A Community-Led Conference
Where we create kindness together!
The Kindness Conference isn't built around speakers or PowerPoint presentations. Instead, it's built around community.
Through guided introductions, interactive activities, meaningful conversations, and shared experiences, we'll practice the skills that help build kind communities and meaningful relationships. Each person is both a learner and a contributor, and every activity is grounded in relational agreements, mutual respect, and the reality that everyone has something valuable to offer.
Rather than just talking about kindness, we'll spend the day experiencing and practicing it together.
Folks will gain tools that can be used immediately, connections that continue beyond the conference, and renewed hope for what's possible when people come together with the intention of kindness.
Participation is always an invitation, never an expectation – everyone's agency is always encouraged and supported!
What You'll Leave With
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Practical communication tools
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Personalized cue cards
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Several printed toolkits
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New community connections
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A supportive in-person and online community
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Experience practicing new skills with kind people
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Frameworks for creating peer support groups.
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CEUs if you're attending as a professional.
Conference at a Glance
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🤝 Interactive workshops
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🌱 Supported connections
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📚 Printed resources to take home
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🥪 Lunch and refreshments included
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🎓 CE credits for eligible professionals
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❤️ A welcoming, inclusive environment
What to Expect
Relational agreements
We can practice agreements about how we wish to be treated and how we agree to treat each other.
Participation is voluntary
Speak, listen, observe, or pass. Personal disclosure is never required. We're just practicing kindness!
Take space when needed
Step out, move, rest, or take a break without explanation. We encourage agency!
Come as you are
Attend alone or with someone you know. There is no prerequisite for attending.
What We'll Do Together
Connect
Meet people who are also looking for kind community
Practice kind skills
Build skills that make kind community possible
Build what comes next
Help shape dinners, peer support, mutual aid, and future gatherings.
Who is Invited?
Whether you're an advocate, community organizer, helping professional, peer supporter, or simply someone who believes our communities can be more connected and compassionate, you are welcome here.
This conference brings together people who want to create practical pathways toward kinder and better resourced community.
We especially welcome all those whose lives have been shaped by trauma, neglect, violence, or profound unkindness. We are creating spaces where every person is treated with dignity, compassion, and respect.
Providers can receive 3 CE credits from the Ohio CSWMFT Board.
You do not need to:
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Identify yourself in any certain way
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Share your story
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Already know anyone there
Why this Gathering Matters
Many people are experiencing isolation, burnout, disability, strain, and a lack of kind community.
How can we build a kind local community strong enough to help people belong and support one another through the years ahead?