Alisha Brignall
INSPIRED Founding Director
Alisha is a passionate advocate for homeschooling and individualized learning options. Frustrated with the lack of individualized support for her neurodivergent child, she started homeschooling 15 years ago. She follows an eclectic homeschooling approach, including utilizing shared responsibility programming.
Noticing a need for more advocacy for home education students, she completed her B.Ed in 2020, while Inspired went on hiatus due to the pandemic. She joined ursa as a Home Education Manager, and recently completed her M.Ed with a focus on home education.
Alisha is excited to bring the conference out from its slumber with hopes of Inspiring a new community of home educators.
Michelle Goulet
INSPIRED Co-conspirator
Michelle Goulet is an Early Childhood Educator, forest school practitioner and post-secondary instructor who has been homeschooling her two neurodivergent children for 13 years. She is a strong advocate for meeting the individual needs of children for learning through play, creativity, and building relationships with others (including the natural world). Learning through experiences, reflection and travel (adventure) has allowed her to align her families educational goals with their capacity and needs. A self-identified education nerd, she achieved her Masters in Environmental Education and Communication in 2022 and continues to build on an unschooling curriculum while navigating high school with her teens.
Lyndsay Prasad
Lyndsay is in her eighth year of homeschooling, with over 25 years of experience in teaching roles ranging from K–12 to post-secondary. She holds a B.A., a B.Ed., and an M.A. in Writing, and has also worked as a Home Education Facilitator, where she discovered the joy of supporting families in their homeschool journeys while helping them discover meaningful, well-suited educational resources.
Her love for researching curriculum and finding high-quality academic materials inspired her to co-found The Paper Cabin, a place dedicated to offering practical tools, thoughtful resource suggestions, and encouragement for creating rich and engaging learning experiences
She’s happiest with a hot coffee in hand, a good book within reach, and the chance to cheer on her kids at their sports.
Diaane Liwanag
Dianne hopes that the knowledge gained from the Inspired Calgary Secular Conference will empower participants with confidence and ideas to create homeschool programming that is filled with learning, growth, and creating meaningful and lasting connections.