Intention
Join Lily as she guides you in an embodied practice of empowering your intentions through sound, vibration, and the element of water.
Let's build hope together
Tend her hope summit
Friday, April 25, 2025
9am-4pm
little lights on the lane
West Branch, IA
Healthy, safe circles of women that encourage authenticity
are some of the most powerful healing forces known to humanity.
connect
Connect with others in both large and small groups in supportive, relaxed spaces throughout the day
learn
Learn practical skills for enhancing your own practices of hope, building on the teachings in Tend Her 4.0
be inspired
Gather inspiration for living more fully into self-trust, authenticity, strength, rest, and creativity.
The Tend Her Hope Summit is a women’s program that intends an inclusive definition of women.
We are welcoming and respectful of all women, including trans women and nonbinary/gender nonconforming people who are woman-identified in a way that is significant to them.
the program
LARGE GROUP SESSIONS
We start the day all together in an opening session, followed by a live podcast recording of Tend Her Wild with Kate, Betsy and special guests. We will also end the day as a large group in a closing circle.
SMALL GROUP SESSIONS
During the day you will have the opportunity to work in smaller groups with members of the Tend Her Team for more intimate connection with the teachers and participants. You will attend 3 of the 6 different breakout workshops.
Breakout workshops
Alignment
Join Kate as she guides you in exploring hope through soul alignment.
Movement & Song
Journeying together through song, movement, and touch, join Kimberly and Lyndsey in exploring how being Held helps us source deeper to meet our collective moment.
Ceremony
Join Betsy, Janelle, and Monica as we work with joy and hope for our collective healing using meditation, breath work, and a fire ceremony.
Authenticity
Join Christina as she guides you through a hypno-meditation activation igniting hope through embracing your true voice
Connection
Join Rachel for a conversation around fostering hope and authentic connection in our relationships.
AGENDA
8:30-9:00
Arrive and enjoy coffee, tea, and snacks
9:00-9:30
Welcome and opening circle with the Tend Her team
9:30-10:30
A live Tend Her Wild podcast with Kate and Betsy interviewing special guests on hope, including time for audience questions and participation.
10:30-11:00
Break, networking, and women-owned business vendor fair
11:00-12:00
Breakout workshop #1
12:00-1:00
Lunch break with a nourishing meal provided by Chef Chris Grebner
1:00-2:00
Breakout workshop #2
2:15-3:15
Breakout workshop #3
3:30-4:00
Closing circle
LOCATION
We are thrilled to partner with the amazing event center Little Lights on the Lane in West Branch, Iowa.
The intention and creativity they have put into their business is stunning. Walking into their space invokes a sense of ease, wonder, and amazement.
For more information about Little Lights, click here.
about your guides
Betsy Brandl Rippentrop
Dr. Betsy Brandl Rippentrop is a licensed psychologist, certified yoga and meditation teacher, and Reiki master who uniquely blends science, psychology, mysticism and spirituality into her yoga classes and private therapy work. She guides people into courageous awareness of their body and mind, and is especially adept at translating complex concepts into practical tools that can efficiently shift our state of being. Betsy also owns Heartland Yoga, maintains a psychology practice focused on integrating yoga into treatment, has written multiple academic papers on the mind-body connection and is author of Chakra Healing: Restore balance to your body, mind, and spirit through the seven energy centers. She is the co-host of Tend Her wild podcast. Visit her at dryogamomma.com and heartlandyoga.com.
Kimberly Jaeger-Arjes
Kimberly is a matron & mother, goat witch, grief & death doula, end of life companion, yoga & meditation comrade, and practitioner of rest and restorative justice.
She believes our collective purpose in this “one brief life” (Alua Arthur) is found in our relationships—with other beings, our choices, nature, and the environments around us. It’s about how we grieve, how we love & liberate ourselves, and how we become more present. It’s a collaborative endeavor, really: to live and to die. She aims to offer services that honor the whole self of the dying and support those around them. Through ancient movement practices such as yoga, dance, and restorative rest, as well as meditation, intention-setting, and the energy work of Reiki, she hopes to provide comprehensive care.
kate moreland
Kate Moreland is an experienced coach who understands the struggles of career decisions and burnout, and the power of conscious leadership, wellbeing and authenticity. After a decade of practicing law, Kate recognized she needed to make a change. For the past 12 years she has been coaching others as they explore interests, uncover strengths, and consider career and life changes.
She is a Lumia Coach, has a certificate in the Science of Wellbeing from Yale, and is certified in the mind-body connection. She is also a master collaborator and is certified in Strategic Doing. As a natural connector, Kate is the co-founder of Her Experience, a revolutionary retreat for women. She is also a co-host of the Podcast Tend Her Wild. She lives with her husband and three children in Iowa City. Visit her at katemorelandcoaching.com.
Monica Basile
Dr. Monica Basile is a visual artist and graphic designer, Reiki Master/Teacher, and creator of The Earth Speaks Oracle Deck.
With more than 28 years of experience as a healer, midwife, and space-holder, she is passionate about helping people to experience beauty, enchantment, connection to the earth, and inner peace through honoring the seasonal and cyclical transformations of life. She brings her love of liminal spaces into her work as an artist and mentor, helping people navigate the subtle, imaginal, and creative realms with self-compassion and curiosity.
Monica is a mother and a longtime yoga and meditation practitioner. She believes in the power of gentle compassion, the wisdom of the body, and the light within all beings. Visit her at ravenandmagnolia.com.
Rachel McLaren
Dr. Rachel McLaren is a scholar, teacher, and speaker who is passionate about helping people improve their communication, relationships, and overall well-being through evidence-based education and embodiment practices. She is an associate professor in communication studies, a yoga and group fitness instructor, and a mom of three. Her research focuses on how people talk about and understand emotion and conflict in their relationships, with an emphasis on parent-adolescent
Janelle Railey
Janelle has been a psychotherapist for 20 years and a meditation and yoga practitioner and teacher for 30. She views her work as a way to help others understand their minds and interpersonal relationships in order to live more enriching and fulfilling lives. Her training includes a Master’s Degree from Naropa University, continuing education in sensorimotor psychotherapy, MBSR, somatic experiencing, perinatal education, Jungian analysis, interpersonal neurobiology and dreamwork. She is currently a matriculated candidate for the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas in their psychoanalytic certification program. She views herself as a life-long learner. She is also a parent, partner, animal lover and avid outdoors person.
Lily French
Lily French is a Sound Healer, Reiki Master, Human Design Reader, Licensed Massage Therapist, and Holistic Psychotherapist (LISW).
With over 20 years of experience supporting people’s self-care, healing, and wellness, her work focuses on helping people shift limiting beliefs and break free from conditioning so that they can step fully into their authentic expression, sense of agency, and congruent life path. As both a practitioner and an educator, she teaches people how to perceive and work with subtle energies, so that they can become empowered to be their own healer and guiding light. Visit Lily at bewellhealingservices.com
Lyndsey Scott
Lyndsey Scott is a multimedia artist, songleader, songwriter, and ritualist committed to exploring community singing as a technology of belonging and a strategy for mutual liberation. She currently teaches “Community Singing as Collective Power” as the 2024-25 Grant Wood Fellow at the UI School of Music.
Listen to her “prayer-pop earworms” and find out more: https://www.lyndseyscott.earth/
Christina Figgé-Morrison
Christina Figgé-Morrison is a medical doctor from Denmark, and is certified and specialized in evidence-based clinical hypnotherapy. In her online clinic, Christina works with women worldwide offering a holistic, highly effective and science-backed approach to healing. She is passionate about dissolving limiting beliefs and emotional blocks at a root-level, and empowering women to fully step into their authentic lives.
She creates a warm and supportive space where new doors can open. Christina speaks, teaches, and advocates for the power of combining medical expertise with advanced hypnotherapy techniques – for deep, rapid, and lasting transformation. She lives in rural Denmark with her husband and two sons, and you often find her biking in the forest or watching the sunset with her family. Visit her at christinafiggemorrison.com
She creates a warm and supportive space where new doors can open. Christina speaks, teaches, and advocates for the power of combining medical expertise with advanced hypnotherapy techniques – for deep, rapid, and lasting transformation. She lives in rural Denmark with her husband and two sons, and you often find her biking in the forest or watching the sunset with her family. Visit her at christinafiggemorrison.com
register today
$129
Includes all programming and meals
The fee for this event has been partially subsidized by a generous grant from the state of Iowa for mental health prevention work. We are thrilled and grateful to be able to offer this full day of programming at such a low cost.
We are committed to financial accessibility, and we are also providing a number of scholarships for those who want to attend but may not be able to due to finances.
If you are interested in one of these scholarships, please apply here by 5pm on 4/15.