The Dog Owner's Summit

Experts reveal secrets every dog owner needs to know to dramatically improve your dogs behavior, save thousands on pet care and much more.

free 1 day online event

over 7 hours of interviews with top experts

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What You Will Learn at This Event:

  • What childhood trauma is, what it isn’t, and how to prevent it

  • How stress affects wiring of the brain and nervous system

  • What children really need according to neuroscience

  • How to “self-regulate” and “co-regulate” during difficult situations

  • Common parenting and classroom habits that cause disconnection

  • Why emotional intelligence and social and emotional learning support human development

  • Steps to change our culture to be less violent and more sane and kind

Meet Our Trauma-Free Childhood Experts

Anu Arasu

Rebuilding Motherhood Through the Nervous System

Melissa Sadin

The Power of Hope in Trauma Informed Education

Mary Goyer

From Conflict to Collaboration

Aya Caspi

Reclaiming Our Own & Our Children's Innocence

Jim Sporleder

The Power of One

Janyne McConnaughey

Co-Regulation for Buffering and Healing Trauma

Vera Franco

Conscious Feelings Work for Authentic Adulthood Initiations

Harold Becker

Becoming Trauma-Free through Unconditional Love

Julie Kurtz

Reducing Stress in Schools: Restoring Community

Heather Thompson

Secure Attachment:
The Key

Darcia Narvaez

The Evolved Nest Nurtures Our Full Humanity

Ami Rokach

Childhood loneliness: Helping and minimizing Loneliness in Children

Tom McSheehy

The Power of the Classroom and SEL to Positively Impact Mental Health and Trauma

David Grand

Brainspotting as a Neuroexperiential Model of Healing

Jorina Elbers

Riding the Wave: A HeartMath Path Through Intense Emotions

Jude Currivan

Born to Belong: Healing Our Collective Dis-ease of Separation

Shelly Lefkoe

Preventing Childhood Trauma


John Calvin Chatlos

A Framework of Spirituality for Trauma Healing and Transformational Development

Lisa Rothman

Screen Time Agreements That Stick

Jan Winhall M.S.W.

Creating Trauma Informed Relationships with Children: Using the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model

Julie Beem

Understanding What Traumatic Stress Does to Our Children's Brains

Xavier Dagba

Becoming a non reactive and integrated parent

Lori Desautels

Intentional Rewiring of Our Nervous System's Perceptions of Discipline

Suzanne Taylor

From Sinners to Heroes for Saving this Civilization

Antes Jensen

How You Can Give Your Child the Life They Uniquely Need

Gina Simm

Accessing Our Children's Inner Landscape

Iya Affo

Where Neuroscience Meets Ancestral Wisdom: Embodied Approaches to Creating Trauma-Free Childhoods

Lori Leyden

Healing the Healers: The Missing Link in Trauma Healing

Mary Catherine McDonald

The Hope Circuit: How Safety, Meaning, and Tiny Joys Help the Brain Recover from Trauma

Joe Brummer

Becoming a Trauma-informed Restorative Educator

Annie Brook

Sensitive Nervous Systems from the Very Beginning: How Early Stress Shapes Children’s Emotions

Roma Norriss

Recovering the family nervous system from persistent dysregulation

Sarah Peyton

Trauma-Proofing Kids with Resilient Resonance

Neddy Yong

Sacred Parenthood

Aizaiah Yong

Sacred Parenthood


Nicolas Haines

emerge from your childhood with robust, healthy self-esteem

Tom McSheehy

Developing Your Child’s Social Emotional Intelligence & Mental Health with Brief Moments of Connection

Julie Kurtz

Teaching Students How to Be their Own Emergency Respondera

Darcia Narvaez

Restoring our Ancestral Wellness-Promoting Pathway

Anne-Chloé Destremau

Holding Space for Children Begins With Holding Space for Yourself

Clinton Callahan

Initiation Centered Education For A Regenerative Culture

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HOSTED BY SUSAN CURRY

Susan Curry is an award-winning educator, environmental activist, and community organizer dedicated to transforming how children are raised and educated. A former national director of Project SEED, she taught and trained others to teach over 400,000 inner-city students through discovery-based learning. She founded Pennypack Farm Education Center, convened Philadelphia’s Earth Charter Summits, and led major sustainability initiatives in Ambler. Now 80, she is creating summits and curricula to raise emotionally literate, relational, Earth-connected children.

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