Built for practitioners who work with PDA — and the families who live it

Attendees compare the programming favorably to professional-only conferences they have paid considerably more to attend. The draw is not a survey of familiar ground. It is frameworks and material that have not filtered into standard training yet — nervous-system-informed approaches, demand reduction, and practical ways to adapt existing models for PDA.

This is the most-repeated piece of feedback. Practitioners describe hearing a parent ask a live question, or an Adult PDAer describe what a strategy actually felt like on the receiving end, and finding that it reorganized information they already had.

The specifics of what failed and what finally worked do not make it into case studies. Sitting near the people who lived it is a different input than reading about them.

Attendees receive a certificate of completion noting the date, topic, and hours attended, emailed within two weeks of the retreat's conclusion.

We do not offer CEUs. Professionals who plan to submit hours should confirm what their own licensing board accepts before registering.

PDA is a small enough specialty that most practitioners work without nearby colleagues who share the focus. Attendees come from across the country and regularly leave with referral relationships in states where they previously had none.