Profectum Conferences

Creating space for learning, dialogue, and reconnection—with the core belief that development happens through relationships.
Grounded in the DIR® model and aligned approaches, our conferences explore how connection, attunement, and respect for individual differences support growth across the lifespan. Through keynote presentations, interactive workshops, and lived-experience perspectives, Profectum conferences aim to deepen professional reflection, expand practical skills, and inspire meaningful change in how we support individuals, families, and communities.

Our conferences bring together clinicians, educators, caregivers, and advocates who share a commitment to relationship-based, developmentally informed practice.

Deepening the DIR® Perspective: A Focus on Families

March 6 & 8, 2026
From its inception, the DIR model has defined development through attuned relationships. Finding, strengthening, and sustaining these relationships is central to practicing DIR and other relational approaches. This requires a nuanced consideration of families’ contexts, capacities, values, and lived experiences. What do families really need and how can they be supported? This March, Profectum’s Deepening the DIR perspective conference asks that question and calls clinicians, educators, policy-makers, and parents into a Focus on Families.

Broadening the DIR® Perspective: Gender, Development and Neurodiversity

November 7 & 9, 2025
This conference explores the intersection of development and identity with special attention to gender and neurodiversity. Deepening our understanding of how gender and neurodivergent identities emerge and develop, we will explore how familial, educational and clinical environments can either support, or constrain, this evolution with an extraordinary two day event that features an array of powerful speakers, researchers, and clinicians.