2025 Adult Conference

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Date: Jan 17 – 18, 2025

Join us for another wonderful conference celebrating the simplicity of Coming Home, this years theme.  Wherever you are in your parenting journey, there can be healing and growth in remembering to “Come Home.”

Our conference strives to focus on bringing unity to homeschoolers throughout East Idaho and provide a hub for gaining new insight and friends. Come learn, connect, and enjoy two full days of inspiration right here close to home.

Idaho State University Student Union Building, Pocatello Idaho

Register For January 17-18, 2025 Adult Conference

This year we are offering complimentary conference tickets to parents of preschoolers who are considering or new to home-schooling and grandparents of home-schooled children.  To qualify for complimentary tickets:

  • A grandparent of home-schooled children

  • A parent of preschool children (eldest child not over 5 years old) and a first time attendee at one of our conferences.

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Speakers

This years speaker line up will not disappoint!  We are very excited about those who are coming to share their experience and knowledge with us.

Keri Tibbets

Keri Tibbets

Mentor

Keri is a mother of six, a homeschooler of 20 years, and a private math tutor.  She loves learning and helping students to fall in love with learning. 

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Nephi Zufelt

Nephi Zufelt

entrepreneur

Nephi is a servant of Christ; Elizabeth’s devoted husband; Zoe, Ainsley, Keller, Melina, and Stratton’s homeschooling father; world traveler; and a wannabe church basketball star. 

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Kami Harris

Kami Harris

Mentor

For nearly two decades, I’ve joyfully embraced my roles as a homeschooling mother to four wonderful children.  I’ve mentored hundreds of youth over the years and in 2022 became a certified coach. I help homeschool mamas find CONFIDENCE, JOY, and PEACE in homeschooling!

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Tatianna Fallon

Tatianna Fallon

Mentor

Tatiana Fallon was homeschooled her whole life, well almost. She told her mom at age five after four months of kindergarten she would not go back to school.

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Brittany Coulson

Brittany Coulson

Homeschooler

Brittany is a nurse and Family Life Educator by trade; a homemaker, wife, and mama by choice. 

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Janel Andersen

Homeschooler

Janel is a beautiful example of motherhood and what homeschool can look like.

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Aby Rinella

Aby Rinella

Podcaster

Aby Rinella lives in the mountains of the west with her college sweetheart, where they homeschool their 3 kids.

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Dan Hunter

Dan Hunter

Author

Dan and his wife have home schooled since 1993.  Dan is the author of nine history books which are used across the nation…

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Breann Duffin

Breann Duffin

Homeschooler

Does her family always eat their daily veggies? Nope. Is her house a pristine canvas able to welcome guests at any moment? Also a negative. Sometimes as her six children…

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Julie lopez

Julie lopez

home educator

Julie Lopez is a homeschooling veteran of 23 years. She has loved every minute and is fighting being placed into forced retirement,…

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Leah Stoddard

Leah Stoddard

Leah M. Stoddard is a citation editor, lead animator, graphic designer, and sound designer for the Joseph Smith Foundation.

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Dr. Daniel Nelsen

Dr. Daniel Nelsen

Optometrist

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Schedule

The schedule will be posted soon. Check back to see all of our exciting topics and speakers.  

Friday – January 17th

TimeMain Auditorium Classroom AClassroom B
8:00am - 8:45amRegistration
8:45am - 9:00amWelcome and Conference theme
9:00am - 10:00amKeynote - Nephi Zufelt
10:15 - 11:15 amBrittany Coulson - Beginner classJulie Lopez - Shadowing Mentoring in the Teen yearsJanelle Andersen - Whats your why
11:30 - 12:30pmBreann Duffin - CurriculumStephany HKathleen Cotter
12:30 - 2:00pmBreak for Lunch
2:00 - 3:00 pmAby Renella - Free to Homeschool
3:15 - 4:15 pmAby RenellaDan HunterRosie C
4:30 - 5:30 pmMcKee'sHannahDr. Nielson
5:30 - 6:00 pmCo-op Mingle
7:00 - 8:30 pmConcert

Saturday – January 18th

TimeMain AuditoriumClassroom AClassroom B
8:30 - 9:00 amVisit Vendors and Find Seating
9:00 - 10:00 amKeynote - Hannah and Leah
10:15 - 11:15 amNephi Z - Production vs ConsumptionKami Harris -McKee’s - Marriage
11:30 am - 12:30 pmKeri TibbetsSteve Dewey - ParentingTatiana Fallon
12:30 - 2:00 pmLunch and Visit Vendors
3:15 - 4:15 pmSteve DeweyKami Harris Kathleen Cotter
4:30 - 5:30 pmClosing Keynote - Tatiana Fallon
Keri Tibbets

 

Keri is a mother of six, a homeschooler of 20 years, and a private math tutor.  She loves learning and helping students to fall in love with learning. 

Keri graduated from Utah State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Exercise Physiology. She loves reading, writing, discussing great ideas, cooking, baking, exercising, gardening, and all active things outdoors. Her favorites are mountain biking and hiking. 

With a special interest in how children learn, Keri has spent two decades researching, discussing, and discovering how to help students fall in love with learning and drive their own life-long educations. Nothing is more exciting to her than to see a child caught up in a great book, their heart aglow with interest, and their mind engaged without effort because of the natural joy of learning. 

For the last two years she and her daughter Grace have been teaching parent courses on the start-to-finish how to’s of successful classical education for children, showing parents how to take their children from Little House on the Pairie to Shakespeare in just a few short years!

 

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NEPHI ZUFELT
Nephi is a servant of Christ; Elizabeth’s devoted husband; Zoe, Ainsley, Keller, Melina, and Stratton’s homeschooling father; world traveler; and a wannabe church basketball star. In his free time from these important roles, he is the CEO of NexTek Innovations (a medical device incubator), entrepreneur, founder and president of Wealth Mentality Families, author of 2 best-selling books (Katie Bell and the Wishing Well; A Story of Finding True Wealth and The Big Startup Guidebook for Kids), and keynote speaker.
Nephi grew up in the beautiful landscape of Moab, Utah and graduated from Utah State with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering and MBA from the University of Tennessee. He has spent 10 years working his way into the C-Suite at a medical device manufacturing company only to turn around and leave it all for the uncertainty of startups and entrepreneurship so he could spend time doing what was most important to him; raising his family.
Nephi still enjoys the process of innovation and creation in the world of medical devices but finds his true passion in teaching and helping families to find their true purpose and create the life they desire. He teaches parents and youth how to avoid falling into the traps of worldliness and consumption while also pursuing true wealth in the correct way to be used in the service of others.
Dads, We Need You
Target Audience: Adults (Fathers and others)
Description: The world has a Dad problem. Study after study demonstrate the dire effects of fatherlessness on society. Crime rate, sexual immorality, success in school, drug use, lifetime earnings, and every other measure of success are drastically different between families that have a father in the home and those that do not. Dads, we need you in the lives of your children. We need you home more often. We need you engaged with your family. We need you to be spending quality time with them, and we need you to take the leadership role in homeschooling. In this class we will talk about the importance of your role as a father and how you can arrange your life to better fulfill your dream job, being the World’s Best Dad.
Being Creators in a Consumption World
Target Audience: Youth and adults
Description: We live in a world of consumption where it is commonplace to sit and consume hours and hours of content (Netflix, video games, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, etc.) every single day. As a society, we are losing our ability to create and produce because of our tendency to consume. This class is not intended to teach you how to avoid consumption through screens and social media. Instead, we want to focus on teaching ways that you can change your usage of modern technology from consumption to creation. The tools we have been given are amazing, but we absolutely must use them to create and produce in lieu of using them as tools of consumption. We will discuss strategies to change our use of technology and introduce the production/consumption ratio.
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Kami Harris
Mentor

For nearly two decades, I’ve joyfully embraced my roles as a homeschooling mother to four wonderful children, a supportive wife to my best friend, a proud “Grammy,” and a dedicated member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Since I was small, I have always wanted to be a teacher. I graduated with a bachelor’s degree and hoped to be a professional educator once all my children started school. However, plans changed after sending my daughter to kindergarten and first grade and seeing the light go out of her eyes and her love of learning dwindle. While looking for alternative options, I felt inspired to homeschool. Initially, I followed the public school model at home because that was how I was trained. This led to a frustrating first year. As a lifelong learner and avid reader, I searched and sought mentoring from successful veteran homeschool parents, taking advantage of every training and class that could potentially guide me.

In the process, I discovered empowering principles and effective methodologies that were not taught to me in my professional training. In 2010, I co-founded iFamily Leadership Academy, where I served as President and have been privileged to mentor hundreds of youth. In 2018, after facing challenging life circumstances, I joined Jody Moore’s coaching program seeking relief. The tools I learned transformed my life, inspiring me to become a Coach and help others do the same. I am certified in the Life Coach School and Creation Coach School and continue to apply these tools in my personal life, teaching, and home. I am also a Mentor trainer for Leadership Education Mentoring Institute (LEMI).”

As a certified Coach, I help parents understand where their power lies, master their thoughts and emotions, get clear about their goals, figure out effective systems that work, offer support in bringing out the genius in all their children, and help them to show up as the best version of themselves in their home. I love to help parents discover how to connect with and positively influence their children and empower parents to create the homeschooling environment they long for and turn their frustrations into fulfillment. Homeschooling has been one of the most challenging yet rewarding adventures of my life, and I love to simplify the journey for others, so they can more quickly find the JOY!

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Tatiana Fallon

Tatiana Fallon was homeschooled her whole life, well almost. She told her mom at age five after four months of kindergarten she would not go back to school. She struggles with dyslexia and did not learn to read until she was twelve. She started teaching at age fourteen. She is the creator of the LEMI Key of Liberty Project and the Sword of Freedom project. She has traveled around the United States speaking and training. She has been mentoring homeschooling parents for over 20 years. She worked as a citizen lobbyist from age 15-21 and has been striving to serve her country any way she can. She is now homeschooling her 4 children, two of whom also struggle with dyslexia. She has lived in Riga Latvia, Virginia, Utah and now calls Louisville Kentucky her home.

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Brittany Coulson

Brittany is a nurse and Family Life Educator by trade; a homemaker, wife, and mama by choice. She has been homeschooling since her first day as an Earthly mother in 2012. Her journey has been full of personal growth, healing her inner child, and being educated herself as she teaches and discovers this beautiful world with her children. Her friends call her “Britt” so you all can too! She loves hot cocoa on winter mornings and wishes her journal was more full of all the amazing days and moments she’s forgotten to write down. She falls into bed each night and rolls out each morning, driven with the desire to simply show up for herself and her family with hopes of inspiring and encouraging a few friends–new and old–along her way.

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About Aby

Aby Rinella lives in the mountains of the west with her college sweetheart, where they homeschool their 3 kids.
Aby writes and speaks to encourage and inspire families to train up their children in God’s Word, and to stand on truth in a culture that has lost its foundation.
The Rinella’s are board members of their state homeschool organization where the work to defend homeschool freedom for future generations.
Aby and her husband, Jesse, write for the outdoor industry as well as run a non-profit, Called Beyond Adventures, that takes families impacted by disability on outdoor adventures.
You can find them at https://calledtothetop.com/.

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Dan Hunter

Dan Hunter and his wife Janice have been married for forty-five years, have 5 children and 15 grandchildren. They have home schooled since 1993.  Dan is the author of nine history books which are used across the nation in private schools and home schools. He is a graduate of George Wythe University in Cedar City, Utah in Business and Biblical Studies, and was a private school teacher for 10 years.  Dan started Living History in 1999 when he started writing his history books.  In 2004 Dan and Jan bought Archive Publishers and Wholesome Books which they run with a lot of help from their children.  Wholesome Books is a home school/private school bookstore, and under the Archive Publishers name they re-publish out-of-print LDS and non-LDS books, with 200 titles currently available.  To add a little variety to his life, Dan recently retired as a driver=s education instructor after 17 years.

Class Description

A Hero demonstrates certain qualities in his/her character which brings out the best in themselves.  Secular and religious history give us plenty of examples of heroes.  We would do well to learn about these heroes from history, and follow their example so that we will become the kind of person others would like to follow.  This class will demonstrate from history the hero attributes of honesty, courage, leadership, integrity, honor, faith, and wisdom.  Come and learn what made these heroes great.

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Breann Duffin

Does her family always eat their daily veggies? Nope. Is her house a pristine canvas able to welcome guests at any moment? Also a negative. Sometimes as her six children, ranging from preschool to high school, pass by her, she wonders if their fashion inspiration came from a Dr. Suess book with tassels of hair flailing, mismatched socks, no shoes, and the constant reminder to brush their teeth. Sacrifices had to be made as Breann Duffin grinded to learn everything she could about how to educate in a superhuman way. She has earned two Bachelor’s Degrees from Brigham Young University-Idaho. The first in Agriculture and the second in Secondary Education; certificates in Agriculture and All Sciences. She earned her Master’s Degree in Education in Curriculum Design and Instruction with an emphasis in Learning Design and Technology from Purdue University. She added her Elementary Education certificate after she finished her master’s degree. Over the last twenty years, she has taught all levels, PreK through 12th grade, and also has a decade of experience in teaching at the university and adult levels. She has trained teachers from all over the nation, built a thriving music studio of fifty students, started and directed a PreK-12th grade youth softball program in her community, sang her heart out as the lead in the community musicals, served as the president of her town’s Arts Council, and has built the curriculum for and mentored three IDX STEAM teams who all won first place in Idaho.  She did all this as she was doing the most important work of homeschooling and nurturing her family. Her most valuable experiences have come through the constant introspection of her family’s character, their level of motivation and diligence, and the educational methodologies used in their homeschool. She is honored to be amongst other beautiful individuals at this conference as we learn to develop strengths that make us secretly superhuman.

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Meet Julie

Julie Lopez is a homeschooling veteran of 23 years. She has loved every minute and is fighting being placed into forced retirement, as most of her children have graduated and moved on, by helping others on their journeys. She has opened her own micro-schooling program, MAPLE Scholars, this fall, still teaches at the local co-op, and enjoys discussing homeschooling and mentoring every opportunity she has.

Her older children are on missions and attending college with merit scholarships- all in their own interests. She has used a variety of methods to homeschool all the way through highschool and is a strong believer that these years can be some of the best and most rewarding of all.

Julie started what is now called the “Quest” homeschool co-op 11 years ago with some friends and a lot of advice from those that went before (because what better way is there to learn?). She has taught the 12-18 year olds for all 11 of those years. Her classes have been varied including: Shakespeare, History, Biology, Videography, Mock trial, Government, Leadership, Robotics, Simulations, Speech and writing. She has also directed 6 Shakespeare plays and run multiple youth trips and other opportunities for the youth. Her favorite saying is: “It’s not about the play, it’s about the kids.”

In her spare time, she loves reading all kinds of books, spending time with family(especially her 1 year old grandaughter), serving on the board of the ARRE Foundation, dreaming up new ideas for special needs schools and supports, and diving into medical research to help find answers for her beautiful younger daughter who has some severe special needs.

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Leah Stoddard

Leah M. Stoddard is a citation editor, lead animator, graphic designer, and sound designer for the Joseph Smith Foundation. She was interviewed in the documentary, Hidden Bloodlines: The Grail e the Lost Tribes in the Lands of the North. She also contributes through research, editing, web development, and more. In her free time, Leah enjoys animal husbandry, cooking, art, music, studying Gospel

topics, and working at their family-owned perennial garden retreat. Leah is excited about freedom, the Gospel, working with her siblings, and establishing a multigenerational vision
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Dr Daniel Nelsen

Dr. Nielson is one of two doctors in Idaho who are board certified in vision development, vision therapy and vision rehabilitation. He completed his BS degree from Brigham Young University in both Rexburg and Provo, and then his doctor of optometry at Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee. He went on to complete a residency at Child and Family Eyecare in Wichita, Kansas where he received specific training in Pediatrics, Vision Therapy, and Neuro-Rehabilitation. He has sought out additional training with pediatrics and vision therapy because of the positive impact he has seen in patients who have been treated for binocular vision problems. At Idaho Vision Development Center he diagnoses and treats vision difficulties such as tracking issues, double vision, headaches, and lazy or turned eyes. He is passionate about helping others reach their fullest visual potential.

Beyond 20/20 Vision
Often vision is limited to a 20/20 view including doctors and other professionals. There are 17 different visual skills needed for reading and learning and seeing the eye chart clearly is only one of those skills. Binocular vision plays a significant role in one’s ability to read, write and even participate in sports. Common signs and symptoms of binocular vision issues will be discussed as well as their overlap with dyslexia and ADHD. Treatment options will be covered for binocular vision dysfunctions.

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