Happy Place: A Wellness Symposium

Based on the work of Marshall Rosenberg, Albert Ellis, and Werner Erhardt this informative, inspiring and experiential workshop introduces a revolutionary way of thinking and speaking to bring more compassion and understanding to your relationships, including your relationship with yourself.

Learn about this new generation of human connection and peacemaking skills, known as Non-Violent Communication, that's changing the way we think about conflict, compassion and our future.

Join Jenny Johnson and Samantha Devine for a transformative session that introduces the timeless healing principles of Ayurveda to guide you toward a balanced and vibrant life. This program will explore how to harmonize your mind, body, and spirit through personalized practices that nurture your unique constitution. Attendees will discover powerful tools for improving digestion, boosting vitality, and cultivating emotional well-being, all rooted in Ayurvedic wisdom.
Through engaging activities like a guided meditation and Dosha quiz, participants will learn how to integrate Ayurvedic practices into their daily routines for lasting wellness. Whether you’re new to Ayurveda or looking to deepen your understanding, this session will provide the insights and inspiration to restore balance and vitality in your life.

In this workshop we will dive into the hormonal changes during perimenopause and menopause and the impact of these changes on our mental and physical health. We will discuss how to manage symptoms with both hormone therapy and nonhormonal options, review the history and safety of hormone therapy, and identify the lifestyle habits and self-care practices most beneficial for midlife and beyond. You will leave this workshop empowered to make informed choices during and after the menopause transition to optimize your healthspan for decades to come.

Have you often wondered what you should be doing to live a longer, healthier life? National Geographic photographer, filmmaker and best-selling author David McLain has been traveling the world with Author Dan Buettner for more than 15 years, photographing centenarians from the world’s Blue Zones: five geographic pockets in the world where people commonly live spry, healthy lives past 100. During this talk, David will take you on a visual journey through all of the Blue Zones, introduce you to some of the amazing people he met, and tell you how to add healthy years to your life.

Punnu will be joining us LIVE from Bali via Zoom.
The secret of life is to enjoy the ride — to meet each moment with presence, even in the complexities of family and love.
Punnu Wasu, beloved spiritual teacher based at the Yoga Barn in Bali, specializes in healing relationships … ones with parents, children, and partners.
Punnu believes a fulfilling, extraordinary life begins with deep, authentic relationships — because life itself is relationship. Every person we meet reflects a part of us, and healing our connections with others is ultimately healing our own inner world. When we bring presence, compassion, and forgiveness into our relationships, we free ourselves from old wounds and step into wholeness. In that space of inner harmony, life becomes rich, meaningful, and beautifully alive.

In this open-hearted keynote, Punnu will tap in to the energy of relationships and acceptance while helping participants access the tools that help joy arise naturally.

His session will finish with a soulful meditation.

Everyone’s talking about the cultural shift away from alcohol—and most credit Gen Z’s focus on mental health. But our data and experience tells a deeper story: this shift is really about a generational re-prioritization of self-worth. Megan Klein, the CEO + Founder of Little Saints and season opener of Shark Tank 2024-2025, will share how her personal experience, along with data from her 100,000 subscribers and over 200,000 customer interactions, demonstrates that we've entered a new era of emotional wellness that will define generations to come. 

The secret is out that we’re all living on borrowed time, so the question is whether we’re stuck in autopilot or whether we’re living lives we’d be proud to look back on, without the faintest whiff of regret on our eventual deathbeds.
Shining the light on our scarcity of time helps us get clear about what matters. You might have more than 2,000 starts to your week left until your life calls it quits or only 20 to go. How do you want most of those Mondays to be? Life’s far too short to feel anything less than astonishingly alive. While we can’t control how long we live, we can control how well we live. You can make even the subtlest change to your well-being to start living the liveliest version of your life. How do you want your thousands or hundreds or dozens of Mondays to feel? How can you make that happen, without another week down the drain?

In this interactive session rooted in the science of positive psychology, we’ll talk about how we can be more mindful about living and working like we mean it … without a Monday to spare. Reflect on what it would take to feel “astonishingly alive,” and map out a game plan to live that version of your life. Leave motivated and ready to fully engage with life!