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2010 Unschooling Freedom
Conference
Cruise
From Galveston, Texas |
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Staff / Conference Presenters
The following Alumni Cruises Staff members will accompany you on your cruise.
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Dayna Martin
Conference Organizer / Presenter |
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Dayna Martin is a speaker and writer who promotes freedom
and peace through loving kindness and acceptance. Dayna is
wife to Joe and proud mother of Devin 10, Dakota 7, Ivy 4 &
Orion 1. The Martin family lives in the White Mountains of
NH and enjoy travelling the country in their RV.
Dayna is a passionate Radical Unschooling advocate who
enjoys speaking about her Joyful life with her family and
inspiring others on their path. Dayna and Joe appeared as
the featured guests on the Dr. Phil Show in 2007. Her family
also appeared on Fox News Live in Sept. 2008 promoting
Radical Unschooling in a segment with John Taylor Gatto.
Dayna also created a
YouTube video series about
Unschooling and Peaceful Parenting.
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Dayna has been a La Leche League Leader for 9 years and is
also a Natural Birth Educator, Attachment
Parenting Councilor and Doula. She founded The Babywearing
Project featured in Mothering Magazine. She also founded a
non-profit organization offering parent to parent support
for those on the path to Radical Unschooling called, Unschooling
United. Dayna’s website is
www.UnschoolingAmerica.com and she can
also be found at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/radicalunschoolingwithLoA/
Dayna’s family blog is
www.TheSparklingMartins.blogspot.com and
their family business is
www.WillowToys.com.
As Unschooling Freedom Cruise Conference Organizer, it is
important that this be an adventure of opportunity and
growth. This experience is so unique and powerful. How
amazing to be able to go on a luxury vacation together with
the Radical Unschooling Community? Come be part of making
history and memories that will last a lifetime with us
departing on Valentines Day 2010!
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Barb Lundgren
Presenter |
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I am a natural rebel
and adore all ways of thinking about and dissecting this great
thing called life, constantly on the lookout for new
information, radical and inspired ways of taking charge
of myself, my health, my world. Despite much formal education,
I knew absolutely nothing about the "real world" until I became
a mother, which was and still is the most earth shattering, mind
expansive turn my life has taken to date - and that was 26 years
ago. I morphed from work in a conforming, intellectual
university position, fully planning on creating a "Skinner box"
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from the work of famous behavioral
psychologist B.F. Skinner) and returning to full time
employment, leaving my son with a nanny - to having a
home birth, family bed and committing myself to full time
motherhood and unschooling in a matter of weeks. I have a
story I tell about how this transformation came to be, but for
the life of me I really can't figure out the magic of how so
much change descended into my inquiring mind in such a short
time.
No matter, as it was the impetus for the most intense, profound
love a person can experience. I chose to open myself to that
love, teaching myself to observe, listen and nurture the
inherent
intelligence in my child, and later children, as I went on to
have two more, a daughter and then another son. My kids are all
grown now at 26, 24 and 20 and so different from each other, so
incomparable to anyone else. Unschooling really does give power
to the individual to create oneself as one wishes to be! All
three of them, along with my husband of 39 years, will be on the
cruise so you can meet them and see for yourself. My husband
and I have also come far on unschooling ourselves as we create
the space to nurture our children to unschool themselves.
The organizer in me was compelled years ago to inspire others to
take on this magical (unschooled) road less travelled and I
founded the Rethinking Education conference, now an
international event in it's 13th year, held in the Dallas area
over Labor Day weekend in
September. We do so much rethinking during our 5 day event that
we will evolve to an official Rethinking Everything event in
2009, inspiring not just unschooling but powerful alternatives
in health care, work, living, eating, and lots more. The
conference slogan is "Do What You Love, Love What You Do". My
favorite pastime is seeking out the company of people of any age
who are engrossed in loving what they are doing. My
decades-long, unofficial study of this blissful
state has taught me that self-taught, self-made skill rules.
Stop jumping through another's hoops and turn on to what makes
you tick and do that. Give up your worries about how much money
it will produce, how long the interest will last, whether
there's any future in it. The magic of following your heart
opens big, wide doors to unimaginable opportunities you can't
even begin to predict. Life is good, powerful, pure magic and
meant to be lived exactly as you wish it to.
More about Barb:
www.theunschoolingconference.com/barb.html |
Sarah
Parent
Presenter |
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Sarah Parent is the whole-life
unschooling Mama of Elijah (5.5) and Sadie (4). 10 years of
labor and birth nursing, mindful childbirth preparation,
advocacy for women and families which culminated in a
master’s degree in nursing clashed head-on with motherhood
when the realization that money and degrees were no match
for her sensitive, pensive son and spunky, wild-child
daughter when it came down to where to spend her time. Their
lead and the hearts of she and her husband, Chris, brought
them to whole-life unschooling and gentle parenting over
bumpy roads of doubt and steep ravines of fear. She
maintains a wealth of knowledge and strong belief in and
advocacy for the empowerment of women through birth. Now, as
her children grow,
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she has found her voice in
advocating for peaceful families through gentle parenting and
unschooling if only to support others in navigating the bumpy
roads and ravines. She is the author of Clan of Parents (www.clanofparents.com)
which chronicles her family’s unschooling adventures and the
host of Humans Being- a podcast focusing on gentle parenting and
unschooling issues. Find the podcast and other information about
Sarah’s endless endeavors at
www.werhumansbeing.com
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Quinn
Eaker
Presenter |
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My name is Quinn. Every experience is an opportunity. The
universe is abundant. I am free to be. I choose to be here.
I am currently in Ireland having just been adventuring
Scotland. I am so thankful to be free to take advantage of
the unlimited about of possibilities. In life its important
to me to live being fulfilled and enjoyed with my daily
activities and focuses. Its important to me to be able to go
and do what I want when I want. Living in this kind of
environment is not only possible but very real. The unknown
is ever present and that is the power and difficulty of
"unschooling" not knowing what a child will learn or when it
will learn it, how it will develop or at what pace. That and
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much much more. Unschooling is not a
formula but a way of life. Experiencing and feeling that
is of the utmost importance. This is the space that is being
held here on this cruise adventure!
Join me and this event for an unlimited vortex of possibilities
on the seas and many coasts in 2010. I will be holding
space for various topics but most of all I will be holding space
for that which feels free and alive within each of us. What a
great opportunity to come together for great food, fresh air,
beautiful waters and all in the company of a group of Free
Spirited people!" |
Joe Martin
Presenter |
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Scott Noelle
Presenter |
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Mik McEwen, MPH
Group Concierge
Alumni Cruises |
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Ms. McEwen has worked in the field of education for 14 years and serves as Vice President of the Connecticut Homeschool Network. Ms. McEwen is a renowned public speaker and has spent the past decade planning, coordinating and facilitating conferences for families. Ms. McEwen has completed her Masters Degree in Public Health and has studied in Guatemala as part of her education. Ms. McEwen is mother to two children who are “life schooled” and brings a wealth of knowledge and skill to our program. Ms. McEwen brings wit and creativity to any subject she tackles. |
Please visit our
Contact Page for information on how to reach us to answer any questions you might have regarding your cruise.
Please Note:
Staff members are subject to change without notice, and a determination will be made approximately 30-60 days prior to sailing, whether other staff members will be added.
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