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2026 Unschooling Replay Pack

Includes:

  • 12 months access to the 2026 Unschooling Summit recordings 
  • Downloadable Reflective Guide, interview transcripts & audio files
  • Bonuses worth over $200 USD from your Summit hosts: Mindful Tools for Deschooling Parents on-demand course, 15% off annual membership in Weave ND plus 30 days free, the Sunday Sessions 2025 Replay Pack & one free 2026 Sunday Session.

 Interviews:

  • Akilah S. Richards & Thea MonyĂ©e – Tending Grief & Centering Joy as Unschoolers
  • Amanda Diekman – Letting Go of Perfectionism
  • A.S. Neill – Summerhill School, and Freedom vs Licence
  • BĂĄyĂČ AkĂłmolĂĄfĂ© – Unschooling and the Awkwardness of Being
  • Cyrielle Tignard – The Importance of Nurturing Your Own Creativity
  • Domari Wearen – Why Conscious Parenting and Unschooling Are a Natural Fit
  • Eliza Fricker – Self-Directed Learning and Your PDAer
  • Em Hammond – Helping Children Build Their Capacity
  • Emma Johnston – Breathwork, Balance & Unschooling an Entrepreneurial Life
  • Iris Chen – Deschooling and Addressing the “Isms”
  • Kate Robinson – Creativity, Unschooling, and Life With Sir Ken Robinson
  • Kristy Forbes – Why Compliance Isn’t the Goal With Your Neurodivergent Child
  • Lainie Liberti – Helping Your Teen Get Ready to Launch
  • Las Boconas – Living, Learning and Healing in Community (in Spanish)
  • Lou Hollis – Helping Unschoolers Design a Life They Love
  • M Gilbert – If I Hadn’t Walked Out of That School—An Unschooling Journey
  • Makeba Garraway – The Value of Our Own Lived Experiences
  • Manish Jain – Deschooling Our Lives and Reimagining Education
  • Meghan Suniga-Davies – Out in the World With Neurodivergent Teens
  • Melissa Crockett-Joyoue – Building Nervous System Capacity for Unschooling Parents
  • Naomi Fisher – When to Encourage Your Unschooler and When to Hold Back
  • Pam Laricchia – How Our Children’s Paths Become Clear in Hindsight
  • Pat Farenga – A Conversation About Ivan Illich, Author of Deschooling Society
  • Peter Gray – A Vision for the Future of Education
  • Radical Learning – Unschooling as Healing Work: Beneath the Surface
  • Ramin Farhangi – Activism and Self-Directed Education in France
  • Ruth Rinaldi – Reframing Maths and Parents’ Anxiety About It
  • Sophie Cristophy – Why Consent Is the Cornerstone of Self-Directed Learning
  • Sue Patterson – What’s My Role as an Unschooling Parent
  • Tina Talaic – The Natural Learning Journey of a Māori Māmā 

 

Fireside Chats:

  • Parenting in Partnership With Our Children - Leslie W. Bray, Bria Bloom, Daniel Moeller & Esther Jones
  • Reclaiming Indigenous Learning - ChĂ©vanni Davids, Ieishah Clelland-Lange,  Chemay Morales-James  & Melissa Crockett-Joyoue
  • This Isn’t How I Thought it Would Be - With Anna Brown, Danii Oliver, Heidi Steel & Melissa Crockett-Joyoue

Roundtables:

  • How to Deschool Ourselves as We Unschool 
  • How to Create the Community We and Our Children Need
  • What’s it Like to Grow Up Unschooled?
  • What Does it Mean to Decolonise Unschooling?
  • What do Consent and Autonomy Look Like in Action?
  • Unschooling in a Neurodivergent Family
  • Accompanying Our Self-Directed Teens
  • The Importance of Taking Care of Ourselves
  • Reflections From Parents of Grown Unschoolers

Workshops:

  • But what if
? Navigating fear, doubt, and trust - Radical Learning
  • Mindful Deschooling. Tools & practices to bring more ease to your days - Esther Jones