The Rethinking Education Conference

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You're invited to attend our 13th annual international conference!

Join hundreds of families from around the globe as we rethink the meanings of education, learning, parenting...and life!

Rethinking Education is rethinking EVERYTHING in 2009!

Our conference supports attachment parenting, unconditional love, support for each person’s unique journey of life experience, freedom with responsibility, unschooling and you.

YOU are the vital ingredient at this conference, as we come together and revel in the magic and mystery of kindred spirits and each other’s rich diversity, as we challenge ourselves to trust the extraordinary process of living and learning, the wondrous ability to improve the ways we communicate, discovering new ways of listening to one another, giving full support to our dreams, no matter how wild or ordinary,
large or small.

You are invited! Are you ready?

Featured Sessions Announced

Daniel Quinn
author of Ishmael, The Story of B,
My Ishmael, Beyond Civilization

• Keynote:
Rethinking Everything - Ishmael & Beyond

Brent Cameron
radical educator, unschool father,
creator of SelfDesign

• Keynote:
  Am I in the World or Is the World in Me?
  Re-Visioning Ourselves In Time & Space

• SelfDesign Sessions:

• Politics of the Family -
  Language of Agreement and Respect

• Enthusiasm -
  The Heart of Authentic Learning and Living

• Strategies are Intelligence -
  Spelling Perfectly - Insights into How we Learn

• The Long Term Life-Long Results of Unschoolng -
  Insights into 27 Graduates

• SelfDesign Paragon - The Ways that Human
  Beings Learn ...

• SelfDesign LifeSpiral

Scott Noelle
parenting coach and author of
Daily Grooves book and website

• Seven Powers of Attraction Parenting
• Radical Honesty
• Hunter Gatherer Consciousness
• Unschool Choir

Dayna Martin
unschool mother,
creator of Unschooling America

• Living Outside the Box
• Radical Forgiveness
• Trusting the Master that is Your Child
• Moving through Black Hole Experiences
• Un-Ruling
• Attraction Birth

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen

Our Rethinking weekend focus will feature tracks on:
Freedom & Education
Parenting & Community
Entrepreneuring
Alternative Therapies for Wellbeing
Sustainability
Retirement
Spirit
Gobs of cool sessions & activities for Kids, Teen, Young Adults
"One Big Apartment" for Teens & Young Adults
Art, Music, Dance

Ideas are the greatest of all the tools for freedom. - Gerry Spense

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Early Registration Deadline is Thursday, April 30th!

When:
Labor Day Weekend
Friday, Sept. 4 - Tuesday, Sept. 8

Where:
Marriott Solana Hotel & Spa
Westlake, TX
(1/2 hour west of Dallas)

It's Easy To REGISTER:

1. By phone: 817.540.6423

2. Or, download a pdf of the REGISTRATION FORM here, fill it out online and EMAIL it to Barb Lundgren or PRINT it and MAIL or FAX it.

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Contact Barb with questions or to register: barb@
rethinking
education.net or 817.540.6423

Unschool Dance Party is back! For teens & young adults. NEW this year: PAINTBALL and LAZER TAG! See Program for details.

Unschool Dance Party: $25
Paintball: 4 hours plus dinner: $50
Lazer Tag: 2 hours plus dinner: $35

Registration Fees

Adults, Kids, Teens & Young Adults:

$125 per person, by April 30
$150, by July 31
$175, after August 1

$100, kids up to 4

Grandparents:
$40 or $60 for both grandparents

Hotel Info
Our conference hotel is the stunningly gorgeous Marriott Solana Hotel & Spa in Westlake, TX. Group room rate is $95, optional balconies available at no extra charge.

Concierge Level upgrade of $30 per night is the best ever, including continental breakfast, hot appetizers & dessert bar every day.

Free airport shuttle between DFW airport.

Call the Marriott to reserve your room(s):

1.800.228.9290

"We attended the Rethinking Education Conference and WOW! I just wanted to say thanks to you. My husband and I (and therefore our son) came home *changed*. I don't know a better word for it. We are STILL feeling so calm and peaceful and connected and joyful. It was an amazing experience and your sessions were the crux of it all for us. So, thank you!"

"I want to thank you so very much for taking this journey, having the fortitude and insight to follow your passion and pull this all together. WOW! Something so wonderful from where there was once nothing, but a desire and faith and steadfast refusal to acknowledge all the naysayers. This takes something so special in our world. I have been embracing a new mantra since I returned, and I think it was Barb-inspired: 'God is on my side, let it ride...' :)"

"Thanks to you, Barb!! You're awesome! We are, in a large part, who we are because of what you do. I love you and your whole family. Thanks for following your heart."

"It was an amazing, wonderful time. I learned so much. All the speakers were incredible, sensitive, thoughtful people. I feel restored and hopeful for the future. THANK YOU!"