media and press
Talks
Keynote Address: Connect with Courage
presented to: Northeast Unschoolers Conference, August 2023
Venture Forth: How Playing Games with Your Kids Builds Self-Efficacy
presented to: LIFE is Good Conference, May 2023
Adulting: A Talk for Teens
presented to: LIFE is Good Conference, May 2023
Fielding Your Kid's Unschooling Doubts
Panel moderator at: LIFE is Good Conference, May 2023
Connect with Courage: How to release fear and find joy in the places your children take you
Presented to: Homeschool Connection Conference, March 2023
How Your Kids are the Key to Your Business Success
presented to: MOB Meetup, Fall 2022
Keynote Address
presented to: California Homeschool Network Exp, May 2021
Commencement Address
presented to: CHN Expo, May 2021
Confessions of an Unschooled College Professor
presented to: Life is Good Conference May 2021
Anxiety and All It's Friends
presented to Life is Good Conference, May 2021
Anxiety in Boss Moms
presented to: MOB Meetup, April 2021
Assertiveness and Boundaries in Business
presented to: MOB Con, September 2019
Connecting with Courage
presented to: Free to Be Conference, September 2019
Connecting with Courage
presented to: California Homeschool Network Expo, May 2019
Values at Play
presented at: Free to Be Conference, September 2019
Values at Play
presented at: California Homeschool Network Expo, May 2019
Commencement Address
presented to California Homeschool Network Expo, May 2019
Values at Play
presented to: Unschooling Mom2Mom, March 2019
Keynote Address Part 1: Protect their Passions
California Homeschool Network Expo, September 2018
Keynote Address Part 2: Protect their Passions
California Homeschool Network Expo, September, 2018
Protect their Passions, part 1
presented to: Homeschool Association of California, August 2018
Protect their Passions, part 2
presented to: Homeschool Association of California, August 2018
Play Equals Learning
presented to: Discovery of Learning, June 2017
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General Biography
Roya Dedeaux is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a focus on creative parenting. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Recreation and a Master’s degree in Counseling from California State University, Long Beach where she taught in the Recreation and Leisure Studies department for over a decade.
This experience has led her to a private therapy practice, authoring several books, and creating games and a series of parenting courses. She has been a featured or keynote speaker at over 60 conferences, speaking about the importance and power of creativity for mental health and parenting.
As a grown homeschooler, she conducted the largest study related to mental health and homeschooling in the United States. Her first book Connect with Courage: practical ways to work through fear and find joy in the places your kids take you and her children’s book, This Is The Head That I Have are available at all major book retailers.
Roya specializes in using art in her therapy practice, especially with her two online expressive art groups for teens and moms! She loves to play, craft, and make messes with her wild and wonderful children, husband, and animals where they live in Southern California.
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