Course Instructors

Dede & Peter Dankelson are a Mom & 20-year old Son who share Peter’s life with a guitar and Goldenhar Syndrome.  They've been motivational speakers for over ten years all while navigating 35 surgeries and countless social situations as a result of Peter's facial difference.

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Peter is a 2019 School of Rock All Star, a Rare Storyteller & Music Ambassador for Harmony 4 Hope, and a certified #ChooseKind speaker for Children’s Craniofacial Association. 

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Dede serves on the Board of Directors for both charities and has extensive experience writing and speaking about raising a medically-complex child, marriage & parenting, special education, grief & loss, and living your life with intention and purpose.  She and her husband of 23 years are the proud parents of two teenage boys, Jacob 16 and Peter 20.