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Meet Our Esteemed Experts

They don’t just have the credentials — they bring a rare combination of curiosity, drive, and vision that fuels real change. Each expert on our team is more than a title. They are passionate thinkers, relentless problem-solvers, and compassionate leaders who are deeply committed to making a meaningful impact.

With years of experience and a forward-thinking mindset, they are constantly pushing boundaries, challenging norms, and reimagining what's possible, Their work speaks for itself - BUT their stories, insights, and dedication truly SET THEM APART.

Get to know the people redefining excellence - not just in their fields, but in the way they inspire progress, collaboration, and innovation every single day

Gina Fox - Certified Non-Clinical Neuro Transformative Practitioner | non-clinical art practitioner | Podcast host

MAIN CONFERENCE SESSIONS

Releasing Trauma Through Art -

Part 2 Workshop - Saturday 2 hour sessions

This restorative session offers a trauma-informed space to explore your body’s wisdom through Neuro-Somatics — a process that blends somatic awareness (felt sense, breath, sensation) with intuitive, expressive art-making. A transformational drawing method that helps bring subconscious patterns to light and creates new neural pathways through simple lines and shapes.

Trauma often gets stored in the body as sensation, tension, or disconnection. Through gentle guidance, you’ll learn to attune to your body’s messages and express what words may not yet be able to say — through lines, shapes, colors, and textures.

In this session, you’ll:

Be gently guided into body-based awareness using breath and grounding techniques
Learn how emotions and trauma show up in the nervous system and body
Use somatic prompts to create art that reflects, releases, and reclaims your inner experience
Practice regulation through movement, breath, and creative flow
Leave with a sense of deeper integration, emotional clarity, and nervous system support

No art experience is necessary — this is a practice of presence, not performance. Come as you are. All emotions, movements, and expressions are welcome. Because when we listen to the body and allow it to speak through art, healing becomes a living, breathing act of creativity.

Materials Needed: paper, black gel pen, small, medium and large sharpies or acid free markers, colored pencils or crayons

Part 2 Workshop - Sunday 2 hour session

Lines of Compassion: Befriending Your Nervous System Through Art

This expressive art session invites you into a powerful blend of nervous system wisdom and Neuro-Somatics — a transformational drawing method that helps bring subconscious patterns to light and creates new neural pathways through simple lines and shapes.

Together, we’ll explore how your nervous system is not something to fight or fix — but something to understand, honor, and support. Through guided drawing, you’ll map your inner experience, regulate emotions, and shift from survival mode into a state of grounded awareness.

In this session, you will:

Learn about the nervous system through a gentle, trauma-informed lens
Use the Neuro-Somatics technique to express and transform internal tension
Discover how art can support self-regulation, safety, and integration
Create a visual representation of your journey from reactivity to resilience
Leave with a tool you can return to again and again in moments of stress or reflection

No artistic skill or prior experience is required — just a willingness to draw lines, stay present, and be curious about what unfolds.

Because healing doesn’t always need words — sometimes, it starts with a line.

SUPPPLIES needed: paper (regular or cardstock), black fine liner, medium black sharpie or acid free marker, colored pencils or crayons.

If you are considering taking the Neuro-Somatics workshops above, please watch this tutorial to get familiar with the concept.

PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS

Why Releasing Trauma on the Cellular Level Is Important For Healing and Transformation: Releasing through Neuro-Somatic Art

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 the combination of art and neuroscience, 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 be 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.

Materials Needed: Paper, Sharpies or Pitt Pens, Colored Pencils, Open Mind and working Computer Camera

Your Nervous System Is NOT The Enemy

Discover the Power of Nervous System Awareness, Regulation, and Healing

In this transformative workshop, we’ll explore how your nervous system is not broken — it’s brilliantly wired to protect you. The patterns you’ve developed in response to stress, trauma, or overwhelm aren’t signs of weakness — they’re signs of survival. But survival is not where your story has to end.

Join us as we unpack:

How your nervous system responds to threat, disconnection, and emotional pain
Why "shutting down," "freezing," or "overreacting" are actually intelligent responses
The basics of Polyvagal Theory and how it applies to everyday life
Tools for regulation, co-regulation, and building a sense of safety in your body
Practices to shift from survival mode to connection, presence, and resilience

This workshop is for anyone who’s ever felt stuck, misunderstood by their own reactions, or exhausted by constant “self-improvement” that never seems to work. It’s time to work with your nervous system — not against it.

You are not broken. You are adaptive. You are resilient. And you can heal.

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

Main Conference SESSIONS

Breathwork

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.

PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS

Connecting to the Wisdom within through Breathwork and Somatics

So much of the wisdom within was formed in our pre verbal memory. It is embedded in our breath, our movements, and sensations. As we connect to these implicit memories we can learn to shift our nervous systems and engage with others and ourselves from a place of safety rather than a threat. Join me as we connect to the knowing within.

JEREMIAH FULMER - CTCP, CATSS-A

Main Conference SESSIONS

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.

DR. JUDITH BELTON - PhD

MAIN CONFERENCE SESSIONS -

Power That Looks Like Me - 2 hour workshop

Framework: FRAME of Us™ (Feel – Reflect – Acknowledge – Mirror – Express)
Theme: Power Without Pretending

Description:
This 2-hour international workshop invites attendees to reconnect with the inner truths of their identities without the burden of performance, code-switching, or conforming. Using the FRAME of Us™ framework, participants move through a visual and emotional experience that validates their felt sense of power while dissolving internalized expectations that silence their brilliance. Through expressive mark-making, relational witnessing, and affirming closure, each attendee is invited to reclaim the authority that already lives within them.

Objectives:

Explore internal resistance to being fully seen in various roles
Surface unspoken truths that have been softened or suppressed
Create a visual declaration of reclaimed identity and embodied power
Cultivate community through non-performative witnessing and reflection

Materials Needed:

8.5x11, 9x12 or 11x14 drawing paper
Markers, pastels, charcoal, paint sticks
Sticky notes or journaling cards
Optional: mirror or reflective object
Candles or soft lighting, music for ambiance

Framework Rationale:
The FRAME of Us™ structure allows a nonlinear journey through visibility and vulnerability. Each stage invites participants to hold space for emotional clarity and creative self-expression, bridging personal and collective identity reclamation.

What Remains: Reclaiming Ourselves on the Other Side of Lose - 2 hour workshop

Framework: WAVE of Grief™ (Witness – Allow – Visualize – Embody)
Theme: Release, Reclamation, and Rise

Description:
This immersive 2-hour grief processing workshop supports women navigating ambiguous, ancestral, or identity-based loss. Grounded in the WAVE of Grief™ framework, participants move through intuitive linework and symbol-based drawing to explore what remains after letting go. Rather than seeking resolution, the workshop holds space for truth-telling, somatic presence, and the emergence of a new internal narrative. Loss becomes the portal—not the definition.

Objectives:

Identify and witness a grief that still shapes the body or identity
Allow for movement, release, and visual narrative around the loss
Visualize the rising part of self reclaiming agency and clarity
Embody a personal affirmation or image of inner transformation

Materials Needed:

8.5x11, 9x12 or 11x14 drawing paper
Markers, pastels, charcoal, paint sticks
A symbolic photo or object representing grief
Glue stick, or glue, or double sided tape
Grounding object (e.g., leaf, stone), journaling cards
Soft background music and optional candle for closing ritual

Framework Rationale:
The WAVE of Grief™ provides a safe and fluid approach to grief integration. Each step invites embodied presence and intuitive processing through image, gesture, and felt sense—making space for grief to transform into wisdom and renewal.

PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS

The Truth Between the Lines

Framework: FRAME of Us™
Theme: Making Space for the Truth We Don’t Speak
Length: 1.5 hours
Price: $25 (additional cost to attend)

In a world that often demands clarity before comfort, this workshop is an invitation to meet the truths that live inside—but often remain unspoken. Using the FRAME of Us™ process (Feel – Reflect – Acknowledge – Mirror – Express), participants will engage in a guided visual journey that allows them to uncover and express a deeply held emotional truth—without having to explain it.

We will draw, reflect, and share space with others in quiet witnessing—not to be fixed or analyzed, but to be felt, honored, and softened around. No art skills are needed, just a willingness to see what your lines want to say.

Materials Needed:

Plain paper, art paper,
Markers or crayons or water colors and an open mind.

Drawing From Within: A Somatic Reconnection Ritual

Framework: WAVE for Grief™ (Anchored Visual Version)
Theme: Accessing Inner Wisdom Through Emotion-Led Linework
Length: 1 hour
Price: $25 (additional cost to attend)

Description:
Grief is not always about loss. Sometimes it is about change, transition, or letting go of a version of ourselves. In this gentle creative ritual, participants will begin with a photo or object (real or symbolic) and use intuitive visual techniques from the Somagraphica™ WAVE framework (Witness – Allow – Visualize – Embody) to reconnect with a part of themselves that is shifting or grieving.

You will be guided to create a visual field using intuitive line, shape, and an anchoring gesture that allows you to safely hold and integrate emotion in real-time. This session blends body awareness, image-based reflection, and creative clarity.

Materials Needed:

Plain paper, art paper,
Markers or crayons or water colors and an open mind.
An anchoring image, picture or symbol that will be the base of your drawing.
Glue to attach the image to the paper

Ciera Belnap, Certified Trauma Care Practitioner

MAIN CONFERENCE SESSIONS

Holistic Healing: A Dynamic Approach to a Total Body Transformation

This session highlights the importance of healing the total body. Mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional health and well-being are all closely intertwined. To experience true healing and shift our mindset, all must be addressed. Ciera walks you through her personal experience with healing each area and how it’s brought success and total transformation into her life.

Each participant will receive a link to access Ciera’s Eliminating Negativity Cheat Sheet.

Made for More: Trading Limiting Beliefs for Limitless Potential (Workshop)

This workshop, held Saturday, will guide participants through the process of identifying limiting beliefs, uncovering where our limiting beliefs originated from, and transforming them into empowering phrases to unlock our limitless potential.

Each participant will receive access to a list of the most common limiting beliefs that hinder total transformation as well as a link to access Ciera’s Eliminating Negativity Cheat Sheet

Oak Arias, BS, NREMT

Main CONFERENCE SESSIONS

Saturday -

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.

Sunday -

Vicarious Trauma: The impact of negative news cycles and daily life

In this session we will define Vicarious Trauma and look at the ways in which is impacts our nervous systems. From negative news cycles to mobile app notifications, we are inundated daily with demands on our attention. How can we keep ourselves healthy when every story seems to cause us pain and sometimes evoke a shame or other trauma response?

PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS

Topic: Medical Trauma - 45 minute case study presentation + Q&A

Topic: Vicarious Trauma - 45 minute case study presentation + Q&A

STACEY UHRIG - CERTIFIED NON-CLINICAL TRAUMA CARE PRACTITIONER | RTT PRACTITIONER | SPEAKER | PODCAST HOST

Main CONFERENCE SESSIONS

The Hidden Wounds: How Rapid Transformational Therapy Helps Heal Developmental Trauma

Talk Overview:
Developmental trauma often flies under the radar. It isn’t always about what happened—it’s about what didn’t. Emotional neglect, feeling unsafe to express, or being unseen in childhood can create lasting patterns of anxiety, shame, and disconnection. This talk explains how Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) works by accessing the subconscious mind, where these deep-seated beliefs live, and gently reprogramming them to support healing, self-worth, and emotional safety.

Key Takeaways:

Understand developmental trauma and how it forms
Learn how subconscious beliefs keep people stuck in trauma cycles
Explore how RTT uses hypnosis and suggestion to reframe core wounds
Gain clarity on how belief change can create long-term nervous system and emotional shifts

Ideal Audience:

Mental health advocates and support communities
Individuals in personal growth or recovery journeys
Coaches, clinicians, and holistic practitioners
People exploring alternatives to traditional talk therapy

Why This Talk Matters:
So many people are doing “all the right things” but still feel stuck. Stacey offers a powerful, compassionate explanation of why—and a new way forward. RTT doesn’t just help people understand their past. It helps them change the inner beliefs driving their present.

PRE-CONFERENCE SESSION

Rewriting the Story: Anxiety as a Messenger, Not a Monster

JERILYN LOWE -

Main CONFERENCE SESSIONS

The Role of Faith In Healing Trauma: Saturday

Discover how connection to, and relationship with a “Power greater than ourselves” provides a foundation of safety and trust from which to begin the process of facing, and finally healing, past trauma.

SARA MILEY - CTCP-A

Main CONFERENCE SESSIONS

From Fawning to Freedom

This session will take a deep dive into the trauma response of Fawning. Gain understanding of what this looks like and why it's so much more than just people pleasing. Learn about the deep layers of self-abandonment and guilt and find out how it is possible to reconnect to your authentic self, tap into your wants and needs, and begin a more self-focused life.

Lifestyle Design: Curating a Life You Love as a Survivor

This session will speak on polyvagal theory, nervous system dysregulation, and how to find more joy and ease even while you are still healing. Learn how thriving is available to you by using curated Lifestyle Design to expand your Window of Tolerance/Capacity.

PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS

What Post-Traumatic Growth Actually Looks Like

This session will explore the realities of healing from complex trauma and moving into wellness and growth. Learn why complex trauma needs complex healing, how to navigate and tolerate the multiple layers of discomfort, and what it truly feels like to break through the traumatic aftereffects that used to cause suffering. Dive into the art of deep self-resonating, integrating the many parts of yourself, and re-discovering who you are on the other side.

SHELLY MOORMAN - SAFETY & AWARENESS INSTRUCTOR

Main CONFERENCE SESSIONS

Saturday

Women's Safety Training: Learning How to Protect Yourself In Non-Lethal Ways

Want to learn what yo can do with a few simple items to keep you safer? Learn how OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act) can do this.

You will build your own personalized OODA Loop awareness and safety toolbox. The material will be presented in a fun, interactive way.

Sunday

Travel Safety Awareness & Skills For Protection

This empowering session is designed to equip travelers with the awareness, tools, and mindset needed to navigate the world with greater confidence and safety. Far from fear-based, this talk centers on intuition, boundaries, and practical preparedness as the foundation of true freedom while traveling.

Pre-Conference Speakers

9 Life Changing Sessions

🔥 PRE-CONFERENCE: Ignite the Journey to Transformation 🔥
Before we dive into the heart of the conference, we’re opening the doors to something powerful — a Pre-Conference experience designed specifically for survivors and coaches ready to unlock deeper healing, connection, and purpose.

This is not just a warm-up. This is your chance to set the foundation for profound transformation, surrounded by others who understand your journey. Whether you’re a survivor ready to reclaim your power or a coach supporting others in their healing, this is your space to connect, reflect, and elevate.

Expect dynamic workshops, transformative exercises, and intimate group discussions that will not only inspire, but equip you with the tools, insights, and energy to navigate the path ahead. Together, we’ll explore healing techniques, coaching strategies, and community-building practices that bridge the gap between survival and thriving.

🌟 This is where the journey begins. It’s your chance to:

Ground yourself in a safe, supportive space.
Dive deep into personal and professional growth.
Build meaningful connections with others who share your purpose.
Tap into the collective energy of a community that’s ready to rise.

Healing. Connection. Empowerment. This is your Pre-Conference experience — where transformation starts and the road to a more impactful future begins.

✨ Don’t just attend — be a part of something that’s bigger than yourself.

Pre-Conference Sessions

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Empowering Minds Together

🌟 Empowering Minds Together: A Conference for Growth, Healing, and Transformation 🌟
This is more than just a conference — it’s a movement.

Empowering Minds Together brings together survivors, coaches, and changemakers for an unforgettable experience designed to foster growth, connection, and healing. It’s a space where individuals rise, communities unite, and transformation unfolds.

Whether you're here to heal, learn, or lead, you’ll find a powerful network of like-minded individuals committed to making a lasting impact. With a lineup of visionary speakers, immersive workshops, and interactive sessions, this conference isn’t just about gaining knowledge — it’s about igniting the spark within you and equipping you with the tools to empower others on their own journeys.

Here, we’re not just sharing ideas; we’re changing lives.

✨ Key Highlights:

Inspiring Sessions: Learn from experts, thought leaders, and survivors who are reshaping the narrative of healing and growth.
Collaborative Workshops: Engage with hands-on experiences that challenge, inspire, and push boundaries.
Connection & Community: Build relationships that extend beyond the conference, creating a lasting network of support.

Together, we can break through barriers, lift each other higher, and create a future filled with hope, healing, and unlimited possibility.

Let’s empower minds. Let’s make an impact. Let’s transform the world — together.

🌿 Why Coaches & Survivors Shouldn’t Miss This Mental Health Conference

🔥 For Coaches:

You're not just attending—you’re elevating your impact.
Whether you're a life coach, wellness coach, or mindset mentor, this conference gives you the tools to better serve, support, and scale your mission.

💪 For Survivors:

You’ve walked through the fire—this is your space to heal, grow, and thrive in a community that gets it.
Come to be seen. Stay to be empowered.

🎯 Top Benefits Just for You:

1. Advanced Mental Wellness Tools

Learn new frameworks, trauma-informed coaching techniques, and neuroscience-backed approaches to help yourself and your clients heal deeper and faster.

2. Connect with Your Tribe

This is where survivors, thrivers, and changemakers gather. Meet people who speak your language and honor your journey.

3. Breakthrough Workshops

From nervous system regulation to rewriting your story—you’ll experience transformative, guided sessions you can feel.

4. Build Your Coaching Toolkit

Get resources, scripts, modalities, and exercises you can apply right away to elevate your coaching practice or your personal path to healing.

5. Raw, Real Conversations

No fluff, no filters. Just honest talks on trauma, anxiety, burnout, boundaries, and what it really means to rebuild a life.

6. Self-Care That’s Actually Nourishing

We don’t just talk about self-care—we practice it. Quiet zones, mindfulness breaks, movement sessions, and more to keep your energy aligned.

7. Survivor-Led Sessions

Hear from powerful voices who turned pain into purpose. Their stories will leave you inspired, affirmed, and ready to write your next chapter.

8. Next-Level Networking

Meet potential collaborators, clients, and soul-aligned friends who are just as passionate about mental wellness and personal evolution.

9. Give Back While You Grow

Every ticket supports mental health access and healing spaces for underserved communities. You’re not just showing up—you’re making change.

10. Reignite Your Passion & Purpose

Leave recharged, with a renewed sense of direction—for your life, your work, and the legacy you’re building.

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$125 General Admission Includes

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48 hour video access to ONE conference day

$175 Conference Hot Package

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All 1 hour Pre-Conference Sessions

Unlimited video access to BOTH days

LIVE Q&A with Speakers

$225 Professional Admission

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All 1 hour Pre-Conference sessions

48 hour video access to ONE conference day

up to 25 CE, CCE, or CPD

$275 Professional Package

Both conference days

All 1 hour Pre-Conference sessions

Unlimited video access to BOTH days

LIVE Q&A with Speakers

up to 25 CE, CCE, or CPD

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Location Details

Join us at the Trauma and Mental Health Summit, where experts gather to discuss vital topics in trauma and mental health.

Where

Globally Online ANYWHERE Internet, Wi-Fi, or Mobile Data is available

The summit will take place in Eastern Standard Time

Hours

Saturday, October 25, 2025 10am to 3 EST

Sunday, October 26, 2025 10am to 3 EST