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Previous Summit Line-Ups & Sponsors
Brian Dishon
Prime Dialogue
SCS 2024
Brian's purpose is creating best in class people and organizations through words and relationship. He does this through helping create cultures of belonging, coaching leadership, and helping create strategies to start or grow a business.
Cycle Of Belonging
People desire to belong. If this desire exists in all of us, why do we not always feel like we belong. This is not only a reality in our social lives, it also exists in our workplace. Find out how to create a culture of belonging with understanding the cycle we all go through.
Courtney E. Hicks
CEH Creative
SCS 2024
Courtney is a certified spiritual director in private practice offering individual and group spiritual direction, dreamwork, and creative & contemplative experiences and retreats. Courtney holds an M.Ed. from Belmont University and her certification in spiritual direction from The Haden Institute.
The Artist's Way
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron is a resource to help discover and recover your creative self - a spiritual path to higher creativity. This participatory session will introduce The Artist’s Way program and tools it offers to unblock your inner artist and deepen your spiritual journey.
Jackie L. Halstead, Ph.D., MDiv
Selah Center for Spiritual Foundation
SCS 2024
Jackie Halstead, Ph.D., LMFT, MDiv, is director of Selah Certificate in Spiritual Direction. She is a professor of Marriage and Family Therapy, has been a licensed MFT for 37 years and a Spiritual Director for 22 years. She speaks on spiritual formation at the national and international levels. Dr. Halstead takes an annual eight-day silent retreat and in 2022 completed a 30-day silent retreat.
Practicing Silence
In silence, we foster the listening side of prayer. Each conversation has a speaker and listener, but we often do all the talking when with God. Distractions are diminished when in silence and we have a greater ability to listen to God. Join us to look at Jesus’ practice of silence and the ways God communicates with each of us. Expect practical suggestions on silence through contemplative prayer.
Laura Williams, LPC-MHSP
Be Found Counseling
SCS 2024
Laura Williams is one of the co-owners of Be Found Counseling, part of the core faculty at the Healing Our Core Issues Institute (HOCI) and host of Encountering You, a podcast based on the basic principles of the HOCI.
Being a counselor is not a profession or a job—it is so much more than that. It is the unique opportunity to witness the healing work of the community of people Laura comes in contact with, both with clients and fellow counselors.
HOCI’s model focuses their work around our worth as humans, how to grow the ability to have healthy boundaries with ourselves and in relationships, creating meaning out of the reality that we are human and imperfect, taking responsibility for our needs and wants, creating joy and spontaneity in our lives and learning to grow a secure attachment to ourselves and in our relationships. It is life-changing. IT WORKS.
Laura feels like many of us find ourselves in the wilderness in different parts of our lives at multiple points in our lives. What this model offers is: hope in the wilderness when we feel depressed, anxious, hopeless, helpless, angry, lonely, sad, or scared. And it offers a foundation from which you can heal from over and over again. What Laura knows is that after experiencing the transformation that happens through this work, she know longer fears the wilderness—She is ready. And is honored to jump into the wilderness with you.
Trauma - Turns Out We All Have It!
Join us for an informative workshop on developmental and relational trauma. We will delve into the complexities of these types of trauma and how they affect both individuals and communities. Our goal is to provide a deeper understanding of the subject and offer tools to navigate our own stories, so we can better support those around us.
Tash Weddle
The New Beginnings Center
SCS 2024
Tash Weddle is the Co-founder and CEO of The New Beginnings Center (TNBC), a nonprofit organization established in 2011 by and for women. TNBC is on the leading edge of preventative healthcare and is a sanctuary for fostering physical strength and mental resilience.
Guide to Your New Beginning
For this session, Tash will introduce you to New Beginnings’ nutritional philosophy and the basics behind their strength and conditioning workouts. Including: goal setting, “finding your why”, creating systems and structure, creating good habits, conquering your upper limit, etc.
Eleanor Wells, BSN, RN, ACC Coach
Eleanor Wells Coaching
SCS 2023
Eleanor Wells is a Personal Development Coach and the focus of her work is Burnout and Compassion Fatigue. This is a direct result of many years of experience working for and consulting with leaders and other "professional helpers" and seeing the tremendous impact of such issues.
Get a GRIPP
Helping Professionals often see self-care as selfish, however, “to be cared for is essential for the capacity to be caring.” GRIPP is a process of dealing with Compassion Fatigue; self-care that does not happen by yourself.
Kendra Garcia
KG Coaching & Consulting
SCS 2023
I am a certified LIFE Coach & I’ve been passionately coaching since 2016. I help people create the success in life defined by THEIR standards by mindset coaching.
The 2023 "Get Your Mind Right" Goal Setting
In this session you will be coached on identifying the negative habits, thoughts, & mindsets that have impacted the way you’ve previously viewe life & success. We will then create a Get Your Mind Right strategy to help you shift your mindset in preparation for a successful 2023.
Lee Beard
SCS 2023
Lee is a Campus Pastor at Cross Point, Bellevue. He and his family moved to Nashville 7 years ago. He is married to Kendal and has two daughters called Cole and Lyra. The last 7 years have truly been an adventure but Lee remains confident that the greatest adventures always lie ahead of us.
Boundaries - Protecting What Is Most Valuable
Time is the most valuable thing that we have. In this session we will talk about practical ways to protect your time in order for you to be the best you, achieve more and find rest.
Lisa Kammerud, LMT
Being Present: Holistic Bodywork
SCS 2023
Lisa Kammerud is a licensed massage therapist who supports clients healing from trauma, as well as anyone seeking a deeper body/mind/spirit connection. To facilitate this journey, she uses acupressure, craniosacral therapy and fascial work, along with body-centered communication.
Acupressure Rest & Reset
Acupressure sessions will be on a massage table and will focus on touch in the head, neck, and shoulders to offer relief of upper body tension and the opportunity for deep relaxation – a rest, and reset for the body/mind/spirit.
Nashville Nutrition Partners
SCS 2023
Nutrition therapy not only involves addressing what you eat but also how you think and feel about food and your body. This is not a one-size fits all approach. We will strive to understand your needs, preferences, and goals in order to offer realistic and personalized support for your nutrition, body and health concerns. We hope to create a relationship built on trust so that we can honestly and openly communicate with one another.
Intuitive Eating: A Non-Diet Approach
Simply Therapeutic Massage
SCS 2023
STM is a proudly women created/owned, Nashville local massage studio focused on personalized therapeutic bodywork for every BODY.
STM launched in 2020 based on the concept to keep it simple: a peaceful massage studio to provide individual based custom-tailored bodywork with real, genuine results. Our studio is a space where our clients and therapists can feel honestly taken care of, encouraged, and supported. STM is a close-knit team of caregivers who truly care about our community and each individual's self-care journey.
Therapeutic Chair Massages
Ashiya Swan
SCS 2022
Ashiya Swan merged her skills as a holistic coach, yoga instructor and circle facilitator to offer self-care and stress management services to those in a variety of high-pressure environments.
Embodied Mindfulness
This session explores the practice of becoming mindful in a way that is both practical and productive. Learn to use mindfulness as a tool for self-care and stress management to maintain wellness.
Curtis Zackery
SCS 2022
Curtis Zackery (CZ) is the founder of Find Rest (findrest.org) and the author of the book Soul Rest. He's compelled by his calling to help spiritually depleted people find renewal.
Finding Rest Together
The potential for burnout and disillusionment in our lives is real. We need to take note of the condition of our soul. During this time together will learn to work from rest in a sustainable way.
Dr. PaQuita R. Pullen
SCS 2022
Dr. PaQuita R. Pullen, LPC-MHSP, is the CEO of Ubuntu Counseling & Wellness. PaQuita identifies as a self-compassion advocate and has a special interest in working with helping professionals.
Mindful Self-Compassion
Participants will engage in a 1-hour workshop on Mindful Self-Compassion. Participants will be equipped with tools and exercises to establish and maintain a self-compassionate practice.
Eve Mannix
SCS 2022
Eve Mannix, is a certified coach, circle facilitator, and diversity consultant. She brings her love of people, nature, and the divine into everything she does.
Self Care Kickstart: 3-Minute Practices to Reenergize Your Routine
Do you feel like you don’t have enough time for self care? It is time to reenergize your self care routine with 8 three- minute micro-practices to refill your mind, body, and soul when you are feeling depleted.
Jenny Black
SCS 2022
Jenny is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She has received training in trauma, brainspotting, solution-focused therapy, emotionally focused therapy, art therapy and internal family systems.
Media Stress, Burnout and Trauma
We will learn some simple practical tools to manage personal media/phone/screens. We will discuss deep work and how creative, productive, meaningful work is beneficial to mental health. And we will explore the importance of digital boundaries on quality of life, work and relationships.
Kathryn Phillips
Nashville Nutrition Partners
SCS 2022
Kathryn Phillips is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who practices at Nashville Nutrition Partners, where she compassionately supports clients in nourishing their bodies through all of life’s seasons.
Intuitive Eating: A Non-Diet Approach
Food can be challenging in a world of conflicting health messages. In this workshop you'll learn a new way of navigating health that honors your body's needs while improving your relationship to food.
Maria Michonski (she/her)
SCS 2022
Maria Michonski is the newest member of the training team at the Sexual Assault Center, and specializes in areas of training related to: prevention in LGBTQIA+ communities, prevention and substance use, prevention in higher education settings, and prevention in religious communities, while enjoying all of our training content areas, including provider self-care, vicarious trauma, 101 trainings, etc. She was born and raised in the Nashville area, and has a Master’s in Divinity from Vanderbilt Divinity School.
Exploring Vicarious Trauma & Self-Care
Providing care and services to people in our communities is complex work that often takes a toll on us as individuals and on our organizations. This session will discuss possible impacts of stress and trauma related to our work and the subsequent importance of self-care. Participants will explore individualized self-care practices, the ways that they may mitigate the effects of trauma exposure, and their contextual limitations.
Micky ScottBey Jones
SCS 2022
Micky ScottBey Jones is a coach with a MA in Intercultural Studies from NAIITS with Portland Seminary and trained in Kingian nonviolence, and is a certified enneagram teacher.
Wisdom Center Meditation
Our 3 Centers of Wisdom can greater connection with the mind, heart and body in spiritual, emotional & somatic ways. Let's explore contemplative practices to nurture it all.
Sara Amos
SCS 2022
Sara Amos (She/Her) is an LCSW with 15+ years of experience in community mental health. Sara now owns a therapy practice primarily focused on supporting helping professionals.
Zoom Out: How a Trauma Informed Lens Changes Everything
Trauma Informed Practices will help organizations to evaluate their current systems and consider the perspective of those with a trauma history in order to better serve them.
Small World Yoga
SCS 2022
We believe in the power of yoga to transform individuals through healing and connection. We envision a world in which everyone has access to these benefits. By empowering people, we strengthen communities, and ultimately make a big world feel small.
Restorative Yoga
A Small World Yoga instructor will lead a 60 minute all-levels yoga class. This gentle and slower-paced, restorative style class is designed to stretch tighter areas and leave you feeling relaxed. (Yoga Mat Required)
Cathey Stoner MS RDN LDN
Allison Nutrition Consulting
SCS 2024
Cathey is a Nashville native, a foodie, and a mom of two. She received her undergraduate degree in Dietetics and her Master’s in Environmental Sciences. Cathey is passionate about helping clients sort through the trends and social pressures to find what works for their personal health journey.
Nourishing Your Body: A Positive Approach to Nutrition and Easy Meal Planning
Instead of dieting and focusing on what not to eat, this nutrition presentation guides audiences towards well-being, emphasizing what to eat. Explore easy meal planning through building balanced plates and adopting mindful eating.
Dani Hickman, LPC-MHSP
Dani Hickman
SCS 2024
Dani Hickman is a psychotherapist, podcaster and author. Over the last decade, she has shared her trauma and mental health expertise with individuals across the globe, helping them to connect with a deep sense of unconditional worth and self-love.
Embracing Self-Compassion: Practices to Cultivate Embodied, Self-Love
Join us for this workshop that dives into the intricate world of self-love and the inner child. We'll explore the root causes behind why self-love can feel challenging and, through somatic exercises, participants will discover how to pave the way for sustainable, self-love and self-compassion.
Jess Thompson
Jess Thompson
SCS 2024
Jessica E. Thompson (Williams) is a certified wellness coach and kettlebell instructor with more than four years of experience in promoting and teaching inclusive wellness to groups throughout Middle Tennessee. She believes that fitness should be accessible, available and affordable for all bodies.
Make Movement Fun and Functional
In this session, Jess will cover how we can move out of movement as a chore and find movement that is both fun and functional. Fitness is for all bodies. Jess will cover how to create a fitness routine that makes sense for you.
Rev. Linda Furtado
Scarritt Bennett Center
SCS 2024
Linda Furtado, wife, mother, and multifaceted professional, serves as Director of Spirituality and Arts at Scarritt Bennett Center. She is passionate about fighting racism and champions prophetic justice. As Founding Director of Cross Vocational, she facilitates positive daily faith formation.
Harmony Within: Faith, Racial Reconciliation, and Emotional Wellness
Through spiritual practices, shared reflections, and a focus on inner peace, Linda invites participants to cultivate harmony within themselves and extend healing relationships beyond our sacred gathering space.
Amy Lyles Wilson
Founder of Hamblett House Creative & Spiritual Development
SCS 2023
Amy Lyles Wilson is a writer, story coach, and spiritual director who believes it is the sharing of our stories that saves us. Toward that end, she employs a variety of creative and spiritual practices to help people claim their authentic voices and tell the stories they were created to tell.
The Language of Loss: Putting Grief into Words
In this workshop, we'll find the words for those times when mere vocabulary just won’t do. Times when we're sad, or angry, or lonely. Maybe we've buried a friend or lost a job. maybe we feel abandoned by God. Writing prompts and readings designed to translate longing into life will be offered.
Eve Overland
SCS 2023
EVE has been in the fitness industry for 25 years.She trains numerous celebrity clients including Carrie Underwood. Certifications; Personal Training, Krav Maga, Group Fitness, Kettlebells and Yoga.Eve lives in Atlanta where she works as an online coach and trains actors on set.
HIIT the Road: You don't need to be a rockstar to train like one!
Join Eve Overland for a creative cardio HIIT and bodyweight strength workout! Inspired by the workouts she does on the road with her celebrity clients, you will get your heart pumping, muscles burning and have some fun along the way! Suitable for all levels.
Laurie Travis
Trivia Host
SCS 2023
Laurie’s love of trivia started in her childhood when her mom got tired of her questions & got her a book called Tell Me Why. She was on a quiz team at Hillwood High School and at Western Kentucky. As an adult, she has been involved in playing, hosting & writing trivia games for years.
Trivia & Self-Care Prizes
Our trivia will have questions from many categories ranging from Movies, TV and Sports to Presidents, Weird Animal Facts and Catch Phrases . Players will work as teams to answer questions.
Linda Zelnik
ALTA Coaching, LLC
SCS 2023
Linda Zelnik is a coach, speaker, trainer and author of Burnout to Boom!, an action guide for more energy and less stress starting TODAY. She helps high achievers gain more focus, energy and freedom to ignite their goals through leadership development and work-life harmony coaching and training.
Burnout to Boom: Strategies for More Energy and Less Stress Starting TODAY
Serving at such a high level leaves high-achieving helpers at risk for burnout. This workshop will equip you with the most common misconceptions that can get you stuck in a stress cycle, proven strategies you can implement immediately, and the building blocks for sustainable work/life harmony.
Marsha Carnahan
ALTA Coaching, LLC
SCS 2023
Marsha is a Creative Healing Energy Practitioner. She meets clients where they are with compassionate, professional and intuitive elements of Jungian Dream work, Licensed (Energy)Massage Therapy, Spiritual Direction, Reiki, Theta Healing, Breath work, Family Constellations and more.
Jungian Dreamwork
Dream tending is an ancient spiritual practice that awakens the Soul. Our night Dreams are Wisdom and unopened messages from God/Creator. In this one hour session, we will learn and experience basic dream work through a creative projective Jungian lens.
Nicole Diamond
SCS 2023
Nicole Diamond has 25 of years experience as an esthetician. She has her own holistic skin care practice in Green Hills. She and her husband Nick reside in Franklin, Tn. with their two teenage children.
Protecting Your Skin
Small World Yoga
SCS 2023
We believe in the power of yoga to transform individuals through healing and connection. We envision a world in which everyone has access to these benefits. By empowering people, we strengthen communities, and ultimately make a big world feel small.
Restorative Yoga
Ashley Hampton
SCS 2022
Ashley is the Co-founder and Clinical Director of Hampton House Counseling, a counseling practice dedicated to serving individuals from the LGBTQIA* and BIPOC community.
Returning Home, Remembering Pieces of You
An experimental exploration on the parts of a healer/helper that often get lost or neglected along the way
Dori Gorman
SCS 2022
Dori Gorman grew up in Franklin, spent 20 years in ministry, most recently in Chicago as a church planter, and has been serving as the Chaplain for the YMCA of Middle Tennessee since 2019.
Dealing with Difficult People Without Becoming One
Does it feel like people are more on edge right now? Are you finding yourself more easily agitated? In this session we’ll learn some best practices to put into place before a conflict begins, during a conflict, and once a conflict has ended.
Elizabeth Power
SCS 2022
Elizabeth Power, M.Ed. is a Nashville-based educator whose quiet work in helping people, organizations and faith communities become trauma-responsive spans the globe.
The 7Cs of Resilience: A Blueprint for Personal Transformation
When you feel like "scorched earth," and your self-care just isn't enough, amplify each action through the lens of the 7Cs. This evidence-informed method easily increases meaning-making and more.
Heather Harriss
SCS 2022
Heather Harriss is a Certified Spiritual Director with a focus on Dream Work. She is an Elder in the United Methodist Church in ministry at Belmont UMC. She regularly leads Centering Prayer and other contemplative practices.
Dream Work as a Spiritual Practice
In scripture people paid close attention to their dreams and to the dreams of others. They knew God was showing them something that mattered. Dreams provide a bridge to other states of awareness and ways of being . In this interactive session you'll learn techniques to help you better understand your dreams, get tips for recording and recalling your dreams and experience linking the images and symbols from a dream with everyday life.
Jessi Wild and Kelli Payne
Apex Consulting
SCS 2022
Jessi Wild and Kelli Payne of Apex Consulting are licensed clinicians working to create bigger impact through group training, addressing mental health in the workplace to improve career satisfaction and improved job performance.
Mental Health Awareness in the Workplace
We provide education & functional skills to shift workplace dynamics to include acceptance for mental health in work environments, including individual & group needs & support from and between leadership.
Lisa Gamble
SCS 2022
Lisa Gamble is a career & leadership coach. With 20+ years of experience, Lisa works with leaders to leverage strengths and shift beliefs, behaviors, & habits for optimal happiness, success & growth.
Creating Your Powerful Personal Vision Statement
In this interactive session you'll create a personal vision based on your love language. We'll explore ways to better align with that vision daily and fully embody your best & most authentic self.
Merna ElSols
SCS 2022
Merna is a mental health clinician, presently serving as the Assistant Director of the Children & Teens Team at The Refuge Center for Counseling and a counselor at Nurture House.
The Sound Relationship Model in the Workplace
We may be feeling the need to connect with colleagues in order to establish a healthy and successful workplace environment. Let's learn how we can support one another throughout our workday.
Sally Sharpe
SCS 2022
Sally Sharpe is a Certified spiritual director and retreat leader in the Nashville area whose passion is to help others feel seen and known, experience God's love, and become their authentic selves.
Immanuel Journaling:
Receiving the Comfort & Care You Need
Immanuel Journaling helps you receive the comfort and care you need in your present circumstances. Using prompts that guide you in writing to yourself from God's compassionate perspective—or that of your most compassionate self—you'll experience the peace of being seen, known, and deeply loved.
Shaun Dean
SCS 2022
Shaun Dean serves as the Eastern US Director of Standing Stone in Greater Nashville, which is dedicated to guiding ministry leaders and their spouses into healthy ministry. He is married with 3 kids.
Personal and Organizational Care: Growing a Healthy Culture
As you look at the intersection of your work and your life, would you describe it as "healthy?" What about your organization? If you'd like to start or continue on this journey, come hang out for an hour.
Tiffany Bankett
SCS 2022
Tiffany Bankett a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and founder of A.I.M. for Healing. Her life has consisted of working in the world of care. Including previous non-profit work in: after-care and special education. Her experience taught her about how to deal with anxiety, not only with others but firsthand. She takes pride in helping her clients find ways to relax and loves being their personal cheerleader with even the smallest achievements.
Self-Care and Boundaries in Everyday Life
Tiffany would like to help you think through how to maintain a healthy mindset, find peace during a busy day, and love yourself. Her goal is to help you kick start / maintain your self-care journey through a toolbox of activities. Together you will walk through ideas to implement in your everyday life such as setting boundaries, implementing activities, and creating self-love to promote a healthier lifestyle.
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