Meghan co-founded a travel program with her travel bestie and fellow unschooler in the early Spring of 2023- ROAM is designed for families who want to expand their teens’ empathy and understanding of diversity by engaging with other cultures and learning about other customs through travel.
for the first ROAM trip, Teens ages 13–17 and their parent partner will travel in a collective of self-directed learners, alongside 2 guides with lifelong and grown unschoolers of their own.
Who are Sara & Meghan?
We will be your Queer-affirming guides with 30 years combined experience in SDE and Group Organizing. We are parents who have lived in partnership with their teens and grown children and want to share that partnership and guidance with yours!
Our role in this program would be to create an extension of that partnership your teen has experienced with you, and promote the deeper skills of empathy gained when engaged in world travel and community building. We believe that there is a significant element of learning involved with healthy risk taking at appropriate age levels.
What does roam offer?
Community, culture and cuisine!
Our inaugural journey to Barcelona came from the understanding that the pandemic had taken a significant amount of time, experiences, and growth alongside peers, and that is particularly challenging as for teenagers.
We have decided to offer various Parent / Teen trips to expand our perspectives of the world and our place in it.
We work together to live in a community house in various places around the world, explore new surroundings, experience group decision making, adventure and build lasting memories and new relationships.
Coming up are some USA trips… ROAM: Hocking Hills and ROAM: Grand Canyon
Folks who might be a good fit
•If you approach parenting in a way that views your relationship with your teen as a partnership.
• Homeschoolers and unschoolers that have attempted to prioritize a de-colonized environment for learning.
• Queer teens looking for adventure with a group that will be affirming and supportive.
• Teens who are looking to grow skills that they don’t have access to in their direct community.
• Teens who want to explore ways to find community wherever they go!
• Teens who desire making connections with others who care deeply about issues that impact humanity and the environment.
• Teens that are a little nervous about travel and want to stretch and expand their exposure to new experiences with people who will respect their boundaries around trying new things.