Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Utah Cultural Celebration Center
1355 W 3100 S
West Valley City, UT 84119

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Registration will close on Monday, April 27, 2026.

$60 General Admission
$50 Change Leaders (with discount code)

DRAFT AGENDA

12:00 p.m. Registration and Networking
12:30 p.m. Welcome and Introductions
1:30 p.m.   Sofia Gorder: Feral State
2:30 p.m.  Question and Answer Session
2:45 p.m.  Break
3:00 p.m. Keynote: Lennie Knowlton
5:15 p.m.  Question and Answer Session
5:30 p.m. Change Leader Certification Dinner
7:00 p.m. Conclusion

Creating a culture of vulnerability: Building strength, trust, and innovation at work

In this workshop, clinical mental health counselor and founder of Project Connection Lennie Knowlton will explore how vulnerability serves as the foundation of creativity, curiosity, innovation, and connection – the very qualities that drive productivity and workplace well-being. Drawing on her pioneering approach, Relational Social Prescribing, and her training in The Daring Way,™ a methodology based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown, Lennie will guide leaders in cultivating cultures grounded in courage, trust, and authenticity. Participants will examine the role of shame resilience, values, alignment, and courageous leadership as they learn to accurately recognize and honor the unique strengths, contributions, and meaning each individual brings to their role. Together these concepts will lay the groundwork for workplaces that foster authentic connection, enhance productivity, and strengthen organizations.

Lennie Knowlton
Lennie Knowlton is a clinical mental health counselor and founder of Relational Social Prescribing, an innovative approach that bridges therapy, community, and connection to improve mental health outcomes. As the founder and CEO of Project Connection, Community of Practice lead for Social Prescribing USA, and a Daring Way™ trained facilitator, Lennie is advancing a national movement to redefine how communities and organizations support mental health and belonging. Drawing on her expertise in trauma-informed care and systems therapy, Lennie equips leaders to integrate connection and community into their approach to organizational well-being.

Breathe. Move. Create. Connect.

In a time shaped by rapid technological advancement, shifting value systems, and evolving spaces for gathering, the role of the arts is undergoing a profound transformation.

In this presentation, Sofia Gorder explores how the arts are no longer confined to performance or product, but are re-emerging as essential, body-based participatory practices for connection, regulation, and collective well-being.

As we spend more of our lives disembodied through screens and systems, we are not only losing access to our physical selves, but also to our capacity for connection, empathy, and shared experience. The arts offer a pathway back.

Through the lens of movement, nervous system health, and arts in health, Sofia invites a redefinition of what it means to “practice” art by asking people to get up and move with her.  Rather than centering perfection, hierarchy, or output, she positions the arts as tools for participation, healing, and community resilience through a shared somatic experience. 

Sofia Gorder

Sofia Gorder is a movement educator, community builder, and co-founder of Feral State preventative health and movement arts company, using body-based practices to help people reconnect, regulate, and reimagine how they live and work together.

With a master’s degree in dance education and kinesiology as well as a BFA in modern dance, Sofia has spent more than three decades at the intersection of performance, education, and public health. She directed a K–12 performing arts program while sustaining a professional career developing original dance works and socially engaged programming through Brolly Arts, using the arts as a vehicle for dialogue.

Sofia is known for creating large-scale participatory experiences that invite people out of passive consumption and into collective action. Whether in schools, hospitals, senior centers, corporate environments, or correctional facilities, she designs spaces where individuals can reconnect to their bodies while contributing to something larger than themselves.

Her work is rooted in a multidisciplinary approach, with certifications in yoga, Pilates, breath science, somatic therapy, and movement methodologies. She is also the creator of the STATE Method, a practice designed to modulate the nervous system and facilitate rapid state change.

Through her work with the National Organization for Arts in Health, Sofia contributes to the evolving field of arts-based public health, helping shape curriculum and certification in a rapidly expanding discipline.

At the core of everything she builds is a simple belief: When people are guided back to themselves and given a shared purpose, they generate the kind of momentum that can transform communities.