The Global Empowered Learning Caregivers Summit 2026 March 27 – March 28, 2026 - Free Live Online
Stop Guessing. Start Connecting.
The Global Empowered Learning Caregivers Summit is a two-day international
gathering created to support parents, teachers, caregivers, and family
support professionals.
This summit centers on connection, curiosity, compassion, and dignity in
education and caregiving.
Formerly known as the Global Parent & Teacher Summit, this experience
brings together research, lived experience, and practical tools you can use
immediately in homes, classrooms, and caregiving spaces.
Summit Schedule Across Time Zones
This is a two-day live global event.
How to Join
Participants are welcome to join any live sessions that best support their time zone and availability. REGISTER first for FREE Live Access. Use the guide below to find the daily start and end times in your region:
Pacific Time (PST / UTC-8)
Day 1 (March 27): 7:00 AM – 4:45 PM
Day 2 (March 28): 7:00 AM – 3:55 PM
Eastern Time (EST / UTC-5)
Day 1 (March 27): 10:00 AM – 7:45 PM
Day 2 (March 28): 10:00 AM – 6:55 PM
India Standard Time (IST / UTC+5:30)
Day 1 (March 27): 8:30 PM – 6:15 AM (March 28)
Day 2 (March 28): 8:30 PM – 5:25 AM (March 29)
Recordings & On-Demand Access
Live access is complimentary. All sessions are recorded for the benefit of our global community. To own the recordings for one full year and watch at your own pace, please upgrade your registration:
Empowered Membership ($99): One year of recording access for the Caregivers Summit only.
Empowered Bundle ($150): One year of recording access for both the Caregivers Summit and the Women’s Leadership Voices Summit.
What This Summit Is About
The Global Empowered Learning Caregivers Summit is dedicated to:
Relationship-based caregiving
Encouragement without shame
Practical classroom and home tools
Emotional regulation strategies
Compassionate discipline
Curiosity-driven learning
Dignity and belonging across the lifesp
This summit supports those who care for children, families, and elders
Scroll to the bottom for the speaker details.
Who is This For
Attend Free
Live participation is free and open to everyone.
You may attend as many sessions as your schedule allows.
Get full recording access and watch anytime in 2026 + Empowered Membership.
If you would like continued access beyond the live event, recordings are
available.
All individual and bundle purchases include Empowered Membership access.
Summit Recording Annual Access
$99
One year access to the Caregivers Summit recording.
Includes Empowered Membership.
$150
Bundle access to both 2026 summit recordings:
Women’s Leadership Voices Summit
Global Empowered Learning Caregivers Summit
Includes Empowered Membership.
$500
Non-Profit & School Recording Package
Recording access for staff and volunteers.
Optional Empowered Membership add-on: $25 per person.
$1000
Corporate Recording Package
Unlimited access within your organization.
Optional Empowered Membership add-on: $25 per person.
Empowered Membership Includes
Individual and bundle purchases include Empowered Membership access. Membership includes:
Full summit recordings
Four live 1.5-hour Zoom calls throughout the year
Leadership, education, and caregiving tools
Ongoing reflection and community conversations
Membership details and launch information available upon request.
A Global Journey of Connection and Compassion
We believe that the best caregiving happens when parents and teachers use the same tools. This year, we are dedicating March 28 to a consolidated global experience with all content available on-demand, providing research-based tools for every caregiving cabinet.
Choose your access option below.
Attend Live
Recording Access Single Summit
Summit Bundle
School Recording Access
Corporate Recording Access
Organizational Packages
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Speaker Details and Summit Schedule
The Prepared Adult
Parent mindset, emotional well-being, and "Parenting Yourself First.
Madhuri Prasad: Purposeful Leadership in Early Years Practice
Live session on March 27, 2026
Time: 7:00 AM PST / 8:30 PM IST
Purposeful leadership in early years education is often quiet, relational, and deeply impactful—yet frequently undervalued. This session aims to elevate the understanding and practice of leadership in early years, redefining it as a conscious, relationship-focused endeavor that transforms environments and empowers teams.
Susan Sjolund: Mothering with a Broken Heart: How to Parent with Strength, Stability, and Self-Compassion After Divorce
Live session on March 27, 2026
Time: 4:00 PM PST / 7:00 PM EST
"Divorce doesn’t just break a marriage — it fractures identity, certainty, financial stability, and often the rhythm of daily life. For mothers, the heartbreak is compounded by the relentless responsibility of showing up for children while navigating grief, anger, fear, and exhaustion. In this powerful and practical session, Susan Sjolund draws on her personal journey as a twin mom navigating divorce and her work as an ICF-accredited leadership and life coach to explore how women can parent with steadiness even when their own hearts feel unsteady.
This session moves beyond survival tactics and into intentional rebuilding. Participants will learn how to regulate their own emotional state before responding to their children, how to communicate in age-appropriate and stabilizing ways, how to manage co-parenting dynamics without fueling conflict, and how to rebuild their identity outside of marriage. Susan introduces tools for self-leadership, boundary-setting, daily resilience practices, and creating emotional safety at home — even in two households.
Attendees will leave with tangible strategies, language they can use with their children, and a renewed sense of personal agency. Because mothering after divorce is not about pretending you are fine — it’s about becoming strong, present, and grounded enough that your children feel safe, even when life has changed."
Monica Nicoll: Therapist as Client, Know Thyself Deeply
Live Session on March 28, 2026
Time: 8:00 AM PST / 11:00 AM EST
Becoming deeply aware of oneself helps you to sidestep reactive patterns in caregiving by clarifying the internalized process in a unique way.
Lucy Gibson: Empowering Children for Life - The Role of the Prepared Adult in Nurturing Life Skills
Live session on March 27, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST
"Children’s potential flourishes when both the classroom and home environments are thoughtfully prepared and aligned to meet their developmental needs. This workshop explores how the prepared adult – whether parent, caregiver, or educator – can empower children to develop essential life and soft skills, emphasising growth beyond academic achievement.
Drawing on Positive Discipline and Montessori principles, participants will learn practical strategies to cultivate a "prepared adult" mindset and create a prepared social, emotional, and physical environment that supports independence, resilience, cooperation, and lifelong learning.
Through interactive discussions, real-life examples, and reflective activities, attendees will examine common challenges children and adults face and explore actionable ways to support their development. The session will highlight how parent education (for families, educators, and caregivers) can bridge the classroom and home, everyday learning, helping adults recognise their children’s potential and meet their fundamental developmental needs.
Participants will leave with concrete tools, insights, and strategies to foster environments where children can thrive holistically – not just for exams – equipping them for a thriving adulthood.
Tina (Swati) Patel: I Didn’t Find Montessori Montessori Found Me
Live Session on March 28, 2026
Time: 7:00 AM PST / 10:00 AM EST
How lived experience and identifying true needs inform authentic leadership and caregiving.
The Child
Neuroscience, milestones, and foundational principles.
Timothy S. Hartshorne, Ph.D.
Parenting a Child with Severe Disabilities
Live Session on March 27, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM PST / 12:00 AM ES
A survival guide focused on eight "Marathon skills" for long-term resilience. This session will discuss ways to survive the stress and exhaustion, to recognize that you are not alone, and to learn to pace yourself.
Wider Impact
Community building, inclusion, and research-backed practices.
Kellina Powell:
Finding A Voice With Your Differences
Live Session on March 28, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM PST / 2: 00 PM EST
Strategies for supporting individuals with disabilities to focus on potential and independence. I share real-life experiences and actionable strategies that empower those supporting individuals with disabilities to focus on potential rather than limitations. Attendees leave with practical tools, mindset shifts, and renewed confidence to advocate, encourage independence, and cultivate leadership at every stage of life—proving that disability does not limit achievement, opportunity, or impact.
1. Inclusive, empowering language
2. A strengths-based mindset shift
3. Practical advocacy and empowerment strategies
4. Tools to foster independence and self-confidence
5. Real-world examples and actionable practices
Aisha Pope, LCSW:
The Other Side of ACEs
Live Session on March 27, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM PST / 5: 00 PM EST
"Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are strongly linked to long-term physical, emotional, and social health challenges. Yet emerging research shifts the narrative from risk alone to resilience. Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) have been shown to buffer the impact of adversity and improve mental health outcomes in adulthood, even for individuals with high ACE scores. This session explores the “other side” of ACEs by centering the Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences (HOPE) framework and its alignment with Adlerian theory and Positive Discipline principles.
Participants will examine how the four building blocks of HOPE—nurturing relationships, safe and equitable environments, opportunities for engagement, and social-emotional growth—can be intentionally cultivated in homes, classrooms, and community spaces. Drawing on Adlerian concepts of belonging, significance, mutual respect, and encouragement, this session highlights how Positive Discipline strategies actively generate the kinds of experiences that foster resilience, regulation, and long-term well-being.
Grounded in neuroscience and practical application, attendees will leave with a strengths-based lens and concrete tools to create environments that promote connection, dignity, and healing-centered growth. Rather than focusing solely on what went wrong, this session equips participants to intentionally build what helps children thrive."
Kelly Pfeiffer, CPDLT:
Creating Women-Centered Spaces & Classrooms
Live Session on March 28, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM PST / 2: 00 PM EST
This Session is designed to help attendees ponder what women inherently bring to workspaces and classrooms when we are planning events and experiences for women. How is an event for women or a space for women different from spaces that are created by men or created for the feminine and the masculine. I need to research this more, but in the end I want women to notice more spaces and events in the world that offer a more feminine feel and to give themselves permission to create these spaces for themselves and others.
By the end of this session, participants will leave with:
1. Language and frameworks to confidently communicate the value of early years work to parents and caregivers, fostering respect and trust
2. Practical strategies to build aligned partnerships with families while maintaining clear boundaries and shared purpose
3. Insight into how purposeful leadership in daily practice supports children’s emotional security, independence, and long-term well-being
4.. Tools to navigate challenging conversations with clarity, empathy, and confidence
5. A renewed sense of professional identity and leadership in early years education
Rhea Kuthoore:
Philosophising with Children for Caring Environments
Live Session on March 27, 2026
Time: 8:00 AM PST / 9: 30 PM IST
"This session will support caregivers, parents, educators, and others supporting learning in the following ways:
1. Showcasing how a philosophical pedagogy invites everyone to wonder, question and think afresh about how we think about ourselves and the world. In doing so, we all ought to become 'child-like' and co-inquirers, challenging the binaries of child/adult, experienced/inexperienced, knowledgeable/not knowledgeable and encouraging a space where adults can be equally challenged and children can be equally listened to. The facilitator encourages reflection without compelling children to think like themselves or to reach a goal that they want them to.
2. Showcasing how a philosophical pedagogy invites differences as philosophy is essentially a dialectic between differences, and what pathologizing children does is that it terms certain differences (ways of thinking/being) as problems that must be controlled or conditioned. So, in a way, the logic of pathologizing blocks the possibility of philosophizing, as for the latter, difference is essential to dialogue, and for the former, difference is a problem. In this way, doing philosophy together ought to create an environment in which difference does not become debate, leading to polarisation. A philosophical dialogue requires an openness to listening to different perspectives, reasoning about the implications of our thinking, and changing one's ideas.
3. Having the chance to immerse into a philosophical dialogue. "
LaTysa Jackson, CPDTC, B.A., A.A., and A.S
The Other Side of ACEs
Live Session on March 27, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM PST / 5: 00 PM EST
"Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are strongly linked to long-term physical, emotional, and social health challenges. Yet emerging research shifts the narrative from risk alone to resilience. Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) have been shown to buffer the impact of adversity and improve mental health outcomes in adulthood, even for individuals with high ACE scores. This session explores the “other side” of ACEs by centering the Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences (HOPE) framework and its alignment with Adlerian theory and Positive Discipline principles.
Participants will examine how the four building blocks of HOPE—nurturing relationships, safe and equitable environments, opportunities for engagement, and social-emotional growth—can be intentionally cultivated in homes, classrooms, and community spaces. Drawing on Adlerian concepts of belonging, significance, mutual respect, and encouragement, this session highlights how Positive Discipline strategies actively generate the kinds of experiences that foster resilience, regulation, and long-term well-being.
Grounded in neuroscience and practical application, attendees will leave with a strengths-based lens and concrete tools to create environments that promote connection, dignity, and healing-centered growth. Rather than focusing solely on what went wrong, this session equips participants to intentionally build what helps children thrive."
Rocky Garrison, Ph.D.:
A Case Study Method for Teaching Parenting
Live Session on March 27, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM PST / 1: 00 PM EST
Using real-world cases to translate complex parenting theory into actual practice. The goal of this workshop is to describe and demonstrate a method for teaching parents that uses case studies from Children: The Challenge. The prevention and treatment strategy of educating parents and teachers about how to encourage positive behaviors and decrease negative behaviors is a foundation practice modality in Individual Psychology. This case study method of teaching integrates the strengths of two Individual Psychology parent education strategies: the demonstration family counseling strategy with a live family and the parent study group strategy with assigned readings. The demonstration method was developed by Alfred Adler and his colleagues in the Viennese educational guidance clinics beginning in about 1916; the study group method was developed by Rudolf Dreikurs and his students, primarily in the United States and Canada.
This workshop will include a detailed description of a 10 week parent education curriculum, including a schedule of topics, an outline of an orientation session to prepare parents for participation, a sample learning contract that includes a description of participant rights, responsibilities and risks/benefits, a typical session agenda, and strategies for obtaining evaluative feedback from participants and for assessing change in parenting style. A case study will be used to demonstrate the teaching of a specific parenting strategy.
Environment & Resilience
Setting limits, independence, and navigating "big emotions."
Dodie Blomberg, CPLT:
The 3 C's of Kind and Firm Parenting
Live Session on March 28, 2026
Time: 3:00 PM PST / 6: 00 PM EST
Discover respectful, solution-focused tools for daily parenting challenges. This empowering and interactive session will support adults in being kind and firm in all relationships. We will discover what we can say and do that in challenging situations that is respectful and solution focused for any age!
Lindsay K. Hill, M.Ed., LPC-SC, DNASAP, and Passion Bankhead, LPC:
Encouragement Without Shame -Socially Interested Families: Supporting ADHD
Live Session on March 28, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM PST / 1: 00 PM EST
This session invites caregivers, educators, and helping professionals into a relational way of thinking about behavior, belonging, and everyday care. Rooted in Adlerian psychology and lived caregiving experience, we explore how encouragement, connection, and purpose shape cooperation across home, school, and caregiving settings. Rather than focusing on techniques alone, we center relationship as the foundation for learning, growth, and emotional safety.
Participants will be guided to understand behavior as communication and to respond with curiosity instead of control. Together, we will look at how respectful guidance and encouragement help reduce power struggles, strengthen cooperation, and support belonging across the lifespan. The focus is practical, humane, and deeply relational.
Relational practices that foster cooperation without using shame or punishment.
Passion Bankhead, LPC, and Lindsay K. Hill, M.Ed., LPC-SC, DNASAP:
Encouragement Without Shame -Socially Interested Families: Supporting ADHD
Live Session on March 28, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM PST / 1: 00 PM EST
This session invites caregivers, educators, and helping professionals into a relational way of thinking about behavior, belonging, and everyday care. Rooted in Adlerian psychology and lived caregiving experience, we explore how encouragement, connection, and purpose shape cooperation across home, school, and caregiving settings. Rather than focusing on techniques alone, we center relationship as the foundation for learning, growth, and emotional safety.
Participants will be guided to understand behavior as communication and to respond with curiosity instead of control. Together, we will look at how respectful guidance and encouragement help reduce power struggles, strengthen cooperation, and support belonging across the lifespan. The focus is practical, humane, and deeply relational.
Relational practices that foster cooperation without using shame or punishment.
Deborah Owen-Sohocki, MS, LPC,:
Honoring our anger
Live Session on March 27, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM PST / 4: 00 PM EST
Listening to what anger tells us about our needs and boundaries leads to greater self-acceptance and compassion. And when we accept ourselves fully, we can show up for those in our care with more presence and patience
"Anger is a guide not an enemy
Anger is natural and needed emotion
Anger suppressed can lead to depression and fatigue
Anger often covers grief
Leave with at least 2-3 strategies to channel anger effectively.
Calvin D. Armerding, MA, LPC-S, DNASAP:
Finding Virtues in Challenging Behaviors
Live Session on March 28, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM PST / 4: 00 PM EST
Reframe "problem behaviors" through an Adlerian lens to discover the creative attempt to connect and belong. This workshop invites participants to rethink “challenging behavior” through an Adlerian lens that emphasizes purpose, belonging, and encouragement. Rather than asking, What’s wrong with this child? We will explore the more generative question: What is this child trying to achieve, and what strengths are already present? Adlerian psychology understands behavior as purposeful and goal-directed, often reflecting a child’s creative attempts to find significance and connection. Seen this way, even disruptive or withdrawn behaviors can be reframed as expressions of courage, persistence, sensitivity, leadership, or a strong need for fairness.
Participants will learn how to identify the hidden virtues embedded in mistaken behaviors. Through case examples and guided discussion, we will practice translating behavioral struggles into meaningful insights about a child’s lifestyle, private logic, and experience of belonging. Emphasis will be placed on encouraging adults as both an attitude and a skill, helping them respond in ways that strengthen cooperation rather than escalate power struggles.
Designed for counselors, educators, and parents, this workshop offers practical tools for shifting from control-based interventions to relationship-centered understanding. Attendees will leave with concrete strategies for naming strengths, fostering social interest, and supporting children in developing healthier ways to express their underlying virtues—without minimizing limits, structure, or accountability.
Alyson Schafer, B.Sc, MA Counselling:
Logical Consequences That Work: What Every Parent Needs to Know
Live Session on March 27, 2026
Time: 3:00 PM PST / 6: 00 PM EST
When used effectively, consequences teach cause and effect, responsibility, problem-solving, and accountability. When misapplied, they can create power struggles, resentment, and even shame.
So what is a consequence — really?
Why do some consequences work while others backfire?
How do you know if a consequence is teaching… or just punishing?
In this practical and eye-opening 45-minute session, parenting expert Alyson Schafer will clarify the difference between punishment and logical consequences, identify the most common mistakes parents make, and show you how to use consequences to build cooperation rather than conflict.
You’ll leave with:
A clear framework for deciding when and how to use consequences
Real-life examples you can apply immediately
Alternative tools to avoid power struggles
Greater confidence in your parenting decisions
If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re being too harsh, too lenient, or simply ineffective, this session will give you the clarity and skill to respond with purpose and confidence.
Bonus Recording
Included with Empowered Membership
Pamela Green: Welcoming the Messenger
Explore how curiosity about our perceptions can untangle personal histories in our relationships with children.
Nelve Lee: Be the Super Hero of Your Story
In this dynamic 30-minute presentation, Dr. Nelva Lee challenges women business leaders to step fully into their personal power, rewrite limiting narratives, and lead with purpose, courage, and resilience. Drawing from her book Be the Super Hero of Your Story, this session reframes leadership through the lens of ownership—of vision, decisions, setbacks, and success.
Attendees will explore how life transitions, adversity, and self-doubt can become defining moments rather than derailments, and how embracing responsibility for one’s story unlocks clarity, confidence, and sustainable impact. Designed for high-performing women navigating growth, pressure, and change, this presentation offers both inspiration and practical perspective to help leaders move from survival mode to intentional leadership.
Participants will leave energized, refocused, and reminded that they are not supporting characters in their lives or businesses—they are the hero.