Workshops available in Down Under Tour

Each venue organiser is choosing their own collection of workshops. Not all workshops are available at all venues. Please check your venue to see which workshops are available in your area.

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Workshops

Actively ENGAGE Learning & Actually ENJOY Learning!
Ancient Civilizations & the Bible
Beyond Survival
Box Free Living
Exposing the Wizard of Oz
Got Teens?
History Via the Scenic Route
Raising World Changers
The Indispensable Ingredient
The Well-Kept Secret of a Biblical Education
Things I wish I'd Known (for moms only)
Not Just Your Average Genius
Unlocking the Mysteries of the Middle Ages
Whatever Happened to Church History?

The Well-Kept Secret of a Biblical Education

The Bible is our plumb line, our standard of knowing truth. Most Christians intrinsically understand that it is radically different than what our culture tells us, but how much have the prevailing culture and our own school experiences influenced our views on education, even in homeschooling? This powerful message, from an international speaker and twenty-plus-year veteran of homeschooling, will provide you with a foundational and scriptural framework for truly grasping and understanding education -- the content and the means -- from a Biblical perspective.

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Actively ENGAGE Learning & Actually ENJOY Learning!

One of the biggest questions people ask is, "How do I get my kids to finish their school work?" The deeper question is actually, "How do I get my kids to be self-motivated?" We will examine the answers to these critical questions, and look at specific ways to encourage and assist our children in developing ownership of their education. We must learn the critical difference between controlling and directing; between pushing and releasing; between coercing and facilitating. It is the essence of a master teacher who says, "I can not teach you how to do it, but I can help you learn to do it." This is an interactive and practical workshop that you can put to use immediately!

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Not Just Your Average Genius

In this fast-paced, easy-to-understand workshop, you will distinguish three different grids that impact the unique way each one in your family learns: learning modalities (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic); learning styles (Feeler, Thinker, Sensor, Intuitor); learning intelligences (interpersonal, intrapersonal, linguistic, spatial, math-logical, bodily-kinaesthetic, musical, naturalist).
Discover how to honour (not curse!) that wiggler in your midst; how to create a rich atmosphere for learning that will attract every learner; how to utilize your children's strengths to learn subjects that are hard for them; most importantly, learn that God delights in the incredibly individualized mechanisms for learning inside each of us! With this insight, including new research on intelligences, you will be able to adapt your teaching strategies AND choose your curriculum wisely.

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Beyond Survival

Join Diana as she shares a very transparent description of the beginning days in her homeschooling, including the struggles and failures she experienced as she unsuccessfully tried to create school at home. Learn how she went from "barely surviving" to finding great joy on the journey with her children, and discover the practical and spiritual insights which will allow you and your own family to thrive in homeschooling. Remember, Diana brings not just theory but in-the-trenches experience with her own children for over twenty years, as well as insights gleaned from homeschooling families around the world.

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Raising World Changers

Home schooling produces well-equipped, well-prepared young people.
We work hard at developing character, choosing the best school courses, protecting their hearts, and preparing them for leadership. Now, let's prepare them for the amazing adventure of bringing the Lordship of Jesus into every sphere of life. This workshop offers practical and Biblical means for accomplishing the task

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Things I wish I'd Known (for moms only)

Having homeschooled three children who are now all in their twenties, Diana has an almost limitless list of things she wishes she'd known about homeschooling and parenting! Come and learn from her mistakes, which are told in the unique style of transparent humour Diana is known for. Prepare to laugh (and, perhaps, cry) and to emerge refreshed

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Box Free Living

Rather than raising children to follow formulas, let us teach them using the principles of discipleship, and then have them "follow me as I follow Christ." And, rather than trying to force your home schooling to look like someone else's, let's learn to hear from the Lord just what is best for your own family. Instead of falling victim to preconceived judgments, from ourselves or from others, let's learn to find God's way for us in this home schooling journey.

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Got Teens?

What a challenge! What a blessing! What a reward! But what do we, as parents, do to see the blessing and to harvest the reward? This practical, hands-on workshop looks at vision, opportunities and counsel in your teenager's life through such issues as: what we can do, through school subjects and training, to prepare our unfolding young adults; how do we home school when the subjects get harder; why we should study worldviews with them? . . . and much more.

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The Indispensable Ingredient

The most important element in your curriculum is you. Diana has been there, knows what you are experiencing, and has talked with many others in your position. She will express your heart's cry that your children would grow in character and knowledge, and encourage you that you can get it done. Through Diana's transparent examples and practical suggestions, this workshop will help you understand the pivotal role you play as a mentor, a model, and a facilitator in your child's education.

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History Via the Scenic Route

Are you tired of force feeding history to your children? Does history make them yawn? Or, do you have one of those hungry-for-history type students that would devour far more than you could ever dream up to provide? Diana Waring will take you on an extraordinary learning adventure as she shares with you how to make the facts come alive and the learning go deeper! Join Diana for her "sit-on-the-edge-of-your-chair-in-suspense" history approach, using literature, music, art, science, cooking, and more, that has captivated home schoolers across five nations.

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Exposing the Wizard of Oz— A Christian's Guide to Teaching History

NEW! The essential crash course for every home school parent. Discover insights from Diana's research behind the events of history. Share her wisdom for teaching history. Do you wonder, "Whom do I trust and what do I read to know real history?" Diana will equip YOU, regardless of your curriculum, to find your way through the challenges. She will lead you to a path you can follow in discovering treasures of history with your family.

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Ancient Civilizations & the Bible

Ancient civilizations come ALIVE! when you view their relationships to God's people, plan and purpose as revealed in the Old and New Testaments. Diana read dozens of volumes on world history, boiled them down to a meaningful overview, and prepared this instructive, rapid-fire version for all audiences -- whether you love history or not!

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Whatever Happened to Church History?

Designed to give an exciting overview of key events in Church history, this workshop will also assist parents and teens in understanding their Christian heritage. Events covered range from the Acts of the Apostles through the Middle Ages, the Reformation, the Great Awakening and up to the Modern Missions Movement, including exciting statistics concerning what God is doing throughout the world today!

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Unlocking the Mysteries of the Middle Ages

Join Diana for one of her specialties: a whirlwind tour through one thousand years of colourful characters, world changing events and God's faithfulness! Beginning with the fall of Rome and continuing all the way up to Gutenberg's printing press, you will finally understand what is important and whom to follow in this mysterious millennium.
Seat belt use suggested--you're going to move fast!

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