E-Gen

11/04/2026

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PATIENCE!
THE INFO PACK IS BEING SENT OUT BETWEEN TONIGHT (SUNDAY) & TUESDAY.
IT’S BEEN A MAMMOTH EFFORT WITH MORE OPTIONS AVAILABLE & WITH SOME TECH CHALLENGES 🙏🥰

TERM 2 - ready, GO🚦🟢👏

🍂🍁 Autumn-Winter ❄️🧣

✅ INFO PACKS are ready to email this weekend
✅ The BOOKING site is open!

NEWS…..

🌟 4-Wk Trials for young ones wanting a short and solid experience - before committing to a term 🚫

🌟 Empowering Teens program has landed and ready to take off this term 🛬🛫

🌟 More new & inspiring programs are on offer ♾️✨

We’re rocking the charts this term with ‘NEWS’ and continuing with the good Ol’ favourites 🎶🎙️👏😃💞

Comment below if you want an INFO PACK 👇ℹ️ 📑…..

Michelle Heriot
E-Gen

06/04/2026

E-Gen TERM 2 - Info Pack
In-person & On-line learning
Sessions run weekdays
9AM to 6PM
Bookings OPEN SOON
Request the INFO PACK & enquiry with.....michelleh@e-gen.com.au

What parents are noticing...
“Our kids actually want to get up and go. There’s no stress like school mornings anymore.”
“Both my children learn differently, and they are understood and supported here.”
“My son developed real skills and confidence that he now uses in everyday life.”

06/04/2026

E-Gen TERM 2 - Info Pack
In-person & On-line learning
Sessions run weekdays
9AM to 6PM
Bookings OPEN SOON
Request the INFO PACK & enquiry with....michelleh@e-gen.com.au

What parents are noticing...
“Our kids actually want to get up and go. There’s no stress like school mornings anymore.”
“Both my children learn differently, and they are understood and supported here.”
“My son developed real skills and confidence that he now uses in everyday life.”

06/04/2026

E-Gen TERM 2 - Info Pack
In-person & On-line learning
Sessions run weekdays
9AM to 6PM
Bookings OPEN SOON
Email expressions of interest & enquiries...michelleh@e-gen.com.au

What parents are noticing...
“Our kids actually want to get up and go. There’s no stress like school mornings anymore.”
“Both my children learn differently, and they are understood and supported here.”
“My son developed real skills and confidence that he now uses in everyday life.”

28/03/2026

I'm GIFTING a **4-wk TRIAL** for TERM 2 @ E-Gen
For an online or in-person group program.

TO ENTER: Comment "YES" & DM Michelle Heriot here with your email address to receive entry details & our TERM 2 Info Pack...

28/03/2026

**GIVEAWAY** 4wk TRIAL of E-Gen Programs
Find your North with E-Gen - where young people explore interests, build confidence, and grow real-world skills!
WHERE: In person (Frankston South) & online programs (anywhere in Australia)
FOR: Young people 8 to 18 years (mainstream schoolers & homeschoolers)
TIMES: Between 9:00am & 7:00pm weekdays
COMMENT / DM: comment & DM Michelle for entry details...

I'm GIFTING a **4-wk TRIAL** for TERM 2 @ E-Gen
For an online or in-person group program.

TO ENTER: Comment "YES" & DM Michelle Heriot here with your email address to receive entry details & our TERM 2 Info Pack...

11/02/2026

🙌6 WEEKS at E-GEN🙌

Starting…
Wednesday 25 February

Our regular families have already booked.
We have a few more places available for young people 10 to 19 years.

DETAILS & BOOKING info below…..

9:00-10:30
📚📖 AUTHORS CLUB
Express your authentic voice through guided skills and independent writing of genres including short and long stories, poetry, song lyrics, and film scripts.

9:00-10:30
🔨🪚 WOODWORK
Learn fundamental design and building skills while making something you will take away. Learn how to use traditional hand tools and modern power tools.
New to E-Gen Woodwork - you’ll start with our guided set projects.
Experienced with E-Gen Woodwork - you’ll work on a chosen project once you’ve proven your capability.

11:00-1:00
✍️ 🖼️ 🎨 MAD Creators (Media, Art, Design) Explore multiple skillsets or one set of skills from these three modalities.
Each person will turn their focus inwards connecting to developing their authentic expression and style, and then to an outward focus through the application of relevant skills and tools to express their creations.

11:00-1:00
💠 📐❄️ GEOMETRY in 3D
Turn maths into an exploration of geometric structures using a variety of 2D and 3D materials for paper design patterns, frames, and solid geometry.
Explore mathematical concepts and skills through using various three-dimensional forms and their origins and links to contemporary design and functions in play equipment, engineering, and architecture.

1:30-3:00
🌱🍅🪏🍓🥬 NATURE CULTURE
This season we will explore the core principles of permaculture and how these relate to our functional lives.
We will engage in exercises to design a permaculture environment for our own living space, make natural products for self care, experiment with growing food to nurture through the season, and prepare food to eat during each session.

FEES:
These are the fees per person for the 6 weeks and include all materials and take-home creations.
Our discount is already applied regardless of booking one or multiple programs.

Authors Club
$198

Woodwork
$240

MAD Creators
$240

Nature Culture
$240

Please DM me for details to book.
Once booked, you will receive our Registration Pack.
Remember to DM me your email address.

We look very much forward to recommencing in a few weeks on February 25.

Warm regards,
Michelle Heriot

05/02/2026

🌟Award winning documentary…
‘Between the Mountain & the Sky’

She decided to stay and another world opened up ♥️
We have choice to open up to possibilities with love and impact the world 💜

21/01/2026

🤚 EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST - comment below or DM me…..

🟢 WHAT’S HAPPENING AT E-GEN in 2026 ⁉️

February • March • April

Places are opening up for in-person (in Frankston South) and on-line (Australia wide) programs and workshops at E-Gen on Wednesdays and Thursdays 🤲

STARTING FEBRUARY

FEB 2️⃣ for in-person and online one-on-one Mastery Maths and Mastery English Coaching

FEB 2️⃣ for in-person and online one-on-one Skills Coaching in any of the following:
- Animation
- Cartoon Character Drawing
- General Drawing
- Art & mindful therapy

FEB 2️⃣5️⃣ for 6 small group sessions in the following:
- Woodwork
- Traditional crafts (e.g. weaving, crochet, bush crafts)
- Permaculture & Natural Living
- MAD Creators (Media, Art, Design) open studio
- 3D Geometry Structures

FEB 2️⃣6️⃣ for 6 small group sessions of our in-person TEENS program.

⭐️ We’re over the moon and stars 😉 excited to be launching our very own in-house developed TEEN program - designed to empower teens with skills to lead meaningful, fulfilling and successful lives.
This program will run on Thursdays (Feb 26 to Apr 2).

🎫 BOOKINGS for ALL programs and workshops open next week 🎟️

🤚 EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST - comment below or DM me…..

20/01/2026

ARE YOU SITTING ON THE FENCE?? 🤨🙋🏫🏡

DM me if you want to chat about our journey… 💬

Home-educating, home-schooling, de-schooling, un-schooling, world schooling…

These are ALL different ways that young people can learn outside of the mainstream.

Mainstream schooling is NOT every young human’s best way to learn! It is NOT the ONLY way!

My son and I jumped onto our homeschooling journey at the age of 12 for his secondary years and I WISH we had homeschooled ALL of his schooling years!

Here’s an insight into WHY it works so well….. 💜

08/01/2026

STARTING HOMESCHOOLING?

When we began homeschooling I began setting up timetables with subjects slotted into timeslots, mirroring a school routine at home. I quickly learnt this wasn’t working.

The next steps for my son and I involved an unravelling of our beliefs about what education and learning actually is.

We began to discover a different way to learn. We naturally morphed into being ‘unschoolers’ and followed areas of his interests, unfolding and discarding conditioned beliefs that mainstream school was the only way to get a good rounded education.
The contrary is true in our world, and many others, now.

The number of families choosing to homeschool and unschool is growing. It’s an exciting adventure, authentic and one I am so relieved we followed.

Life is a rich platform for learning - it is real, immersive, and contains the foundations we need to build our strengths and learn to be confident inner leaders, agents of our own lives.

If you’re unsure it will be the right decision, just try it and stay with it if it’s working better than mainstream.

Looking back living with regrets that you didn’t make a decision to try because you were scared, will eat you up.
Summon courage if in your heart it feels like what may work. You can always return to what you always did if the trial doesn’t work.

03/01/2026

REFLECTIONS 🌟💭💜

School Can’t
Deschooling
Unschooling
Another way?

Having tried 3 schools because we thought a different school would be the answer. It wasn’t!

His mental/emotional health hit rock bottom. He heard about homeschooling from a friend and told me he wanted to do this, not school.

We restructured our life and built our world around a new way of life. I started up a homeschool coop for his and my social needs and after a year plus of deschooling (resetting his collapsed nervous system), he began exploring his interests, learning about what motivated him.
Slowly, the curiosity to learn that he once had as a very young child, emerged.

We followed a form of ‘unschooling’.
It was a different way.
We discovered it supported his natural way of learning.

Fast forward - he is 19, happy, has a strong inner confidence and a group of lovely friends, has further explored his interests through TAFE education and is working, saving money to set himself up for his future, and beginning a business.

Like many his age, he’s not yet certain of what career he wants to delve into, and really, the whole ‘what do you want to do and be when you grow up’ paradigm is flawed. I’ll expand on this in another post.

Sometimes we need to question the status quo, what we blindly believe and what others say is the ‘right thing to do’, and summons courage to try a different way, then trust that the different way may be the solution.

First and utmost…
Follow the rule of 80:20…
Focus 80% on your child’s mental and emotional health, 20% on academic development.
When their mental and emotional health (their happiness, esteem, and confidence) is on track, they will expand academically regardless of the way they learn.

School is not the solution for all!

Michelle Heriot
Visioneur & Founder
E-Gen