1st annual
BE BOLD SUMMIT
May 17-28, 2021
A creative, free online event for mental health therapists and humanitarian workers
Innovation Lives Here
For the first time, mental health therapists and humanitarian workers are coming together online for a creative, eye-opening event.
This year’s theme is Scaling Up Impact.
We will be exploring inspiring ways to think outside the box and create systemic change within the field of mental health.
Featuring 25 talks over ten days, you can join thousands of attendees as we explore what it means to create large, sustainable, scalable impact in the field - all from the comfort of your home or mobile device.
Presented by Scaling Up LLC
Who is this for?
The Be Bold Summit is designed for mental health therapists & humanitarian workers. But it may not be for everyone. So, who is it for and is that YOU?
Our participants are….
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Mental Health Therapists
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Social Workers
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NGO/humanitarian workers
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Adventurous
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Curious
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Open
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Interested in scaling up mental health
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Social justice oriented
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Audacious
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Hungry for depth & inspiration
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Community oriented
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Desiring growth
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Daring
Many people in our community are:
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Living in various countries all over the world
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Trans, non-binary, queer
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Black, Indigenous, People of Color & white folks committed to anti-racism
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Immigrants and non-native English speakers
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Activists, movers-and-shakers
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Innovators
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Life-long learners
If these things excite you, we would love to have you inside this community space with us.
What can you expect?
at the be bold summit
01.
Ten days of impact
Register & join us for ten days of inspiring interviews and presentations on creativity, boldness, courage, & community. Workbooks included. Entirely online.
02.
ask big
questions
This summit is an invitation to explore new ideas, questions & skills that will give us greater access to self-inquiry, inspiration & connection. Our attendees are thinking outside the box about how to scale up mental health interventions and impact.
03.
The power of community
None of us can make a scalable impact alone. Learning new ways to create systemic change, scale up mental health interventions, and create cultural shifts in collaboration is part of what we do here together.
04.
accessible and inclusive
With closed captions on all interviews, transcripts for accessibility, and image descriptions on all group images and scholarships for extended access, we strive to make this as accessible & inclusive as possible.
You deserve
to feel supported.
Join Us
Do you remember why you started doing this work?
Do you still feel in touch with your missions & purpose? Do you feel like you are fulfilling it?
are you veering off course?
Many helping professionals go into their field with their vision and purpose, but can get bogged down overtime with loans, insurance companies, burnout, or other blocks. They lose sight of the big impact they want to accomplish.
do you need to press the reset button?
This summit is designed to ignite or re-invigorate those parts of you and your mission, along with creative ways to think big to solve problems and accomplish your mission.
let's find inspiration again... together!
Find that “fire in the belly” and utilize your community to help you put your inspiration into action and make an impact.
Be Bold Summit 2021
Schedule & Speakers
Each day’s events will take place live between 12:00-5:15pm PT Pacific Time (Los Angeles time zone) AND all sessions will be available to watch for 24 hours in case you can’t attend live.
Click here to identify your correct time zone - https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
If you attend the talk live, you can chat with us (and potentially the speaker) during the talk.
Additionally, after the live presentation ends, you will have free access to it for up to 24 hours afterwards.
If you want longer term access to the presentations, then click here to learn more about our extended access packages.
Day 1
Monday, May 17th, 2021
WIN DAILY RAFFLE: 5:00-5:15pm PT - Dr. Jarero's Emdr Advanced Training for early intervention & ongoing traumatic stress (LEARN MORE)
Dr. Nacho Jarero, Phd
EMDR Mexico, AMAMECRISIS
Online, Evidence-Based Interventions: Expanding the TeleMental Health Frontiers
12:30-1:30pm PT
Melody
LI, LMFT
Inclusive Therapists, Mental Health Justice Activist
Compassion in Decolonizing Mental Health
2:00 - 3:10pm PT
Ernesto
Segismundo, lmft
Founder, FYLMIT.com
Be Your Authentic Self
Through Social Media & Video Marketing
3:30 - 4:40pm PT
Day 2
Tuesday, May 18th, 2021
DAILY RAFFLE: 5:00-5:15pm PT - Summit Basic Extended Access Package (LEARN MORE)
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THEA
MONYEÉ, LMFT
Artist, Healer, Oya Priestess
Joy-Centered Anti-Racism for Shapeshifters
12:30 - 1:40pm PT
Michael Hegenauer, phd
World Vision, Aid Worker
World Relief: Mental Health & Peer Support for Humanitarian Workers
2:00 - 3:15pm PT
dr. TARA
JAE, phd
Youth Seen, LBGTQI Support
Curating Community & Care for LBGT Youth
3:45 - 4:45pm PT
Day 3
Wednesday, May 19th, 2021
DAILY RAFFLE: 5:00-5:15pm PT - Summit Bold Extended Access Package (LEARN MORE)
Shawna Murray-Browne,lcsw-c
Envisioning a Liberation-Focused Healing
1:00 - 2:15pm PT
Liberation-Focused, Mind-Body Medicine Practitioner
MATTHEW
SMITH
Fortify Rights, Human Rights Activitist
Healing Moral Injury & Vicarious Trauma in Humanitarian Workers
2:30 - 3:30pm PT
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Day 4
Thursday, May 20th, 2021
DAILY RAFFLE: 5:00-5:15pm PT - Summit Premium Extended Access Package (LEARN MORE)
Viviana Urdaneta, lcsw
Bilingual Trauma Expert
Telehealth Therapy: Strengths & Challenges from an Empowerment Perspective
1:00 - 2:00pm PT
CéShaun Hankins, lcsw
Co-Founder, Joy + Justice Collaborative
Harm Reduction: An Accountability "Call In" of Mental Health Providers
2:15 - 3:15pm PT
ANDREW
RILEY, ma
Human Rights Activist & Consultant
The Torture In My Mind: The Right to Mental Health for Rohingya Survivors of Genocide in Myanmar & Bangladesh
3:30 - 4:45pm PT
Day 5
Friday, May 21st, 2021
DAILY RAFFLE: 5:00-5:15pm PT - ASSYST-Remote Individual Training (LEARN MORE)
rOLF
CARRIERE
UNICEF, Economist, Aid Worker
Scaling Up Trauma Treatment Interventions Globally
12:30 - 2:00pm PT
JACQUI
JOHNSON, LPC
Founder, Sankofa Healing Studio
The Necessary Path: Decolonizing Mental Health
2:15 - 3:15pm PT
SADIE
SMITH, LMFT
Founder, Breakout
Breakout From the Therapy Room to the Humanitarian Field
3:30 - 4:45pm PT
YiBEYIN HAGOS YOHANNES
Refugee Child Protection Services, Social Worker
Caring for Refugee Mental Health: Collaborations between Humanitarian Workers & Therapists
2:30 - 3:30pm PT
JOCELYN
FITZGERALD, lmft
Creative Art & EMDR Therapist
Therapists Creating Fruitful Collaborations with Aid Workers
3:45 - 4:45pm PT
Day 7
Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
DAILY RAFFLE: 5:00-5:15pm PT - EMDR Refresher On Demand Training (LEARN MORE)
VIVIANA
TRIANA, lcsw
Bilingual Trauma Expert
Latinx, Hispanic, Chicano? Cultural and treatment considerations when working with the Latinx population
2:15 - 3:30pm PT
ELIZABETH
LEGG, phd
EMDR Trainer & Consultant
EMDR Treatment in Conjoint Couples Therapy: A Relational Trauma Treatment Approach
3:45 - 4:45pm PT
Day 8
Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
DAILY RAFFLE: 5:00-5:15PM PT - Advanced EMDR Training for children with developmental trauma and dissociation (LEARN MORE)
ROBYN MOURNING, MS
Co-Founder, Joy + Justice Collaborative and Ominira Labs
Expansive & Ethical
Anti-Oppression for Healers
2:15 - 3:30pm PT
SANDRA
BAITA, LPC
Child & Dissociation Trauma Expert
Why Is Safety So Important? Treatment of Children & Adolescents with Developmental Trauma
3:45 - 4:45pm PT
ADRIANA ALEJANDRE, lmft
Founder, Latinx Therapy
Mental Health Advocacy through Podcasting and Digital Platforms
2:30 - 3:30pm PT
Day 10
Friday, May 28th, 2021
DAILY RAFFLE: 5:00-5:15pm PT - ASSYST-R Individual & Group Training (LEARN MORE)
SASHA
RASKIN, LPC
Psychotherapist, Business Coach
The Three Pillars of a Thriving Private Practice
2:30 - 3:30pm PT
MEREDITH
CASE
Program Coordinator, Scaling Up
Using Online Automation to Prevent Burnout and Overwhelm
3:45 - 4:45pm PT
Continuing Education (CE) credits and EMDRIA CEUs:
The Be Bold Summit is designed for helping professionals around the world. If you are a mental health therapist living in the United States and want Continuing Education (CE) credits and/or EMDRIA CEUs (for EMDR trained therapists), we’ve built in an option for to receive CEs and CEUs as part of the Premium Extended Access Package. Details are available after you register for free!
A note about accessibility:
Accessibility and inclusivity are important to us. Every year, we do our best to improve in this area – it is always a work-in-progress. All of the talks have closed captions. The video speed can be slowed down or sped up, if that helps with comprehension. We are also adding written descriptions to all Facebook images in the Facebook group for folks who use screen readers. Finally, transcripts are available for purchase in the extended access packages, but if a transcript is needed for accessibility reasons, just let us know by emailing us at info@beboldsummit.com
Meet your host!
What if we can create systemic change in the mental health field and expand our efforts to help more people?
Scaling Up is offers innovative and high-quality trainings and communities for mental health therapists that can transform your practice, and build your confidence with case conceptualization, treatment planning, and learning scalable interventions that can make a global. We often partner with humanitarian workers around the globe to conduct trainings and implement trauma treatments.
Our mission is to alleviate suffering by building a world with accessible and affordable mental health services by using EMDR therapy and AIP-informed procedures in individual and group formats.
Kelly Smyth-Dent, LCSW is the founder of Scaling Up and the Be Bold Summit.
"This conference is the result of being hungry for a place where a community
of mental health therapists and humanitarian workers could engage in big
questions, innovative thinking, scalable impact, and meaningful connections
in regards to making mental health more accessible to all." - Kelly Smyth-Dent
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