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The New Schoolhouse

Brooke Lawler
October 15, 2025

Bēhere unveils “The New Schoolhouse” — a campus-and-app model that re-roots education in nature, family, and privacy. Discover how a Santa Barbara County campus and the Bēhere Rhythm App (with Nillion’s Privacy AI) create a living ecosystem for learning.

Rebuilding education from the ground up — with family at the center.

When people ask what kind of “school” Bēhere is, I usually smile.
We’re not building a school.
We’re building a new foundation for living and learning — a home for families who believe education begins with life itself.

The schoolhouse of the past was built to contain.
Rows of desks. Bells that ring. Walls that separate “school” from “world.”
The schoolhouse of the future will be built to connect — to nature, to family, to truth.

From Institution to Ecosystem

Our vision is not to reform education, but to re-root it — to take learning out of the industrial complex and plant it back in living soil.

At Bēhere, the schoolhouse is wherever life is happening:

  • under oak trees,
  • beside rivers,
  • in gardens,
  • around tables where ideas and meals are shared.

Each space becomes a living ecosystem — designed not to standardize, but to awaken.

This is what we’re building next:
a Bēhere Campus where children and parents learn side by side,
where technology supports connection instead of replacing it,
where community replaces curriculum,
and where families remember how to learn together again.

The Design of the Future

The Bēhere Campus is more than a place — it’s a prototype for a new pattern of life.

We’re working to bring this vision to land in Santa Barbara County, beginning with Najoqui Farms — a historic, fertile property where agriculture, community, and consciousness can coexist.

Imagine:

  • A main schoolhouse that doubles as a coworking space for parents and educators.
  • Outdoor classrooms, gardens, and studios powered by regenerative design.
  • Seasonal programs that follow moon cycles, not semesters.
  • Children’s art studios linked to the digital Bēhere Rhythm App, where creative work can live privately, permanently, and beautifully.
  • And, through Nillion’s Privacy AI, each family’s reflections, goals, and growth data remain fully encrypted — owned by the family, not the cloud.

This is not a dream. It’s the natural next step.

Why We’re Building It

The system we grew up in is collapsing under its own weight — test scores falling, teachers leaving, children burning out before adolescence.
But the real crisis isn’t academic. It’s spiritual.

We’ve forgotten that education was once sacred.
That to educate — from the Latin educare — means “to draw out.”
Not to pour in facts, but to awaken the divine spark already present in every child.

Bēhere exists to draw that spark out again.

The New Schoolhouse isn’t a retreat from the world.
It’s a model for how we rebuild it — one community at a time.

Technology That Protects

In the Bēhere system, privacy is built into the architecture.
Every reflection, log, or AI conversation that families have in the Bēhere Rhythm App is protected by Nillion’s Privacy AI layer.
Families can learn, create, and grow with the support of AI — without being surveilled.

The app and the land mirror each other:

  • The app is the digital schoolhouse, a sanctuary for reflection and rhythm.
  • The campus is the living schoolhouse, a sanctuary for play and purpose.

Together they form a circle — one rhythm, both physical and digital.

A Home for the Future of Learning

We’re not waiting for permission to build this.
We’re raising it together — family by family, partner by partner, one brick of faith at a time.

The Bēhere Campus will be a living model:

  • part outdoor school,
  • part family coworking hub,
  • part regenerative farm,
  • part private digital DAO for educational sovereignty.

It’s where we’ll teach the next generation what it means to be free — not just in thought, but in economy, in technology, and in time.

The New Schoolhouse will not look like the old one.
It will look like life.

Join the Build

In the months ahead, we’ll invite founding families and aligned partners to join this vision — through contribution, co-design, and presence.

What we build together here won’t just change education.
It will change how communities organize themselves for generations to come.

If you’ve ever felt called to be part of the new foundation —
if you’ve ever imagined a school where truth, privacy, and joy coexist —
then you already belong.

Welcome to The New Schoolhouse.
Welcome to Bēhere.

Article by
Brooke Lawler

Brooke Lawler is the educational force behind Bēhere, where learning is reimagined as an adventure rooted in presence, creativity, and connection. Her philosophy could be summed up this way: Imagine if Rudolf Steiner and Charlotte Mason had a child, and that child wandered daily into the woods to play and muse with John Muir and Steve Jobs. That is the Bēhere Way — a living, breathing approach to education that blends wonder, wisdom, and innovation.

Before cofounding Bēhere, Brooke spent 13 years leading strategy, branding, and multi-layered campaigns in the advertising world. She helped iconic companies — including Disney, Apple, Sony Pictures, and Softbank Robotics — find their voice and reach audiences in meaningful ways. Yet her favorite projects were always with small businesses and startups, where passion and soul drive the work.

Three years ago, Brooke transitioned from the corporate track into independent entrepreneurship. As cofounder and now CEO of Bēhere, she brings the same spirit of creativity and brand vision into the world of family enrichment and education. She weaves entrepreneurial thinking, leadership, and soft skills into every workshop, helping families and children cultivate independence, curiosity, and confidence.

For Brooke, Bēhere is more than a business — it’s a movement toward freedom in learning and living.

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