[email protected]

By Tuesday morning we should have another 15 rooms opened up (for about a
week, or until they are full) at the conference site, the Peabody Marriott, at
the Live and Learn conference rate. If you want to be at the Marriott but
weren't able to get reservations, give it a try.

Also, it'd be great if anyone planning to attend the conference would
subscribe to the LiveandLearn2004 e-mail list if you haven't already done so. There
will likely be important updates in the next couple of weeks, and I don't want
to clutter other lists with them.

Kathryn Baptista, Conference Coordinator

Come to the Live and Learn Unschooling Conference August 27-29 in Peabody, MA!
For more information, go to www.LiveandLearnConference.org


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Elizabeth Hill

** Also, it'd be great if anyone planning to attend the conference would
subscribe to the LiveandLearn2004 e-mail list if you haven't already
done so. There
will likely be important updates in the next couple of weeks, and I
don't want
to clutter other lists with them.**

Unless the moderators have asked you to be very, very quiet about the
Live and Learn Conference coming up, I would urge you NOT to hide your
light under a bushel barrel. Talk it up here some more!

(Taking the minutiae off list makes sense to me, but c'mon, let's have
some more noise.)

I realize that Sales and Marketing are sometimes considered "vulgar",
but you are "selling" an unschooling conference to the unschooled.
Seems appropriate for this list.

Betsy

Holly Furgason

Please talk it up! It seems like all the list I'm on with large
groups of Christian homeschoolers have post after post about their
conferences and the moderators don't seem to mind. They talk at
length about the speakers, last year's conference, where to meet each
other and there are lots of tips (don't bring the kids, don't buy
anything the first day but spend like crazy on the last).

Unschooling conferences are like some secret get-together. No one
talks about them much on the lists I'm on except to speculate why one
has stopped. So let everyone know howmuch you loved the last
conference you went to and why. Sharing something good is not
imposing your will on them.

Unschoolers often say that they don't "need" conferences but it's not
about need- it's about fun and learning and getting together and
laughing and late night discussions. We can all *use* those things
even if we don't need any actual unschooling support.

You know how energized you feel after going to an unschooling park
day, talking to people who understand you and watching your kids play
with other children raised in freedom? It's like that only 100 times
better!

Holly

--- In [email protected], Elizabeth Hill
<ecsamhill@e...> wrote:

> Unless the moderators have asked you to be very, very quiet about
the
> Live and Learn Conference coming up, I would urge you NOT to hide
your
> light under a bushel barrel. Talk it up here some more!

[email protected]

<< They talk at

length about the speakers, last year's conference, where to meet each

other and there are lots of tips (don't bring the kids, don't buy

anything the first day but spend like crazy on the last). >>

There's a whole list for those kinds of details, for the people who are going
or thinking about going, though.

-=-So let everyone know howmuch you loved the last

conference you went to and why. Sharing something good is not

imposing your will on them. -=-

They are really tranforming for most people who go. I hear lots of people
say "If I had done this a year ago (or two or three) things would have been SO
much better at my house."

There's a conference in Sacramento SOON, Boston right after, and a little one
in Chicago (one day, small) September 11. That one's not a whole families
hotel thing, but for those who are able to go it will probably be a big boost of
confidence and camaraderie.

Sandra

Holly Furgason

--- In [email protected], SandraDodd@a... wrote:

> There's a whole list for those kinds of details, for the people who
are going
> or thinking about going, though.

That's right- it's for the already converted or interested. It's the
people not on the list who may have gone to a *home*schooling
conferences before and found them boring or who think they don't need
conferences who need to hear how fun, life changing, informational
and supportive unschooling conferences can be for them and their
children.

We don't need unschooling conferences just like we don't need
chocolate.

Holly
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