Roundtable: The importance of taking care of ourselves
With: Daisy Remington, Laura Luet, Ashley Short and Kirsty Forbes
How we are really matters! The more resourced we are, the better we feel and the better we can accompany our children. We'll be talking about ways we can keep our own cups filled and build our own capacity.
Meet our panellists
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Daisy Remington
Raised in Southern California, Daisy now lives on a farm in New Zealand with her Kiwi husband and unschools her two children. Daisy is a creative and nature facilitator.
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Laura Luet
Nature lover, adventure seeker and mother of three boys, Laura is a French Caribbean holistic health practitioner, currently road schooling in New Zealand with her husband Matthieu.
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Ashley Short
Ashley is a former teacher who lives in Ontario, Canada with her husband and two children. Her family came to unschooling during the pandemic, as a result of her eldest child not wanting to engage in any school-like work. She hosts the Virtual Kitchen Table podcast with Erin Graham and Hayley Chalkley.
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Kristy Forbes
Kristy is an Australian-based PDA advocate with a focus on Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA). Drawing on her lived experience as an autistic person with ADHD and a PDA profile and raising kids with the same profile, Kristy offers unique insight into the challenges faced by PDA individuals and their families.
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Allison Davies
Allison is a former music therapist living in the rainforest of Lutruwita/Tasmania, in Australia with her husband and two children. Alli is an autistic person and delivers neuroaffirming professional development and workshops around both the topics of neurodivergence and the use of music as a tool for self regulation.
