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Vishal co-founded Dream a Dream along with 11 others. Dream a Dream is a registered, charitable
trust empowering children and young people from vulnerable backgrounds to overcome adversity
and flourish in the 21st century using a creative life skills approach. Currently, Dream a Dream
works with 10,000 young people a year through two innovation labs – After School Life Skills
Programme and Career Connect Programme; have trained over 8000 teachers/educators
impacting over 200,000 children and young people and impact over 1 Million children through
the Happiness Curriculum in partnership with the Delhi Government.

Adam F.C. Fletcher is a recognized expert in human engagement. He is the director of the Freechild Institute for Youth Engagement; SoundOut.org Supporting Meaningful Student Involvement, and; NorthOmahaHistory.com


ALPHA” will talk about ALPHA’s tools for surviving the pressures, from
within and without. As difficult as it is, ALPHA’s students, parents and
teachers still think that community schooling is the way to go, and is
worth struggling for. Who will defend the rights and needs of children,
if not the families and the teachers who know and care for them?
Mini - Talks

Makinde Sharon Erioluwa - The Nigerian Education System; Addressing the roles of the government, highlighting the Challenges and proffering solutions
Every learners' struggle. - Impact of the Educational system on the Learners. - The current advancement in the method of learning around the world. - How to tackle these problems. - The Educational system of my dreams.

Mursalina Amin - Education & Leadership for Afghan Girls
Civil society's impact on education and empowerment, the impact and activities of my own organization for Afghan girls in Afghanistan

Zakia Irfan - The Process of Developing the High School Pre Med book
Explaining the steps and challenges taken over a year to draft and create a book designed to get high school students into medical school. Features of the book include the negative and positive implications of attending medical school.

Darcy Brown - The art of teaching yourself anything
There are many extremely interesting topics and useful skills that we don't get taught in school. And one of those skills is the ability to teach yourself unfamiliar topics, without a teacher. In this talk, I will describe how I educated myself in the field of Nanotechnology, and how the same process can be used to teach yourself almost anything.

Ritika Saraswat - Reimagining Education
The whole purpose of this workshop would be to present to students the reality of GRADES, and how it is something which is not necessary unless you are hoping to get into a specific industry. A lot of students constantly question their value and credibility based on it and even come to term ed as 'failures' or 'outliers' by their teachers if they are not able to score high. This in tune has implications for self-worth, confidence, esteem etc. Thus, it's important to help schools realize that its time we change our assessment structures to be more inclusive of all learning styles to ensure success and growth of every student

Klara Stenqvist - Techniques for a Radical Mind Shift for Teens & Adults
Join this session to learn about the methods and practices she uses in her work with teenagers, and to explore powerful questions we need to be asking ourselves at this challenging time: What kind of learning do we need to survive and thrive?
Workshops


The purpose of this workshop is to help young dreamers undergoing great adversities outside of their academia; both to aid them in adapting a mindset for overcoming these adversities, and to set a long-term foundation that enables them to transcend to new heights across each arena that life has to offer. From personal experience of financial, emotional and physical-based hardships, I will do everything I can to equip these like-minded attendees with everything they need to navigate a route past their greatest adversities - to manifest a life worth fighting for.
An ambitious and driven 20 year old firmly looking to drive change in more ways than one.
Aspiring to practice RIBA chartered architecture, I am currently a first year student at Manchester’s globally recognised architectural school. Having been fully self-funding myself since the age of 18, I aim to one day be able to contribute to the skyline and important structures within cities.
My additional endeavours include the writing of a novel that I hope to some day have published. Though it is - and is continuing to shape into - many things, its principal intent remains to challenge the prevailing stigma against mental health, directed towards young dreamers who are enduring heavy adversities.


Dr. Mara Linaberger: Mara Linaberger worked for 25 years as a public school educator, teacher trainer, and administrator. She has a doctorate in Instructional Technology and has become a leader in the microschooling movement, launching her organization, Microschool Builders, in 2018 that helps to support microschool founders around the world. Mara's book, The Micro-School Builder’s Handbook, is an excellent resource for current and prospective founders.

Monica and Jill are life-long learners who love to help others enjoy learning as much as they do. Both are long-time educators who help their learners customize educational experiences that work for them. Through Learning Without Borders, Monica works with learners and their families globally to remove the barriers to learning, cultivate their strengths, and spark a love of learning that will follow them throughout their lives. Through Learning Journeys Forum and the Home Learning Community, Jill works with homeschooling families to find the best educational path for their children. Jill and Monica love helping other educators acquire the knowledge and skills they need to do the same.

Monica and Jill are life-long learners who love to help others enjoy learning as much as they do. Both are long-time educators who help their learners customize educational experiences that work for them. Through Learning Without Borders, Monica works with learners and their families globally to remove the barriers to learning, cultivate their strengths, and spark a love of learning that will follow them throughout their lives. Through Learning Journeys Forum and the Home Learning Community, Jill works with homeschooling families to find the best educational path for their children. Jill and Monica love helping other educators acquire the knowledge and skills they need to do the same.


Having taught in public and private schools and starting a school of my own, I have had the opportunity to witness many of our mistakes in educating our children. I had the unique opportunity teaching Special Ed students and learned first hand what teaching to the test did to our students. Later I had to "teach" students to unlearn before they could put in the correct operating system in their brain that would produce the results of personal empowerment. I realize that all kids are equipped to actualize these gifts if given the fertile soil to realize their potential. It is already within. Presently, I consult with parents who are homeschooling in order to help them realize the need to trust their own innate intelligence in order to bring it out in their children.

Vanessa was born in Venezuela to Colombian parents and raised in the U.S. She received her MA in Transformative Learning at the Graduate Institute for Transformative Learning. She explored self-design and emergence as a lived experience culminating in a performative autoethnography and grant-funded multidisciplinary art show, "Honoring Ancestral Presence." She served for five years as one of the council members at Alma de Mujer Center for Social Change, land gifted as reparations to 501c3 The Indigenous Women's Network by feminist economist Genevieve Vaughn. In her service work, she learned the rigors of presencing ancestors, spirits, and plant life as guides to support living in the right relationship with ourselves and other living phenomena.


Candace Neil: Candace Neil has over 10 years of experience in education and a passion for empowering students to reach their full potential. She holds a Master's degree in Education and has worked as a teacher, featured conference speaker, and an education consultant. Candace founded K2 Academy with a vision to create a personalized learning environment where students can thrive and grow.


Judy Arnall, BA, DTM, CCFE is a certified child and brain development specialist and master of non-punitive parenting, as well as the unschooling parent of 4 university graduates. She is the bestselling author of Unschooling To University and Discipline Without Distress.
Website: https://www.unschoolingtouniversity.com


rigid, outdated systems of education to create learning environments in which students and
teachers can flourish. Everything grows from the inside out, and in this interactive session
participants will use the spiral to engage key elements, including creating a healthy community
of learners, voice and choice, teacher presence, and a balance of inner and outer knowing, and
then vision steps that they can implement in their current context.
As an educator and author, Lisa Marie Tucker (MEd., BEd) inspires people to connect with their deepest self, others, the Earth, and beyond. She has been involved in holistic education for over three decades, serving as a teacher in the early years, the director of Programs and Exhibits at the Manitoba Children's Museum, and for the last 24 years has worked with teacher candidates in the Faculty of Education at the University of Winnipeg. Her book Flourishing in the Holistic Classroom was published in 2021. Lisa is passionate about supporting educators in creating learning environments in which they and their students can truly flourish.

Ashley Nielsen, PhD is an educator and an advocate for self-directed/individualized learning. She has extensive experience in developing and implementing self-design programs at various levels of education.
Currently, Ashley is the Chair of the Individualized Master of Arts (IMA) Program at Antioch University, where she collaborates with students and faculty to create a dynamic and flexible curriculum that allows students to pursue their unique interests and goals.

Lainie Liberti is a best selling author, international speaker, teen mentor, worldschooler, partnership parenting paradigm advocate and mother. In 2012 Lainie co-founded Project World School with her son and has lived in community with over a 100 teens in over 20 international locations. Lainie founded Transformative Mentoring for Teens in 2020 in response to the growing need to support teen's mental health. Lainie released her first book in 2022 called Seen, Heard & Understood, Parenting and Partnering with Teens for Greater Mental Health, number 1 best seller on Amazon in the Parenting New Releases. Lainie is also a community leader and alternative education advocate and often credited with spearheading the thriving worldschooling movement.


Adriana Vasile is a neurobiologist, engaged in bridging neuroscience and education for more than 20 years. Founder of a Romanian EOTAS alternative (Education Otherwise Than At Standard School), she promotes freedom in education and personalised learning, based on brainprint and psychological tests, which allow the identification of neurodiversities and the pattern of neural activation while executing various tasks


Strategic Intervention Coach (Robbins Madanes Training), Artist, Holistic Natural Medicine Practitioner and writer of joyful inspiring stories. Founder of Joyhood Coaching, a practical and creative coaching system for teens and young adults to empower them through the active and joyful design of their lives.
I drop out from university twice (Sociology/Political Sciences and Business) and ever since then my curiosity and my appetite for learning have guided my path through different disciplines: reiki, entrepreneurship, translation, martial arts, medicinal plants, art therapy… Now I accompany people on their vital path towards their inner wisdom, through workshops, ceremonies and individual sessions.


Lamar featured on BBC world news, La Reppublica, politico, Taggespiegel, Los Angeles Times, CBC Canada, NPR, Aljazeera English. She spoke about Afghan women and their rights through different platforms. She appeared on Politico entire page of politics on anniversary of Taliban and shared her one year activism and life journey. On the 25 of January, she spoke on a podcast of BBC world news “women and peace building” with Mrs. Hilary Clinton and asked her help women of Afghanistan; also she described the situation of Afghan women to her.


Michael Maser is presently completing his PhD at Simon Fraser University, BC Canada, focusing his research on the subjective experience of learning. Michael has worked as a K-12 and post-secondary educator for 30+ years, and won a Prime Ministers award in 2007 for his role in co-founding SelfDesign Learning Community, an innovative online school in BC. Michael has written two books and numerous articles and essays on education, and he is currently adjunct faculty with Antioch University (online), leading the course 'Neurobiology and Learning.'