Mindful Living Leadership Symposium
& Fall 2026 EXPO
Where Well-Being Inspires Purposeful Leadership.
Mindful Living Leadership Symposium & Fall 2026 EXPO
Where Well-Being Inspires Purposeful Leadership.
October 15th - 16th, 2026 | Idaho State University Alumni Center, Pocatello, Idaho
Join business leaders, professionals, educators, and healthcare providers, nonprofit organizations, students, and community members for three days of inspiration, learning, and connection.
The Mindful Living Leadership Symposium brings together expert keynote speakers, interactive workshops, and meaningful networking to explore the connection between mindful living, resilient leadership, workplace excellence, and organizational success. Gain practical tools to strengthen your well-being, empower your team, and create lasting impact within your organization and community.
Apply "Six Pillar" concepts where we learn to cultivate Physical, Mental, Emotional, Intellectual, Spiritual Wellbeing, & Positive Relationships.
Developed by: Ciera Nichole Coaching
ISU Fall 2026 Expo
A free, family-friendly event happening at the end of the Mindful Living Leadership Symposium weekend!
October 17th, 2026, at the ISU Alumni Center, you’ll be able to shop and connect with a variety of local Idaho businesses, ISU student entrepreneurs, and student clubs. Grab some food from local food trucks, let the kids enjoy fun activities like face painting and balloon animals, and enter to win some awesome raffle baskets or bid on items in our silent auction, with all proceeds supporting ISU Disability Services!
Whether you’re attending the symposium or just looking for something fun to do with the family, everyone is welcome, and admission is completely free! Come hang out, support local businesses, enjoy some activities, and be part of our community!
Event Details
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Dates: October 15th - 17th, 2026
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Time: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM daily
- Symposium sessions: Oct 15th & 16th
- Fall 2026 EXPO: Oct 17th - Community Event - Free Admission, Local vendors and Food trucks
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Location: Idaho State University Alumni Center, 1601 E Bonneville St., Pocatello, Idaho 83201 (Next to the ICCU Dome)
Featured Speakers & Presenters
- Ciera Belnap – Ciera Nichole Coaching: Guiding you through transformative coaching on personal growth and empowerment.
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Sheryl Kauaihao – Origin & Earth Coaching: Supporting your journey toward mindful leadership and conscious living.
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Elizabeth Ritchie – The Synergetic Stylist: Elevating your personal style and wellness to match your authentic self.
- Karina Rorris – The Executive Director / Founder of the CALI and Director of Disability Services.
- Cherisse Brown – InSight - Peronal and Professional Growth Through EQ.
- Heather Murray – Think Get a Grip Coaching.
Other Speakers TBD
Featured Sessions & Interactive Workshops
- Mindful Leadership
- Emotional Intelligence
- Leadership Models that Matter: A Blueprint for Success
- Empowering Leaders Through AI Innovation
- Workplace Psychological Safety
- Why Great Leaders Prioritize Wellbeing
- Nervous System Informed Healing
- Strength Based Leadership
- Human Design
- From Burnout to Balance
Other inspirational sessions TBD.
Registration Details
Early Bird Registration:
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$150 for two days (Available until September 30th, 2026)
Regular Registration:
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$225 for two day (Available starting October 1st, 2026)
Registration closes October 8th
Scholarships available for full symposium registration!
For more information contact Yoaly Clark, Strategic Management Assistant / Events Coordinator, (208) 282-1073 DSevents@isu.edu
To request accommodations please contact Disability Services at 208-282-3599 ada@isu.edu
Speaker Spotlight
Karina Mason Rorris
Symposium Host, Moderator and Speaker: Karina Mason Rorris is currently the Director of Disability Services and Executive Director of ISU Center for Accessibility, Leadership & Innovationat Idaho State University, where she and her rock star team passionately serve approximately 1000 students with disabilities, hundreds of employees, campus visitors with disabilities and the community. She's served as a leader in the Human Resource and Disability Services fields for 20 years. In addition, she is a certified Gallup Strengths Coach, a consultant for the Higher Education Disability Services profession, a Life Strategist and a Mindset Mastery Coach. She's currently working through additional certifications. Her life's work is serving and helping others.
Her presentations will explore the resilient leadership style, identifying strengths and leading by strengths and reigniting your purpose and passion.
Ciera Belnap
Ciera Belnap is a trauma-informed wellness coach, trauma care practitioner, and creator of the Pillars of Holistic Alignment, a framework designed to help women understand the interconnected pieces of their mental, emotional, physical, and relational well-being. Through nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and holistic wellness, she helps women move beyond simply understanding their past, recognize the patterns keeping them stuck, and create lives that feel calm, connected, and genuinely their own.
Website: cieranicholecoaching.com
Cherisse Brown
Cherisse is an Equal Opportunity and Title IX Investigator with a background in social services and a deep commitment to personal and organizational well-being. Holding a Master’s Degree in Public Administration, Cherisse is the founder of InSight, a training and coaching practice focused on emotional intelligence, leadership development, and self-awareness. As co-author of FORGIVEN: Own What Is, Let Go of What Isn’t, Cherisse invites individuals and leaders to embrace self-forgiveness as a powerful practice of compassion, accountability, and healing - one that supports growth, resilience, and sustainable wellness.
Heather Murray
Heather Murray is a coauthor of Forgiven, a powerful exploration of forgiveness as a pathway to mental and emotional wellness and centered on helping individuals rethink forgiveness—not as excusing harm, but as reclaiming peace, clarity, and personal freedom.
She also authored Get A Grip on your thinking and life which teaches readers how to recognize and take control of unhelpful thought patterns that fuel fear, self-doubt, and emotional overwhelm.
Drawing from both personal experience and years of work in personal development, Heather explains clearly how thinking habits, unresolved pain, resentment, and self-judgment impact mental health and equips people with practical insights to break unhealthy thought patterns, heal emotional wounds, and move forward with greater self-awareness and resilience.
Deena Nielsen
Deena Nielsen is a certified health, life, trauma recovery, and somatic breathwork coach and the founder of Deena Christine Coaching. A lifelong learner, she is passionate about being an active participant in her own life experience and helping others develop the capacity to do the same. Through her Inner Compass framework - Notice, Listen, Discern, Choose - Deena helps people relate to internal and external signals as information, reconnect with themselves, and return to aligned choice.
Julie Hawkes
Julie is Christian mentor, speaker, and energy coach. She has helped hundreds of people stop doubting themselves, connect to their spiritual gifts, and their intuition so they can get clear answers and get what they want. She has helped clients in over 5000 private sessions and more than 350 group sessions.
She loves helping people make peace with their past, have more meaningful relationships, and feel confident in the answers they receive and the decisions they make.
Since starting her business in 2016 she has spent thousands of hours in one on one sessions helping people let go of old pain and embrace new thinking patterns and new results. She knows what works and what doesn't. And she knows how to help you get unstuck.
Justin Turley
Justin Turley is an entrepreneur and systems thinker fascinated by the invisible beliefs, habits, and environments that shape our lives. At the Mindful Living Symposium, he’ll explore why wanting a different outcome often isn’t enough, and how recognizing and redesigning the systems already running our lives can help us live with greater intention.
Paige Rowberry
Paige Rowberry believes that creating the life you want requires more than simply saying you want it—it requires learning how to work with your thoughts, energy, beliefs, and actions to move that vision forward. A passionate student and teacher of personal growth and manifestation, Paige has led manifestation classes and works one-on-one with individuals to help them intentionally create meaningful change in their lives. As the final speaker of the Mindful Living Symposium, she will bring the event full circle by helping participants take the goals they’ve uncovered and transform them into a clear, intentional path toward making them a reality.
Ramina Wilkerson
Ramina Wilkerson is a motivational speaker, author, and life coach whose life is a testament to the extraordinary power of the human spirit. Born and raised in Baghdad, Iraq, Ramina survived the horrors of multiple wars and the instability of life as a refugee. Her journey reached a harrowing turning point when a date was set for her and her family’s execution by the regime of Saddam Hussein—a fate they escaped only through a miraculous rescue by the U.S. military.
Today, Ramina transforms a past marked by trauma, heartbreak, and pain into a roadmap for healing. As a speaker and coach, she empowers others to look beyond their perceived limitations and find their voice. By sharing her story of profound resilience and strength, Ramina helps her audience navigate their own trauma, reclaim their own story, and discover the limitless possibilities that lie ahead.
Sean Coletti
Sean Coletti is the general counsel for the Idaho Environmental Coalition, and the immediate past Mayor of the City of Ammon. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Brigham Young University, and a law degree from University of Connecticut Law School, all while serving in the Army National Guard in counterintelligence and as a Korean linguist.
After school, Sean worked as a law clerk in Twin Falls and in American Samoa, after which he began as an attorney at Hopkins Roden Crockett Hansen & Hoopes, where he worked for 16 years before starting a new position at the INL and then IEC.
Sean served two terms on the Ammon City Council and is on his second term as Mayor of Ammon. He is married to Ammon native Jessi Grigg Coletti, and they have two sons, Jaydn and Sterling.
Jessi Coletti
Jessi is a native of Idaho Falls, a mom of 2 boys, Musician, Artist, and Manifestation Mentor with Kathleen Cameron. She has been married to Sean Coletti, for 27 years.
She loves everything related to personal growth, and encourages people to get UNCOMFORTABLE (ask her about her 52 Uncomfortable things list). She also enjoys performing on the Piano for various community shows, playing sports, and eating grapes with cheese.
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