘home’, both to collaborate with and to simply admire and share. This autumn Julie, baby Baz, and I, have all arrived in Japan and one of our first stop

We’ve focused on the concept of restoration – in whatever form it takes – over the course of the last years because it has become obvious that it is the ‘element’ that is so needed and so lacking. That need hasn’t been dictated by ourselves so much as it has been directly infused into our thinking by youth learners who remind us of their needs. Beyond the online classrooms and brick and mortar, there is a great need for spaces (and people) that replenish. So often, that resto