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2009 Unschooling Adventure
Conference
Cruise
From Bayonne, NJ |
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Conference Sessions
All Conference Sessions are included in your Cruise Fare
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Meet Presenter -
Dayna Martin
Dayna is also our Conference Organizer
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Dayna Martin is a
passionate Radical Unschooling Advocate who promotes peace
through encouraging kindness and acceptance. Dayna is the proud
mother of Devin 10, Dakota 8, Ivy 4 & Orion 1. She has also been
happily married to Joe for 14 years. The Martin family lives in
the White Mountains of NH.
Dayna is a passionate public speaker and freelance writer. She
and Joe became "Unschooling Celebrities" when they appeared as
the featured guests on the Dr. Phil Show in 2007, sharing the
Joys of Unschooling & respectful, peaceful parenting. Creating
her YouTube video series has been a unique avenue of
advocacy viewed by thousands. |
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Dayna receives emails daily from people all over the World
interested in learning more about Radical Unschooling. Dayna has
been a La Leche League Leader for 8 years and is also a Natural
Birth Educator, Attachment Parenting mentor and Doula. She
founded The Babywearing Project featured in Mothering Magazine.
Dayna's
website is
www.UnschoolingAmerica.com and she can also be
found at her Yahoo Group
www.groups.yahoo.com/group/radicalunschoolingwithLoA/ .
Dayna
also recently founded the non-profit organization Unschooling
United.
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Nurturing Passions and Interests
Presented by Dayna Martin |
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our children means seeing the learning that takes place in all
that they do, not just what society deems "educational". Radical
Unschooling means breaking down the walls and limits associated
with a compartmentalized life which separates learning into
"subjects". True, authentic learning can only come from the
freedom to live a life that our children desire, making choices
that bring them Joy. Dayna shares how to connect with our
children through all of their interests and how to see the
learning that takes place in all that they do. During this
session Dayna will also discuss how beneficial Unschooling is
for not only children, but for parents, by allowing them to heal
from an institutionalized childhood and getting in touch with
who they really are as individuals. Discuss how to relight our
own flames of curiosity by exploring new interests. By parents
being enthusiastic about learning themselves children will see
that learning through life never ends. Learning is Joyful.
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Joyful Partnerships
Presented by Dayna Martin |
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parent comes to understand Radical Unschooling before the other.
This can be a challenging aspect of coming to this life for the
entire family. During this session we will explore how to
respectfully honor where each of you are on your journey to
understand Radical Unschooling. It is important to extend the
same respect we have for our children to learn things in their
own time to our partners when they are learning about this new
philosophy. Our children learn so much from how we treat one
another. Dayna will share how learning to respect, and not
trying to control one another, has helped she and her husband
Joe deepen their love for one another and strengthen their
connection as a family. |
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Meet Presenter -
Melody Park Shin |
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Melody is a blessed
wife of 14 years to Jae, and a mother to three sweet
boys: Gabriel, 11; Mason, 8; and Ryker, 2. Melody
has not always practiced attachment parenting or
unschooling. She lived a very mainstream life,
trusting the doctors and media to have a c-section
and a circumcision! This followed by
vaccinations, antibiotics and daycare at 12 weeks!
Melody is unspeakably grateful for the one
connection she did have, which was through
breastfeeding.
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Fortunately, she started to learn more and more about alternative ways of
living. Melody was able to quit her job, did extended
nursing, and discovered homeschooling as an option. She
stopped vaccinating immediately, never circumcised
again, and two natural births followed. The third one
being a wonderful homebirth in water. Melody is always
striving to learn more and to experience more with her
family. She appreciates the contrast of the beginning of
her motherhood and relishes in the freedom and the joy
her family now lives in. Melody delights in her life
journey, and loves empowering all moms to connect with
their authentic self.
Melody is hosting the sessions:
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Manifesting Your Dreams!
Presented by Melody Park Shin |
If you're aware of the law
of attraction and have
wondered why it's not
working for you, you may
have limiting beliefs
regarding what you desire.
Melody will share simple
visualization techniques to
center your energy with her
Reiki master background. She
will also share the key
ingredient that catapulted
her visions into
manifestation, which is
using EFT (emotional freedom
technique) to release
limiting beliefs. Melody
will go through them so that
you can manifest whatever
you desire, whenever!
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From Waldorf
to Radical Unschooling
Presented by
Melody Park Shin |
| Melody's boys were
happily unschooled, then self-doubt crept in as Waldorf
schooling played out its seduction. Wanting the best for her
family, Melody went through a three year Waldorf teacher
training, founded and ran a lovely Waldorf homeschool program,
even shortly worked at a Waldorf kindergarten, and sent her two
older boys to a Waldorf school. She ended up pulling them out
twice, each time in the Spring. Melody will share her humorous
journey as she fully immersed herself in Waldorf and how she got
out of it. She will share the profound lesson she learned on the
law of attraction (it's not what you think), and how she has
made peace by now having even more appreciation and conviction
for true joy and freedom in unschooling. |
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