Speaking & media

30 years in education distilled into inspiring and actionable mindset with tools to inspire a life and homeschool you love.

Inspiring homeschool parents To create meaningful CONNECTIONS, inspire a LOVE of LEARNING, and find PEACEFUL days.

PAST SPEAKING INCLUDES

Watch Julie speak

signature TALKS

The FEAST of the Charlotte Mason Method

“We spread an abundant and delicate feast in the programmes and each small guest assimilates what he can.” (Charlotte Mason, Vol. 6, p. 183) Charlotte Mason states that a child’s mind must be fed a consistent diet of living ideas in order to grow intellectually in the same way a child’s body needs nourishing food for proper development. She proposed that the role of the educator is to consistently prepare this abundant and rich feast. In this 101 workshop, you will be given an overview of Charlotte Mason’s foundational principles, leaving you inspired to create an educational feast for your family. Come whet your appetite and see how this Victorian educational pioneer can transform your home school!

the essential tools of a Charlotte Mason Education

Do you desire to provide a nurturing and individualized education for your children. The educational philosopher Charlotte Mason proposed a radical (for her day) concept- children are born persons. Therefore, they deserve to be allowed to grow at their own pace instead of being pushed along like a product on a conveyor belt of force-fed information.Charlotte Mason said we have three tools available for our use as educators: Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, and a life. Join Julie Ross, creator of A Gentle Feast and homeschool veteran of 20+ years, to learn how to use these tools to create a nourishing homeschool. Home education should be a life-enriching experience, extending beyond academic instruction to encompass all aspects of a person. You don’t have to duplicate school at a home. There is an art to creating a family-centered and meaning-filled education.

Getting Unstuck: Get Out of The Mental Ruts That Are Holding You Back

As the thermostats of our home, we are constantly setting the temperatures within our family by the thoughts that we repeatedly think. In order to transform our homeschools, we need to transform the negative thoughts that keep us stuck in self-defeating cycles. In this powerful talk, Certified Christian Life Coach and creator of A Gentle Feast, Julie Ross, will help you identify your negative mental patterns and give you practical tools to develop a success mindset. Including a combination of Charlotte Mason’s teaching on mental habits, cutting edge neuroscience, and Biblical principles, this talk will leave you empowered to transform your thoughts for a more positive homeschool.

Nitty Gritty Narration

“Where are all the workbooks, study guides, comprehension questions, and tests?” Julie H Ross often gets asked this common question when she shows the stack of books she is using for the coming school year. When she told a mother about Charlotte Mason’s powerful practice of having the students retell, or narrate, back what they read or heard, the mother responded, “It sounds too good to be true. Is it really that easy?” Julie’s answer: “It is far from easy, but the practice is powerful.” Join Julie H Ross for this informative workshop where she breaks down this powerful method into simple steps that will equip you to start implementing this practice right away.

Meet Julie

Julie H Ross believes that every child needs a feast of living ideas to grow intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. As a former public school teacher, Curriculum Coordinator, and Assistant Director of a Homeschool Academy, Julie Ross has worked with hundreds of students and parents throughout her career.. She has also been homeschooling her own five children for the past 20 years. Julie Ross developed the Charlotte Mason curriculum, A Gentle Feast, to provide parents with the tools and resources needed to provide a rich and abundant educational feast full of books, beauty, and Biblical truth. As Certified Chrisitan Life Coach, Julie helps moms find a life of freedom from the negative thoughts and patterns that are holding them back. Julie lives in South Carolina with her family. When she’s not busy homeschooling, reading children’s books, hiking, or writing curriculum, you can find her taking a nap.

BS Elementary Education, Penn State University

Certified Life Coach, Life Mentoring School

CEO Gentle Feast Press

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

I’ve tried several curriculums and the other CM curriculums I’ve tried were too intense – required hours and hours of prep from the parent and every subject seemed to be laden with tons of extras that were hard for me to hold all together.

-Mindy

AGF just made sense to me! I saw that it covered all the CM subjects in an organized way without being over-the-top parent-intense. It was clear & do-able, diffusing my overwhelm, and it was beautiful!

– Johanna

Grab a Headshot

download the image

Inquire

Book Julie for your podcast or live event, and let her inspire and encourage your audience.

Is a Charlotte Mason philosophy a good fit for your family?

Imagine… Discussing big ideas, Reading rich literature, Exploring nature, Connecting over art and music.

Why keep spinning your wheels trying to fill your child with information when you can inspire them to become life-long learners