Ashley Judd: actor and social justice humanitarian who's traveled the world to do international public health work on all fronts– maternal health, child survival, human rights, family planning, STD and HIV prevention and malaria prevention and treatment.
David Kessler: one of the world’s foremost experts on grief, founder of Grief.com and author of six books.
Bessel van der Kolk: New York Times bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score.
Nedra Glover Tawwab: New York Times bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace, licensed therapist, and sought-after relationship expert.
Daniel Siegel: clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and executive director of the Mindsight Institute.
Emily Nagoski: Author of Come As You Are; expert on sexuality, relationships, and burnout.
Judson Brewer: New York Times best-selling author of Unwinding Anxiety and thought leader in the field of habit change.
Lori Gottlieb: psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.
Join David Kessler in conversation with Ashley Judd. Ashley is an actress, author, and activist who has spoken openly about her own experience with sexual assault and harassment as well as loss and trauma. Last year, her mother died by suicide. In the wake of her mother's death, Judd has spoken about her trauma and her journey to healing. In addition to mental heal advocacy, she has become an important voice in suicide awareness. Kessler is a grief expert and author who brings his own experience of healing after a mass shooting in childhood, neglect, sexual abuse, and the death of his younger son. In this discussion, Judd and Kessler will share their insights on grief, trauma, and healing. They’ll discuss life’s challenges, the importance of finding support, and the power of hope. This is a powerful and important conversation that will resonate with therapists, mental health professionals and many others.
In this engaging keynote with Emily Nagoski, PhD, sex expert and best-selling author of Come As You Are, she will clarify the differences among responsive desire, spontaneous desire, and the term she has coined “magnificent desire”. Based on her expertise and clinical experience, she will share tools for you to help clients find Optimal Sexual Experiences (OSE). Emily will break down the new science, new language and new perspective of sex in long- term relationships.
Despite advances in trauma research and claims of “gold standard” treatments, one method doesn’t work for everybody. Trauma treatment requires addressing many different systems that can be affected in different ways in different people. Understanding how to adapt and apply interventions for individuals experiencing traumatic stress is as important as the interventions themselves.
When it launched in 2021, therapist Nedra Glover Tawwab’s book, Set Boundaries, Find Peace, became an instant bestseller. As 1.5 million Instagram followers clamored for her clinical wisdom, she became an in-demand guest on shows like Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk and Good Morning America. She’s gone on to create many research-based tools to foster healthy relationships.
Join Nedra as she explores the current trend of cutting off family members and labeling people and relationships as “toxic.” Taking us deep into what really lies at the heart of troubling family dynamics, she’ll offer clear advice for identifying dysfunctional family patterns and choosing the best path forward. In this workshop, you’ll learn:
Learning Objectives:
Join Jud Brewer, New York Times best-selling author and thought leader in the field of habit change, for this thought-provoking keynote. Drawing on his clinical work, research studies, and development of next-generation digital therapeutics for habit change, Dr. Brewer will discuss the underlying behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of why habits are formed and how mindfulness can paradoxically tap into these very processes to uproot them.
Dr. Brewer struggled for years to help his patients overcome anxiety, overeating and severe addictions. After over a decade of laboratory research on habit change, someone using a digital therapeutic that he had developed for habitual eating innocently asked him to develop a program for anxiety. This led to a lightbulb moment for him that forever changed is clinical practice and his research, leading to new (and now evidence-based) treatment paradigms and a New York Times best-selling book on treating anxiety as a habit.
After this talk, you will have a simple, pragmatic, 3-step process that you can use with clients and patients to help them unwind unhealthy habits and build healthy habits—without willpower.
No book has better combined daring self-disclosure and biting humor in describing a therapist's own experience into therapy than Lori Gottlieb's acclaimed Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. It's spent years on the New York Times best-seller list and is being adapted into a television show. She's also the writer of the wildly popular advice column "Dear Therapist" for The Atlantic and a regular contributor to the New York Times.
In this special evening program, she'll share what she's learned since writing Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and from years of writing a national advice column, discussing the promise and the perils of sharing what happens in our offices and what it means to be a therapist in today's modern world.
You don’t want to miss this closing keynote! Best-selling author, child psychiatrist and award-winning educator, Daniel Siegel is joined by Frank Anderson, author, psychiatrist, therapist, and IFS lead trainer for a conversation on how to equip children with tools to deal with overwhelming challenges they face- with skills founded in “mindsight” and IFS parts work.
Social and emotional learning emerge from the cultivation of mindsight and greater access to self-energy–our ability to sense the mind, inside and out, and move that mental life toward integration as we honor differences and promote compassionate linkages and connections.
Take home strategies to teach kids how to differentiate and appreciate the various aspects of their states of mind, and learn how to integrate, adapt, and develop resilience when faced with overwhelming challenges in their life.
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
