Meet the Hosts

Greer Kirshenbaum, PhD

Hello! My name is Greer Kirshenbaum PhD. I am an author, neuroscientist, doula, infant and family sleep specialist, brain health educator and mother. 
 
I have created The Nurture Revolution. A movement to nurture our babies’ brains and our parent brains to revolutionize mental health and positively impact larger systems in our world. 
 
I am thrilled that you are here to learn and practice nervous system regulation in the season of infancy. As parents we can benefit so much from learning self awareness, learning about our emotions and practicing techniques to regulate our stress. In other words to learn true self care.  Nervous system regulation helps us stay away from overwhelm, resentment and burnout. It helps us show up for ourselves and show up for our babies so we can experience more joy and love and be the nurturing parents we want to be.

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Rocio Zunini, PhD

Hello, I am Rocío! A neuroscientist, parental brain educator and mother of two.

I am an avid supporter of the Nurture Revolution and of Greer’s work of love and so I am so thrilled and honored to be part of this retreat!

I am passionate about transformation that comes with matrescence/patrescence via the parental brain.  This retreat is the perfect catalyzer for the parental brain to  grow, evolve and adapt to the beautiful yet challenging experience of parenthood.  May your journey be filled with joy, fulfillment and resilience after this retrea

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Meet Your Speakers

Keynote Talk

Dr. Gerlinde Metz

Professor of Neuroscience, Research Chair at Healthy Futures

Building Maternal Resilience to Break the Cycle of Transgenerational Trauma

Gerlinde A.S. Metz is a Professor of Neuroscience and Tier 1 Board of Governors Research Chair at the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge. Her research program focuses on the influence of experience and environment on brain plasticity and behaviour. Her work in animal models was the first to show that stress affects motor system function, risk of Parkinson’s disease and recovery from stroke. More recently, her laboratory has developed models to explore transgenerational inheritance of stress responses. This work showed that through mechanisms of epigenetic programming, experience in parents, grandparents and beyond can influence health and disease from early development to old age. This research is now leading to the discovery of new predictive biomarkers of disease.

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February 11: Nurturing your Baby

Eleanor Mann and Emma Johnston

Cofounders of the Reconnected

A New Paradigm of Parenting – The Synergy of Breathwork & Play Therapy

Hi, we are Eleanor and Emma, founders of The Reconnected.

Together, we have built a global community of families that are changing the course of their children’s future, co-regulating more effectively, and forming new patterns in their homes.

Our methods are grounded in practical strategies and integrated practice. Between us, we have qualifications in breathwork, play therapy, psychology and counselling. Plus, 11 beautiful children that fuel our mission and inspire a legacy.

The Reconnected was founded in 2019. It has been broadly recommended and now includes our own private Reconnected App with 100k families inside, over 150k followers on Instagram and tens of thousands of new members each year.

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Eli Harwood

Licensed Therapist and Author

Creating Secure Attachment

With a career spanning 17 years, I’ve devoted my life to the intricate art and science of attachment relationships.

My mission is simple: to share this invaluable knowledge with you.

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Moriah Melín

Midwife and Author

The 8 Castellino Principles: Simple tools to increase connection

Moriah Melín W. RM, CPM has been supporting families in childbirth since 1996, and became licensed as a midwife in 2011.  She is currently licensed in Colorado and registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland.  She has two beautiful children who were born at home, and she carries the sacred wisdom of birth not only in her heart and hands, but deep in her bones.  In 2017 Moriah was called into the field of death midwifery.  It is her great honor to hold families and individuals at both ends of the rainbow bridge.

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Dr. Lyndsey Hookway

Author and Responsive Sleep Advocate

(Genuinely) Gentle Sleep for Infants and Children

Lyndsey has worked with infants, children and families for almost 20 years. With a background in paediatric nursing and public health nursing, as well as being internationally board certified as a lactation consultant, she serves both families and professionals with her wealth of knowledge in infant feeding and behavior, sleep, and parenting.

An International speaker, Lyndsey regularly teaches health, lactation and childcare professionals with her unique mix of humour, current research and real world experience. She is also the co-founder and clinical director of the Holistic Sleep Coaching Program, and the author of Holistic Sleep Coaching, Let’s talk about your new family’s sleep, Still Awake, Why Childhood Illness Matters and Breastfeeding the Brave and co-authored The Writing Book with Amy Brown.

A passionate believer in gentle, responsive parenting that never compromises infant mental health or feeding, Lyndsey works to educate professionals and families about strategies that are protective of the parent-child bond. Her knowledge and experience supporting families with sleep without leaving infants or children to cry alone is why she is trusted by breastfeeding and gentle parenting advocates around the world.

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Brittany Chambers

Founder of GoodNight Moon Child

Sacred Motherhood: Embodying intuition

Brittany Chambers, MS, IFSS, founded Good Night Moon Child to reconnect parents to their instincts and to replace outdated, fear-based sleep philosophies with education and empowerment. Britt is an infant and family sleep specialist informed by neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and psychology. In addition to her sleep education, she has a bachelors and masters degree and has spent hundreds of hours hands-on in preschool and kindergarten classrooms, participating in the unfolding of early childhood education. Her work keeps maternal *and* infant mental health at the center and incorporates cross-cultural modalities, including meditation, energy medicine, nutrition, herbalism, movement, breath, astrology, CBT, and somatic therapy to address mind, body, and spirit well-being. When she’s not counseling families on sleep, she is with her daughter and husband playing somewhere outside under the California sun.

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February 12: Nurturing your Emotions

Dr. Sophie Brock

Motherhood Studies Sociologist

The Myth of the Perfect Mother: How to escape the anger-guilt trap

Dr Sophie Brock is a Motherhood Studies Sociologist and Mother who offers education on the sociology of motherhood and how our broader society shapes our experience as mothers. Covering topics and concepts such as the perfect mother myth, the care/career conundrum, the anger-guilt trap and more, Sophie’s work contributes to changing the cultural construction of motherhood, to create a world where Mothers feel empowered, supported, and valued.

Sophie’s offerings include self-study courses for Mothers, mentoring for mother-supporting professionals, her podcast The Good Enough Mother, and The Motherhood Studies Practitioner Certification online training.

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Lily Nichols

Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist

Fueling Motherhood & Postpartum Recovery

Lily Nichols is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, researcher, and author with a passion for evidence-based nutrition. Her work is known for being research-focused, thorough, and sensible. She is the founder of the Institute for Prenatal NutritionⓇ, co-founder of the Women’s Health Nutrition Academy, and the author of three books: Real Food for Fertility (co-authored with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack), Real Food for Pregnancy, and Real Food for Gestational Diabetes. Lily’s bestselling books have helped tens of thousands of mamas (and babies!), are used in university-level maternal nutrition and midwifery courses, and have even influenced prenatal nutrition policy internationally.

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Holly Sinclair

Holistic Lifestyle Coach

Using Functional Medicine to Nurture Pregnancy and Postpartum

Holly holds qualifications in social work, psychological science, functional diagnostic nutrition, holistic lifestyle coaching and natural therapies. She has worked in the space of health and wellness both in fitness and functional medicine for the past 15 years, and for the past 5 years has moved into the fertility space helping women (and men) succeed in conception despite being told that would never be possible. Holly also works in the addiction space, offering functional medicine tools to help assist recovery in out patients. She calls herself a ‘women’s health crusader’ bringing a no b*llshit approach coupled with a depth of knowledge. Holly is proud to help women conquer their diagnosis and live a vibrant and fertile life.

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Dr. Annie Brook

PhD, Birth Trauma Therapist

What Is Birth Psychology and How To Process Birth Experiences

Annie Brook, Ph.D., LPC is a world-class birth trauma therapist. Annie knows this infant memory/trauma work from the inside out, since she was born premature and in the NICU for 17 days without touch. The sudden death of her father when she was 2 added another layer of loss in bonding and secure attachment. Annie has spent decades personally in cultivating the tools that help one to heal, regulate, and thrive. Her methodology, Applied Neuroplasticity, truly helps the brain to change and is steeped in neuroscience, movement, and relational attachment. Professionally, Annie has worked in hospitals, trauma centers, public schools, mental health clinics, and private practice for 45 years. Her passion is sharing body tools that heal; Birth’s Hidden Legacy~Healing Birth Trauma online course and books prepare therapists/parents to help children and adult clients regroup after a difficult birth. Annie founded The Brook Institute where she trains therapists and offers an MA or Ph.D in Somatics, including Birth Trauma Healing.

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Jessica Tomich Sorci

Psychotherapist

Befriending Your Mom Parts

Jessica Tomich Sorci is a pioneer in the field of maternal mental health, bringing her expertise in Internal Family Systems into the developmental realm of motherhood, creating a paradigm shift in how we understand moms. With the creation of Mom Parts, Jessica has opened up a destigmatizing way to talk about and work with moms’ distress and struggle, believing mother to be innately whole and unbroken underneath their suffering parts.

As a licensed psychotherapist who is Certified in both IFS and Perinatal Mental Health, Jessica offers her wealth of compassion and knowledge to moms who are on healing journeys and to practitioners who want to learn and implement her Mothercentered approach.

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Alyssa Blask Campbell

Founder of Seed & Sew

Sensory vs. Emotional Regulation

Alyssa Blask Campbell, M.Ed., is the CEO and founder of Seed & Sew and a globally recognized expert in emotional development. With a master’s degree in early childhood education, Alyssa has dedicated her career to advancing the field of emotional intelligence. She co-created and researched the Collaborative Emotion Processing (CEP) method with Lauren Stauble, Assistant Professor of Early Education and mindfulness consultant, revolutionizing how adults understand and respond to children’s emotions, fostering the development of emotionally intelligent future generations.

Alyssa’s work is further amplified through her podcast, Voices of Your Village, a platform uniting parents, caregivers, educators, and experts across more than 100 countries, creating a modern-day parenting village. Voices of Your Village podcast guests have included Dr. Becky Kennedy, Gabor Maté, Dr. Nicole LePera, Dr. Shefali, and more. Her research, along with her and Stauble’s experiences as educators and parents, is detailed in her first book, Tiny Humans, Big Emotions, published by HarperCollins.

Seed & Sew serves an international community, providing tools and expertise through speaking engagements, online courses, and professional development programs for educators, aimed at building emotional intelligence in children and adults alike. Alyssa has been an expert speaker on a global level for UNESCO and travels the world speaking for government agencies, schools, businesses, and organizations. Alyssa’s insights have been featured in prominent publications, including The Washington Post, Vermont Public, CNBC, Kids VT, Burlington Free Press, and Family Education. Her inclusive, judgment-free approach invites individuals to engage with emotional development at any stage of life. “It’s never too early or too late to start,” she emphasizes.

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February 13th: Nurturing your Stress

Dayna Abraham

Best-Selling Author and National Board Certified Educator

How to Self-regulate when Parenting Feels Impossible

Dayna Abraham, bestselling author of Calm the Chaos: A Fail-Proof Roadmap for Parenting Even the Most Challenging Kids.

As a National Board Certified educator, parent of three neurodivergent children, and an ADHD adult herself, Dayna brings a unique and out-of-the-box perspective to parents raising kids in the modern world.

Through her compassionate framework, Calm the Chaos, she has helped millions of desperate parents around the world, find peace and meet their children where they’re at when conventional parenting tools have failed them.

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Lori Bregman

Doula and Life Coach

Nurturing your Baby in Pregnancy and Birth

Lori Bregman is a renowned doula, life coach, author of The Doula Deck, Mamaste, and The Mindful Mom To Be, as well as the Doula-in-Residence for Needed. With over 20 years of experience, Lori works with moms-to-be and new moms on all aspects of their personal transformation from fertility through pregnancy and into new motherhood. She is unique in her innate ability to blend spiritual coaching, healing, and intuition which are fully integrated into her Doula practice. The delivery is just one part of the journey of birthing not only a healthy baby but also a healthy mother. Lori cultivates a strong relationship with her clients by supporting them throughout the entire process – before, during, and after the birth.

She is the founder of the Mindful Mom-To-Be Virtual Group Coaching Program, a complete mind, body, and spirit support program that helps women throughout pregnancy and birth as they transition into new motherhood.

Throughout her career, Lori has studied with and learned from some of the most renowned healers and spiritual teachers across the world. These teachers have shared with her their wisdom, from spirituality, intuition, body/mind awareness, herbs/vitamins, aromatherapy oils and the healing power of foods to doula work, bodywork, yoga, and numerous other forms of holistic healing.

Lori has always been especially drawn to working with moms-to-be and new mothers and geared much of her learning toward pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting. She has built a thriving career based on her passion for fostering mindful and empowered mothers, healthy and happy babies as well as people at all stages of life.

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Mel Mutterspaugh

Clinical Herbalist

Herbal Calm For A New Mom

Mel is a clinical herbalist, environmental educator, mother, wilderness therapist, and podcast host on The Herbalist’s Path. Mel has studied plant medicine for well over 20 years! She lives in the foothills of Mount Hood, Oregon with her family and fur babies!


Mel is super passionate about teaching mommas to use plants as medicine in safe and effective ways, so that there can be an herbalist in every home… AGAIN! It’s all about inspiring you to take better care of our planet, through taking better care of yourself & your family.

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Sarah R. Moore

Founder of Dandelion Seeds Positive Parenting

Supporting Your Nervous System: How to feel more peace from the inside out

Sarah R. Moore is the author of the best-selling book, “Peaceful Discipline,” and founder of Dandelion Seeds Positive Parenting. As a certified and accredited Master Trainer in conscious parenting and Board President for the American Society for the Positive Care of Children, she’s also a public speaker, parent coach, armchair neuroscientist, and most importantly, a Mama. She offers an accredited, evidence-based, and heart-centered parent mentoring & certification program. Her work has been featured on NBC, CBS, and SiriusXM, and in countless international parenting magazines. With training in child development, trauma recovery, interpersonal neurobiology, improv comedy and play, her work supports parents and caregivers around the globe.

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Erica Djossa

Founder of Momwell

Releasing the Mental Load

Erica Djossa is the CEO and founder of Momwell, and a registered psychotherapist specializing in maternal mental health with over a decade of experience. As a mother of three rambunctious young boys, Erica understands first-hand the challenges of motherhood. Perfectionism, pressure, and loss of identity fueled her battle with postpartum depression, and she realized how difficult it is to seek care. She founded Momwell to set a standard of care for providers and ensure mom-centred specialized mental health support at any stage of motherhood. Erica has been featured in media publications including Time Magazine, USA Today, The Toronto Star, Breakfast Television, and Scary Mommy.

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Domino Kirke-Badgley

Doula and Cofounder of Carriage House Birth

Doula’s Trust Birth – The role of the doula in the Birth and Postpartum space

I became a birth worker after my first son was born in 2009. His birth was a near-death experience for me, and like so many, I felt abandoned by my care team. When my son was a year old, I set out to become the support person I didn’t have at my own birth.

A year after my DONA training in 2011, I co-founded of Carriage House Birth in 2011.

I’ve supported births at home, birth centers, C births, and VBAC’S. I’ve worked primarily in the NYC and surrounding areas my whole career. Since the birth of my second child, I have decided to shift my focus to supporting care givers.

After becoming seriously burned out with the on-call lifestyle and battling an autoimmune disease as a result, I can’t think of a better way to spend my time.

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February 14th: Nurturing your Relationships

Suzanne Reese

Senior Trainer at Infant Massage USA

Nurturing Touch: A cultural paradigm

Suzanne is an IAIM/IMUSA Educator & Senior Trainer. Suzanne trains and certifies individuals as parent educators of infant massage as a vehicle for healthy parent-infant bonding and healthy infant growth & development.

Suzanne holds a B.A. in Child Development from California State University, Northridge. She worked in family and child service agencies for ten years before becoming an infant massage educator and then a trainer. Suzanne retired as a holistic health practitioner and yoga teacher to focus on infant massage. Suzanne has taught infant massage for 20+ years. Her acclaimed work has been featured worldwide at conferences, universities, in print (People magazine), online, and in radio and local news stations. She is an author, a singer/songwriter, and a humanitarian – all things infant massage.

Suzanne’s comprehensive knowledge base, her passion for this work, her integrative approach, the integrity of her commitment to her students, and her energetic presentation is what make her courses educational, inspiring, and fun. She is confident that, together, we can facilitate cultural paradigm shifts around how infants and young children are received, seen, heard, and held in the hands and hearts of their parents and primary caregivers.

Suzanne was born, raised, schooled, and started her own family in Southern California. She currently lives with her family in East Texas, USA.

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Sara Davison

Multi-Award Winning Coach

How to Cope with Breakup & Divorce and Also Spot the Signs of a Toxic Relationship

Sara Davison, best known as ‘The Divorce Coach’ is a multi-award-winning Coach, twice best-selling author and podcast host of Heartbreak to Happiness. Sara is also a global media commentator for TV and radio on breakups, divorce and domestic abuse.

Following the launch of Sara’s Breakup & Divorce Coach Practitioner Accreditation Programmes in 2018, Sara founded The International Divorce Coach Centre Of Excellence which now has a coaching community of over 600 Coaches spanning 27 countries and five continents.

Sara’s ‘Coaching Hub’ is the leading global provider of breakup, divorce and domestic abuse coaching support for businesses of all sizes as part of their employee wellbeing programme.

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Briar Culbert

Registered Psychotherapist

Reparenting – Alchemizing Healing in the Parent-Child Bond

Briar is a Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO) and yoga and meditation teacher who works with individuals and offers group workshops in Ontario. She combines her training in counseling with her background in
movement, biochemistry, and ceremony to foster a truly holistic and integrative approach. Through Briar’s embodied practices, thoughtful questions, reflective space, and coaching, clients are offered a unique
space for their growth. 

Outside of work, Briar is a mother, multi-passionate learner, movement instructor, and constantly learning through diverse topics. She ensures that her ideas in workshops and one-on-one sessions are always practical and applicable!

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Kelly Tay

Founder of Juicy Parenting

Parenting Against the Grain: How to tune out what the world may say & stay true to your parenting values

Kelly Tay is a certified parent educator, founder of Juicy Parenting, author, and mother of two.

Through her courses and online membership, she teaches Asian parents how to lead with calm and confidence, not fear and force — so that children stay close with family because they want to, not because they feel obliged to.

With the vast majority of Respectful Parenting resources coming from the US/UK, Kelly’s distinctly Asian point-of- view makes her a unique voice in the space.

Prior to her career pivot into parent education, she was an award-winning journalist who spent a decade in financial writing. She is a Fulbright scholar (Columbia University), and continues to provide parenting commentaries in the media.

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Vered Benhorin

Founder of Baby in Tune

How to Have Bubble Moments With Your Baby: Finding meaningful and joyful moments with your baby through music, mindfulness and play

Vered is a music therapist, psychotherapist, founder of Baby in Tune, and mom of three. Through Baby in Tune, she’s helped thousands of parents connect to their baby and feel more confident in their parenting. Vered’s music, which give words to the joyful and complex experience of parenting, has received the Parents Choice Gold Award and has over 16K monthly listeners. She’s trained over fifty practitioners worldwide and has lectured at seminal conferences such as Zero to Three. Her upcoming book, What Do I Do With My Baby All Day?! helps parents find meaningful moments of connection with their baby (Countryman Press/W.W. Norton). Vered’s music can be found on Spotify/Amazon/iTunes/Youtube.

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Stephen and Erin Mitchell

Cofounders of Couples Counseling for Parents

Stop Fighting, Start Connecting: How the conflict-to-connection equation will revolutionize your couple relationship

Erin and Stephen are the authors of Too Tired To Fight and cofounders of Couples Counseling for Parents, a company focused on providing access to research-informed, psychologically sound online education for couples. Both have a clinical education—Stephen, a PhD in medical family therapy, and Erin, a master’s degree in counseling psychology—and they have a combined 23 years of experience providing counseling and education. They have been married for 16 years and have three kids.

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