I just attended a
wonderful unschooling conference in Black Mountain, NC. One of the speakers was
Dayna Martin, who had been on Dr.Phil's show in a segment on home- and unschooling, called "The Great School Debate".
I was moved to tears as she talked about her presence while she spoke with Phil McGraw. She said it was important to her to "be" unschooling - that is, present, centered, accepting, and respectful - in order to show what unschooling was. She could have reacted to the negative comments being made, but instead responded to them, with her truth. And you can see Dr.Phil's attitude actually softening at the end of the segment!
Her talk at the conference was about being an unschooling advocate - I learned more from her "being" than I did from her words. Authentic, indeed.