A Big Break

I'm taking a long time to stay home. Kirby, his partner and her child are living with us for a while, and Keith and I are helping them out.

My next plan is to be in the U.K. in September 2016.

Toronto, May 9, 2015

TICKETS (Price goes up after April 1, if any tickets are left. Limited space.)

From their website:

Join us for the Toronto Unschooling Living & Learning Symposium (TULLS) on Saturday May 9, 2015 in Brampton, ON.

Participants will have the opportunity to hear from renowned speakers Sandra Dodd, Pam Laricchia and Carlo Ricci and connect with other unschooling parents.

Sessions include:
- Unschooling 101
- How do we learn best? Can someone get into post-secondary schooling without a high school diploma?
- Critically contemplating mainstream assumptions about schooling and learning
- How lots of little choices can lead toward a different way of seeing and being
- "Walking a mile in their shoes". Connecting with and trusting our children when their choices conflict with what we believe is the 'right' decision

8.30am - 9.00am - Registration
9.00am - 10.00am - Session 1: Unschooling 101 by Sandra Dodd
10.00am - 10.15am - BREAK
10.15am - 11.15am - Session 2: Carlo Ricco
11.15am - 11.30am - BREAK
11.30am - 12.30pm - Session 3: Pam Laricchia
12.30pm - 1.45pm - Lunch and Prayer
1.45pm - 2.45pm - Session 4: Keynote Speech by Sandra Dodd
2.45pm - 3.00pm - BREAK
3.00pm - 4.30pm - Q & A Panel - All Speakers
4.30pm - 5.00pm - Wrap up, closing remarks and evaluation

Images, in Maine in September 2014

Me at the symposium (by Laurie Wolfrum), and below that, in a photo by Amy Bradstreet, me and Laurie Wolfrum at the Common Ground Fair.





I don't have photos of the presentation at the Camden library, or the potluck in NH, but that's okay. :-) I'm not very photogenic, but these are for the record, for memories for those who were there (including myself).

May 30, Portugal (by teleportation of image and sound)

European Unschooling Symposium: The Unschooling way: Trusting, Learning, Partnering, Connecting

Marta Pires and Rippy Dusseldorp are hosting a symposium near Lisbon May 29-31, 2015, and I'm speaking "on the wall" by Skype.

Alex Polikowsky will also be "skyped in," from Minnesota.

The conference will be in English.

Albuquerque ALLive 2014 site

http://albuquerqueallive.blogspot.com

Hema Bharadwaj (India/New Jersey)

Julie, James and Adam Daniel of Ashford, in Surrey (UK)

Jill Parmer and Luke Davidson of Fort Collins, Colorado

Sandra Dodd (Albuquerque)

Go here for links to information about the speakers: Speakers

Registration is open; hotel reservations may be made.

Maine / New Hampshire

I'm TIRED!

In a week, I've spoken with Laurie Wolfrum at the Camden library, at the Common Ground fair, and went with Keith through Vermont (where we heard Susan Gaissert read award-winning writing, and we went to the Shelbourne Museum), and spoke to a group in New Hampshire, and drove back up to Camden.

For anyone who reads this before the weekend, one-day rates are $30 and $50 (for Friday and Saturday repsectively).

http://allinmaine.blogspot.com

Reviews

I have added two recent comments about the conferences, to a page linked at the top of the blog.
Attendees wrote...

There have been other very positive comments in the past, but I didn't collect them. If anyone remembers having written one (on a blog, if you have a link; in e-mail, or in a discussion) if you can remind me where, I could add a quote here.

If any reader who has attended an Always Learning Live symposium and would be willing to write something that would help someone else decide whether they might benefit from the experience, I would appreciate it.