Parenting. Gender. Leadership. We all follow the script we have been given. The story we have been told and tell ourselves. We carry these perceptions with us, into our partnerships, parenting and places of work. There’s more to life than that. Let’s empower women, explore healthy masculinity, and embrace authenticity, because the story is ours to rewrite—join our 2020 annual parenting conference.
2020 Speakers

Rachel Simmons
Women's Empowerment & LeadershipAuthor of Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy and Fulfilling Lives, and the New York Times bestsellers Odd Girl Out and The Curse of ...

Tony Porter
Healthy Masculinity
John Duffy
Teen/Parent Anxiety
Debbie Reber
Differently Wired ChildrenDeborah Reber, MA, is a parenting activist, New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and speaker who moved her career in a more personal direction in 2016 when she founded ...

Maureen Muldoon
Power of StorytellingMaureen Muldoon is an author, actor and spiritual teacher. She is the founder of Speakeasy Spiritual Community and an internationally recognized teacher of A Course In Miracles. Maureen facilitates ...

Gemma Hartley
Emotional LaborGemma Hartley is a freelance journalist and author of Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women and the Way Forward (HarperOne, 2018). She lives in Reno, Nevada with her husband and three...

Cathy Cassani Adams
Zen Parenting Co-Host
Todd Adams
Zen Parenting Co-HostConference Countdown
OPTIONAL PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Friday, February 28th
3:00 - 5:00 pm
Rewrite the Story: Unlearning What Hurts and Living Your Desires
In this workshop for women, we’ll explore and uncover the stories we carry into our relationships and parenting. Discover how to reclaim your self-worth. Learn ways to connect with and speak your truth, express your desires and pursue a life of meaning and purpose.
Facilitated by Cathy Adams
Building Connections and Redefining Masculinity
In this workshop for men we’ll discuss the skills needed to be the best version of yourself for your family and community. We welcome men of all ages and backgrounds who are interested in showing up in the world as their authentic selves and ready for deeper connection.
Facilitated by Todd Adams and Frank Naugo
Early-Bird Registration: $250
(Before November 1st)Registration: $300
Pre-Conference Workshop: $50
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Conference Schedule
Friday, February 28
3:00 - 5:00 pm - Pre-conference Workshops –
Rewrite the Story: Unlearning What Hurts and Living Your Desires
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Building Connections and Redefining Masculinity
5:30 pm - Registration Opens
5:30 pm - Bookstore + Zen Showcase Opens
7:00 - 8:30 pm - Sex Education for Grown-ups and Teens: Why Knowledge is Power - Cathy + Todd - Junior Ballroom A+B
8:30 - 8:45 pm - Break
8:45 - 9:45 pm - Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety - Dr. John Duffy - Junior Ballroom A+B
9:45 pm - John Duffy Book Signing
Saturday, February 29
7:00 am - Morning Yoga - Ballroom C
8:00 am - Registration Opens
8:00 am - Bookstore + Zen Showcase Opens
9:00 am - Welcome: Cathy + Todd
9:15 am - Rachel Simmons: Enough as She Is: Moving Beyond Impossible Standards
10:15 – Break
10:30 – Gemma Hartley: Fed Up: The Invisible & Unpaid Work of Emotional Labor
11:00 – Debbie Reber: Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World
11:30 - 12:30 pm - Lunch Break+ Rachel Simmons Book Signing
12:30 - 1:30 pm - Breakouts:
• Rachel Simmons - Five Skills Every Confident Girl Needs
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• Tony Porter - A Call to Men: Promoting and Raising Healthy and Respectful Men
1:30 - 2:45 pm - Panel of Parents, Teens and Experts on Transgender and Non-binary Identity
- Maureen Muldoon – Writer and performer, Trans-Parent Love
- Jameson (Jamie) Pagano, LCPC, founder of Transmogrify Counseling Services LLC
- Anna Graham
- Juniper Fenner
- Matthew Wargin
- Deb O'Connor and her child, El
2:45 - 3:00 pm - Break
3:00 - 4:30 pm - Tony Porter: Healthy Men, Healthy World
4:30 - 5:00 pm - Closing Thoughts: Cathy + Todd
5:00 - 5:30 pm - Book Signing with Tony Porter
5:00 - 6:00 pm - Conversation and Drinks