Love and Empowerment Summit 2026 – Free Event Hosted by YourTango
Relationships can be deeply important and still leave you feeling unseen, overextended, uncertain, or caught in patterns you do not know how to change.
The Love & Empowerment Summit brings together more than 35 teachers, clinicians, authors, relationship experts, and educators for practical conversations about love, self-worth, communication, parenting, conflict, grief, emotional resilience, and connection.
You’ll hear perspectives from Marianne Williamson, Dr. Shefali Tsabary, Marisa Peer, Terry Real, Dr. Ramani Durvasula, Dr. Stan Tatkin, Dr. Harville Hendrix, Dr. Helen LaKelly Hunt, and many more.
The experience also includes HeartState LIVE with Andrea Miller, a short daily integration session designed to help you process what you are learning and connect the ideas with real life.
Why Attend The Love & Empowerment Summit
Wanting stronger relationships does not automatically teach you how to communicate through conflict, recognize repeating patterns, trust yourself, or stay connected without giving yourself up. This summit creates one place to explore those skills across romantic relationships, family life, friendships, work, parenting, and your relationship with yourself.
More than 35 speakers bring different lenses to the conversation, including psychology, relationship education, mindfulness, parenting, grief, communication, self-worth, embodiment, and personal growth. You can follow the topics that fit your life instead of trying to absorb every session.
The summit also makes room for integration through HeartState LIVE with Andrea Miller each day. That combination of expert sessions and a short guided check-in gives you a practical way to notice what feels relevant and carry useful ideas into everyday interactions.
Who Should Attend The Love & Empowerment Summit
This summit is for people who want practical ways to understand their relationship patterns and communicate with greater awareness. It covers intimate relationships as well as parenting, family, friendship, workplace connection, boundaries, self-trust, and self-worth.
You do not need to be in a romantic relationship to find relevant sessions. The lineup includes material for people navigating conflict, dating, parenting, grief, difficult relationship dynamics, burnout, emotional resilience, and the broader question of how to create healthier connection in daily life.
- People who often feel unseen, unheard, lonely, or under-appreciated in important relationships
- Anyone who notices the same conflict or relationship patterns repeating
- People who tend to overgive, people-please, or abandon their own needs to keep the peace
- Couples who want more constructive ways to communicate when stress runs high
- Parents who want to stay connected with children through strong emotions and conflict
- People rebuilding self-trust, confidence, boundaries, or a stronger sense of self
- Anyone interested in mindfulness, embodiment, compassion, and emotional resilience
- People who want practical relationship skills they can bring into home, work, friendship, and family life
What You’ll Learn During The Love & Empowerment Summit
The summit explores why relationship patterns can persist even when you care deeply and are trying hard to improve them. Sessions look at accountability, boundaries, attraction, conflict, emotional safety, self-worth, self-awareness, parenting, and the skills that support healthier connection.
You’ll also hear educational perspectives on grief, trauma, inner-child work, mindfulness, stress, burnout, compassion, breathwork, tapping, qigong, and emotional resilience. These sessions are designed for learning and reflection and are not a replacement for individualized mental-health or medical care.
Because the speakers come from different professional and teaching backgrounds, you can compare approaches rather than relying on a single method. The most useful takeaway may be a communication shift, a new question to ask yourself, or one relationship habit you want to practice more consistently.
- How accountability and acceptance can change the way you approach relationship problems
- Ways to communicate needs and frustration without automatically turning conflict into a battle
- How people-pleasing, overgiving, and self-abandonment can weaken self-trust
- How boundaries, validation, listening, and curiosity can support more constructive conversations
- Why recurring attraction and conflict patterns can feel so difficult to interrupt
- Parenting approaches centered on self-awareness, empathy, respect, and emotional safety
- Ways to recognize unhealthy or narcissistic relationship dynamics without reducing every difficult interaction to a label
- How mindfulness and body-based practices can support awareness during stressful moments
- Perspectives on grief, old hurt, inner criticism, shame, and emotional resilience
- How connection with yourself can influence the way you relate to partners, family, friends, children, and colleagues
HeartState LIVE: Integration & Activation
HeartState LIVE is a short daily session led by Andrea Miller during all four days of the summit. It is designed to help you process ideas from the speaker sessions rather than simply moving from one presentation to the next.
Andrea guides participants through an integration period focused on noticing what they are feeling, working with what has been stirred up, and connecting the morning’s ideas with real-life relationships. HeartState LIVE takes place each day at 12pm ET, which is 9am PT.
The emphasis is practical participation rather than collecting more information. You can use the session as a daily checkpoint to decide which insights deserve more attention and which ideas you want to practice in your own way.
- Pause after the morning sessions instead of immediately consuming more information
- Notice emotional and physical responses to what you have heard
- Identify one lesson that feels personally relevant
- Connect summit ideas with a real relationship or situation in your life
Featured Speakers and What They Cover
The speaker lineup spans romantic relationships, parenting, self-worth, emotional resilience, communication, grief, mindfulness, work, and wellbeing. Each session offers a distinct perspective, so you can focus on the questions that are most relevant to your life.
Here are several of the featured speakers and the subjects they explore during the summit.
Accountability, Self-Worth and Self-Trust
Marianne Williamson, renowned spiritual teacher and author, explores accountability, acceptance, judgment, wholeness, and connection. Marisa Peer, hypnotherapist and author, focuses on validation, resentment, and self-worth.
Dr. Margaret Paul, PhD, bestselling author and co-creator of Inner Bonding, discusses self-abandonment, people-pleasing, loneliness, and the six-step Inner Bonding process. Hilary Silver, LCSW, therapist and founder of Ready for Love, focuses on self-trust and the small ways people can abandon their own judgment.
Conflict, Attraction and Partnership
Terry Real, relationship therapist and bestselling author, covers common losing strategies in relationships and moving from adversarial conflict toward partnership. Dr. Stan Tatkin, PsyD, psychologist and author, explores conflict cycles, stress, collaboration, and using a stronger sense of “we.”
Dr. Harville Hendrix and Dr. Helen LaKelly Hunt, co-founders of Imago Relationship Therapy, focus on dialogue, mirroring, validation, trust, and difficult workplace conversations. Mat Boggs, bestselling author and relationship coach, discusses polarity, attraction, and communication.
Parenting and Family Connection
Dr. Shefali Tsabary, PhD, clinical psychologist and author, explores conscious parenting, self-awareness, control, and helping children feel seen and heard. Eli Harwood, licensed therapist, focuses on staying calm with children through big emotions, boundaries, empathy, and emotional safety.
Destini Ann Davis, parenting coach and speaker, discusses respect, curiosity, compassion, and raising emotionally secure children while continuing your own growth.
Grief, Trauma and Emotional Resilience
Dr. Laura Berman, PhD, relationship and intimacy expert, explores grief and how to support someone who is grieving without trying to fix their experience. Dr. Frank Anderson, MD, psychiatrist and author, focuses on old hurt, the inner critic, trauma, and relating differently to the different parts of yourself.
Dr. Judy Ho, PhD, clinical neuropsychologist, discusses negative self-talk, re-parenting, and emotional resilience. Logan Cohen, MA, LMFT, explores red flags, harmful relationship patterns, boundaries, and rebuilding self-trust.
Mindfulness, Embodiment and Stress
Master Mingtong Gu, founder of The Chi Center, introduces Wisdom Healing Qigong and an embodied reset for moving out of mental overload. Dr. Rick Hanson, PhD, psychologist and neuroplasticity expert, explores mindfulness, stress, and relationships.
Jessica Ortner, EFT tapping expert and author, discusses tapping as a practice for stressful moments and decision-making. Michael Stone, breathwork facilitator, explores conscious breathing and the B.R.I.D.G.E. method for relationships.
Connection, Relational Literacy and Everyday Life
Dr. Daniel J. Siegel, clinical professor of psychiatry and author, explores interconnection, loneliness, mindfulness, and his concept of “MWe.” Mark Groves, human connection specialist and author, focuses on blame, apologies, blind spots, and relationships as a setting for personal growth.
Robin Ducharme, author and founder of Real Love Ready, discusses relational literacy, triggers, and the relationship skills many people were never formally taught. Dr. Pedram Shojai, OMD, founder of The Urban Monk, explores burnout, work, energy, micro-breaks, and daily balance.
Four-Day Summit Schedule and Daily Rhythm
The Love & Empowerment Summit runs October 13-16, 2026. The summit opens October 13 at 9am ET, which is 6am PT, and free session access rotates on a 24-hour schedule.
Each day also includes HeartState LIVE with Andrea Miller at 12pm ET, or 9am PT. This creates a consistent daily point for integration alongside the larger speaker program.
October 13 – Opening Day
- The summit opens at 9am ET, or 6am PT
- Dr. Ramani Durvasula and Dr. Shefali Tsabary are among the Day 1 speakers
- HeartState LIVE with Andrea Miller begins at 12pm ET, or 9am PT
- Day 1 sessions are free to watch for 24 hours
October 14-16 – New Sessions Continue
- Speaker sessions continue across relationships, family, self-worth, communication, emotional resilience, and personal growth
- Each day includes another HeartState LIVE session at 12pm ET, or 9am PT
- Free session access rotates as each 24-hour viewing window closes
Dates, Access, Replays and Where to Watch
The Love & Empowerment Summit is a free online event running October 13-16, 2026. Sessions are available free during their 24-hour viewing windows before rotating out.
A free replay opens for a limited time. Check your email after registration for viewing links, access instructions, reminders, and schedule updates.
A few simple inbox habits can make the four days easier to follow:
- Register with an email address you check regularly
- Look in Promotions or Spam if the first summit email does not appear
- Star or flag the summit email thread so access links are easy to find
- Review the speaker topics and choose your highest-priority sessions in advance
- Remember that the free viewing window rotates after 24 hours
How to Register for The Love & Empowerment Summit
Click any Register Here For Free button on this page, enter your contact information, and check your email for access details.
How to Get the Most From the Summit
With more than 35 speakers, trying to watch everything can turn an interesting event into another obligation. A simple plan makes it easier to focus on the sessions that answer the questions you are actually living with.
Choose a few priority themes, protect the time for your most important sessions, and use HeartState LIVE as a daily opportunity to process rather than simply consume.
1. Pick Your Must-See Sessions
Review the topics and choose the speakers most closely connected with your current priorities, whether that is conflict, parenting, self-trust, grief, dating, boundaries, or communication.
2. Block the Time
- Add your highest-priority sessions to your calendar
- Give yourself a few quiet minutes before you begin
- Keep the 24-hour access window in mind when planning
3. Bring a Notebook
Instead of recording everything, capture one idea, one question, and one practical relationship experiment from the sessions that matter most.
4. Join HeartState LIVE
Use the daily 12pm ET session with Andrea Miller to slow down, notice what is landing, and decide what you want to carry into real life.
5. Keep Your Takeaways Realistic
- Choose one communication skill to practice
- Identify one recurring pattern you want to notice more clearly
- Give yourself time to evaluate an idea before making major changes
About Andrea Miller, Larry Michel, Jonas Koffler, Joanna Schroeder and Arianna Jeret
Andrea Miller is a co-host and producer of The Love & Empowerment Summit and the founder and CEO of YourTango, which reaches more than 40 million people per month. She is the author of Radical Acceptance, holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tulane University.
Before founding YourTango, Andrea worked at Goldman Sachs, ICF Consulting, and Enron, including three years living in Mumbai. Her personal experience moving from a high-performance corporate environment through burnout and into a different relationship with life informs the practical tone she brings to HeartState LIVE.
Larry Michel, known as “The Love Shepherd,” is a co-host, founder of the Institute of Genetic Energetics, a Master ERP, host of The Love Matters Podcast, Love Restoration coach, Certified Tantra Practitioner, author, trainer, speaker, and producer.
Jonas Koffler is a co-host and producer, storyteller, social innovator, and New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestselling coauthor of HUSTLE: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum. His work has appeared across major print, broadcast, digital, and podcast outlets.
Joanna Schroeder is a co-host, writer, editor, media critic, and coauthor of Talk To Your Boys: 27 Crucial Conversations Parents Need to Have with Boys Today – and How to Start Having Them. Arianna Jeret, MA/MSW, is a co-host, YourTango executive editor, writer, former family law mediator, and relationship and conflict-resolution expert.
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