Mosaic Collective

It's back to (un)school season. 🍂

While other calendars fill up with bell schedules, ours fills up with something different - six live sessions this August where families come together to find their own rhythm for the season ahead.

These events are included in your Mosaic membership, and a great way to connect with and get inspiration from other unschooling parents and caregivers. Can't make it live? Register anyway, and you'll get the recording afterward!

Nobody tells you what to watch for. It's not a big moment. Maybe a young person's shoulders drop. They stay in a conversation longer than usual. They laugh without checking if it's the ""right"" reaction first.

That's what it looks like when a neurodivergent young person finally stops masking because they don't have to they don't have to fit into someone else's box anymore.

Kristen Himm, one of Mosaic's Guides, wrote beautifully about what changes when self-directed learning gives kids room to just be.

In the summer, schooling families can tap into their built-in community from the pickup lines and PTA chats. Unschooling families often go without.

That's why we created the Mosaic Collective. It's a community of caregivers who understand self-directed learning, unschooling, and relaxed homeschooling, plus real support from our Guides.

Free for 60 days. No credit card. Link in bio.

20 years as a public school teacher. Two curious unschooled kids, ages 9 and 13. And a whole lot of hard-won perspective on what learning can actually look like.

Tomorrow, Mosaic Advisor and Guide Kristen Himm takes over our Instagram Stories. Don't miss it.

It’s been a full day taking over the Mosaic account. It’s time for me to say good evening and step back over to Leslie W. Bray

Thank you to Mosaic & the IG community here for following along today. My hope is that you’re leaving our time together with some more ways to enjoy your summer days & trust the learning it contains—it’s more than enough! 😉

If you’d like more ideas & support along your adventure in independent meaningful learning, I invite you to join us in the Collective.

Shout out to Daniel T. Moeller for starting this Summer Takeover of the Mosaic Collective Guides. I’m interested to see the next takeovers from Kristen ABQ Homeschool Connection-Soon to be Kaleido Fall 2026 and Meghan meghan

Enjoy your evening 🌻

20+ years of life-learning. Three kids, now young adults. A practice built on partnership, consent, and trust.

Tomorrow, Leslie W. Bray takes over our Stories. She's a Mosaic Advisor, Guide, and the kind of unschooling mom who's seen the whole journey through. Don't miss it.

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July is absolutely packed. 🗓️

Swipe through to see what's coming up this month. There's something for wherever you are on your self-directed living journey.

From honest conversations about partnership parenting to defining what unschooling actually means for your family, these are the spaces where real talk happens.

All events are virtual.

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