• weekly mentoring dialogues in an easy-to-use distance learning environment that supports video messaging (video conferencing is optional, 24 hour tech support is available)
  
  
• support in identifying your deepest interests, passions and dreams
  
  
• assistance in creating a learning path that works for you, including goal setting and self-assessment
  
  
• coaching in creative ways to use the Internet for non-traditional learning in your own unique style
  
  
• guidance in creating an online multimedia portfolio to record your experiences, projects, skills
  
  
• invitation to participate in events online with other young people in the Mentoring Alliance
  
  
• participation in international collaborations on projects that contribute to the well-being of Earth and her inhabitants.

• choice in how little or how much to be involved in the mentoring alliance (we support your family's unique needs)
  
  
• subscription to Haven's bi-monthly e-newsletter on the best of edge-ucation online

I have wandered in the realms of independent study, apprenticeship, and mentoring since I was a teenager. I apprenticed in photography, video documentary making, sandplay therapy, sustainable business, desktop publishing, web design (in the pre-historic Mosaic days), dance, writing, editing and storytelling, to name a few. I am grateful for the extraordinary mentors who have been my allies on my edge-ucation path.

I have supported families and young people in self-directed learning for twenty years. My daughter, who offers her insights as a guest mentor and contributor to Haven, is "unschooled."

I believe that freedom to make our own learning choices is a basic ingredient of a creative life. This freedom leads to ecstasy. Ecstasy is one of our truest guides.

I trust in the value of not knowing. A caterpillar quite literally melts down and passes through a phase called liquescence on its journey to butterfly. Appreciating liquescence is at the heart of self-directed learning.