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41 sessions · 38 speakers · 19h 45m of content

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Summit Opening: Why Representation in Play Matters

Welcome to the Pocketlings Parenting Virtual Summit. In this opening keynote, Osayi Lasisi shares the story behind Pocketlings and why culturally diverse toys and experiences are essential for raising confident children. When children see themselves reflected in the world around them, they develop a stronger sense of identity, belonging, and self-worth from the earliest years.

Osayi Lasisi

Co-Founder at Pocketlings

Movement & Regulation

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.

Brenda Chilstrom

Pediatric Occupational Therapist at That Makes Sense OT

Identity & Self-Worth

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.

Ciara Ward

Clinical Behavioral Health Therapist at Caring Conversations Center

Emotional Regulation

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.

Melissa Schulz

Award-Winning Parenting Coach & BCBA at Confidently Mommin

Motherhood & Wellbeing

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.

Nicole Gonzalez Cumberbatch

Community Builder & Speaker at The Motherhood Village

Nervous System Regulation

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.

Shayna Bergman

Executive & Leadership Coach at Shayna Bergman Coaching

Nervous System Regulation

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.

Urvi Shah

Certified Spiritual Coach & Healer at Inner Serenity Life Coaching

Gentle Discipline

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.

Synthia Praglin & Caren Gitlin

Certified Parenting Coach at Imperfect Parenting LA

Building Confidence

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.

Jenny Misener (Mouse)

Educator & Learning Specialist at Traveling Chalkboard

Identity & Self-Worth

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.

Hanna Olivas

Founder & CEO at She Rises Studios

Emotional Regulation

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.

Rachel Bailey

Parenting Specialist at Rachel Bailey Parenting

Nervous System Regulation

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.

Engilla Loo & Christian Lovin

Founder & CEO at Envia Together

Identity & Self-Worth

Raising Confident Kids Through Family Change: Emotional Safety During Divorce and Transition

Family transitions such as divorce, separation, and major life changes can shake the foundation children depend on for security. This session explores how to maintain emotional safety for children during periods of family change, helping them feel confident, loved, and stable even when the family structure is shifting.

Hope Firsel

Family Transition Specialist at

Closing

Day 1 Wrap Up

Osayi wraps up Day 1 with a brief reflection on the themes explored throughout the day, highlighting key moments and preparing attendees for what is ahead on Day 2.

Osayi Lasisi

Co-Founder at Pocketlings

Opening

Day 2 Welcome: Practical Strategies for Everyday Parenting

Osayi opens Day 2 with a warm welcome and sets the stage for a day focused on practical strategies and concrete tools that parents can apply immediately in their homes.

Osayi Lasisi

Co-Founder at Pocketlings

Gentle Discipline

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.

Kea Lee

Board Certified Behavior Analyst at Moment of Behavior

Nervous System Regulation

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.

AnnMarie Zezima

Professional Organizer & Decluttering Expert at Organized A to Z

Working Parents

From Surviving to Systems: Practical Tools for Working Parents

The daily juggle of career and family can feel relentless without the right systems in place. This session provides a framework for creating routines, boundaries, and organizational systems that reduce the mental load and help working parents move from reactive chaos to intentional structure. Learn how small systems changes create outsized impact on family wellbeing.

Carla Greenan

Executive Coach at 3BE Coaching

Building Confidence

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.

Stacey Laviolette

Child Confidence Educator at My Friend Toothy

Nervous System 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.

Merri Guggisberg

Parent Coach & Speaker at MKG Parent Coach

Working Parents

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.

Laura Niebauer

Career Relaunch Coach at Laura Niebauer Coaching

Identity & Self-Worth

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.

Stela Murrizi

Creative Director & CODE Model Coach at WEL-Systems Institute

Emotional Regulation

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.

Chika Kingo-Okafor

Parent Coach & Attachment Specialist at How We Parent

Body Safety

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.

Alisha Lunsford

Parent Partner & Sex Educator at Sexpert Parenting

Child Development

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.

Patricia Cordova

Board Certified Behavior Analyst at Mami Mom Mama

Building Confidence

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.

Sarah Mechling

Behavior Analyst & Potty Training Specialist at Tinkle & Toot

Identity & Self-Worth

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.

Julia Myers

International Keynote Speaker at Generational Wisdom

Q&A

Live Q&A: Your Parenting Questions Answered

Bring your questions from the sessions throughout Day 2. This live Q&A gives attendees the opportunity to dig deeper into the practical strategies discussed, ask follow-up questions, and get personalized guidance from the summit host.

Osayi Lasisi

Co-Founder at Pocketlings

Opening

Day 3 Welcome: Community and Connection

Osayi opens the final day of the summit with a welcome focused on community and connection, setting the stage for sessions that explore how relationships, play, and support systems shape confident children.

Osayi Lasisi

Co-Founder at Pocketlings

Emotional Regulation

From Doing to Being: Emotional Regulation as the Key to Connection

Most parents know what they should do in hard moments. The challenge is doing it when emotions run high. This session explores why emotional regulation is less about techniques and more about shifting from doing mode to being mode. Learn how becoming present and grounded transforms the parent-child dynamic from reactive to connected.

Kate Sharapenko

Emotional Regulation Coach at Mamingo & Emotionland

Screen Time

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.

Dana Parisi

Certified Parent & Family Coach at Lives Touched Coaching

Emotional Regulation

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.

Daniella Karidi

ADHD Coach & Founder at ADHDtime

Building Confidence

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.

Noa Stisin

Certified Parent Coach at Rewriting Childhood

Gentle Discipline

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.

Chrissy Chard

Parent Coach & TEDx Speaker at Courageous Parents

Play as Emotional Development

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.

Adriane Thompson

Certified Parenting Coach at Raising Kids With Purpose

Play as Emotional Development

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.

Tara Craft

Certified Parent Coach at Good Roots Parenting

Nervous System Regulation

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.

Sarah Parise

Perinatal Wellness Specialist at Great Days by Sarah

Nervous System Regulation

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.

Marissa Goldenstein

Parenting Coach & Educator at The Motherhood Practice

Emotional Regulation

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.

Erin Tee

Neurodiversity-Affirming Educator at Neurodiversity Learning Lab

Working Parents

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.

Jennifer Laidlaw

CEO Coach & Leadership Strategist at Jennifer Laidlaw Coaching

Closing Keynote

Thank You and Closing: Carrying the Summit Forward

Osayi closes the Pocketlings Parenting Virtual Summit with heartfelt gratitude for the speakers, attendees, and community. Joined by Yvonne Knap (StarKid Universe) for a shared moment of reflection, this final session looks back at the journey across all three days and offers encouragement for carrying the insights, connections, and renewed confidence into everyday family life.

Osayi Lasisi

Co-Founder at Pocketlings