FIRESIDE CHAT
Parenting in Partnership With Our Children
Unschooling requires building solid foundations with our children, based on trust, respect and collaboration rather than control and coercion.
Dan Moeller is a teacher-turned-unschooling father, parenting coach, and advisor for self-directed education. He advocates consent, youth empowerment, and connection. He has an affinity for children, creativity, and organic play having spent much of his life as a teacher and around families. He partners with his son on their Unschooling With Kai podcast and their hilarious, in-progress book Bunny Stampede. He enjoys writing about all things unschooling, and can often be found reading, watching movies, skateboarding, wall-climbing, finding humor, making friends with local squirrels and crows, and spending time with his family.
Leslie W. Bray is an Advisor & Guide at Mosaic and a community mentor who supports families in building connected, values-aligned relationships with their young people. A former classroom teacher turned unschooling mother of three, who are now continuing their own development through work, internships and higher education. Leslie works alongside parents, educators, and leaders to cultivate trust-centered, curiosity-led learning communities and spaces. She writes and speaks about connection, conscious parenting, and education rooted in relationship and liberation.
Collect Leslie's FreebieBria Bloom (she/her) grew up unschooled, is an unschooling parent of two, and loves to work and play as an SDE facilitator. She is the co-founder of Flying Squads; a partnership partnering coach; a facilitator and founder of PDX Flying Squads, a community for self-directed young people in Portland, OR; a writer; and the Organizational Manager for the international advocacy group, the Alliance for Self-Directed Education (ASDE). Bria is also a martial artist and a dancer, and a plant-based cooking enthusiast. She spends a lot of her time reading and discussing education and parenting ideas with anyone who is interested.
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