PRESENTED BY HEARt HEALER
EMERGE
Remember who you are. Choose who you become.
SEPTEMBER 16 • 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM,
TOP OF THE TOWN | ROSSLYN, VIRGINIA
Admission is free | Suggested Donation $49
PROCEEDS SUPPORT SURVIVORS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
What if you gave yourself one day to think differently about your life?
We spend so much of our lives becoming.
Becoming successful.
Becoming a leader.
Becoming an entrepeneur.
Becoming a parent, partner, caretaker, problem-solver, achiever.
We learn how to push through.
How to accomplish.
How to take care of the people around us.
How to keep moving.
And somewhere along the way, it's surprisingly easy to lose touch with the person underneath all of it.
Who am I now?
Who do I really want?
What is actually dictating my choices in life?
Am I defining success, or is success defining me?
How do I want to show up for myself, my family, and my community?
What could the next 10 years of my life look like?
and perhaps the biggest question:
Who am I choosing to become?
That's why we created EMERGE.
EMERGE is an intimate, experiential day designed to give you something that can be incredibly difficult to create in the middle of a full life.
Space.
Space to step outside of the constant doing.
Space to turn down the noise around you.
Space to notice what's happening within you.
Space to reconnect with the parts of yourself that may have gotten quieter as your life got bigger.
And space to become intentional about what comes next.
There can be a lonely side to
achievement
When you're an entrepenuer, leader, parent, or the person others depend on, you become very good at being capable.
You solve the problem.
You make the decision.
You carry the responsibility.
You keep moving.
People can see everythning you've accomplished without necessarily seeing everything you're carrying.
And you can be surrounded by people who love you and still feel, at times, surprisingly alone.
Because being needed isn't the same thing as being known.
Being successful isn't the same as feeling fulfilled.
And being surrounded by people isn't always the same as feeling deeply seen and connected
Sometimes we become so focused on what everyone else needs from us that we stop asking what we need form ourselves.
EMERGE creates space to change that.
To know yourself more deeply.
To understand your patterns instead of simply repeating them.
To feel what is happening in your body instead of immediately reacting to it.
To trust your own intuition.
To become more honest about what you want.
To feel seen, known, and loved by yourself first - and to allow that deeper relationship
with yourself to enrich your relationships with the people who matter most.
THE EMERGE JOURNEY
Four movements through one day
REMEMBER → KNOW → CHOOSE → BECOME
MOVEMENT ONE
REMEMBER
Before deciding who you want to become, reconnect with the essence of who you already are.
Beneath the roles.
Beneath the expectations.
Beneath the accomplishments.
Beneath the experiences, beliefs, and patterns that have shaped you.
Which parts are truly you? Which parts did you learn in order to succeed, belong, protect yourself, or become what someone else needed? And which parts are you ready to reconsider?
MOVEMENT TWO
KNOW
Knowing yourself isn't only an intellectual exercise. Our bodies often recognize what's happening within us long before our minds have found words for it.
Throughout EMERGE, you'll explore your emotions, intuition, physical responses, and recurring patterns - learning to notice what happens inside you before automatically reacting to what's happening around you.
That awareness gives us something incredibly valuable: time and space
Space between feeling and reacting.
Space between being triggered and responding.
Space between fear and decision.
Space between an old pattern and a new choice.
And within that space, we begin to know ourselves differently.
MOVEMENT THREE
CHOOSE
Awareness creates choice.
What stays?
What are you ready to release?
Which relationships deserve more of your presence?
What deserves less of your energy?
What do you want your work to feel like?
What do you want your relationships to feel like?
What do you want your life to feel like?
And if your decisions were no longer being dictated by fear, old patterns, conditioning or other people's expectations - who would you choose to become?
MOVEMENT FOUR
BECOME
Then we begin translating insight into action.
Because transformation isn't about having a powerful realization and returning to life exactly as ti was. It's about allowing what you've learned about yourself to influence how you live.
How you communicate.
How you love.
How you lead.
How you work.
How you make decisions.
How you respond when life doesn't go according to plan.
And how you pursue what matters to you.
You won't leave EMERGE with someone else's prescription for who you should be. You'll leave knowing yourself more deeply and with greater clarity about who you're choosing to become.
This isn't a day of sitting and
listening to speakers.
EMERGE is an experience.
Through conversation, somatic practices, reflection, guided exercises, and meaningful connection, we’ll explore ourselves from several different perspectives.
You’ll learn to recognize what happens inside your body when you’re triggered.
You’ll examine patterns that may be influencing your choices without you realizing it.
You’ll explore how greater awareness can transform the way you communicate with the people you love.
You’ll reconnect with intuition and examine the relationship between your soul, purpose, ambition, and the work you’re creating in the world.
And you’ll have time to consider something we rarely stop long enough to ask:
What do I want the next chapter of my life
to look and feel like?
YOUR GUIDES
Four perspectives. One intentional journey.
Each guide brings a different lens to EMERGE — relationships, somatics, patterns, intuition, purpose, entrepreneurship, and conscious growth — with Keri facilitating the experience and helping weave those pieces together throughout the day.
KERI SHULL
FOUNDER OF HEART HEALER & CREATOR OF EMERGE
Keri Shull is an entrepreneur, leader, and founder of Heart Healer, a nonprofit created around her belief that when we heal ourselves, we expand our capacity to love, connect with, and give to others.
After more than two decades building and leading successful businesses, Keri became increasingly curious about a different kind of growth: The growth that happens within us. Her own journey has led her deeply into exploring trauma, energy, intuition, relationships, purpose, and the patterns that shape who we become.
And it has changed the questions she’s asking. Not simply: What can I accomplish next? But
And it has changed the questions she’s asking. Not simply: What can I accomplish next? But
Who are you ready to become?
Where do you want to go?
What are you holding onto that you need to let go of?
And ultimately: Who am I choosing to become? Those questions became the foundation for EMERGE.
Keri isn’t coming to EMERGE to deliver a keynote or tell you how to live your life.
She’ll serve as the facilitator and guide for the day, weaving together the experiences, conversations, and teachings and helping you connect them to your own life through the EMERGE journey:
REMEMBER → KNOW → CHOOSE → BECOME
Her intention is to create the space for you to slow down, ask deeper questions, and leave with more than inspiration.
To know yourself more deeply.
Trust yourself more fully.
Connect more authentically with the people you love.
And become more intentional about the life - and the person - you choose to create from here.
For Keri, EMERGE also represents the beginning of a deeply personal next chapter dedicating more of her life to helping people connect with their hearts, heal what keeps them from living fully, and create lives rooted in love, purpose, connection, and alignment.
And become more intentional about the life — and the person — you choose to create from here.
For Keri, EMERGE also represents the beginning of a deeply personal next chapter: dedicating more of her life to helping people connect with their hearts, heal what keeps them from living fully, and create lives rooted in love, purpose, connection, and alignment.
DR. KELLY FLANAGAN
FROM TRIGGERED TO CONNECTED
Clinical psychologist, author, and speaker Dr. Kelly Flanagan is the author of The Road Less Triggered: Turning Conflict into Connection with a Single Choice.
His work explores what happens inside us during those pivotal moments when we feel hurt, threatened, misunderstood, or triggered.
Often our bodies react before our conscious minds have caught up.
At EMERGE, Dr. Flanagan will help us explore how to recognize those signals and create the precious gift of time and space between feeling and response.
Within that space lies choice.
The choice to become curious instead of defensive.
To communicate rather than protect.
To respond rather than react.
To seek understanding rather than simply being understood.
These seemingly small moments can profoundly change our relationships with our partners, children, friends, colleagues — and ourselves.
LEARN MORE ABOUT DR KELLY FLANAGAN
KARA CHAFFIN DONOFRIO
SOUL, PURPOSE & ALIGNMENT
Kara Chaffin Donofrio is an entrepreneur and creator of Soul Inspiring Business, where she explores the intersection of intuition, spirituality, purpose, and entrepreneurship.
Kara’s work challenges the idea that achieving extraordinary things always requires pushing harder.
What happens when we stop separating who we are from what we’re creating?
What if your intuition has a place in your biggest decisions?
What if accomplishing your goals could feel less like forcing and more like alignment?
At EMERGE, Kara will help us explore our inner knowing and what it means to integrate our soul, purpose, and ambition into the businesses, careers, and lives we’re creating.
Because sometimes the next level isn’t about more effort.
It’s about greater alignment between who you are and how you’re living.
LEARN MORE ABOUT KARA CHAFFIN DONOFRIO
JULIE PETERSON
SOUL, PURPOSE & ALIGNMENT
The problem is rarely the problem.
Julie is a transformational coach whose work explores the patterns beneath the problems we think we’re trying to solve.
Through somatic awareness and inside-out transformation, Julie helps people move beyond simply thinking about change and begin recognizing what their bodies, emotions, and recurring patterns are trying to show them.
At EMERGE, Julie will invite us to look beneath the surface.
What keeps repeating?
What triggers you?
What are you protecting?
What might your body be holding that your mind has already decided you’re “over”?
What once served you but may no longer belong in the life you’re creating?
Sometimes the thing standing between where you are and where you want to go isn’t another strategy.
It’s a pattern asking to be seen.
And when we can see it, feel it, and begin to shift it from the inside out, we create space for something new.
LEARN MORE ABOUT JULIE
Who is EMERGE for?
EMERGE was created especially with ambitious, growth-minded women in mind — entrepreneurs, leaders, mothers, creators, and professionals who have spent a significant part of their lives doing, achieving, building, leading, and caring for others. But EMERGE isn’t exclusively for women. If you’re a man who feels called to this work, you’re absolutely welcome.
This experience may be for you if you’ve ever wondered:
I’ve accomplished so much. Why do I still feel like something is missing?
Why can success sometimes feel lonely?
Who am I outside of everything I do for everyone else?
Why do I keep getting triggered by the same things or repeating the same patterns?
How do I trust myself more?
How do I create deeper relationships without losing myself inside of them?
Can I accomplish extraordinary things without constantly pushing and forcing?
What do I actually want now?
Who am I inspired to become next?
You don't need to arrive with the answers.
That's why we're gathering.
The people in the room are part of the experience.
There’s something powerful about being surrounded by people who understand the complexity of wanting more — without necessarily meaning more success.
More meaning.
More connection.
More alignment.
More presence.
More authenticity
You’ll spend the day with entrepreneurs, leaders, creators, parents, and deeply curious people who care about achieving extraordinary things — but who also care deeply about how their lives feel while they’re achieving them.
People willing to ask bigger questions.
People doing their own inner work.
People who want meaningful relationships and meaningful work.
People who want to be known for more than what they accomplish.
People interested not only in what they’re building — but who they’re becoming while they build it.
YOUR GROWTH CAN HELP SOMEONE ELSE REBUILD
Healing shouldn't stop with ourselves
EMERGE is presented by Heart Healer, a nonprofit created around the belief that healing shouldn’t stop with ourselves.
When we have the opportunity to grow, heal, and create change in our own lives, we can use that opportunity to create change for someone else.
That’s why EMERGE has no required admission fee.
Instead, we’re asking attendees who are able to make a:
$49
suggested donation
Proceeds from EMERGE will support work helping survivors of human trafficking move toward safety, healing, and independence.
We are currently working to partner with FAIR Girls, a Washington, DC organization supporting girls and young women who have experienced trafficking and exploitation.
Our intention is simple: Spend a day investing in yourself while helping create the possibility of a new chapter for someone else.
Beneficiary partnership will be confirmed prior to the event.
Give yourself five hours.
Five hours away from the emails.
The meetings.
The responsibilities.
The goals.
The constant doing.
Five hours to feel.
To listen.
To question.
To understand.
To connect.
To choose.
You spend so much of your life giving your
attention to what needs you. For five hours,
give some of that attention to yourself.
PRESENTED BY HEAR HEALER
EMERGE
Remember who you are. Choose who you become.
SEPTEMBER 16 • 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
TOP OF THE TOWN | ROSSLYN, VIRGINIA,
Admission is free | Suggested Donation $49
Space is limited. RSVP Required.
PROCEEDS SUPPORT SURVIVORS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING