UnWrapped Inspiration
There are perks for arriving on time! We start each morning with amazing door prize drawings – provided by our awesome vendors! Followed by a short inspirational devotional to get the day started on the right foot.
What if We are Doing it All Wrong? (Paige Anderson)
We all want what is best for our children yet figuring out what is best for them can be hard. As homeschoolers we have so many choices and are pulled in so many directions it can be hard to know what to prioritize and how to do it. However, we need not fear, in this class we will talk about how we can make Christ our personal homeschooling coach. Get ready for some easy and practical tips for inspired parenting and an inspired homeschooling journey.
Paige Anderson
Who Is in the Mirror? (Tyler Griffin)
Who are you... really? Before we can "Remember who we are," we need to firmly establish and understand our true identity. This is not done by unquestioningly accepting the world's labels for us; it is established by finding powerful identity indicators in the scriptures and the words of our prophets. This session will invite you to stretch your minds into the cosmos and try to see yourself through eternal lenses before bringing you back down to ground level. Then we will discuss our next moves on the covenant path based on a deeper understanding of who that person really is, who is looking at you every day in the mirror.
Tyler Griffin
From Dyslexia to Avid Reader (Christy Corbett)
Children want to read! But learning to read can be very difficult for students who lack key processing abilities that are prerequisites for successful decoding and sight word acquisition: phonemic awareness and the ability to image symbols (like letters). Struggling learners also need pacing and sequencing of instruction to maximize success, beginning with individual sounds, through blending to multi-syllable words. Using my training and successful one-on-one experience with over 60 students with dyslexia, let me show you what matters most in your efforts to help your struggling learner become a skilled and avid reader!
Christy Corbett
Leave the World Behind (Jamie Cox)
Does the journey you’re on seem long? Do you feel like you just need a vacation from life? While it may be tempting to want to take a break from all of the noise, pain, and doubt surrounding us today, let’s try to see our homeschool journey from another perspective. Place all that matters in front of you as you focus on why you chose to homeschool in the beginning, and how you can turn down the noise from the outside world and center in on what truly matters.
Jamie Cox
Better Sleep, Better Family (Kami Huntzinger)
Are you tired of feeling groggy, drained, and irritable all the time? Do you struggle with motivating your kids and having them concentrate on their tasks? Are you looking for a way to help your kids do better on the SAT and other important academic pursuits? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then it's time to prioritize sleep in your life! Good sleep is essential for both your physical and mental health, and it can have a huge impact on your family as well. When you and your kids are well-rested, you'll have the energy and focus to tackle the day ahead, you'll be more patient and understanding with each other, and you'll perform better in school and sports. But let's be real, getting a good night's sleep isn't always easy. That's why in this talk, we'll be discussing the importance of sleep for families and sharing some practical tips and strategies to help you and your loved ones get the restful sleep you deserve. So join us and let's start getting the most out of every night!
Kami Huntzinger
Service Project For Africa
Share the gift of literacy across the globe! Come help Compassionate Entrepreneur Club members put together readers and other literacy tools for Literacy and Leadership Centers in Uganda! While we’re putting these together, we will share some of the fun culture of Uganda through music and video. Additionally, we will share the possibilities of adding service into your own families and communities! Making a difference is not as hard as you think. Come join us!
Your Child is a Genius (Kenna Dyches)
Your child is a genius. It’s true! I believe that one of the most important endeavors we have as homeschool parents is to believe in and help draw out the greatness and genius in our children. Luckily, we don’t have to create their greatness because it is already inside! Join me in this class as we explore our role, as parents and educators, in that process of drawing out the greatness inside our children and students. Understanding this will bring clarity and vision and direction to your home and homeschool – and the determination to do what is yours and to inspire your students to own what is theirs.
Kenna Dyches
Ready to Launch? Now What? (Dana Wood)
Parents spend hours planning and executing their children’s academic education and preparing them to graduate high school. Eventually, kids are ready to launch out of their parents' home and into the real world. But it’s a scary world out there. How can parents know their youth will be successful? This class will help you prepare and encourage your young adults to take the next step and be as successful as they can be.
Dana Wood
Painting and Life (Jenni Sheffield)
Not comprehensive to painting or life, this class will focus on what matters most in both painting and life. Art can be a very good representation of The Creation, The Fall, and The Atonement. Come see how as we explore color mixing and complete a simple painting to take home. This is a hands-on class. Sign-ups will be done ahead of time and will be capped at 15 participants.
Jenni Sheffield
Service Project For Africa
Share the gift of literacy across the globe! Come help Compassionate Entrepreneur Club members put together readers and other literacy tools for Literacy and Leadership Centers in Uganda! While we’re putting these together, we will share some of the fun culture of Uganda through music and video. Additionally, we will share the possibilities of adding service into your own families and communities! Making a difference is not as hard as you think. Come join us!
Lunch
Vendor Workshop - From the Frontier of Iraq to the Temple of Our Lord (Rick Robison - Legacy Generation)
I had to go all the way to Iraq to learn the most important lesson of my life, one that has changed me as a man and a father to understand not only the true nature of the danger that faces our children and grandchildren today, but how to stand against it and why. We will explore the nature of this growing threat, its origins, and why we must stand together as Christians and families, now more than ever. The workshop will end with a little known insight into why the Adversary is so determined to confuse and win over the "Hope of Israel" (our children, from the well-known LDS Hymn) and to do it as soon as possible. We are in the fight of our lives, yet few Americans yet understand what we are facing. You will walk out of this workshop armed with the truth.
Vendor Class - Living History Series of History Books (Dan Hunter)
There was a time when history ruled the world. Sages, scientists, generals, artists, kings and merchants used history as the central textbook, and made decisions based on the lessons of the past. Investors looked to the past for guidance, as did statesmen and artisans. Stories are the foundation of history, the foundation upon which all societies base their view of the world and with which they face and choose the future, and God is the central figure. No honest reader of history can doubt that the great men and women of history were influenced by their religions, beliefs and relationships with God. The purpose Living History is to provide parents a history text in story form (the method used by the Savior in His teachings) from which to teach their children, blending the secular and religious together, and putting God back into history. Students come to better understand their world and their place in it when history is taught in this format.
Vendor Class - Teaching the US Constitution and Its Values (Debbi Rollo -
WHAT is the U.S. Constitution and its values? WHY is teaching the Constitution so important? And HOW can it be taught in a fun and engaging way? Discover the importance of the Constitution and new ways to add the U.S. Constitution to your Social Studies/History Curriculum.
Service Project For Africa
Share the gift of literacy across the globe! Come help Compassionate Entrepreneur Club members put together readers and other literacy tools for Literacy and Leadership Centers in Uganda! While we’re putting these together, we will share some of the fun culture of Uganda through music and video. Additionally, we will share the possibilities of adding service into your own families and communities! Making a difference is not as hard as you think. Come join us!
Positive Relationships in Mathematics (Brittany Hopper)
Studies show that a healthy student-instructor relationship has a positive influence on students' success in mathematics. When the instructor is viewed by the student as caring, students are willing and motivated to put forth effort to find success. With research framed by the ethics of care from Joan Tronto, Brittany Hopper will share research about what four struggling students said makes a difference in their learning and how they know they are cared about. These things can be applied in any learning environment. The relationship between parent and child is applicable to the theory of care just as much or more so than that between teacher and student and has at least the same influence on a student's success in mathematics.
Brittany Hopper
Kindness Begins With Me (Jennifer Pate)
Do you find yourself being triggered by others' choices and actions, and struggling to know how to relate? Do you often feel like you have to just give in or give up? Do you feel hijacked by emotions and then your reactions are incongruent with who you know you want to be? Maybe you don't feel entirely genuine, real, or sincere? If others would just choose to change, you know you could do better, right? Relationships are so important, yet they can be very challenging and are one of those things we will work on our entire lives. The answers are truly inside of us and no one around us has to change. So how can you start to be the change you want to see in the world? Come share my journey and the principles I have learned that have changed my paradigms, given me internal peace, and transformed my relationships.
Jennifer Pate
What is Your Child's Learning Style and Intelligence? (Dana Wood)
Our children are not blank slates ready for us to write our will on them. (Sigh.) They come with their own personalities, gifts, talents, and ways of learning. Emotional intelligence was debunked in 2016 as frivolous, but now psychologists believe that emotional intelligence can be a better predictor of success than IQ tests. Understanding learning styles and intelligences will make you a more effective teacher and can even help with parenting challenges.
Dana Wood
Service Project For Africa
Share the gift of literacy across the globe! Come help Compassionate Entrepreneur Club members put together readers and other literacy tools for Literacy and Leadership Centers in Uganda! While we’re putting these together, we will share some of the fun culture of Uganda through music and video. Additionally, we will share the possibilities of adding service into your own families and communities! Making a difference is not as hard as you think. Come join us!
Using the Outdoors to Help Kids Thrive (Natalie Earl)
This class is all about homeschooling outdoors and helping kids learn all they need to know to thrive.
Natalie Earl
Know Your Rights! (Deborah Palmer)
Would you like to understand the Constitution better, but just don't have the time or willpower to sit down and decipher the language of the 1700s? In this class you will understand the Constitution, what is in each article, the 26 defined powers of our federal government, and you'll know the Bill of Rights and be able to teach your family! That's right! You heard me correctly! Amazing, right?! You'll learn acronyms and finger motions, you'll get handouts, and mark up the Constitution in order to help you learn, so you can always remember. After class you can teach your children, your spouse, or your friends. Lets learn this phenomenal document, the very first Constitution of its kind in the world, America's greatest export, a divinely inspired document, The United States Constitution!
Deborah Palmer
Mentor Mom Panel (Millie Hoggan, Holly Douberley, Jamie Anderson, Laura Pabst)
Stuck in a rut? Need new ideas? Want to make connections? Come join us as we share a few helpful tricks of the trade in mentoring our youth from early childhood through the high school years.
Laura Pabst
Holly Douberley
Millie Hoggan
Jamie Anderson
Service Project For Africa
Share the gift of literacy across the globe! Come help Compassionate Entrepreneur Club members put together readers and other literacy tools for Literacy and Leadership Centers in Uganda! While we’re putting these together, we will share some of the fun culture of Uganda through music and video. Additionally, we will share the possibilities of adding service into your own families and communities! Making a difference is not as hard as you think. Come join us!
Homeschooling in the Real World (Kami Huntzinger)
Have you ever felt like everyone else has a perfect homeschool, but your own homeschool is total chaos? You hear about kids that are starting college at age 12, but your kids are still trying to memorize their multiplication tables at the same age? Do you browse pictures of totally organized homeschool classrooms, then look at your crazy kitchen table with papers, projects, and books everywhere? We’ve all been there! This is a humorous look at the real life ups and downs (and total disasters!) of an ordinary homeschool family. We’ll laugh and joke together as we remember the real reasons we homeschool and why it is worth persevering.
Kami Huntzinger
Homeschooling High School: Buying In (Jamie Anderson)
Mentoring your youth through the high school years can seem daunting but tackling the proverbial mountain happens one step at a time and with a backpack of necessities. Join Jamie for a discussion regarding planning strategies, guiding principles, and relationship-building life lessons that have helped inspire her through this critical end game.
Jamie Anderson
My Journey With Anxiety (Jenni Sheffield)
Many people struggle with the ins and outs of anxiety. This class will include the heart of Jenni's journey, what has worked for her, and how to find hope in Christ. Jenni has personally shied away from classes like this because of how hard it is for her to hear about anxiety and because of her tendency to personalize others' journeys. If you share that concern, just know that in this class, we will start ugly, examine her struggle, and then rise to the top. There is peace. There are answers. It works out. This is Jenni's journey. Take what you can from it, and conquer your own journey.
Jenni Sheffield
Service Project For Africa
Share the gift of literacy across the globe! Come help Compassionate Entrepreneur Club members put together readers and other literacy tools for Literacy and Leadership Centers in Uganda! While we’re putting these together, we will share some of the fun culture of Uganda through music and video. Additionally, we will share the possibilities of adding service into your own families and communities! Making a difference is not as hard as you think. Come join us!
Talent Show
We are always moved by the talents that are shared at our conference! All attendees are invited to this fabulous evening event. Homeschool youth are a talented bunch, and this is an opportunity for your whole family to enjoy lively entertainment and lots of laughs in a warm, family environment.
Parent Chat
Join other homeschooling parents each evening to talk about the classes of the day, struggles you are facing in your homeschool, or the great book you just read. This is the perfect place to find support and new friends! Parent Chats are held near the youth evening activities so parents can participate in both.
Come Discover Principles in Nature (Katie Hansen)
Do you want to connect more with The Creation and inspire a love of learning from Nature and Nature’s God within your family? Katie will share an insightful way to learn truth in the way our minds were created to work since the beginning. Come engage in seeing connections between nature and principles to enhance your family's own study of Creation and Nature. (Meet at the front doors of the hotel, ready to walk to the trailhead.)
Katie Hansen
UnWrapped Inspiration
There are perks for arriving on time! We start each morning with amazing door prize drawings – provided by our awesome vendors! Followed by a short inspirational devotional to get the day started on the right foot.
What Matters Most (Chris Jones)
The universe presents us with an infinite number of things to care about. From our children to our nation to our planet, there is no shortage of things to learn, to discuss, and to worry about. We can--easily--expend all our energy worrying about things that have very little actual importance, or over which we have little control. This can leave us spent just at the moment when our work could have maximum impact--if we had the resources to make a contribution. There is good news. We can know which things are worth our time and energy and which are not. But what is it that can grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference? Let's find that out together.
Chris Jones
What Is Holding Your Child Back? (Sam Martineau)
When a student who struggles to excel academically is asked what is going on, they frequently respond that they have a problem with procrastination, that they are lazy, or that they just need to buckle down and get things done. But my experience as a teacher as well as a significant amount of education and social science research indicates that there are much better answers available.
Samuel Martineau
Four Essentials of Effective Parenting (Wally Goddard)
There are four essentials to effective parenting. Most people—and most programs—get them wrong. Learn simple principles that make big differences.
Wally Goddard
Immersive Learning Through Preschool Play (Sierra Graham)
Come join this hands-on, interactive class while we learn about teaching our three- to five-year-olds. Step into their minds for a day and come play! You will leave this class better equipped to teach foundational skills and to build upon the knowledge they already have. We will also cover topics related to this developmental age that will help us better understand and teach their unique personalities.
Sierra Graham
Service Project For Africa
Share the gift of literacy across the globe! Come help Compassionate Entrepreneur Club members put together readers and other literacy tools for Literacy and Leadership Centers in Uganda! While we’re putting these together, we will share some of the fun culture of Uganda through music and video. Additionally, we will share the possibilities of adding service into your own families and communities! Making a difference is not as hard as you think. Come join us!
Critical Learning in Time of War (Chris Jones)
In times of crisis (and this surely is one) it can be tempting to believe that the practical things are those that really matter. Producing food, building companies, winning elections—these things seem critical. Studying poetry, literature, and even history become things we wish we had time for. This could not be more dangerous. It is in times like these today that learning for its own sake becomes absolutely necessary; and the commitment to study is more important than ever.
Chris Jones
Sensory Secrets for Super-Charged Learning (Ryan Winn)
Come learn fun and simple strategies to help your student improve their focus and attention for better learning and behavior. (You’re going to want to use these with your whole family, not just your challenging kids!)
Ryan Winn
Build a Better Marriage (Emily Woodland)
Understand your spouse from their point of view. Does your marriage often feel like it's in a crazy cycle of misunderstanding one another? Do you often question why your spouse reacts a certain way? Join me as we discuss how your spouse ticks, their needs, and how they operate. By showing love and respect, your marriage can be transformed into the marriage you've dreamed of, with these helps and the healing power of compassion and understanding.
Emily Woodland
Service Project For Africa
Share the gift of literacy across the globe! Come help Compassionate Entrepreneur Club members put together readers and other literacy tools for Literacy and Leadership Centers in Uganda! While we’re putting these together, we will share some of the fun culture of Uganda through music and video. Additionally, we will share the possibilities of adding service into your own families and communities! Making a difference is not as hard as you think. Come join us!
Lunch
Vendor Class -BYU’s Blended and Online High School
BYU Independent Study offers three formats to fit your family's needs: 1-Online High School (OHS) Flex: customized education for homeschool families. 2-OHS Semester: traditional online high school with a student cohort that meets twice a week, has faith friendly "Especially For Fridays" motivational talks, clubs, and summer activities. 3-OHS Adult Education: for 18 and over adults that want to complete their high school education and receive a high school diploma- not a GED.
Vendor Class - Project SEEL: Effective, Engaging Early Literacy
Making Early Literacy Fun and Playful
Vendor Class - Life Changing Services
Living Anxiously Engaged (Ian Cox)
Everyone was born with greatness. Everyone has a life purpose. Everyone is called to be a leader. We are all drawn towards our path of greatness, but we often lack the tools for feeling confident in being able to accomplish such an endeavor. Come discover the roadmap and the tools to successfully navigate your course. Awareness brings power and confidence as we make our journey to fulfill our callings in life. Add the enabling ability of diagnosing the obstacles we will inevitably encounter along the way, and you will feel confident in proceeding forward with faith.
Ian Cox
Teaching CFM to Families (Bryce Dunford)
Come join Bryce Dunfod, Talking Scriptures podcast host, as he provides helpful strategies on how to teach Come, Follow Me in your homes.
Bryce Dunford
How to Regulate Big Emotions (Crystal Bowman)
Parents often try to manage their kids’ big emotions while having their own big emotions of worry, fear, and (at times) anger. Come learn how to regulate your own emotions so you can be the steady leader in your home. Then we will apply the lessons to different age groups so you can teach these principles to your children.
Crystal Bowman
Service Project For Africa
Share the gift of literacy across the globe! Come help Compassionate Entrepreneur Club members put together readers and other literacy tools for Literacy and Leadership Centers in Uganda! While we’re putting these together, we will share some of the fun culture of Uganda through music and video. Additionally, we will share the possibilities of adding service into your own families and communities! Making a difference is not as hard as you think. Come join us!
Cultivating Relationships with Your Youth (Paige Anderson)
With so many different types of parenting styles out there and strong opinions on just about everything, it can be hard to know what type of relationship to build with your youth and how to do it. We will go to the word of God for answers on how to create strong relationships with our youth while avoiding what Elder Ballard called permissive parenting in the last days. We can build amazing relationships and scriptures and words from the Lords apostles and prophets teach us how!
Paige Anderson
Classical Education: More Important Today Than Ever Before! (Jennifer Jensen & Gordon Jones)
Many parents understand the importance of a liberal arts education K-12, but it shouldn't end there. With all that’s happening in today’s world, students need to learn the wisdom of the ages faster than through trial and error or personal experience. They need to recognize both good and bad when they see them and then understand how to act with confidence and humility. Many classical skills have been discarded in modern colleges, leaving students without significant knowledge to compete in a new world of computers and AI. This class will demonstrate how a classical education (internalizing true principles from great books of the past) has meaning and application today; our college-aged students need this knowledge now more than ever!
Jennifer Jensen and Gordon Jones
Is 'Breaking News' Breaking Your Faith? (James Moore)
Come learn five steps to help your children understand the world events happening around them. Whether we realize it or not, what we read, see, and hear in the media does affect us. But have you stopped to think about how it affects your children? In this class James Moore (Radio Station Engineer for a Southern Utah Media Company) will discuss what he observes on a daily basis in the media and how we as parents can help ourselves and our children thrive spiritually and focus on the things that matter most (despite being surrounded by 24/7 news media hype that can often leave us feeling frustrated, hopeless, and overwhelmed).
James Moore
Service Project For Africa
Share the gift of literacy across the globe! Come help Compassionate Entrepreneur Club members put together readers and other literacy tools for Literacy and Leadership Centers in Uganda! While we’re putting these together, we will share some of the fun culture of Uganda through music and video. Additionally, we will share the possibilities of adding service into your own families and communities! Making a difference is not as hard as you think. Come join us!
Understanding The World Through Travel (Michelle & Dale Bartlett)
The Bartletts have incorporated travel into every part of their lives, including their homeschooling. They have found no better way to understand the wonderful diversity of the world than to travel with hands-on experiences. This has opened up their children's minds like nothing else could. It has given them the opportunity to share their views and feelings about what they see and learn. It has, in many ways, given them a deeper appreciation of what they have been blessed with. One of the reasons families don't experience this kind of world travel is often because the cost far exceeds the budget. The Bartletts have discovered ways that blow away the budget excuse. They have traveled three weeks in Europe with four children in tow for less than $2,500.00 total (that is for all six of them). That includes air, accommodations, transportation, food, fun, and more. They would love to share their story with you, and teach you their secrets, in this fascinating journey about the incredible experiences that have come from their adventures.
Dale & Michelle Bartlett
Are You Prepared? (David Holladay)
Bugout bags, 72 hr kits, go packs and more! Are you prepared for an emergency, both physically and mentally? What do you have to offer each other in an emergency situation?
David Holladay
Secrets of Successful Homeschool Principals (Dads) (Ryan Winn)
Take your homeschool to the next level as a homeschool principal! Come acquire tools to be a more engaged and influential homeschool dad. Learn secrets to support and empower your wife with your children … and earn a few bonus points with her as well!
Ryan Winn
Service Project For Africa
Share the gift of literacy across the globe! Come help Compassionate Entrepreneur Club members put together readers and other literacy tools for Literacy and Leadership Centers in Uganda! While we’re putting these together, we will share some of the fun culture of Uganda through music and video. Additionally, we will share the possibilities of adding service into your own families and communities! Making a difference is not as hard as you think. Come join us!
"City of Lights" Family Dance
The “City of Lights” family dance is going to be visually stunning, and so much fun for all members of the family. As you dance the night away, you’ll feel transported to the cafes and bridges of Paris!
Parent Chat
Join other homeschooling parents each evening to talk about the classes of the day, struggles you are facing in your homeschool, or the great book you just read. This is the perfect place to find support and new friends! Parent Chats are held near the youth evening activities so parents can participate in both.
Come Discover Principles in Nature (Katie Hansen)
Do you want to connect more with The Creation and inspire a love of learning from Nature and Nature’s God within your family? Katie will share an insightful way to learn truth in the way our minds were created to work since the beginning. Come engage in seeing connections between nature and principles to enhance your family's own study of Creation and Nature. (Meet at the front door of the hotel, ready to walk up to the trailhead.)
Katie Hansen
UnWrapped Inspiration
There are perks for arriving on time! We start each morning with amazing door prize drawings – provided by our awesome vendors! Followed by a short inspirational devotional to get the day started on the right foot.
Achieving Balance (Travis Parry)
Balance is at an all-time low in our society. As homeschool parents, you are running the home, fulfilling callings, and often running businesses that keep you from feeling balanced. Unfortunately, society (and even time management experts) have perpetuated three time management myths that can keep you from ever achieving balance and keep you stuck in the workaholic trap. Learn the truth behind these myths and how the Make Time Method can help you finally feel purpose and peace in all areas of life.
Travis Parry
Surviving to Thriving (Chad Hymas)
Want to really thrive in life? Look outside the box for new and better ideas that propel you higher. Create new mental images of success, innovation, and progress. Anticipate changing needs and new opportunities. Get a bird’s eye perspective of current circumstances and make long-lasting, effective change. Sprout wings and fly faster and further than you ever thought possible.
Chad Hymas
Greenhouse Gardening That Works (William DeMille)
Healthy food comes from healthy soil. Healthy soils are functioning soils. I will discuss some keys that create functioning soil and a few mistakes most people make that stop soil function. A harvest of food is possible 365 days each year by using a greenhouse. We will discuss what to grow in warm weather and what to grow in cold weather. Gardening is a natural way to teach reading, math, science, engineering, writing, nutrition, anatomy, biology, geology, and so much more. This class will be based on the most current scientific information about soil health and presented in a way that anyone can implement.
William DeMille
Stress Stops at the Door (Carly Thornock)
Learn how to create a home life you love in a stress-free space. Of course, we want our houses to be beautiful sanctuaries, and we also know that what matters most is the people within the walls of our home. When we're intentional, the very walls (and furniture and art!) can reflect and support that relationship-priority instead of distracting us from deeply connecting with one another.
Carly Thornock
Born Into Enemy Occupied Territory (Rick Robison)
A new religion is sweeping our land, a secular-progressive “religion,” moving like a tidal wave, perverting or eliminating our once unique Christian heritage. If not checked, this ideology or narrative will eventually destroy us. We can counter this modern secular-relativist propaganda simply and honestly—come learn more about how to strengthen and protect our 'Hope of Israel', our precious Legacy Generation of today's youth.
Rick Robison
Stewardship and Statesmanship (Jared Sorensen)
America's founding families were not only statesman, they were also stewards. In the founding period there was a close connection to agriculture. Now we are removed from the land and how our food is grown. In this class you will learn to become a better steward and statesman through discussions of timeless principles, learned through agriculture.
Jared Sorensen
Nutrition Equals Education (Selena Sorensen)
Why would you come to a nutrition class at a homeschool conference? Come learn the essential role your family's health plays in their education. Understand the key pieces you need to nourish your family physically so they can excel intellectually and mentally. Selena will walk you through how you can upgrade your most essential role, a nurturer. Nourishment is not just a side thing we do so we can live. It is how we live and knowing how to do this piece well will set you up for success in every other area!
Selena Sorenson
Lunch
Vendor Class -Conscious Creation Through Relanguaging Skills (Rozanne Marsh - Know Brainerz)
When we connect neurology to the words that we use every day, it becomes a predictor of our thoughts, life, and the actions we take. What if we could adopt some simple skills that create paradigm shifts and a positive trajectory? There is power in training our children to speak the language of conscious creation. It starts with us, but you’ll be surprised at the things we feel are innocuous, that infest our everyday conversations. You’ll come away with some AHA’s and skills to take home to your family. It involves a little play so be ready to participate, laugh, and learn together.
Vendor Class - Upward, Inward, Heavenward: How to Thrive in the Storm (Tina Bassett -
Upward, Inward, Heavenward: How to Thrive in the Storm
Vendor Class - Simplified Homeschooling (Michelle Bartlett)
Teach Writing Organically (Kathy Mellor)
Have you noticed that there are no classes being offered called Teach Your Child to Speak English? Because, obviously, you don't need help with that. We all know the method of learning to speak our native tongue and don't second guess ourselves as the teacher. When you understand the natural progression for a child to become a writer, there's no need for a curriculum or frustrated tears. I would love to share with you what that looks like and how you can facilitate and encourage your children to be writers in such a way that allows his or her individual voice to develop. In the process, I will also help you identify some of the ways in which a person's voice (perhaps your own?) has been stunted and ways to mitigate that for future growth. Let's make writing an environment of learning, creation, contemplation, and transformation, instead of something which is just endured!
Kathy Mellor
A Parent's Battle Plan (Lyissa Anderson)
We all want what is best for our children, yet figuring out what is best for them can be hard. As homeschoolers, we have so many choices and are pulled in so many directions it can be hard to know what to prioritize and how to do it. However, we need not fear. In this class, we will talk about how we can make Christ our personal homeschooling coach. Get ready for some easy and practical tips for inspired parenting and an inspired homeschooling journey.
Lyissa Anderson
Healing from Education Trauma (Sidra Morris)
Come join in a conversation of how our current education system can produce trauma, then learn effective ways to help your children overcome and heal (and maybe you, too!)
Sidra Morris
Is It Real or Is It Fake? Education in the AI World (Kathy Mellor)
A large portion of a college education is accomplished by writing papers. What happens when you don’t need to write papers anymore because your AI does it for you? Many years are spent systematically learning math and now even math-intensive careers are being replaced with apps and programs that do the work. Even the artists are adapting to a world where NFT art market has reached $41 billion (2021) and surpassed the fine art market. Everywhere you look, these changes are obviously going to change the course of education. As a homeschool parent, it’s up to you to navigate where to place your efforts to develop well-rounded kids who can differentiate between the real and the fake, carve out a place for themselves, and navigate the societal shifts that come with a revolution like this. Come and discuss these issues and take the time to question everything you personally experienced in your own education. We’ve got a new world to figure out!
Kathy Mellor
Help! My Kid Wants To Be a Youtuber (Brett Stubbs)
Your worst nightmare...Instead of attending law or medical school, your kid wants to be Mr. Beast. Worse yet, they keep talking about this ninja guy, and want to play Fortnite eight hours a day! Is their future doomed? Can they at least settle for Dr. Beast? Learn how to help them tie entrepreneurship to their passions and strengths! The world is changing; find out how to leverage the change to maximize their potential for success.
Brett Stubbs
EPIC Adventures: A Dynamic Way of Learning (Melanie Cameron)
EPIC Adventures are not only fun, they are a dynamic way of learning that sparks curiosity, resulting in children who are excited and eager to learn. Susan Kovalik said, "If there is to be power in your learning experiences it must come from tapping the energies and curiosities of your children, freeing them of artificial fragmentations, and unleashing the awesome power of the brain." The brain learns by sensory experience. "Being There Experiences," involving the full spectrum of sensory input, build brain density and poise the brain for effective learning on more symbolic levels. The year-long EPIC Adventure is a powerful pattern. Children remember the things they learn during these years because the brain has an established pattern on which to place the entire year's information. Children who live well-planned, year-long EPIC Adventures, with significant, meaningful content, learn to detect subtle patterns, see depth and metaphor within information and experiences, and unleash the awesome power of their brains.
Melanie Cameron
A Positive Life (Chad Hymas)
Conquer the emotional paralysis that robs vision and momentum. Turn obstacles into incredible opportunities. Harness the power of change and rise above to progress. Tap into unseen personal power and inner strength to accomplish seemingly impossible dreams.
Chad Hymas
Graduation
Take a moment to reflect on how far your child (and you!) have come by participating in the LDSHE Graduation Celebration.
