Amanda Purvis will open the conference by grounding us in why this work matters — where faith, trauma, healing, and courageous action converge.

In this anchoring session, she will welcome participants into a shared vision of what it truly means to live trauma-informed practices personally, lead them organizationally, and advance them globally. With clarity and conviction, Amanda will challenge us to move beyond language into embodied transformation, setting the tone for a gathering committed to disrupting trauma at every level.

The session will culminate in a dynamic panel of global experts who will share real-world stories of cultivating cultures of healing, resilience, and restoration across diverse contexts.

Hear from Dr. David Cross and Dr. Daren Jones as they challenge conference participants to move beyond inspiration into courageous implementation.

Drawing from decades of global work advancing relational healing, they will explore the often-overlooked gap between theory and practice — the distance between knowing and living it. This session calls leaders, parents, practitioners, and system-shapers to embody the principles they teach, integrating relational neuroscience into homes, workplaces, and communities.

With honesty and conviction, they will invite us to see that sustainable culture change is not built on information alone, but on personal transformation, resilience, and the quiet heroism required to practice connection when it matters most.

This keynote with Dr. Michael Paul explores the sacred intersection where trauma and faith collide, inviting us to examine how our wounds shape — and sometimes distort — our understanding of God, trust, attachment, and belonging.

With both academic depth and pastoral wisdom, this session will unpack how trauma impacts our spiritual narratives, how dysregulation and shame carry theological implications, and how Scripture consistently reveals a God who meets people in places of fear, fragmentation, and exile. Together, we will reimagine healing as an embodied, communal, and deeply sacred journey — one that integrates psychological insight and Christian theology.

Participants will be invited into a vision of spiritual formation that is trauma-informed, justice-oriented, and rooted in restoration, where faith communities become places of co-regulation, mercy, and hope.