The Great Parenting Wake-Up Call Summit 2026 – Free Online Event
Parenting can feel especially difficult when screens, anxiety, school pressure, comparison, anger, and withdrawal all seem to compete with the connection you are trying to protect.
This three-day online summit brings together more than 25 parenting, psychology, relationship, attachment, trauma, and mental-health voices for practical conversations about what children and parents are navigating now.
Hosted by clinical psychologist and conscious parenting pioneer Dr. Shefali, the sessions explore how to look beneath behavior, respond more steadily during difficult moments, set clearer digital boundaries, strengthen connection, and interrupt patterns you do not want to pass on.
You can follow the themes most relevant to your family rather than trying to absorb everything. The focus is practical guidance you can reflect on and adapt to your own parenting circumstances.
Why Attend The Great Parenting Wake-Up Call Summit
Modern parenting questions rarely stay neatly separated. Anxiety can show up alongside academic pressure, social media comparison, screen conflict, anger, withdrawal, body-image concerns, or uncertainty about how much independence a child needs.
This summit brings those interconnected challenges into one three-day conversation. More than 25 speakers contribute perspectives from clinical psychology, trauma, attachment, relationships, child development, conscious parenting, early childhood, teen parenting, and family education.
The emphasis is not on collecting another set of rigid parenting rules. It is on understanding what may be happening beneath difficult behavior and developing clearer ways to respond while protecting connection, boundaries, resilience, and your own steadiness.
Who Should Attend The Great Parenting Wake-Up Call Summit
This summit is for parents, caregivers, guardians, and educators who want a more conscious and connected response to the pressures children face today. It may be especially relevant when familiar parenting strategies keep turning into arguments, shutdowns, guilt, or repeated power struggles.
The three-day format covers both the child’s outer world and the parent’s inner experience. That makes it useful whether your immediate concern is technology and anxiety, emotional regulation and attachment, or staying grounded enough to respond differently during difficult family moments.
- Parents concerned about anxiety, overwhelm, perfectionism, or academic pressure
- Families navigating phones, gaming, social media, AI, or screen-time conflict
- Parents worried about comparison, body image, confidence, or online culture
- Caregivers dealing with anger, meltdowns, withdrawal, or emotional dysregulation
- Parents who want stronger connection with a child who seems distant or shut down
- Adults who want to understand and interrupt patterns carried from their own childhood
- Couples who want greater alignment in how they respond to parenting challenges
- Educators and guardians interested in conscious, relationship-centered parenting ideas
What You’ll Learn During The Great Parenting Wake-Up Call Summit
The summit looks beyond surface behavior to explore anxiety, anger, comparison, disconnection, digital pressure, attachment, trauma, and the patterns parents may bring into challenging moments themselves.
You will also explore practical questions about screens, social media, AI, school pressure, sexuality, resilience, confidence, motivation, adulthood, relationships, and staying connected as children move through a complicated culture.
Throughout the three days, the larger theme is conscious parenting: responding with greater awareness, understanding what is being activated in both parent and child, and choosing connection and clear boundaries instead of relying only on control.
- Ways to understand the need underneath anger, meltdowns, and difficult behavior
- How to approach screen boundaries with greater clarity and consistency
- Ideas for navigating social media, AI, gaming, and online comparison
- Ways to address anxiety and academic pressure without adding more pressure
- How secure attachment and genuine connection fit into everyday parenting
- How to recognize personal patterns and cycles you do not want to pass on
- Ways to support resilience, confidence, grit, motivation, and inner purpose
- How to stay steadier when family life becomes emotionally intense
- How to approach conversations about sexuality and adult online content more consciously
- Ways partners can work toward greater alignment when raising children together
Conscious Parenting: From Control to Connection
Dr. Shefali’s work challenges parenting models that focus primarily on controlling a child’s behavior. Her conscious parenting approach asks parents to examine their own reactions, unmet needs, conditioning, and emotional patterns while building a relationship that honors the child’s developing autonomy.
The approach draws from Western psychology and Eastern philosophy. Its central themes include genuine connection, greater parental self-awareness, respect for children as individuals, and a willingness to grow alongside them rather than treating every difficult moment as a behavior problem to eliminate.
That perspective runs through the summit’s themes on anxiety, screens, dysregulation, attachment, trauma, communication, and family conflict. The goal is not perfect parenting, but a more aware way of meeting both the child in front of you and the reactions being stirred inside you.
- Look beneath behavior before reacting only to what is visible
- Notice when your own history is shaping the present moment
- Use connection and clear boundaries together rather than treating them as opposites
- Respect a child’s individuality while remaining an engaged parent
- Practice greater self-awareness during emotionally charged moments
- Focus on the relationship you are building, not only immediate compliance
Featured Speakers and What They Cover
The speaker lineup brings together clinical psychologists, therapists, trauma specialists, parenting educators, attachment and relationship experts, coaches, authors, and parents with lived perspectives. Together, their backgrounds support the summit’s focus on the pressures children face, the relationships parents build with them, and the work adults may need to do within themselves.
Trauma, Attachment and Relationships
Dr. Gabor Maté brings a background in trauma and addiction; Frank Anderson, MD is a trauma expert; Eli Harwood is known as The Attachment Nerd and a relationship expert; Dr. Alexandra Solomon is a therapist, author, and speaker; and Nedra Tawwab is a licensed therapist and New York Times bestselling author. Connor Beaton of Mantalks and marriage and family therapist Vienna Pharaon add relationship perspectives to a summit that includes secure attachment, communication, dysregulation, and breaking cycles.
Child Development and Everyday Parenting
Dr. Laura Markham is a psychologist, author, and parenting coach; Dr. Aliza W. Pressman is a developmental psychologist and host of the Raising Good Humans podcast; Dr. Vanessa Lapointe is an author and parenting educator; Dr. Chelsey Hauge-Zavaleta is a PhD and parent coach; and Alyssa Campbell is an M.Ed, bestselling author, and CEO.
The lineup also includes Cathy & Todd Adams, podcast hosts, authors, and parenting educators; Tracy Gillett, founder of Raised Good; Jon Fogel, author, speaker, pastor, and dad; Casey O’Roarty, a teen parenting expert; and Julietta Skoog, co-founder of Sproutable and an early childhood expert.
Conscious Parenting and Parent Growth
Speakers working directly in conscious parenting and personal growth include Stacey Yates Sellar, a conscious parenting ADHD coach; Ferzin Patel, psychotherapist and certified conscious parenting coach; Janet Philbin, author and conscious parenting coach; Tina Daroowalla, certified conscious parenting and life coach; and Viridiana Ibarra, psychologist and therapist in healing hypnosis.
Suzi Lula joins as a spiritual counselor, teacher, and speaker; Sukhi Bal as a clinically trained therapist and transformational guide; and Dr. Tracy Dalgleish as a psychologist, author, and relationship educator.
Culture and Parenting Experience
Oscar-winning actress Penélope Cruz is also part of the speaker lineup, adding another parental and cultural voice to conversations about raising children in a world shaped by media, social comparison, technology, and changing expectations.
Three-Day Summit Schedule and Daily Themes
The Great Parenting Wake-Up Call Summit runs September 8 through September 10, 2026. The three-day agenda begins with the world children are growing up in, moves into attachment, relationships, and inherited patterns, and finishes with practical ways to bring the ideas into family life.
Check your email after registration for viewing links and schedule updates.
Day 1 – September 8: Anxiety, Sexuality, and Pressure in the Digital Age
- Navigating screens, social media, and AI
- Easing anxiety and academic pressure
- Setting digital boundaries
- Helping children stay grounded in a comparison culture
Day 2 – September 9: Trauma, Dysregulation, and Breaking Cycles
- Building secure attachment and real connection
- Communicating through today’s culture
- Examining personal patterns and biases
- Breaking cycles parents do not want to pass on
Day 3 – September 10: Practical Tools for Chaos and Crisis
- Parent self-care and emotional steadiness
- Staying grounded during hard moments
- Getting on the same page with your partner
- Supporting resilient sons and daughters together
Dates, Access, Replays and Where to Watch
The Great Parenting Wake-Up Call Summit is a free online event running September 8 through September 10, 2026. You can participate using a phone, tablet, or computer.
Check your email after registration for viewing links, access details, reminders, and schedule updates.
A few simple steps can make the three-day experience easier to follow:
- Register with an email address you check regularly
- Watch for your welcome and access messages after registering
- Check Promotions or Spam if an expected summit message does not appear
- Keep the summit email thread easy to find during the event
- Review the three daily themes and prioritize the sessions most relevant to your family
How to Register for The Great Parenting Wake-Up Call 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 Three-Day Summit
With more than 18 hours of content and more than 25 speakers, trying to capture every idea can quickly become another source of pressure. A focused plan can help you stay curious without turning the summit into a parenting assignment you have to complete perfectly.
Start with one or two challenges that feel most important in your family right now, then use the daily themes to decide where to focus your attention.
1. Name the Parenting Moment You Want to Understand
Choose something specific, such as screen conflict, anxiety, anger, school pressure, withdrawal, repeated yelling, or difficulty staying connected.
2. Listen for What Is Underneath the Behavior
Notice explanations that help you look beyond the immediate behavior toward attachment, pressure, regulation, unmet needs, or patterns within the family system.
3. Keep Your Notes Simple
- Write down one idea you want to remember from a session
- Identify one response you want to practice differently
- Note one conversation you may want to have with your partner or child
4. Expect Practice, Not Perfection
Parenting habits are rarely changed by hearing one good idea once. Choose a small adjustment you can practice and observe rather than trying to overhaul your entire family dynamic in a weekend.
5. Stay Appropriate to Your Family’s Needs
Use summit guidance as education and reflection. When a child or family is dealing with significant mental-health, developmental, safety, or medical concerns, appropriate professional support remains important.
About Dr. Shefali
Dr. Shefali is a clinical psychologist, New York Times bestselling author, international speaker, and pioneer in the conscious parenting movement. She holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University.
Her conscious parenting work grew partly from her own experience as a parent and her recognition that some frustrations she experienced were connected not only to her child’s behavior, but also to unmet needs and patterns from her own childhood.
Drawing from Western psychology and Eastern philosophy, her approach moves away from parenting centered primarily on control. It emphasizes greater parental consciousness, genuine connection, respect for children’s individuality and autonomy, and awareness of the ways adults’ own histories can shape family interactions.
As host of The Great Parenting Wake-Up Call Summit, Dr. Shefali brings that framework into conversation with guest speakers from psychology, trauma, attachment, relationships, parenting education, child development, and related fields.
Reviews and Testimonials
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Register for The Great Parenting Wake-Up Call Summit to explore three days of practical conversations about connection, anxiety, screens, attachment, emotional regulation, boundaries, resilience, and the patterns parents bring into family life.
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