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 If what you are actually interested in is bringing me to your town to speak at my own one or two-day conference, click here to go to my page on how I work that. 

If you're wanting me to come and speak at your homeschool support group, click here.

If you're wanting me to come and speak at your homeschool convention, scroll down this page to that info.

If you're looking for my current Speaking Schedule, click here.  (Note: I am not doing a lot of speaking right now.  If I do one a month for half the months in a year, that is all "my plate" can handle.  In fact, I do not pursue speaking engagements at all.  I consider all invitations, but this is not the season of my life for a lot of speaking, so don't be surprised at how few speaking engagements there are!)

Or if you're looking for a brief bio on me, go about 3/4 of the way down this page.    (Well, it's SORT of brief!)

  

First let me define "convention" and "conference" for you ~ how *I* define these two words... :-) A convention is a state or area event, where there's a curriculum fair and several speakers, with several workshops taking place at the same time in each "workshop block." So one workshop block might have anywhere from four to ten workshops. ... A conference is what I call *my* seminar events, and these are focused events, with just one speaker the whooooole time: me, in particular. :-) It's all one cohesive event, and they attend all 9 of it. They therefore get the whoooole message; the "heart 'n' soul" of it, and the "art and science" of it.

~ TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK at most if not (preferably) all of your workshop blocks, a minimum of 4 times each day (assuming you have that many workshop blocks); preferably 5 or 6.  In essence, I want to be speaking the whole time I am there, other than a couple of breaks for lunch and a short rest.  This is because it is a poor and inefficient use of time for me to sit at my booth and explain my message to one or two people at a time when I could be presenting it to ~ and connecting with ~ a large group at once.

~ FREE BOOTH ~ at the curriculum fair.  We need two 8-foot long tables or three 6-foot tables.  (We make an "L" out of the two tables.  Or we could make a "U" out of the 3 six-footers.)

~ TRANSPORTATION ~ We need for you to get us there and back home.  You would pay for mileage or fly us (myself and one assistant) there and back.  (By the way, we do not consider this "pay," but just, well, getting me there and back.   I say this because of those (few) people who have actually considered airfare to be "pay"!  Of course it actually IS "pay" ~ to the airline company!    We also need a shuttle to and from the airport paid for; or, even better, if you can afford it, a rental car.)

~ LODGING ~ We can handle meals ourselves,  but we do need lodging at a motel to be provided.  If your conference location is adjacent to a hotel, we would ask that we be lodged in that hotel so that I can have a "quiet place of escape" during the conference to go and re-group, pray, and gather my thoughts for my *next* workshops.  This is especially important if the conference does not have a designated speakers room.

~ TO HAVE INPUT ON WHICH WORKSHOPS I DO ~ Because my message is multi-faceted, I need to work with you on which ones to present at your convention.  I realize that YOU are the ones with the vision for your event, but on my end, it's important that I come to present the *heart* of my message, and not just the "externals."  So we can talk (or email) about this, and I'll explain it further. 

~ TO HAVE INPUT ON THE TIMES I SPEAK AT ~ Not control over it; I'd just like to be able to work with you.  At one convention, my last two workshops ~ on the how-to's of high school which are at the heart of my high school message ~ were scheduled at the same time as a Ladies' Tea *and* the preparation time for their Homeschool Graduation Ceremony. First, I was concerned and disappointed that these workshops were the last two workshops of the convention, when convention attendees are exhausted, and many do not even stay to the end. Plus the fact that these two workshops are my most intense ~ requiring an alert mind. There's no way the planners could have known that without discussing it with me, but had we talked long before the convention, it could have been planned differently.  I do realize that someone has to be last, but what I had a hard time understanding was why a Ladies' Tea and prep for graduation would be scheduled during my ~ or any ~ workshops. The room they put my workshop in could have accommodated 300, yet there were no more than 50. And those two are usually my most-attended workshop topics.