Opening Keynote - Dr. Lynyetta Willis
"Powerful P.A.T.H.S to Transform Your Family’s Intergenerational Drama" -
When we transform the inherited dramas or unhelpful patterns passed down in our family, we create new legacies we’re proud to live and leave for our children and future generations.
Following the keynote, audience members will be able to:
- Illuminate unhelpful patterns passed down in their family.
- Uncover ways that unhelpful intergenerational patterns can impact their ability to be the parent and ally their LGBTQIA child needs.
- Explore 5 pathways parents and allies can take to transform unhelpful family patterns and strengthen their connection with their LGBTQIA child.
Dr. Lynyetta Willis, psychologist, family empowerment coach, speaker, and award-winning author - helps frustrated families break free from Stable Misery™ and unhelpful parenting and partnership patterns, so they can create more harmony at home. Over 20 years of journeying with countless clients led her to design the research-supported Elemental Living® Model and P.A.T.H.S. Relationship Framework. These powerful tools help families improve communication, minimize overreactions, and transform intergenerational trauma. Dr. Willis’s Harmony in the Home Couples Program and Triggered to Transformed™ Group Parenting Program have received rave reviews from couples and parents across the globe in South Africa, Israel, New Zealand, and Australia.
A sought after speaker, media contributor, and author, Dr. Willis’s multi-award winning book, My Forgotten Self: A Story about a Girl, a Powerful Encounter, and a Universal Message, received high acclaim from individuals such as Dr. Shefali Tsabary, author of The Conscious Parent and “Oprah’s Parenting Expert.
Joris Lechêne
"The Intersectionality of Homosexuality, Race, and Neurodivergence" - Description TBA
Doug Marshall, aka "World of Doug"
"Feel Good Energy - Simple Mindfulness to shift your energy + feel good"- Doug Marshall is a GOOD ENERGY EXPERT and he's going to help you clean up your energy by using simple mindfulness tools that take 30 seconds to 3 minutes to create GOOD ENERGY. When we focus on our personal energy as a barometer for how we feel, we can become more aware of our emotions/stress triggers and gain control over them. Doug will make a case for that and demonstrate ways you can measure your energy and then share tools that will help you be more intentional with it to create more impact in the world and attract more good stuff and good people in your life. It’s all about energy. Yes, you can have control over your emotions and energy in any moment as long as you have the tools to process and pivot. You are guaranteed to have fun and walk away with simple tools to implement in your life.
Doug Marshall is a writer, motivational speaker, and certified life coach who loves helping others grow through self-reflective work. He teaches people to “clean up” their energy through simple mindfulness practices (movement/breathing/meditation) so they can feel good, be present and be more themselves.
In addition to his blog on theworldofdoug.com, his lifestyle articles have been published in Artful Living, MSP Mag, NY Daily News, NY Post, Vogue Italia and The Hollywood Reporter. Keep up with him on Insta @theworldofdoug.
Norman Liverpool
"Queer and Confident" -This presentation will explore some of the challenge’s LGBTQ+ folks face by just being who they are. The Confident Lifestyle Coach TM, Norman J. Liverpool IV will also provide proven tips for increasing your Confidence. For many of us, we are taught to mute our stories, hide and sometimes to not even share our stories at all. I’ve coined the term “closetor” for the people who this. Most of the time they do not want to own up to their part in your story – so they’d prefer you to not share it. We are often indoctrinated to believe that we are less than. We then trick ourselves into not tapping into the Confidence that is within us because we don’t think we deserve it or allow fear to cripple us.
Norman J. Liverpool IV, the Confident Lifestyle coach, author and motivational speaker, is the founder of Over the Top Living, based in Las Vegas NV. Norman started Over the Top Living to be a voice in the LGBTQ+ Community. He shares his story and uses his voice to empower all people to live in their truth and to live out loud, unashamed. The organization engages with the community by producing a various webcasts and confidence building programs and challenges in addition to supporting his clients nationwide. His new book, Over the Top Living: Walking In Next Level Confidence Every Damn Day is now available on Amazon.
Kirsten Palladino of Equally Wed
"Planning your dream wedding" -The wedding industry is extremely heteronormative, but that doesn't mean we don't have the right to get married and celebrate our love! Renowned LGBTQ+ wedding expert Kirsten Ott Palladino will be highlighting some of the most important elements to keep in mind while planning a wedding as an LGBTQ+ couple, from finding LGBTQ+ inclusive vendors, navigating homophobia and transphobia in family to shopping for attire, double proposals and the only rule you need to follow in wedding planning.
Kirsten Ott Palladino is a multi-award-winning writer, editor, speaker and author. She is the cofounder and editorial director of Equally Wed, the world’s leading LGBTQ+ wedding magazine, as well as the creator of Equally Wed Pro, an LGBTQ+ inclusive certification course and educational platform. Kirsten has written for and/or been featured in myriad luminary publications including Washington Post, The New York Times and Forbes, as well as an in-studio guest on major news networks, such as CNN, NPR and CBS. She is the author of Equally Wed: The Ultimate Guide to Planning Your LGBTQ+ Wedding, the first and only gender-neutral wedding planning book for LGBTQ+ couples.
Taunya Craig
"Discover your true power in your relationship" - From falling in love and having fun, to navigating
challenges both trivial and monstrous. Being in
relationship is not about following societal rules or
unconsciously repeating behaviors you learned
growing up - it’s a channel for deep connection,
available to anyone who is willing to be present and
choose curiosity over reactivity. Instantly shift the dynamic when your relationship feels out of sync. Strategically break the rules society has "set" for relationships without feeling like an outcast. Learn to stay present and curious to keep "stories" at bay and discover what is really available for you in your relationship.
Taunya Craig is a relationship therapist, coach and speaker, who specializes in helping people connect in the middle of the messy awkward moments to create deeper more meaningful relationships, through artful simplicity. Helping real individuals who are on the journey of self-discovery facing changes that need to happen or have happened and aren’t quite clear as to their next steps. Providing clarity, tools and perspective shifts to capitalize on their personal growth and enhance their relationships. Founder of F*CK FINE Club “a place to find you amidst all the noise, beyond societal constraints”.
Britt McClintock
"Reclaiming the Outdoors" - The history of human connection to nature is a complex but necessary story. Join Britt McClintock as she explores the difficult topics of how marginalized communities, especially LGBTQ identifying people have been cut out and left behind by a billion dollar industry. She will identify, through a historical lens, why outdoor activities and the outdoors in general have become so inaccessible. McClintock will conclude by providing a new approach for how folx can redefine and reclaim the outdoors while staying safe.
Britt spent the last 15 years working in education and youth services with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion and outdoor education. Over the years Britt has worked with a variety of collegiate outdoor education programs, as a wilderness therapy leader, and backcoutnry guide. In 2015 she created a short documentary, Genderations - A Documentary on the negative impact gender socialization can have on LGBTQ children. With this documentary she created trainings/workshops and traveled to a variety of colleges and universities to engage students in difficult conversations about gender, class, and race. Most recently Britt has been consulting for universities, colleges, and some small businesses on inclusion and equity initiatives, as well as working with parents, educating on race and gender. Britt also continues to bring her DEI work into outdoor spaces.
Court and Lex
Talk Title and Description TBA
With over 20 million views to date, Court and Lex continue to stand up for members of the LGBTQ+ community as well as people of color. They use their platform to make people laugh and to be their authentic selves unapologetically. Court and Lex now have over 100K followers on Instagram and over 400K followers on TikTok with an amazingly loyal fan base. They have a very unique look with even more unique personalities that shine through to their fans. Not only are they influencers, but they are the parents of three beautiful children. In addition to that, Court and Lex model for clothing brands, act, direct, and even dabble in the music industry. Court and Lex are the up and coming poster family of the LGBTQ+ community.
Gabrielle Kassel
"Sex Ed 101 for Queer Adults" **Intended for Emotionally Mature Audiences - In 2021, less than five percent of LGBTQ+ report having had sex education classes that include positive representations of LGBTQ-related topics. For adults who came of age 20, 30, 40, and 50 years ago, that percentage is even smaller—in some cases, a big whopping zero percent. In this workshop, queer sex educator Gabrielle Kassel will be giving adults the queer-forward sex education they've always deserved and wanted but never gotten.
Gabrielle Kassel (she/her) is a queer sex educator, content creator and journalist who educates at the intersection of queerness, sexual health, and pleasure. Her work has appeared in publications such as SELF, Cosmopolitan, Well & Good, Health, Shape, Women’s Health, Greatist, and more. In her free time, Gabrielle can be found coaching CrossFit, reviewing pleasure products, and recording episodes of her podcast Bad In Bed: The Queer Sex Podcast.
