There’s something steadying about being in space with others who are parenting through similar questions, shifts, and unknowns. Not because those questions get answered – they don’t, not neatly – but because you stop carrying them alone.
This monthly gathering is an open space for parents of teenagers and soon-to-be teenagers who are raising their young people outside conventional schooling. Some will feel ready to share. Others will come to listen. And some will simply want to sit in the presence of people who understand the layers of this stage – the pride and the fear, the closeness and the letting go, the way you can feel deeply connected to your young person and still not know what to do next.
Each conversation is guided by a topic while leaving room for what’s actually present in the moment. The questions, the concerns, the things that don’t have a place elsewhere.
These conversations are facilitated by Leslie W. Bray, a former classroom teacher who has raised her three young people – now 19, 21, and 23 – entirely outside conventional schooling. Leslie brings years of experience holding intentional space for parents who are unlearning inherited patterns while staying close to their young people. Her approach is grounded, relational, and rooted in honesty without pressure.
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Advisor & Guide
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.
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