A keynote address with Andrea Gibson

Panelists will discuss their personal journeys around gender and sexuality, both internally and how they present to the world, their experience with masculine and feminine energies (impact on life, work, relationships), and what they experience as the beauty and joy, as well as the sorrow and pain of being trans, non-binary, or any other gender.

Panelists: Alex Iantaffi, Ashlee Marie Preston, K. Marshall Green, & D'Lo

Facilitated by: Jordan Reeves & Yosi Amram

People in organizations are reporting unprecedented levels of burn-out, stress, and collective trauma. How do we respond as leaders? With loving presence. This type of leadership requires openness and sensitivity combined with clarity and strength to create new ways of working together that are soul-enhancing instead of soul-deadening. To lead with loving presence requires our deepest human capacities– those that are often labelled as “yin” as well as those capacities considered more “yang.” Join Tami Simon, the founder of Sounds True and the Inner MBA training program for an exploration into how to bring your full heart and your soul’s gifts to the inner work of leadership.

Speaker: Tami Simon

The family father wound may be the most pervasive, most important, and least recognized problem facing men and their families today. The father wound isn’t restricted to men. Many women also grew up in a home where a father was absent physically or emotionally. When our fathers are distant either through divorce, death, disengagement, or dysfunction, we are left with a deep wound, which we most often fail to recognize. "Kids have a hole in their soul in the shape of their dad, says family therapist Roland Warren. "And if a father is unwilling or unable to fill that role, it can leave a wound that is not easily healed." In this program Jed Diamond, author of My Distant Dad: Healing the Family Father Wound, will help us explore the father wound, recognize ways it has impacted our adult relationship, and ways we can heal.

Speaker: Jed Diamond

Join us in exploring the 5 steps to achieving a fulfilling and satisfying sex life through effective communication and self-understanding. We'll begin by discussing the importance of building a foundation of friendship and learning to use conflict to grow closer together. Understanding oneself is a crucial step, including how your body works, your happiness, and mindset. With these foundational elements in place, we'll delve into the 5 lessons of "Become Lovers: How To Cultivate Your Physical Passion." Gain practical tips and strategies that are inclusive of all genders and sexual orientations to improve your sex life, build a stronger relationship with your partner, and deepen your understanding of yourself.

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Speakers: Sam Garanzini & Alapaki Yee

Who do you love? How do you love? How do you love yourself? The Bible says, and sometimes I do heed the Bible, "love your neighbor as you love yourself." But what if you aren’t loving yourself right? Loving yourself whole? Is that why your love hurts others, because you haven’t worked it out on and in yourself? If you don’t know how to love yourself, then don’t love me like you love you, love me better, but love you better first. In this workshop, we will talk about and practice practical ways we can all begin to love ourselves better and think about why this work is essential to creating a new and better world.

Speaker: K. Marshall Green

A sacred space for small group support with other participants. Read more here.

Takes place during experiential sessions.

We hear a lot about "toxic masculinity" these days. Some mean by it that masculinity itself is fundamentally toxic, but many men now see it as a distortion of true masculinity, or a debasement of what masculinity should and can be. In this session we will explore, through discussion and story, what a next masculinity might look like, "tonic" instead of "toxic." While the discussion will be aimed primarily at men, anyone who relates to men or is curious about the expression of their own masculine side is welcome.

Speaker: Charles Eisenstein

A sacred space for small group support with other participants. Read more here.

Takes place during mid-day break.

Panelists will explore gender dynamics in romantic relationships (issues and how are people are navigating the challenges), the polarity of sexual erotic charge when partners have a more balanced feminine and masculine within (gender-fluid or not), and share observations from their work with queer, trans and non-binary couples about how gender dynamics play out in their relationships.

Panelists: Katie & Gay Hendricks, Helen LaKelly Hunt & Harville Hendrix, Sam Garanzini & Alapaki Yee, and Alex Iantaffi.

Facilitated by: Yosi Amram & Stelli Munnis

This session will provide a progressive and open-minded space for participants to explore and redefine Black masculinity. It acknowledges the ways in which Black men's self-identity and perceptions of masculinity are shaped by historical and cultural factors such as racism, the adultification of Black boys, the dismissal of Black pain, and the influence of society’s toxic masculinity.

New York Times bestselling author Keith Boykin will guide participants to reflect on their own experiences and beliefs about Black masculinity and explore how cultural norms, media representations, and historical events contribute to narrow and limited conceptions of masculinity.

The session will be a safe and inclusive space for all participants, regardless of race, sexual orientation, gender identity, or background. By the end of the discussion, participants will gain a deeper understanding of themselves and others and leave with strategies to decolonize their perceptions of masculinity by promoting healthier, LGBTQ-inclusive, and anti-racist practices.

Speaker: Keith Boykin

Talking is the most dangerous thing most people do, and listening is the most infrequent. What makes talking dangerous is that one speaker presumes to own the “truth” and claims the authority that annihilates the “truth” of the other. In reaction, the other speaker makes a counter claim to the “truth” by turning away (rejecting), turning toward (confronting) or shutting down engagement entirely (leaving the scene). These everyday interactions, by millions of persons, are constantly creating the polarizations of everyday life that plague us human species.

Dialogue is taking turns talking without judging, listening without criticizing, and connecting around and beyond differences. In dialogical practice, human beings replace their desire to change or control the other with an attempt to understand and affirm the otherness of the other. They allow the world of the other to occupy space in their mental and emotional universe. Dialogical engagement is so profound and impactful that each is inevitably transformed into a space of genuine connecting. In these very deep conversations both speaker and listener are made human.

Speakers: Helen LaKelly Hunt & Harville Hendrix

In this experiential session we will first examine some common myths, stereotypes and assumptions about gender in families relationships. We will consider all types of relationships and families, including friendships, parenting, kinship circles, families of choice and so on. We will take time to observe how rigid gender binaries limit not only the ways in which we love ourselves but also the ways in which we love those around us. Finally, we will explore ways in which moving beyond rigid gender binaries can free us to love more authentically, creatively and joyfully. Come prepared to share your own experiences, questions and bring curiosity and an open heart!

Speaker: Alex Iantaffi

A sacred space for small group support with other participants. Read more here.

Takes place during experiential sessions.