La Shanda Sugg

CEO/ FOUNDER, THERAPIST AND CONSULTANT- LABORS OF LOVE COUNSELING AND CONSULTING, LLC

La Shanda Sugg, LPC is a trauma specializing therapist and training consultant. Her trauma expertise and ability to make complex concepts easy to understand make her work accessible. Her authenticity and transparency as a trauma survivor make people want to listen. La Shanda founded Labors of Love Counseling and Consulting, LLC to help organizations understand trauma and the traumatic stress of racism and other forms of oppression and help them move towards Cultural Humility and trauma responsiveness. As a therapist, she helps relationships Move from Coping to Healing. For more information about Labors of Love Counseling and Consulting, LLC visit www.thelaborsoflove.com.

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Dr. Adrienne Kennedy

FOUNDER AND PRINCIPAL TRAINER AT PIONEERING CONNECTIONS, LLC.  

Dr Kennedy has over 20 years of experience working with children navigating threatening systems and those who support them.  Her work with youth in foster care led her into education.  Since then, she has provided coaching, training, consulting, and technical assistance to individuals at many levels within education from students to teachers, principals, superintendents, district and state leaders. Her focus has been on antiracist practices that create, support, and sustain trauma-responsive and healing-centered engagement. She enjoys working with professionals who serve youth experiencing systemic trauma. Together they identify and counter policies and practices that perpetuate negative outcomes and experiences particularly for historically marginalized children and families.

Her identity as a mother heavily influences the work she does. She is actively engaged with administrators, teachers, and parents at Columbus City Schools, where her two sons attend. As a lifelong learner, she loves to connect with, learn from and share with others. Her core value is justice and everything she does is for the purpose of moving the most vulnerable and marginalized children in our society to higher ground.

Visit her website at https://www.pioneeringconnections.com/

Amy Rebekah

TRAUMA-INFORMED AND HEALING CENTERED PRACTITIONER, TRAINER, AND CONSULTANT; FOUNDER RESTORYATIVE SOMATICS, LLC; FOUNDER/ DIRECTOR: TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE INFORMED BIRTH EDUCATION (T.R.I.B.E.) PERINATAL AND PARENTING SUPPORT COLLECTIVE

Amy Rebekah is a scholar and practitioner of trauma-informed and healing-centered leadership.  She practiced for twenty years as a holistic health practitioner, working as a licensed massage therapist, childbirth educator, birth doula, yoga teacher, community herbalist, and group facilitator, all with a committed focus to supporting trauma healing.  Advanced trauma educational trainings include Somatic Trauma Resolution, Somatic Experience, Neuro Affective Relational Model, and Community Resilience Model from the Trauma Resource Institute. Amy is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in leadership and change through Antioch University, where she has deepened her capacity to support groups and organizations to move into a more authentic, responsible, and collaborative leadership culture through engaging a trauma-informed approach.  Amy is passionate about supporting leaders, and those who support others, in learning to self-regulate their nervous systems in service to co-regulation as a leadership practice, and how this cultivates change on individual and systems levels.

Kara Michelle Pierson

FOUNDER OF LILAC & INDIGO LLC.

Kara Michelle Pierson is a meditation guide, facilitator, and founder of Lilac & Indigo LLC. When designing her meditation classes she incorporates creative expression, while centering collective wisdom, mind-body awareness, and inspired action. After earning her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Xavier University in 2014, she formally studied meditation at Yoga on High Ayruveda Institute. Kara has worked with a variety of organizations, including Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Public Schools, Miami University, Talbert House, Cradle Cincinnati, University of Cincinnati, and more. In 2020, she was named a Rising Star by the YWCA and is the recipient of the Pinnacle Service Award from the Cincinnati USA Convention & Visitors Bureau. 

Visit her website at: https://lilacandindigo.com/

You can also find her on Instagram and LinkedIn!

Brandon Black

GRAPHIC RECORDER AND FACILITATOR

Brandon Black, “The Story Glorifier”, is a self-taught artist, practiced writer, and avid girl-dad who loves people, process, and pizza. Whether it’s thought partnership, creative consulting, or visual facilitation he relishes the role of aiding others by transforming thoughts into things and moments into monuments. He established Drawnversation in 2015 to meet the growing demand for integrative illustration to help ensure that live communication can live on. He can be reached at Drawnversation@gmail.com. 

Brandon’s LinkedIn

Instagram: @drawnversation

Bespoken Live

TRAUMA INFORMED STORY TELLING WORKSHOP FACILITATORS

In the face of unprecedented levels of social isolation, Bespoken Live uses storytelling and story listening to spark contagious hope and belonging. Bespoken facilitates story exchanges, both in person and digitally, with mindfulness techniques, trauma-informed activities, and tailored story crafting approaches. Bespoken believes we discover who we are by knowing each others' stories, we move toward healing to tell our stories out loud, and when we choose to listen with kindness and imagination something transcendent happens. Bespoken's trauma-informed storytelling workshop is called Story in Process.

Anna Gagliuffi

SOUL PURPOSE COACH + GRAPHIC DESIGNER

 Anna Gagliuffi is on a mission to evolve consciousness, one soul at a time. How? Leading with love via Soul Purpose Coaching and Graphic Design. As a coach, she supports clients to identify their dreams and release blocks to embody their purpose. As a designer, she visually tells stories of heart-led revolutions. She is passionate about personal growth and finding our shared humanity. Anna was born and raised in Lima, Peru with family scattered around the world. You can find her frolicking on a beach somewhere, drawing her heart out, and eating Peruvian food. She is currently based in Miami with her love and adventure partner.

 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annagagliuffi/

Find her on her coaching website or her graphic design website!