When did you start living on autopilot?

How did you realize living up to other peoples' expectations

was not in the best interests of your family?

What are you going to do instead?

Learn the Essential Skills of Intentional Living

so you can Leave the Mainstream Highway behind,

change your Autopilot programming,

and Love the Authentic Family Life of your Dreams!

Learn to Align your Parenting and Educational Plans with your Authentic Values, Define your own Success, and Work through Fear so you can Learn to Trust and Live Happily Ever After!

No Pixie Dust Required!

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Cultivate the Curiosity, Confidence, and Courage to Build Relationships and an Education that will last for a Lifetime of Authentic Success.

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Why are you going where?               How do you intend to arrive there?

Intentional Living is the Foundation of Authentic Relationships, Learning, and Success.

I am here to help families who are ready switch off the cruise control, exit the mainstream highway, and choose their own authentic family adventure!

Everyone asks me what they are actually supposed to DO while they are deschooling from toxic compulsory school beliefs... and my answer has always been for everyone to move toward living an authentic life without school- whatever that might look like for your family. When I realized the blank looks that I was receiving in response were an honest lack of knowing how to do that, I built this course. Living authentically has always been what drives my so-called rebellion against mainstream living, and it took me quite a  while to distill my "insanity" down into simple, actionable "lessons" and practices. I offer it to you in the hope that you become inspired and resourced to begin creating a life you desire.

From the very first inkling that our mainstream culture might not fit their true selves, through choosing to exit the autopilot highway of our school-fixated and work-centric society and the subsequent deschooling process that leads to a seriously deep dive into the authentic truth of each member of the family, to relearning how to live and learn in ways that are actually healthy- the journey of an intentional family is filled with fears of the unknown and failure, mostly due to a lack of the knowledge and skills and tools you need to feel confident in your ability to lead your family.

Deschooling is often presented as a rejection of school-specific social conditioning, but... Deschooling cannot only be about rejecting conventional school-ish beliefs, values, and lifestyles- that would simply leave you with nothing. Deschooling must also include learning how to choose your own best path, from the planning and preparation stages all the way through to successful completion. We have been so well trained to obedience that once there's no one giving orders, sometimes we freeze, not knowing what we can do, or where we can go- let alone what we want to do or where we want to go.

If this is you, I'm here to help! Deschooling with Direction is about how to do just that. 

My family lives deep in the forests of unschooling and conscious parenting, a path we have been on for 13 years now, and I finally feel confident enough to begin helping other parents take their first steps off the mainstream highway toward the lives of their dreams. We started as attachment parents, and grew into conscious parents, and ran the gamut from public school to homeschool to unschool. I LOVE the deschooling process, and find myself continually peeling back layers of social conditioning I neither agree with nor consented to, while endeavoring to increase my children's awareness of both our culture's messages and our family values, giving them the space, time, and opportunity for conversation so they may choose their own adventures.

I created this course primarily for

• families considering leaving compulsory schooling for homeschooling,
• families transitioning from the more formal recreating-school-at-home style homeschooling to unschooling,
• self educating teens (who often get labeled "drop-outs," as if school was the most important thing in life),
• and recently graduated young adults who have no idea what they want to do with their life.

Deschooling with Direction is also great for parents who want to lead their families away from authoritarian/authoritative paradigms and toward more respectful relationships with their children. This work actually translates very well to any big change in lifestyle that uproots an individual or family, such as moving away from home to a place you've never been with no one to tell you what to think. If you need to figure out how to find your own way, based in your own values, this will be a useful journey for you. However, be advised that all the examples are family and education related, as that is my experience with peeling back layers of social conditioning to live more intentionally.

I am here to mentor you through your fears, offer you my knowledge, show you some tools and skills, as well as demonstrate their usage so you can guide your family and their education with confidence. In this course, we will:

• discover the truth of each family member's authenticity so we can begin to integrate everyone's needs into the family life,
• calibrate your compass to your family's deep values and practice living them, 
• eradicate fears of failure by redefining success and charting a new course for your family, and
• learn to trust yourself and your children, so you can have a successful adventure together.

This is Me! I Need This!

The full course will be 8 deep lessons (launching in March!), plus orientation, 3 bonus mini-lessons, and closing.

I am finalizing the details with my beta group, and because I want to get it into as many hands as possible, to help as many families as possible, at the most affordable price possible, I am keeping the price super low, at least until I record video lessons... If you want the best price to learn these skills to guide your family with confidence- in FAR less time than it took me to acquire them!- join me now!

When you purchase, you will get access to the Orientation and Lesson 1: Open to Observation, which includes the most basic foundational practice of intentional conscious parenting (including unschooling and homeschooling), the VERY FIRST THING parents need to be able to do with both skill and detachment in order to feel like they are doing the very best they can for their children. In fact, this exercise is foundational to all excellent relationships, and of course, the sooner you begin, the more practice you'll have, and the more your skill will grow!

The rest of the lessons will be released weekly thereafter. Each week you will receive a reminder email with a link to that week's lesson. The Q&A's will be asynchronous- you submit your Q's at the end of each lesson, and I reply right in the platform, when I reply you will receive both an email and an in-platform notification.

About Your Guide:

Hey there! I'm Rachel, radical unschooling mama of a teen and a tween, wife, and life long explorer. I know navigating your way through unconventional parenting and education choices can be a rough journey, because I did it, the hard way. No one is giving orders, you can feel very alone, and there's not even a map! I've been mentoring people through making authentic choices for over 2 decades, and been deschooling since before I knew there was a word for it. I love being the mirror that helps reflect people's deep beliefs and support them through bringing those beliefs to the light so they can stop being controlled by invisible ideas.

I started Uncharted Authenticity, and Deschooling with Direction in particular, to help guide families just like yours through the vast wilderness of releasing past beliefs, finding your authentic path, and building both the confidence and courage needed for the adventure. I specialize in leading homeschooling and unschooling families away from school-ish conditioning and toward authentic and respectful family relationships so they can live free of the burdens of the system's expectations, manipulations, and coercion.

Did I just say I am here to save the world from hierarchical, power-over, exploitative systems by planting and nurturing the seeds of choice and respectful relationships in every heart? Yes, yes I did. Care to join me? The revolution would love to have you. We start with deschooling.

What You Get:

• 8 deep lessons - Each week you will receive a beautiful guidebook to lead your learning journey- with the exception of the closing week. 
  
  
• Lots of journaling prompts - Dig deep into your own truth to discover your authenticity in relation to each lesson. 
  
  
• Homework activities - Ground each lesson into your life with these activities; embodiment and implementation of knowledge are critical to change. 
  
  
• 3 bonus lessons - These are additional ideas that are key to living an authentic family life, and have no homework. 
  
  
• 2 more - orientation and closing - Intentional boundaries keep any experience safe and comfortable, even when the work is life long. 
  
  
•  Private Q & A's - These are asynchronous and totally private, you submit questions at the end of the lesson and I reply right in the platform, which will send you an email with a link to my answers and a notification in the platform. 
  
  
• Private Community - In platform, no social media required, community with your fellow explorers. This is a beta feature on my platform, so I have no idea if it will change, or whether I will attach it to a different program in the future... we will have fun trying it out though!  
  
  
• 1 discounted Voxer Day - optional add-on - At closing, you get a special discount coupon for my 1:1 mentoring / coaching, in case you want personalized support. We can brainstorm, process your thoughts and learning, or we can work together on any of the pieces you need help with. 
  
  
• Lifetime access - As long as I run this course, you have access to it, including anything I add later- which will include me recording the lessons as videos and collections of the Q&As for each lesson. 
  
  

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Deschooling with Direction ONLY for homeschoolers and unschoolers?

Of course not! Intentional living and education are for EVERYONE! These tools are integral to any intentional life choice. Be advised that most of my examples are unschooling related.

Does this course have live elements?

Currently, no. There are no meeting times, zoom calls, or FB lives. It is entirely text based, the next round will probably have pre-recorded videos and maybe even audio-only tracks. In order to accommodate my busy family unschooling schedule, everything I'm doing online is currently asynchronous, even my 1:1 coaching / mentoring (which you get a discount coupon for once you finish this course!)

Will this course help me: choose a philosophy or curriculum? get my kids to obey me? allow me to remain shallowly secure in the comforting lies of the mainstream school-fixated and work-centric culture?

Not at all, no. Although clarifying your values can help you eventually make philosophy and curriculum choices (should you still find those necessary), and implementing respectful relationships (should you choose to do so) can create a more cohesive household, what you learn in this course is unique to your family, what choices you make after that and how you choose to live them are entirely up to you.

Do you offer refunds?

I do not. There's much to be said about committing to your own growth, and people who value themselves enough to put their money where their mouth is are the only types of folks I'm interested in working with. I'm here for you; are you here for you? Are you here for your family?

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