Mosaic Guides are parents, former educators, and experienced mentors who understand the realities of self-directed learning, because they’ve lived it. Each brings a unique perspective shaped by hands-on experience with different learning paths and family dynamics.
Their role isn’t to judge or prescribe, but to listen, support, and guide. With empathy and practical insight, Mosaic Guides help you design a learning environment that reflects your child’s needs, your values, and your family’s day-to-day life.
Leslie W. Bray is a former classroom teacher turned unschooling mother of three young adults. As an advisor and guide she supports parents in building stronger connections with themselves, their children, and the communities they are part of. Drawing from over two decades of experience in life-learning, conscious parenting, and community leadership, she helps families navigate their own journeys with intention, clarity, consent and trust. Her work centers on partnership-based relationships, values-aligned living, emotional intelligence, and creating liberatory practices where both young people and adults can thrive. She supports parents just starting out, those figuring out the deschooling process, and those with young people moving through the teen years. She’s a writer and creative.
Dan Moeller is a teacher-turned-unschooling father, parenting coach, and advisor for self-directed education. He advocates partnership, consent, and youth empowerment. His specialties as a Guide include the topics of neurodivergence, deschooling, and helping parents get started on their own journey. He has an affinity for young people, creativity, and organic play having spent much of his life as a teacher and around families. He collaborates with his son on their Unschooling With Kai podcast and their hilarious in-progress book Bunny Stampede. He enjoys writing and reading about all things unschooling.
Kristen Himm spent nearly 20 years as a public school teacher before flipping the script and jumping feet first into the wild, wonderful world of unschooling with her two endlessly curious young people (ages 13 and 9). Now a passionate advocate for self-directed learning, Kristen believes deeply in trusting kids to follow their curiosities—and as the founder of an agile learning center, she’s seen firsthand the magic that happens when we step back and let them lead.
Through podcast appearances, writing, coaching, and community building, Kristen helps families and educators rethink what learning can look like. Her specialties as a guide include neurodivergence; transitioning from conventional schooling to child-centered learning; helping reluctant partners recognize the benefits of SDE; deschooling; and facilitating effective communication within families.
Meghan is a single parent partnered with adult and teen unschoolers, a long time youth rights advocate, community builder and facilitator of alternative programming to conventional school. She has worked with youth for over 15 years and currently runs ATX Flying Squad, an Austin based youth liberation collective that promotes autonomy, self-directed education and anti-oppression through collaborative exploration of the city. As a guide at Mosaic she offers support to adults moving away from control and toward partnership in both education and relationships. She believes empowering youth in collaborative decision-making within the community paves the way for a future where the personhood of all youth are not reduced to “adults in training” but recognized as fully capable of contributing meaningfully to society.
Mosaic Guides don’t tell you what to do.
They’re here to listen, reflect, and help you uncover the next right step for your family by:
Asking thoughtful, reflective questions to clarify what your young person – and your family – needs next.
Connecting you with relevant resources, whether that’s an article, a workshop, or a trusted partner organization aligned with your situation.
Helping reframe guilt, doubt, or overwhelm into curiosity, confidence, and forward momentum.
Celebrating the small wins that often get lost in the day-to-day but matter more than you think.
MEMBER REVIEWS
I know that Mosaic as a whole has helped me tremendously by allowing me to have somewhere that I feel included, no matter how we decide to do our schooling. But the one-on-one guidance, and the group meetings, have just meant the world to me.
Anna-Raye
I try to say yes to things – like Mosaic – that do not use up my energy, but feel supportive and helpful.
Beth
I have loved this group and all that you have done to help people!
Bobbi
Mosaic aligns perfectly with my ideal of educating my kids.
Chenae
Grateful to be a part of the community.
Charlsey
It’s so nice to find company on the journey!
Nita
That workshop was so much more than I expected and so encouraging and inspiring. Thank you!
Shell
The Mosaic Collective membership instantly connects you with our team of Guides, along with a community of fellow parents and caretakers.
Within the Collective, you can interact with Guides in the ways that feel most natural to you:
Join the conversation by commenting on their posts or messaging them directly
Meet one-on-one with the Guide of your choice during virtual office hours
Attend Guide-moderated gatherings, including our monthly Coffee Chats
Tap into these rich opportunities for connection and explore everything the Collective Membership offers – free for 60 days.
