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Meet Our Esteemed Experts in Trauma

Our lineup includes distinguished mental health professionals, certified trauma coaches, seasoned practitioners, and inspiring trauma survivors. They will share cutting-edge insights, innovative techniques, and personal experiences to offer hope, encouragement, and empowerment to every attendee.

VINCENT CASTELLANOS - CTRC, RADT, SUDC

Keynote #2: The Responsibly Principle

In "The Responsibility Principle," Vincent Castellanos offers a profound exploration into the interplay between resilience and responsibility, particularly through the lens of trauma recovery. This talk illuminates how childhood trauma can distort our understanding of responsibility, leading to either excessive or insufficient responsibility in adulthood. Castellanos guides us in redefining responsibility by recognizing its deep connection with resilience—an essential element for true recovery and personal growth.

By the end of this talk, you'll be inspired to embrace responsibility as a path to healing and empowerment, recognizing that true freedom from trauma begins with taking charge of your own recovery and wellbeing.

Join Vincent Castellanos on this transformative journey and discover how responsibility can become as natural and essential as breathing.

Gina Fox - Certified Trauma-Informed Neuro Transformative Practitioner

Keynote Speaker #2 - Turning Pain into Purpose: Harnessing Strength from Struggles

In this compelling keynote, "Turning Pain into Purpose," we explore the transformative potential of pain and purpose in our lives. Pain, while challenging, can become a powerful catalyst for personal growth and meaningful change. This session will guide you through understanding how pain can be reframed as a source of strength and motivation.

We’ll delve into real-life stories of how we turned our struggles into significant achievements, demonstrating that pain can lead to profound personal and professional development. You'll learn practical strategies for harnessing your own experiences of pain, including methods for reflection, goal setting, and building resilience.

The audience will feel empowered, validated, and inspired to turn your own challenges into purposeful and positive outcomes, transforming adversity into a driving force for your goals and aspirations, and to take the next steps towards personal growth and transformation.

Transforming The Mind with Restructuring Through a Biblical Lens- (Breakout)

Brief Description: Learn the neuroscience of how trauma affects the brain and nervous system. How that trauma affects our relationship with God. Through the use of restructuring and biblical principles, we can change the neurons for mindset change.

We will teach BOTH biblical principles and other principles for mindset change.

Releasing Trauma on the Cellular Level (Workshop)

Brief Description: Is an innovative workshop designed to delve into the profound effects of trauma on the body's cellular structure. Unlike traditional approaches that focus solely on the psychological aspects of trauma, this workshop addresses the physiological imprints left at the cellular level, where trauma can linger and disrupt overall health.
Guests will explore how trauma is stored in the body's cells and learn practical techniques to release these deep-seated imprints. The workshop integrates includes somatic movements, trauma informed movements and relaxation techniques. By focusing on cellular health, the workshop aims to rejuvenate the body's natural healing mechanisms, promoting physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
Guests will leave with a deeper understanding of how trauma affects their bodies and equipped with tools to support ongoing healing and transformation. "Releasing Trauma on the Cellular Level" offers a unique and powerful approach to recovery, empowering individuals to achieve holistic wellness by addressing trauma at its core.

Amy Pagett - ICF TICC, Certified Self-Sabotage Coach, Certified Breathwork Facilitator, and an Elementary Educator.

Breathwork (2 hour breakout & workshop in One)

Trauma changes the way we breathe. Survivors often hold their breath or take shallow inhales. This creates distress within the body & doesn't allow for optimal breathing.

Change the way you breathe and it changes your life. Join Amy Pagett as she helps you connect to your breath using sensory awareness & somatic embodiment. Explore the science of breathing as well as gain practical breathing tools to help optimize your breathwork experience.

Parenting with a dysregulated Nervous System (Breakout)

Children are always coregulating with their caregivers. A regulated parent cultivates a healthy environment for a regulated child.

Deepen your understanding of your nervous system and gain tools to help self-regulate. Just as trauma is generational so is healing.

One of the greatest gifts we can offer our children is self-regulation. A regulated caregiver parents from a place of connection rather than control.

JEREMIAH FULMER - CTCP, CATSS-A

Self-Care (Breakout): This Breakout will provide an overview of Self-care and the importance of caring for ourselves to enhance our ability to care for our clients, patients, students and others that we work with and care for. This session includes a brief interactive Self-care assessment.

Self-Care (Workshop): This is an interactive workshop where we dive a little deeper into assessing what Self-care looks like in our own lives. Together we will create a Self-Care plan that is custom to you that will give you actionable strategies you can put to use directly.

ALINDA QUINN Certified Trauma Recovery Coach, Mental Health Educator

Attachment and the Struggling Student (Breakout) This course offers an overview of attachment styles and explores the ways that these styles and potential wounding show up in student behavior, performance, and relationships.

The Well-Regulated Teacher (Workshop) This course examines the common states of the nervous system in non-medical terminology and how these states shift throughout our daily lives, especially for teachers The class offers tips to help educators recognize and regulate those states and co-regulate with students in an effort to sustain a more effective and fulfilling classroom experience.

The Trauma-Informed Classroom (Breakout) The course, an introduction to trauma in the classroom, aims to raise educator awareness of trauma response behaviors among students and themselves. It offers trauma-sensitive strategies to foster warmth and safety in the learning environment. Attendees will walk away with a deepened ability to view student behavior through a trauma lens.

ALYSSA DECKER Certified Relationship Life Coach

Heart-to-Heart: Practicing Connection and Conflict Resolution (Breakout) Dive deeper into the concepts introduced in the Bridging the Gap workshop with the breakout session, "Heart-to-Heart: Practicing Connection and Conflict Resolution." This interactive session offers a hands-on approach to applying the skills and techniques needed to resolve conflicts and strengthen relationships. In this breakout, you'll engage in an interactive group coaching session, where we demonstrate and practice relationship conflict resolution strategies using YOUR real life scenarios. Led by a practicing conflict coach, this breakout will provide practical tools and immediate practice to enhance your ability to connect and resolve conflicts with greater ease and understanding. Join us to turn theory into practice and make meaningful strides in your communication and relationship journey.

Bridging the Gap: Building Connection to Resolve Relationship Conflicts (Workshop) Join Alyssa to learn how to forge bonds and connection, in a way that not only helps resolve conflict, but also avoids so many potential relationship pitfalls. This session is designed to help you understand the underlying causes of ongoing conflicts and develop practical skills to foster meaningful connections with your partner, friends, or children. You'll learn how to: - Identify and address the root causes of conflict - Communicate empathetically and increase the chances of connection - Build trust and understanding in your relationships (even the short term ones!) - Implement tools and techniques to prevent and resolve disputes Whether you're dealing with persistent issues or seeking to enhance your relationship dynamics, this workshop provides actionable insights and strategies to bridge gaps and create lasting harmony. Don't miss this opportunity to transform your relationships and find new paths to resolution and connection

ROBERT KEHOE - Certified Trauma-Informed Advocate for Humanity

Mindfulness Meditation (Breakout and Workshop in One) x2 sessions
In this dynamic 90-minute session we’ll embark on a journey into the life-changing practices of mindfulness and meditation. Through thought provoking teaching and interactive exercises, your experience with me will begin to chart a way forward into a phase of transformation and realization. Mindfulness and meditation are closely connected, often overlapping, yet they serve distinct purposes within the broader practice of mental and emotional well-being.

Mindfulness: Mindfulness is the practice of paying attention to the present moment without judgment. It involves being fully aware of what’s happening around you and within you - your thoughts, emotions, sensations - without getting caught up in them. The goal is to cultivate a sense of awareness that carries into everyday life, helping you respond to situations more thoughtfully rather than reacting impulsively.

Meditation: Meditation is a broader practice that typically involves dedicating time to focus and calm the mind. There are various forms of meditation, and mindfulness meditation is one of them. In mindfulness meditation, the focus is often on the breath or bodily sensations, allowing you to observe your thoughts and feelings without attachment

WENDY APPLE - Certified Neurographica Art Instructor

Neurographica Art - 2 hour Session Hands on Workshop. NeuroGraphica®: Draw Your Way Free NeuroGraphica® is a simple yet powerful drawing technique that gives you access to your subconscious, allowing you to rewire your brain. Leveraging the science of neuroplasticity (neurons that fire together, wire together), we learn to draw ourselves into new patterns and set ourselves free.

CASEY KANG HEAD Somatics Breathwork Practitioner

Somatic Healing (Breakout one time only Saturday) How getting into the body utilizing somatic movement and somatic breath work helps heal trauma & PTSD. What we don’t express we repress and through this bottom-up approach to healing is another way to get below the surface of the unconscious mind

AJA RUTLEDGE Self-Alignment & Trauma Coach

"Healing Trauma as a Full Body Experience" (Workshop/Hands-on)
In this session, we will explore trauma from a holistic perspective, understanding that healing must happen on a cellular level and through the body’s systems for true transformation. This workshop will guide you through the core aspects of addressing trauma, from recognizing the role of gut health and mineral deficiencies to tapping into your intuition and releasing trapped emotions stored in your body. By learning to work with your body’s innate intelligence, you’ll begin to unlock deeper layers of healing that conventional methods may overlook.

Participants will leave this session with a clear understanding of how trauma is stored in the body and how addressing cells, the gut, and mineral imbalances can be powerful steps toward healing. You'll also gain practical techniques to release trapped emotions and reconnect with your intuition, giving you the tools needed for full-body trauma healing and ongoing wellness.

"It's Not You! It's Your Family"
This workshop dives deep into the hidden effects of intergenerational trauma, exploring how inherited pain and behaviors shape family dynamics and individual experiences. Designed for those looking to break the cycles that have impacted their emotional and mental well-being, you'll gain a clear understanding of how trauma within the family system is passed down and how it affects your personal identity.

Throughout the session, you’ll discover practical tools to recognize and interrupt harmful patterns within your family; while also learning strategies to heal from the impact of inherited trauma so you can reclaim your life and create a new, empowered path forward.

Gabrielle Hull Certified Trauma Support Specialist, Certified Peer Support Specialist

Keynote Speaker #2 - Turning Pain into Purpose: Harnessing Strength from Struggles

The Neuroscience Behind the Mental Health Benefits of Artistic Modalities (Breakout) Join this discussion and delve into the meditative, mind-body mental health benefits of Tai Chi and Waltzing. You'll learn how positive community connections and somatic modalities can foster healing and aid in the well-being of those recovering from trauma or addiction.

Waltzing (Workshop) In this workshop, you'll learn how to Waltz! Explore this somatic modality to find how it decreases depression and anxiety, improves mood, and improves memory function. Not only does Waltzing benefit mental health, but it also fosters the understanding of respectful social etiquette.

Martial Mindset: Fighting The War in Our Heads (Workshop) Join this self-defense workshop and explore the mental health benefits of learning self-defense. Not only does this somatic modality build confidence, but it also provides a sense of discipline and structure. Martial arts also aid in the recovery process by fostering a goal-oriented, growth mindset and provides positive outlets in a controlled environment.

Judith Belton PhD

Keynote #1: Empowering Your Inner Narrative: Unleashing Emotional Freedom -

In this transformative keynote, we delve into the powerful role that narratives play in shaping our emotional and mental wellness. Join us as we explore the stories we inherit, create, and are conditioned to believe, and uncover how these narratives fuel our emotions.

Doodling Through Grief

This workshop is designed to help participants navigate and express the complex emotions associated with grief and loss through the practice of doodling. Using the Internal Family Systems (IFS) framework, attendees will learn to identify and connect with different parts of themselves, giving voice to the feelings that arise during the grieving process. By transforming these emotions into visual art, participants can develop a deeper understanding of their inner world and find a gentle, creative outlet for their grief.

Objectives:

- Introduce participants to the IFS model and how it relates to grief and loss.
- Guide participants in identifying and connecting with different parts of themselves through doodling.
- Create a safe space for exploring and expressing emotions related to grief.
- Empower participants to use doodling as a tool for ongoing emotional processing and self-leadership.

Supplies needed:
- Blank paper or sketchbooks
- Colored pencils, markers, or crayons
- Quiet space for reflection and doodling