Conference Agenda
Three days of keynotes, panels, workshops, and networking — explore the full programme below.
Day 1
Foundations & Mindset
ABA in Child Development and Parenting
Applied Behavior Analysis in child development focuses on increasing helpful behaviors and improving communication, social skills, and independence through evidence-based, data-driven techniques. This session covers structured, positive reinforcement strategies to manage behavior, reduce family stress, and improve the parent-child relationship.
Raising Leaders at Home and at Work
Identity, belonging, and self-worth are not abstract concepts. They are formed daily in our homes, our work, and in the way we model leadership to the next generation. Explore how the same principles that build visibility and authority in business also shape confident, purpose-driven children.
How to Reduce Stress with Conscious Parenting
Explore how stress is stored in the body and the nervous system, with practical ways to regulate the body. This session covers overall energetics and how the energetic body functions, helping parents understand what conscious parenting means and how to apply it in daily life.
Emotional Regulation and Nervous System Support
Emotional regulation starts with the parents. Children look to us for direction, and modeling appropriate behavior during stressful times sets the precedent for how a child should handle stress. Learn the necessary methods for self-regulation and co-regulation to help calm your child's nervous system during challenging moments.
How to Help Kids with the BIG Feelings
This session explains why many children experience intense emotional reactions and how parents can effectively support them. Big feelings such as anger, frustration, sadness, and anxiety are a normal part of childhood development, especially for strong-willed, highly sensitive, and neurodiverse kids. Learn why these emotions show up as meltdowns and what parents can do about it.
Calm Is Contagious: Nervous System Regulation for Parents and Families
Children learn how to regulate emotions by watching the adults around them. When a parent's nervous system feels supported, calm becomes something that can be shared. This session breaks down nervous system regulation in a parent-friendly way, explaining how stress responses affect behavior, connection, and emotional safety at home.
From Doing to Being: Emotional Regulation as the Key to Connection
Parenting today is more demanding and complex than ever. We often focus on what to do, the strategies and schedules, while overlooking the one thing that truly sustains connection: our ability to be present and emotionally regulated. Explore the power of emotional regulation for both parents and children, and how it forms the foundation for authentic, lasting connections.
The Power of Caregivers: Shaping Children's Sense of Self
Explore how the words we choose and the way we show up in moments of stress shape children's developing sense of self. Learn what is happening in children's brains at different developmental stages and why their behavior is not about being difficult but about their nervous system trying to feel safe. Walk through the Three Pillars Framework for responsive parenting.
Your Child Is Not Broken: A Nervous System Lens for Raising Confident Kids
In an overstimulated world, many young children are labeled as too sensitive, too intense, or too much. But what if those behaviors are not character flaws, just nervous systems asking for support? Learn a brain-based, strength-focused way of understanding big feelings and challenging moments, focusing on connection rather than fixing behavior.
Discipline Through Connection: Why It Starts with You, Not Your Child
Children do not learn who they are from what we say but from who we are and the state we live in. In a world that is louder, faster, and more overstimulating than ever, many parents try to do it right using scripts and strategies. But what happens when your body is not calm? This session reveals the missing link in modern parenting.
The Me in Home and the Home in Me
Parenting does not just shape our children, it shapes us. Explore the powerful relationship between a parent's inner world and the emotional culture of the home. How does our stress, self-talk, and nervous system state quietly influence our children? Learn to build a steadier home inside yourself so your children feel safe, confident, and secure.
Lead Yourself First: The Hidden Skill Behind Raising Confident Kids
In a world that feels louder, faster, and more overwhelming, many parents search for better techniques to manage behavior. But the most powerful influence in any home is not a script or strategy, it is the parent's ability to lead themselves. Explore how self-leadership in emotionally charged moments shapes the emotional tone of a family.
Day 2
Practical Strategies
Guidance with Grace: Shifting Our Mindset on Discipline
Discipline does not have to mean power struggles, punishment, or guilt. Learn how to shift from correcting behavior to guiding behavior with compassion, clarity, and confidence. Explore how children's behavior is rooted in communication and nervous system needs, and how responding with grace leads to more cooperation, trust, and emotional growth.
The Parent Reset: Decluttering for Busy Families
Between work, kids, schedules, and daily life, clutter can quietly take over and add to the mental load parents already carry. This session provides a realistic approach to letting go of excess and creating systems that support busy households. Learn how to decide what truly needs to stay, reduce overwhelm, and set up simple systems that actually work.
Teaching Kids With Big Feelings to Be More Flexible
Many kids get upset when they cannot get what they want or when things go differently than expected. Simply encouraging flexible thinking is not effective. Learn a simple, engaging, step-by-step process to teach kids how to maturely handle the fact that things will not always go their way.
Setting Kids up for Success: Creating Predictable Routines
Routines and structure create predictability, helping children know what is expected and what their day will look like. Predictability reduces the anxiety that often comes with sudden changes, which can lead to emotional meltdowns. Learn how to build routines that support your child's emotional regulation.
Practice the PAUSE: A Mindful Approach to Parenting with Connection and Confidence
Parenting today often feels rushed, reactive, and emotionally exhausting. This session introduces the PAUSE Process, a compassionate and practical framework designed to help parents slow down, respond with intention, and strengthen connection with their children through five simple yet powerful steps.
Body-Safe Basics for Littles: Helping Young Kids Know Their Bodies, Trust Their Gut, and Speak Up
Keeping kids safe does not mean scary stories. It starts with simple rules, everyday skills, and trusted adults who know what to say and how to say it. Learn the five body-safe basics every young child should know, from using proper names for body parts to recognizing unsafe behavior. Build awareness, confidence, and real-world safety from the earliest years.
Simple Screen Reset
This workshop guides parents through a practical 3-step reset for screen time challenges. Assess what is working and what is not, reimagine your ideal technology use, and choose one positive step forward in collaboration with your children. Focused on progress over perfection, this approach helps families use technology intentionally rather than being controlled by it.
The Missing Piece of Emotional Regulation: Movement, Rhythm, and the Nervous System
You are doing all the right things to support emotional regulation, yet your child still melts down. You may simply be missing the body's role in regulation. This session, led by a pediatric occupational therapist, shows how movement and rhythm help the nervous system regulate, offering practical tools parents can use today.
Disciplining With Empathy
Tired of repeating yourself over and over again? Do you find yourself threatening consequences without follow through? Does your child have meltdowns when you hold a boundary? Join us for a science-backed discussion about how to discipline with empathy, turning conflicts into moments of connection.
Modeling Executive Functions at Home: What Children Learn from Our Systems
Children do not learn organization, planning, and follow-through from lectures. They learn by watching how the adults around them manage real life. Every calendar on the wall, every checklist by the door, and every moment of repair after a forgotten task becomes a live demonstration of executive functioning in action.
Reimagining Discipline
Time-outs. Calm down. Taking away screen time. Do your best efforts to discipline keep turning into power struggles, yelling, and threats? This session unpacks why traditional discipline often backfires, even when your intentions are good. Explore a practical, relationship-centered alternative built on trust and connection.
Cliche Your Way Through Parenting
Rethink the everyday sayings we hear and turn them into real-life tools for raising emotionally healthy children. Common phrases like pick your battles, it takes a village, and you cannot pour from an empty cup are more than just catchy phrases. They are wisdom, boundaries, and emotional regulation strategies hidden in plain sight.
How to Talk About Money Before It Gets Weird
Money rarely becomes weird overnight. It becomes weird slowly through avoidance, guilt, comparison, and inconsistency. In the early years, children form beliefs about value, fairness, belonging, and self-worth. Learn how to normalize money conversations and raise financially mature children without entitlement.
Day 3
Community & Connection
Play IS the Work: How 15 Minutes of Connection Regulates Your Child's Nervous System and Builds Lasting Confidence
In a world of constant stimulation and big expectations, your child's nervous system is working overtime. Meltdowns, defiance, and emotional overwhelm are not behavior problems but communication from a dysregulated brain. Discover why as little as 15 minutes of intentional play does more than any other parenting strategy, and walk away with simple, practical ways to play with your kids even when you are exhausted.
Why Mothers Struggle Alone and How Community Changes Everything
Postpartum mental health challenges are often intensified by isolation and lack of support. This session explores how intentional community spaces, both online and offline, can dramatically impact maternal wellbeing. Through storytelling and real-world examples, discover how creating spaces for honest conversation and shared support can reduce anxiety and normalize the motherhood experience.
Career Relaunch Blueprint
If you are thinking about returning to the paid workforce after a career break, you know how overwhelming and lonely the process can feel. Learn how to see your unique value because of your career break, how to confidently communicate your skills and abilities, and walk away with valuable tips on navigating the emotional aspect of returning to work.
From Overwhelmed to Empowered: Raising Confident Kids at the Dentist
Dental visits can be stressful and overwhelming for both children and parents. When her three-year-old daughter was diagnosed with ten cavities, Stacey realized the problem was not the parents but the lack of resources to prepare children and families. Learn play-based approaches to help children feel confident and prepared for dental care.
Less Surviving. More Thriving.
Do your days feel out of control? Are you juggling numerous balls that could fall at any moment? Hear ideas and practical tools for managing career and family in this fast-paced environment. Get actionable insights, tips, and tools to help you move from surviving to thriving at work and home.
Taming the Chaos of Parenting Active Kids in Today's World
How to solve the problem of stress and mental overload from managing children's activities and education. The reality full-time working parents face is constant messages from schools, clubs, and sports combined with scheduling chaos. Learn how to organize and give yourself back time for what matters most: raising your kids hands-on.
Raising Lifelong Learners
We spend far too much time telling kids what to learn and not enough time teaching them how to learn. Explore ways to instill a love of learning in your child that encourages them to become lifelong learners. In a constantly changing landscape, if children have the drive and skill to learn and persevere, they will be able to adapt to any possible future.
Building Confidence Through Early Independence: The Potty Training Journey
Sarah Mechling supports families navigating potty training and complex toileting challenges, working with young children as well as older children with special needs. Her work focuses on helping children build body awareness, self-initiation, and confidence during one of the earliest milestones of independence.
Raising Confident Kids Through Family Change: Emotional Safety During Divorce and Transition
Divorce and major family transitions can feel destabilizing for children, especially in an already overstimulated world. Yet research shows children do not struggle because of divorce alone, they struggle when they feel emotional insecurity, conflict, or instability. Learn how to protect and even strengthen a child's confidence during times of change.
The Hidden Pattern Behind Burnout: The Internal Dynamic That Makes Success and Parenting Feel Harder Than It Should
You are good at what you do. You have worked hard for this career. And you love your children. Lately, though, it can feel like those two truths are colliding. The role has expanded, the stakes are higher, the mental load is constant. This session explores the hidden pattern behind burnout and offers a path beyond the push-harder-or-step-back dilemma.
Play the Long Game: Using Family Play to Build Emotional Regulation and Real Confidence
In an overstimulated world, our kids need safe spaces to build frustration tolerance, flexibility, and emotional endurance. Family play is one of the most powerful regulation gyms we have. Learn how play builds emotional regulation skills, strengthens family bonds, and creates lasting confidence through everyday moments.
Small Moments, Strong Kids: Wiring Confidence in the Early Years
The moments shaping your child's confidence are not the milestones or the meltdowns. They are the in-between ones, the I can't, the shoe standoff, the eye roll, especially in the early years when identity is wiring fast. In those moments, you rarely have time to think. Learn how to use small, everyday moments to build confidence and resilience.