a network of folkschools

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LIFE.SCHOOL.HOUSE. IS BUILDING NON-TRADITIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITies THAT CELEBRATE LOCAL WISDOM, BUILD CONNECTIONS IN COMMUNITY, AND REINFORCE THE SOCIAL VALUE OF BARTER AND EXCHANGE.

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Reminder: LifeSchoolHouse AGM 🗓

Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Join us for our Annual General Meeting to reflect on the past year, share updates, and connect with the LifeSchoolHouse community.

Sign up here: https://

We’re looking for 2–3 new board members to join LifeSchoolHouse 🌱

LifeSchoolHouse is a community-rooted, non-profit cooperative that creates spaces for learning, sharing, and connection—through workshops, gatherings, and collabora

Community Soup & Share for Neighbourhood Climate Action 🍲🌿

LifeSchoolHouse is partnering with the Ecology Action Centre to host not one but TWO Community Soup & Share events for Neighbourhood Climate Action.

Upcoming Soup & Share even

🌱 Join us for an online Host Welcome Chat

Spring is the perfect time to pour your energy into something new—something that brings connection, purpose, and a sense of aliveness.

If you’ve been curious about LifeSchoolHouse, wondering wh

For those holding space—

Hosting is more than inviting.
It’s noticing, modeling, guiding, and quietly shaping culture.
It’s balancing care with letting people take the lead.
It’s the art of the unspoken, the gentle signals, t

For the ones in between—
in between services, communities, or connections.

Not in the middle of everything,
but not far from it either.

Close enough to see what’s possible.
Far enough to have to build it yourself.

We see you.

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Learning happens in community, around a kitchen table 🏡

Some of the most powerful learning happens in third spaces. Spaces where people feel safe, curious, and free to try things hands-on. ✨

At LifeSchoolHouse, this is in our volunteer Hosts' ho

🌈 Sometimes a simple request for help can turn into a new friendship.

We were taught to be independent 💪, to avoid taking risks ❤️&zwj;🩹. But sometimes, asking a neighbour for help opens the door to a relationship that grows from that small act.