Day 2 Replay
September 2, 2026
Body
Your Nervous System’s Impact on Your Kids
Penny Williams
Neurodiversity Coach & Creator of SIGNAL Parenting
Your child's nervous system takes its cues from yours, which means your regulation isn't selfish, it's the starting point for everything.
You can't think or lecture your way through a dysregulated moment, but you can learn to be a steady, safe presence that helps your child's nervous system find its way back.
Emotional health in families isn't built through better strategies. It's built through nervous-system safety, and parents can learn to create that intentionally.
✨ Animal Instincts Quiz & Report
If you're ready to gain insight into what's driving your child's behavior, the Animal Instincts Quiz will cut through the overwhelm and get you focused on what will help you and your kid RIGHT NOW.
In just 3 minutes:
Identify how your kid's nervous system responds to stress to understand their big emotions and big behaviors
Transform chaos into connection with personalized strategies that work with your child's natural instincts
Help your child learn how their body and emotions work together by speaking their emotional language
Meet Our Speaker
Penny Williams is a behavior and parenting coach specializing in supporting families raising neurodivergent kids — those with ADHD, autism, anxiety, and other differences in how they experience the world.
Through her SIGNAL Parenting™ framework, Penny helps parents stop trying to fix behavior and start understanding what it’s communicating. Her work replaces outdated discipline models with neuroscience-based strategies rooted in connection, regulation, and nervous system awareness, giving parents a clear way to respond in real-life moments.
She is the award-winning author of Boy Without Instructions and three other ADHD books, and the host of the Beautifully Complex Podcast with more than 5 million downloads. Her work has been featured in ADDitude Magazine, Autism Parenting Magazine, and CHADD’s Attention Magazine.
At the heart of Penny’s work is one powerful belief: Behavior isn’t the problem — it’s the signal.
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Helping Kids Build a Healthy Relationship With Food
Katie Kimball, CSME
Founder of Raising Healthy Families
You'll learn the importance of separating your kid's relationship with food from their relationship with you.
We'll walk through specific, practical environmental changes you can make so that the dinner table is no longer a stressful place.
Fill your toolbox with phrases to say (and ditch those that aren't effective) so that your kids understand: a carrot is just a carrot and a cookie is just a cookie, not punishments, rewards, or emotional support munchies
✨ No More Picky Eating Challenge
The foundations we build are important for all kids. Identify your type of picky (preferenced!) eater, make one change a day, and you'll be amazed at the result! Everyone really can win at the game of dinner!
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Katie Kimball of Raising Healthy Families helps change kids’ relationship to food, both through work in the kitchen and helping parents of picky eaters.
She’s a former teacher, two-time TEDx speaker, writer, mom of 4 kids and creator of the Kids Cook Real Food Course, Teens Cook Real Food Course, #LifeSkillsNow virtual summer camps, and blogs at Kitchen Stewardship. Her mission is to connect families around healthy food, teach every child to cook, and instill those all-important life skills!
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Nervous System First,
Executive Function Second
Seth Perler
M.Ed. Gifted Education, Executive Function Specialist
How emotional regulation and executive function play together
What real progress looks like (and why it matters)
Why nervous system regulation is essential before teaching skills
✨ EF Assessment
Here is an excellent assessment for parents and teachers to help a child who struggles at school
Meet Our Speaker
Seth wears a lot of hats in the Executive Function, Neurodiversity, ADHD, 2e, and Education worlds; coach, speaker, educator, vlogger, and guy who cares about seeing outside-the-box kids succeed.
At the heart of it, Seth helps struggling learners navigate a baffling system, so they can launch a successful future. And it all has to do with Executive Function. His weekly vlog at SethPerler.com gives game-changing answers in a sea of misguided educational fluff.
Seth runs The Executive Function Online Summit, or TEFOS, an incredible, free event that serves 100,000+ parents and teachers in over 130 countries worldwide. It’s packed with practical expert strategies to support children of all ages. ExecutiveFunctionSummit.com
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Website: https://sethperler.com
Website: https://tefos26.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SethPerler
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sethperler/
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From Deficit to Design: What Neurodivergent Kids Are Teaching Us About the Future
Lara Dawn
CEO - The ADHD Village
From Deficit to Design: What if neurodivergent children aren't broken, but are showing us how parenting, education, and support systems need to evolve?
Emotional Regulation Changes Everything: Emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and nervous system regulation are the foundation for learning, relationships, mental health, leadership, and athletic performance.
Preparing Kids for the Future: The same skills that help neurodivergent children thrive, resilience, confidence, executive function, adaptability, and emotional intelligence, are the skills every child, student, athlete, and future leader needs.
✨ The ADHD Village Connection Kit 5 Years. 5 Tools. 5 Minutes.
5 Simple Tools You Can Use Today
Discover the five most powerful strategies I've learned from working with ADHD and neurodivergent families over the past five years. Each tool takes just minutes to implement and can create immediate shifts in connection, regulation, and cooperation.Strengthen Your Relationship Without More Consequences
Learn practical ways to reduce power struggles, increase emotional safety, and help your child feel seen, understood, and supported, even on the hard days.Build a More Regulated, Connected Family in Just 5 Minutes a Day
Small, consistent actions create lasting change. These quick and effective tools help parents, educators, and caregivers foster confidence, resilience, and emotional well-being for the whole family. "
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Lara Dawn is an special education school teacher, ADHD parent coach, international speaker, author, and founder of The ADHD Village. With more than 25 years of experience working with children and families, Lara combines neuroscience, positive psychology, emotional intelligence, and lived experience as an ADHD parent to help families move from survival mode to connection, confidence, and growth.
She is the creator of the LOVE Ü Parenting Method, Warrior Mamas, and Ü LEAD Coaching Academy, which empower parents, educators, and young people to better understand neurodivergent brains and build emotionally healthy relationships. Through her podcast, The evOLVED Brain, speaking engagements, retreats, and coaching programs, Lara is on a mission to change the way the world looks at and treats children with ADHD and other neurodivergent differences.
Lara believes that when we stop trying to fix our children and start understanding them, we create the conditions for every family member to thrive. Parenting is spiritual work, your child is your awakening.
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Lifting an Invisible Load: Helping Your Kids Find Their Emotional Sense of Self
Elaine Taylor-Klaus, MCC, CPCC
CEO, ImpactParents.com
Most parents of neurodivergent kids are working overtime to help their children function in a world designed for someone else's brain. But underneath all the accommodations, the interventions, the strategies — there's a quieter, more damaging thing happening.
Every time a child is told to try harder, sit still, pay attention, or "just be normal," they absorb a message about who they are and whether they're okay. That message accumulates. It becomes their inner voice.
Your job as a parent isn't just to help your kid navigate the world. It's to protect the self they're forming inside it.
✨ Top 12 Tips To Help Your Complex Kids: Change Starts With You!
Set the tone of your home intentionally; focus on what's important to you, such as music, laughter, stimulating conversations, or game-playing.
Consciously manage triggers -- yours and theirs.
As your child's primary advocate, create a team that supports you so you can help your child succeed.
Meet Our Speaker
Elaine Taylor-Klaus, MCC, is a globally recognized thought leader at the intersection of neurodiversity, coaching, and parenting. A mother to an ADHD++ family of six, she co-founded ImpactADHD® (dba ImpactParents.com) and innovated a Neuro-Informed Coaching modality helping families and professionals navigate neurodiversity with confidence and compassion. A 2025 CHADD Hall of Fame recipient and ICF DEIB Committee member, Elaine hosts the Parenting with Impact podcast and authored Parenting ADHD Now!, The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids, and Sanity School®.
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ImpactParent/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/impactparents/
Website: https://impactparents.com/
Podcast: https://impactparents.com/podcast/
When Your Spicy Kid Becomes Aggressive
Mary Van Geffen
Parenting Coach for the Spicy Ones
It’s your job to delight in this child. Here’s how:
Delighted anthropologist
What would you have wanted
Stop listening to your inner victim and your fear
✨ Playful Parenting PDF
Your willingness to take responsibility for your mistakes is the secret ingredient to creating a safe relationship with your child.
Enter your info below to download the FREE Repair Recipe PDF: 5 steps to a healing apology.
It’s time to get skilled at repair. It's a big part of healthy attachment.
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Mary Van Geffen is an international parenting coach for Moms of Spicy Ones, as well as a Spicy One herself. She wrote the book Parenting A Spicy One: A Compassionate Guide for Raising a Wonderfully Strong-Willed and Deep Feeling Kid.
Mary helps parents practice the spiritual discipline of staying calm, kind, and firm with their counter cultural children--especially when they don't deserve it. She combines her training as a Simplicity Parenting counselor and Professional Co-Active Coach with hard-earned personal experience raising both a spirited child and a mild-mannered child. She has transformed the lives of over eight thousand mothers with her Moms of Spicy Ones Academy. She shares daily inspirational tips with her 400,000 followers on Instagram. Her greatest achievement is cultivating a connected relationship with her now-adult Spicy One.
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This doesn't need to be the end -
in fact, it might just be the beginning.
You love your children and are deeply committed to them...yet you know you can better help them when you get the support you need, too.
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