• Indigenous Historical Trauma & Resilience

    Dr. DeCoteau examines the impact of historical and intergenerational trauma on Indigenous communities while highlighting cultural strengths, resilience, and pathways to healing.  Join Dr. Tami DeCoteau for a powerful and insightful discussion that is essential for caregivers, professionals, community members, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of trauma, resilience, and healing in Indigenous communities.

  • Hope in the Age of Artificial Everything

    Artificial intelligence is reshaping how we live, learn, and lead, making human-centered leadership skills more essential than ever. Dr. Julia Garcia integrates psychological insight, cultural innovation, and lived community impact to help leaders strengthen the human capacities technology cannot replicate. Drawing from experience supporting over a million people through cultural and mental health challenges, partnering with…

  • Building Emotional Regulation: Co-Regulation and Self-Regulation Across Development

    This presentation will explore the progression from co-regulation to self-regulation, highlighting how caregivers and other supportive adults can help children develop the skills needed to understand, manage, and respond to their emotions effectively. Participants will examine emotional regulation across developmental stages, learn how co-regulation supports the gradual development of self-regulation, and explore practical strategies for…

  • [For Professionals] Using Icebreaker Meetings to Help Bridge the Gap

    - Ongoing Learning

    This interactive workshop will explore strategies for building and maintaining meaningful relationships and effective communication between birth parents and foster and adoptive parents. Participants will learn how strong family partnerships can support children and youth, strengthen family connections, and promote permanency. The workshop will highlight the Icebreaker Meeting practice as a tool for social workers…

  • The New Science of Rumination, Trauma, and Well-Being, with Donna Jackson Nakazawa

    Drawing on contemporary neuroscience from Nakazawa’s book, Mind Drama, this  webinar is designed for adoptive, foster, and kinship parents raising children who have experienced early adversity, attachment disruptions, and chronic stress. It explores how children’s brains and nervous systems can become caught in patterns of looping thoughts, self-criticism, worry, or dissociation, how these responses originate in…

  • Circus of the Heart 2026

    North End Event Center, Minnesota State Fair Grounds Falcon Heights, United States
    - Activities

    More information coming soon!