Special Recording-Only Sessions
These recording-only conference sessions will be released on our Learning Management System on October 27, 2025. Participants will be able to access these sessions for three months, until January 27, 2026.
Robin Blumenthal
Trainer/Speaker/Pastor
Recharging Your Resilience
How is your self-care? Are you simply numbing or filling your tank? Too many of us have depleted reserves and yet our communities count on us to bring our best and full selves to the table. Resilience starts with me. This workshop features lively illustrations that will help re-energize and inspire you in the important work you do!
Robin is a trauma-informed trainer, parenting coach, speaker, and writer. She also serves as the Outreach Pastor at Pantano Christian Church in Tucson, AZ. She has a passion for partnering with schools, churches and the community. She believes that when our churches, schools, and communities understand the effects of trauma, it changes how we respond and show up for others.
Claire Louge
Prevent Child Abuse Arizona
Lean On Me: How You Can Strengthen Families to Raise Resilient Kids
When families feel supported by community, children thrive—even in the face of adversity. Join us for an engaging session on Lean On Me, an Arizona-based initiative launched in 2020 to raise awareness about the protective factors that keep families strong. We’ll explore practical strategies that empower each of us to embrace our critical role in championing families.
Claire Louge is the Executive Director of Prevent Child Abuse Arizona, dedicated to protecting children by strengthening families. Claire serves on numerous coalitions dedicating to making Arizona better for families. She is an alum of Cornell University, Northern Arizona University, and AmeriCorps VISTA; a Flinn Brown Fellow, an escape room enthusiast, and most importantly, the mom of 3-year-old Kira.
John Richardson-Lauve
St. Joseph's Villa
Healing Centered Engagement
Healing-Centered Engagement (HCE) is a thought-process overlay to trauma-informed care, intended to promote individual and collective success through a strength-based lens. Often, trauma-informed care takes a deficit-based approach, seeking to identify the trauma and work in a clinical fashion towards coping skills and mitigation of symptoms. HCE seeks to help an individual not be defined by the worst moments of their lives, but rather to utilize elements of culture, agency, relationships, meaning, and hope to empower success regardless of past (and sometimes current) events.
Healing-Centered Engagement was created by Dr. Shawn Ginwright originally to support urban black youth whose needs were not being met by the deficit-based elements of traditional trauma-informed care principles. This strengths-based approach addresses interpersonal connections, improves institutional culture, and creates healthy outcomes for all involved (youth, caregivers, and community). It moves from the trauma-informed questions of “what happened to you” to “what is right with you,” looking through the lens of solutions on the individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels.
John Richardson-Lauve is a clinical social worker with over 30 years of experience working in community mental health, including with veterans experiencing homelessness in New York City, a hospice home early in the AIDS crisis, over 50 youth in foster care in his home with his wife, and 10 years as clinical director in a clinic specializing in mental health crisis and childhood trauma. He is the Senior Director of Community Outreach and Trauma-Informed Care Specialist at St. Joseph’s Villa, in Richmond, Virginia.
John Richardson-Lauve
St. Joseph's Villa
The HOPE Framework – Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences
The HOPE framework (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) is an evidence based approach to use positive childhood experiences (PCEs) to counteract ACEs, and can be used across the lifespan. The four building blocks of HOPE are relationships, safe and stable environments, social/civic engagement, and social/emotional growth. Come learn how these can be applied to build resilient individuals and community.
John Richardson-Lauve is a clinical social worker with over 30 years of experience working in community mental health, including with veterans experiencing homelessness in New York City, a hospice home early in the AIDS crisis, over 50 youth in foster care in his home with his wife, and 10 years as clinical director in a clinic specializing in mental health crisis and childhood trauma. He is the Senior Director of Community Outreach and Trauma-Informed Care Specialist at St. Joseph’s Villa, in Richmond, Virginia.
Casey Tonnelly
Beyond Thinking
Lauren Kite
Lauren Kite Consulting
Intersectional Solidarity
We live in a time of great unease. People are unsure of what to do or how to stand up. Our solution is intersectional solidarity as many of us live with intersectional identities. This workshop focuses on conversations to empower participants. We will engage in activities to build relationships and trust. We will offer simple and tangible actions to interrupt toxic behaviors and center those being targeted by hate or bias.
Casey has worked in the field of antiracism for almost 20 years. Their beginnings were unintentional and humbling, as they got their start leading antiracism conversations on the dangers of racial profiling in the Seattle Police Department. This experience led Casey to lean into antiracism with all their being. They joined the city of Seattle’s Race & Social Justice Initiative and ended their time at the city working on the RSJI Strategy Team. Casey is also a founding Rain City All-Ages Poetry Slam organizer and a recipient of Gay City Performing Awards. Infusing creativity and art into their antiracism work is a must for them.
Lauren is a recovering yoga instructor and full-time abolitionist! Lauren has extensive experience coaching yoga studio leaders and instructors to become trauma-informed practitioners. Lauren has supported complex identity-based conversations in the community, in government, and in national organizations.