Meet Your 2026 Awakened Summit Speakers
Awakened Summit Founder & Host
Sheree Buckman
Opening Session
Already Awake: Embodying the Life Already Written Within You
This opening session invites us into a shared remembering of who we are and why we’re here, reconnecting us to purpose, inner authority, and the truth that has always lived within.
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This opening session sets the energetic foundation for the entire summit by inviting you into a grounded return to self. Many people search externally for purpose, direction, or meaning, believing it is something to be found, earned, or given. Yet the truth of who you are, and why you’re here, has always lived within you.
Through embodied awareness and reflection, this session gently guides participants beneath layers of conditioning, expectation, and self-limiting beliefs that cloud inner knowing. Rather than striving to become someone new, you are invited to reconnect with your inner authority, the place where clarity, purpose, and alignment naturally reside.
This session is not about fixing or forcing change, but about remembering. By anchoring into embodiment and presence, participants establish a steady foundation for deeper integration, insight, and expansion throughout the summit.
Inspirational Speaker / Drug and Alcohol Counselor
Shay De Jonge
Keynote Speaker
Shattering: A Catalyst for Change
This keynote will touch on the impact of trauma, addiction, and life-altering consequences. Through a raw and honest story of loss, accountability, and recovery, participants gain hope, perspective, and tools to rebuild after collapse.
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This keynote shares a raw, honest journey through childhood trauma, addiction, incarceration, and profound loss, and the slow rebuilding that followed. Shay will walk you through the consequences of unhealed pain, including a fatal hit-and-run accident that led to incarceration and forced sobriety. She speaks openly about withdrawal, the “dark night of the soul,” accountability, and choosing responsibility over self-destruction.
The workshop explores healing as nonlinear—messy, uncomfortable, and deeply transformative. Shay details the long road of outpatient treatment, living under legal supervision, facing sentencing, and continuing recovery while rebuilding identity and purpose. Attendees will hear how deep inner work, acceptance, and a growth mindset led to education, motherhood, meaningful work in the recovery field, and a life rooted in gratitude rather than shame.
This talk offers hope without minimizing harm, emphasizing that true healing includes accountability, humility, and commitment to change. Participants will leave with perspective on resilience, the courage to rebuild after consequences, and the understanding that even from complete brokenness, a purposeful life can be created.
AM Workshops
Mindset Coach
Tyler Shah
Grounded Path Workshop
Under Construction:
I am not broken. I am under construction — intentionally. Healing from people-pleasing, over-giving, lack of boundaries, fear of rejection, or self-abandonment.
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Under Construction is a 1-hour transformational workshop designed for anyone ready to release people-pleasing patterns and begin rebuilding a healthier, more aligned mindset. This experience creates a safe, intentional space to pause, reflect, and gently dismantle unhelpful beliefs that were formed for survival but no longer serve who you are becoming.
Through guided reflection, intentional language, and constructive mindset work, participants will identify where they’ve been over-giving, self-abandoning, or silencing their needs to maintain peace. Rather than tearing themselves down, they will learn how to deconstruct unhealthy thought patterns with compassion and clarity.
The intention of this workshop is not to “fix” anyone, but to support the process of rebuilding from the inside out — laying a structurally sound mental foundation rooted in self-worth, boundaries, and self-trust. Participants will leave with greater awareness, practical tools, and a renewed understanding that they are not broken — they are under construction, intentionally.
Intuitive Energy Healer
Katie Sass
Spiritual Path Workshop
Creating from Trust
This workshop is for anyone who finds themselves doubting their path—those quiet, persistent thoughts running in the background that are based in fear.
This workshop is designed to teach you the tools to let go and embody the powerful creator within!
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In this supportive healing space, we’ll move through a guided meditation and inner child healing to help you release fear, reconnect with self-love, and feel more at ease within yourself. You’ll be invited to soften, feel freer, and give yourself permission to play and enjoy life more then you ever have before!
We’ll then enter a creative, heart-centered space using guided prompts to expand your imagination and dreams. Together, we’ll turn up the volume on your life and celebrate the expansive, joyful, and fulfilling experience you’re here to create!
This process is intended to help you remain in creator mode throughout your day and offer you a grounding tool to realign your energy whenever you need it.
PM Workshops
Energy Healer/ Intuitive Coach
Jen Mac
Grounded Path Workshop
Align & Activate: Instantly Access Your Calm, Clarity & Inner Power
This isn’t a sit-and-listen workshop—it’s a nervous system reset. By changing the words and stories your body believes in, you create space for calm, grounded clarity, and inner power in life and business.
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In this workshop, you’ll move beyond just hearing concepts—you’ll experience them fully. We’ll explore how your words, thoughts, and stories directly affect your body, energy, and emotional state. You’ll practice grounding techniques, feel shifts in your nervous system, and engage in powerful exercises that bring instant clarity, calm, and inner power. Together, we’ll raise your vibrational state, helping you feel in real time the strength, confidence, and clarity you already have within. You’ll discover how to tap into this power anytime—whether to make clear decisions, take bold action, set healthy boundaries, or simply show up feeling empowered, steady, and fully aligned. By the end of our time together, you’ll not only understand your energy, you’ll feel it—and you’ll leave with practical tools you can use immediately to create more ease, focus, and confidence in your life and business.
Sound Immersion & Meditation Guide
Debra Smith-Andersen
Spiritual Path Workshop
Resonance & Return - A Sound Immersion Journey into Inner Stillness & Expansion
Designed for those drawn to inner exploration, this collective meditative sound journey creates inner space, reconnects you with your Higher Self, and supports expansion through breath, stillness, and sound.
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Resonance & Return is a one-hour meditative sound immersion designed for those seeking deeper connection and expanded awareness. The experience begins with breath awareness and guided stillness, creating inner space and helping participants arrive fully in the present moment. From there, an extended sound journey unfolds, using vibration and resonance to support relaxation, openness, and subtle energetic shifts. As sound moves through the body, its frequencies interact with the body’s natural rhythms, encouraging the nervous system to settle and the mind to quiet. Rather than fixing or forcing change, this journey creates a supportive environment for participants to reconnect with their Higher Self and allow for release, inner space, and expansion. Experienced together, the collective sound field amplifies presence, allowing for deeper clarity, alignment, and embodied awareness.