Pre-Conference Sessions and Speakers

Our speakers

Our speakers bring expert knowledge and personal insight into the impact of trauma, offering strategies for healing and resilience. With a compassionate approach, they share valuable tools for understanding and overcoming the effects of trauma in both personal and professional contexts.

Gina

1. Creating A Relaxing Mind, Body, and Soul

2. Balancing Your Chakras Through Art

3. Instilling Positive Principles into Your Soul Through Art

Ciera

1. Why Do I Self-Sabotage? Uncovering Fears and Wounds That Lie Behind Self-Sabotage

2. How A Lack of Self-Love Leads to Self-Sabotage

Dr Judith Belton Ph.D.

1. Safe and Sound Protocol Reset

Session Times (all are in EST) and Descriptions of Each Session

10:00 AM ET:

Creating A Relaxed Mind, Body, and Soul Through Art

Creating a RELAXED mind, body, and soul through art involves using creative expression to reinforce empowering beliefs, values, and intentions. By engaging in art with mindfulness and purpose, individuals can connect with their inner selves and visually manifest qualities like self-love, gratitude, strength, and compassion. This process helps to shift negative thought patterns and cultivate a deeper sense of peace and positivity, allowing the artwork to become a tool for personal growth, healing, and spiritual alignment.

Guests will get a unique and enriching experience where they can tap into their inner creativity to cultivate positive principles like self-love, confidence, and inner peace. Through guided art activities, they will learn how to use artistic expression as a tool for emotional healing and personal growth. Participants can expect to leave with a deeper sense of empowerment, a tangible piece of art that reflects their intentions, and a renewed sense of positivity to carry with them in their daily lives.

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10:00 AM ET:

Balancing Your Chakras Through Art​

​Balancing chakras through art involves using creative expression drawing to channel and align the body's energy centers. Each chakra corresponds to different emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of life, and creating art with intention can help clear blockages, restore harmony, and promote healing. By focusing on colors, shapes, and symbols associated with each chakra, individuals can tap into their inner energy and cultivate balance, mindfulness, and emotional well-being.

Guests participating in a chakra balancing session can expect a calming and transformative experience aimed at restoring harmony to their physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Guests often leave feeling more centered, relaxed, and aware of their inner energy, with a greater sense of balance and emotional clarity.

SUPPLIES needed: watch video AFTER you purchase your conference ticket - paper (regular or cardstock), black fine liner, medium black sharpie or acid free marker, crayons or colored pencils with ALL 7 colors of the Chakras

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11:00 AM ET:

Instilling Positive Principles Into Your Soul Through Art​

Instilling positive principles into your soul through art involves using creative expression to reinforce empowering beliefs, values, and intentions. By engaging in art with mindfulness and purpose, individuals can connect with their inner selves and visually manifest qualities like self-love, gratitude, strength, and compassion. This process helps to shift negative thought patterns and cultivate a deeper sense of peace and positivity, allowing the artwork to become a tool for personal growth, healing, and spiritual alignment.

Guests will get a unique and enriching experience where they can tap into their inner creativity to cultivate positive principles like self-love, confidence, and inner peace. Through guided art activities, they will learn how to use artistic expression as a tool for emotional healing and personal growth. Participants can expect to leave with a deeper sense of empowerment, a tangible piece of art that reflects their intentions, and a renewed sense of positivity to carry with them in their daily lives.

2:30 PM ET:

Why Do I Self-Sabotage? Uncovering Fears and Wounds That Lie Behind Self-Sabotage

Giving up on yourself, “falling off the wagon”, eating a package of Oreos at night when you stuck to your eating goals perfectly all day… these are all examples of self-sabotage, and they keep us from truly reaching our full potential and goals. This session will address the fears and wounds that often lie behind our habit of self-sabotage.

10:00 AM ET:

Safe and Sound Protocol Reset

Stacey

1. Harnessing the Power of Rapid Transformational Therapy for Developmental Trauma Recovery

Robert Kehoe

1. Empower yourself to cope with stress and adversity through mindfulness and self-compassion

2:30 PM ET:

How A Lack of Self-Love Leads to Self-Sabotage

Building off of the previous pre-conference session “Why Do I Self-Sabotage?”, this session takes a deep dive into how a lack of self-love is oftentimes one of the biggest culprits behind self-sabotage. During this session we’ll explore where that lack of self-love originated and why.

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3:00 PM ET:

Empower yourself to cope with stress and adversity through mindfulness and self-compassion

By connecting with their inner strength and practicing self-kindness, participants will discover a path towards healing and well-being. This workshop will empower trauma survivors to transform their relationship with themselves and their experiences, fostering a sense of peace and acceptance.

Register AFTER you purchase your conference ticket

10:00 AM ET:

Harnessing the Power of Rapid Transformational Therapy for Developmental Trauma

Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) can change lives by addressing the root of developmental trauma. Whether you’re healing yourself or supporting others, this talk will leave you:

💡 Learn how RTT can:

- Address the root causes of trauma

- Help you overcome limiting beliefs

- Rebuild confidence, resilience, and inner peace

Alyssa Decker

1. The Calm Within: How Emotional Regulation Transforms Relationships

1:00 PM ET:

The Calm Within: How Emotional Regulation Transforms Relationships

This one-hour interactive workshop will reveal the transformative power of emotional regulation in building healthier, more connected relationships. You’ll learn how to recognize your emotional triggers, stay composed during challenging moments, and respond with clarity instead of reacting impulsively

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11:00 AM ET:

Medical Trauma: Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure?

Exploring the link between medical trauma and PTSD, highlighting how survivors of trauma may struggle with fear, helplessness, or a loss of control during medical interventions. We will look into the physiological and psychological mechanisms that contribute to PTSD, explaining how trauma can disrupt the brain's stress response systems.

Oak Arias

1. Medical Trauma: Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure?

2. Resistance Training: How strength training can impact trauma recovery

3. Functional Resilience: Building reserves for the coming storms

4. Media Consumption and Vicarious Trauma: The nexus of instant updates and traumatization

1:30 PM ET:

Resistance Training: How strength training can impact trauma recovery

We explore the ways that strength training can play a significant role in healing from PTSD by providing both physical and psychological benefits that support recovery.

Monday, Feb 3rd Sessions

Tuesday, Feb 4th Sessions

Wednesday, Feb 5th Sessions

Thursday, Feb 6th Sessions

Friday, Feb 7th Sessions

Saturday, Feb 8th Sessions

Monday, Feb 10th Sessions

1:30 PM ET:

Functional Resilience: Building reserves for the coming storms

The relationship between functional resilience and healing from PTSD is that a person who has functional resilience may be better equipped to engage in recovery efforts, persevere through the challenges of healing, and regain their life in a meaningful way. Resilience does not mean the absence of struggle, but rather the ability to adapt and bounce back in the face of adversity, and it can be developed through therapy, support networks, self-care, and coping strategies.

Tuesday, Feb 11th Sessions

Wednesday, Feb 12th Sessions

Thursday, Feb 13th Sessions

Friday, Feb 14th Sessions

Saturday, Feb 15th Sessions

11:00 AM ET:

Media Consumption and Vicarious Trauma: The nexus of instant updates and traumatization

Vicarious trauma refers to the emotional, psychological, and sometimes physical responses that individuals experience after being exposed to the traumatic experiences of others, often through media, stories, or secondary interactions. It is particularly relevant in the context of media consumption, as individuals may experience distress after being exposed to graphic depictions of trauma, violence, or suffering, even if they themselves were not directly involved.

3:00 PM ET:

Empower yourself to cope with stress and adversity through mindfulness and self-compassion

By connecting with their inner strength and practicing self-kindness, participants will discover a path towards healing and well-being. This workshop will empower trauma survivors to transform their relationship with themselves and their experiences, fostering a sense of peace and acceptance.

Register AFTER you purchase your conference ticket