Parent Symposium Breakout Speakers
During the day, you'll have the opportunity to attend two breakout sessions. Here's a list of our speakers:
Finding Jesus in the Grief of Parenthood
Speaker: Rachel Lohman
About Rachel: Rachel Lohman is the author of Miscarried Hope: Journeying with Jesus through Pregnancy and Infant Loss and founder of Hope Again Collective, a jewelry line that shares the stories of loss moms and has donated over $13,000 in practical grief resources to families experiencing pregnancy and infant loss. Rachel holds as Masters in Theology and Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary. She is a mother to three living children and one in Heaven. Rachel and her husband Mark currently pastor a bilingual church in Southern California.
Session Description: One in three families has experienced pregnancy or infant loss, yet many are left navigating this grief in silence. In this breakout, parents who've experienced loss--as well as those looking to support their family and friends walking through loss- will be given a unique tool to connect their grief to the grief experienced by Jesus and his disciples. In this breakout, we'll explore how Jesus brings hope and healing in the pain, losses, and grief of parenthood.
Parenting from the Inside Out: Cultivating Secure Attachment in Your Children
Speaker: Brian Catlett
About Brian: Brian Catlett, MA, LLPC, is a counselor at Stillpoint Counseling with a Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Richmont Graduate University and a BA from Calvin University. As both a therapist and a father of three, Brian brings warmth, clinical insight, and real-life experience to his work with parents. His work blends professional insight with personal experience, inviting families to cultivate secure, responsive relationships marked by resilience, connection, and hope.
Session Description: Parenting well begins with understanding ourselves. In this session, parents will be invited to explore how their own family of origin and lived experiences in order to grow in awareness, resilience, and compassion. Together, we’ll explore how to move from reactivity to intentional responsiveness, creating the kind of secure, nurturing environment where both parents and children can thrive.
Thrive, At Last!
Speaker: Amy Venn Shepard
About Amy: Amy Venn Shepard is an integrative success coach devoted to helping people discover and thrive in their purpose, peace and power. She is the creator of the Process of Progress, a powerfully effective framework for gaining clarity, alignment and traction toward a life aligned with ones truest self. Amy is a dynamic, compassionate and engaging coach and speaker. Her mastery of the enneagram, design thinking, holistic habits, entrepreneur success tools and behavior change science fuel the effectiveness and accessibility of Amy's speaking, training and coaching.
Session Description: Are you tired of feeling stuck? Busy all the time yet still restless and unfulfilled? The Process of Progress is an inspiring, design-thinking approach to creating your best life and thriving as your truest self. Beginning with clarifying and aligning your desires, then developing the traction and agility to succeed, you’ll leave with tools to think differently, act intentionally, and design the life you want.