The Communication Architect

There are many powerful reasons for breaking free of the toxic teachings of traditional education. And it's not only about the overtly soul-less content found in the public system. As Ken Ham has pointed out, many of today's Christian schools are also failing to produce thinkers, doers, disciples. More often than not, according to Ham's research, Christian schools have simply mirror...

As a nation, we have wasted an extraordinary amount of time and resources in the public sector trying to fix a broken system. As John Taylor Gatto says, "Over the years of wrestling with the obstacles that stand between child and education, I have come to believe that government monopoly schools are structurally unreformable. They cannot function if their central myths are exposed and abandon...

At this point, most parents (at least in California), have awakened to the generational fallout from the public school indoctrination centers. They know it's time to make a change. But what if life is complicated? What if there are job requirements or single-parent households? Does homeschooling demand a 24/7 modality of education? One of the most frequent questions we get from parents is abo...

The generation coming after GenZ, Alphas, are predicted to be one of the largest global generations in history. Based on their training, habits, and incessant exposure to the world's values, they will be the most educated, the most sophisticated, and, if we don't turn the tide, the most liberal generation of all time. There is a constant battle for control of their consumer patterns, the...

New homeschoolers face many unknowns: What books should I use? How do I motivate my child? Where do I begin? What have I gotten myself into? Join Dr. Lisa Dunne as she unravels the  mysteries of curriculum selection, learning styles, and student motivation to help parents assess and address their children's unique developmental styles. Dr. Dunne is a lifelong homeschooling parent, the author...

Part two of my interview with Corie Di Matteo, who shares the lessons learned and mindsets shattered as she stepped into the new role of parent educator this year. Be encouraged by her take on relational resets, redefining priorities, and detoxing from the one-size-fits-none model of public education. From the highly secularized environments of the public school system, where the Great Commission...

Plato once said the two most important questions every civilization must ask are these: “Who teaches the children, and what are they being taught?” From the highly secularized environments of the public school system, where the Great Commission has literally been outlawed on our watch, to the ineffective educational methodology that’s dumbing America down, the next generation is caught in an under...

Part one of my interview with Corie Di Matteo! Join us on this week's show as Corie shares the lessons learned and mindsets shattered as she stepped into the new role of parent educator this year. Be encouraged by her take on relational resets, redefining priorities, and detoxing from the one-size-fits-none model of public education. From the highly secularized environments of the public scho...

Don't miss part two of this interview with Kevin McGary! Over the last two decades, Marxist ideologies have gradually seeped into the foundations of the nation's educational landscape, planting seeds of division and discord in America's soil through its ultimate training ground: the K to college public education system. In part one of this interview with culture-shaper Kevin McGary,...

Over the last two decades, Marxist ideologies have gradually seeped into the foundations of the nation's educational landscape, planting seeds of division and discord in America's soil through its ultimate training ground: the K to college public education system. In part one of this interview with culture-shaper Kevin McGary, we discuss what he calls the current fruit of Marxism, a move...

Mass media consumption has a predictable, calculable impact on a significant portion of the population. Knowing its potential pitfalls should propel us to small changes (or perhaps sweeping ones) in our mass media consumption. In this final episode of the Media Literacy season, Dr. Dunne reminds us of the individual and collective impact of media on our sense of self, our identity formation, givin...

Who are you? How did you become the person you are today? In a mass-media centric world, this is an increasingly vital question. We are not only a biological bundle of genetically-inherited traits; we are also the product of our surroundings. We become like the company we choose to keep. Whether it’s a physical friend or a virtual one, our beliefs and our behaviors are fashioned by the voices to w...

 If you’ve ever been trapped in a paradigm, emerged from it, and then looked back in retrospect at the folly of deception, you have probably experienced a sense of amazement that you could have been so incredibly misled, so convincingly deceived by something so unreal. Many people today live in similarly problematic paradigms, caught up in a world that is more of an invasive  illusion than a true...

The wisest man in history, King Solomon, once said that humans become like the company we keep.  Put another way, "We are the sum total of the five people we spend most of our time with."  Now, parents are defensively aware of any stranger who might try to befriend their son or daughter, but what if the company kids keep is virtual, online, invisible to the eye? Does it still have power?...

In the classic children's story The Emperor's New Clothes, two swindlers trick an entire village into pretending they don't see reality. Fearful of looking foolish before their fellow villagers, the men and women go along with the elaborate hoax, playing on the vanity of the emperor and their own pride. Instead of blowing the whistle, the villagers remain stuck in groupthink, creati...

The benefits of connection are well known. From emotional to social to spiritual to physiological health, connection with other people influences our health at the macro and micro levels. However, it seems that there is a concerted effort today to isolate people from one another. After months of quarantine, California's governor even declared that families couldn't gather for Thanksgivin...

Are we influenced by the company we keep? Do we absorb ideologies, lifestyles, beliefs, and behaviors through the process of repeated exposure to specific constructs? Join me for this week’s podcast as we unpack classical conditioning, conspicuous consumption, and the “coddling of the American mind.” In their insightful book by the same title, Lukianoff and Haidt assess the collective decline of c...

In part one of this two-part series, Dr. Dunne explains the foundations of entertainment-education and how music and other forms of media have shaped belief and behavior over the last seven decades. Through a targeted approach toward certain demographics and a highly specialized and well-researched agenda, lobbyists utilize mainstream media to attempt to change thoughts, actions, lifestyles, indiv...

In part two of this two-part series, Dr. Dunne explains the foundations of entertainment-education and how music and other forms of media have shaped belief and behavior over the last seven decades. Through a targeted approach toward certain demographics and a highly specialized and well-researched agenda, lobbyists utilize mainstream media to attempt to change thoughts, actions, lifestyles, indiv...

In 605 BC, an Old Testament warrior experienced some intense trauma. Over the span of his life, he was captured, relocated, renamed, indoctrinated, and threatened with violent death. He could have been bitter about his captivity, angry about his sentence, livid about his separation from home, but instead, he determined to live a life set apart--even in the midst of total cultural indoctrination. A...

From fatherlessness to false narratives to chronic stress, our nation is experiencing significant trauma during this season of history. We can find hope and healing both as individuals and a collective whole by understanding our biochemical design, our internal wiring for secure attachments and healing through the connectivity of healthy relationships. When we look at the human body and brain unde...

How does our education shape our communication, our beliefs, our behavior? One of the most powerful systems of modern socialization is the K to college school system. In the US educational sector, about 56 millions students attend public schools each year with another 5.6 million in private schools and another 2 million in homeschools (pre-COVID homeschooling). How important is education to our be...

Our social surroundings dramatically influence our paradigms. From our early childhood experiences to our educational systems to our social relationships, our brains are shaped to make automatic decisions on the paradigms we've adopted over the course of our lives. Will we seek vengeance or forgiveness? Will we seek division or unity? These responses, these actions, stem largely from beliefs...

Have you ever felt a little defensive about something someone said or did, and then the more you thought about it, the more you felt a wall being formed, brick by brick, between you and the other person? We all have moments where we feel isolated, frustrated, or caught off guard by someone's words or actions. At times, these events can feel like momentary glitches in our sense of self, but ot...

Welcome to Season 3! Over the next several episodes, we will be unpacking the impact of mindset on our beliefs, our behaviors, and of course, our communication! Discover practical tools that will activate your faith, reset your organizational culture, and transform your interpersonal relationships. In Episode 11, Dr. Dunne analyzes the formation of mindsets: their origin, their potential inaccurac...