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For queer folks who are navigating the complexities & high- stakes decisions of starting a family
Whether you're already expecting, deciding your path to parenthood, or deciding if having kids is right for you, this four-day virtual event will help you make choices that feel right for you now, and that you'll feel proud of for a lifetime.
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This is for you if you are asking the
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“Should I even
become a parent?”
You’re asking yourself questions like: "Will I lose myself? Will I parent like my own parents? Am I really ready?" And you’re holding those questions and pressures alongside the added weight of being queer and navigating societal pressures and systemic barriers most people never have to consider.
Yet even here, the hope and joy are alive: the vision of bedtime snuggles and belly laughs. All of it unfolds against a ticking clock — a milestone birthday, your partner’s timeline, your own body
“Which path to parenthood
is right for me?”
Donor conception. Surrogacy. Adoption. Fostering. Each one holds questions no one prepared you for. You’re navigating both logistics, cost — but also grief, legacy, and questions about DNA. And you’re doing it while navigating systems that misgender you, ask invasive questions, or treat your family like an nuisance.
Through it all, you’re still holding on to hope, to joy, to the spark of imagining your future child laughing in your arms
“How do I set up my children for a lifetime of self-worth and belonging?”
This season is tender. When you are expecting your first child — you’re in a moment where joy, vulnerability, and even grief live in parallel. You might hold deep fears about the kind of parent you can be—and the kind of world you’ll be bringing your child into. You might be sitting with complicated, unspoken feelings about donor conception, adoption, or DNA.
And you might be wondering: How do I savor this short, magical season — while also becoming the kind of parent who refuses to pass down shame and silence?
But underneath those questions, you aren’t just asking how or whether to become a parent. You’re asking how to become the kind of parent you want to be.
You want to be the kind of parent who...
Creates a home where your child feels safe, seen, and celebrated.
Role models facing hard choices with courage & complexity when it matters, not oversimplification and quick fixes.
Holds both your needs, vision and values, AND your future child’s without betraying either.
Has a deep sense of inner peace knowing that you are giving your kids a foundation for a lifetime of self-worth, love and belonging.
During the summit you'll learn how to move through high-stakes decisions with urgent timelines without losing yourself or abandoning your values.
Join us to learn from [##] queer family-building experts about making decisions you will be proud of for a lifetime.
Look for the icons to see if a talk is about if, how, or preparing to become a parent. But don't feel limited to only “your” stage — many attendees will find it valuable to listen to many different sessions.
Deciding
Trying
Expecting
Day 1
How to Make One of the Biggest Decisions of Your Life
Presented By Summit Host: Kay Bea
You’re asking a question most people rush past: Do I even want this?
You’ve made the spreadsheets. Written the pros and cons. Tried to pull apart desire from fear, your truth from everyone else’s expectations. You wonder: Do I really want to be a parent? Will I lose myself? Will I parent like my own parents? And these questions live alongside the hope, joy and excitement for bedtime snuggles and belly laughs together. But you also feel the clock ticking — a milestone birthday, your partner’s timeline, your own body.
Whether you’re caught between competing timelines, holding both longing and resistance, or feeling the pressure to decide before you’re ready —by the end of this talk, you’ll walk away able to:
separate fear of regret from genuine readiness
return to your values when urgency, fear, and pressure collide
recognize the internal conditions that make it possible to arrive at a decision you can stand behind for a lifetime.
DECIDING
Presented By: Speaker Name
Is Our Relationship Ready for Parenting?
TRYING
Presented By: Speaker Name
Paths to Parenthood
TRYING
Presented By: Speaker Name
Fertility Options for Queer People
EXPECTING
Presented By: Speaker Name
Queer Birth Planning that Centers You
EXPECTING
Presented By: Speaker Name
Navigating Pregnancy as a Trans, Non-Binary, or Gender Expansive Individual
Personal Stories:
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Day 2
Urgent Timelines, Big Decisions: How to Choose The Path to Parenthood that is Right for Your Family
Presented By Summit Host: Kay Bea
Every path asks something of you — and carries an immense amount of pressure to do it right.
Donor conception. Surrogacy. Adoption. Fostering. Each one brings questions no one prepared you for:
Will they resent me for the choices I made before they were born? What if I choose wrong? What if I lose the family I want in the process? You’re navigating logistics and cost, yes — but also grief, legacy, and questions about DNA you may never have had to consider before. All while holding hope, excitement, and the desire to do right by your family long term.
Whether you’re bouncing between timelines that all feel non-negotiable, getting pulled in different directions by money, bodies, and logistics, or feeling like every decision is all or nothing -
by the end of this talk, you’ll walk away able to:
separate real constraints from emotional and value pressure before choosing — without losing momentum
return to your values when urgency, fear, and pressure collide
recognize the internal conditions that make it possible to arrive at a decision you can stand behind for a lifetime
DECIDING
Presented By: Speaker Name
Growing Up with Queer Parents
DECIDING
Presented By: Speaker Name
Is It “If”? Or Is It “When”?
TRYING
Presented By: Speaker Name
Donors, DNA, and Adoption Decisions for Queer Families
TRYING
Presented By: Speaker Name
Adoption & Fostering: Navigating the System Without Losing Sight of Your Values
EXPECTING
Presented By: Speaker Name
Feeding, Lactation & Autonomy: Centering Your Body, Your Baby, and Your Bond
EXPECTING
Presented By: Speaker Name
Newborn Care 101
Hot Seat Coaching
Watch the Alignment Practice Framework™ in Real Time
In this live hot seat, you’ll get to experience the full core process of Conscious Queer Parenting’s coaching community Alignment Practice Lab. A few participants will be coached through the full alignment practice framework, applying it to real decisions queer families are navigating right now — donor choices, adoption routes, timing questions, family boundaries, identity dilemmas. You’ll see how someone moves from pressure and competing pulls into a clearer sense of what actually matters and what to do next. Even if you’re not in the seat, you’ll recognize pieces of your own story in the process and leave with a clearer sense of what it takes to navigate your own complexity with integrity.
Day 3
Expecting - Your Vision & Preparations
Presented By Summit Host: Kay Bea
You’ve said yes. You’re pregnant. Matched. Preparing.
Or maybe already holding them in your arms. But even here — where joy should feel unshakable — the questions keep coming: What will our partnership look like when they arrive? Will the world see me as their real parent? How do I protect our joy in spaces that still don’t fully make room for us? And for some: How do I let myself love fully when permanence isn’t promised? You’re preparing bottles, packing hospital bags, coordinating leave. And also fielding microaggressions in the exam room. Grieving your own parent who won’t call themselves "grandparent." And still, there is so much joy. You imagine the first time they reach for you. The quiet of their breathing on your chest. The moment they know — this is home. This talk holds space for the accumulation: of invisible labor, unexpected grief, and radical love. So you can step into parenthood not just informed — but claimed.
Whether you’re negotiating leave and roles with your partner, deciding how much access family gets before a child even arrives, rehearsing how to correct the nurse or social worker without losing the moment —
by the end of this talk, you’ll walk away able to:
a way to hold urgency without letting it short-circuit your values or rush you past what matters
use the five decision domains to quickly sort which decisions deserve depth and which don’t — before exhaustion, guilt, or outside voices take over
build the internal conditions to enter parenthood with readiness — not constant second-guessing
DECIDING
Presented By: Speaker Name
The Dream vs. The Day-to-Day
TRYING
Presented By: Speaker Name
Choosing a Surrogate or & Gestational Carrier with Care
TRYING
Presented By: Speaker Name
Protecting Your Family Legally
EXPECTING
Presented By: Speaker Name
Postpartum Recovery for the Birthing Parent
EXPECTING
Presented By: Speaker Name
Welcoming Older Kids into Your Family
Day 4: Putting it All Together
A Day of Live Sessions to Help You Find Your Intentional Path Forward
Because this season asks a lot of you, we designed this day of LIVE sessions to help you take what you’re learning at the summit, make intentional decisions, and move forward with clarity. By the end of the day you’ll know exactly what the next six months will require of you to move through the big decisions and transitions ahead in a way that reflects your values and leaves you at peace with the choices you make.
Turn Urgency Into Momentum
A live visualization session for clear, values-aligned next steps
Presented By Summit Host: Kay Bea
When timing pressures build—your body, your partner, the system, or a baby already on the way—it’s easy to reach for the quickest decision just to quiet the noise. But fast decisions can lock you into paths that don’t reflect what you truly need or value long term.
In this live, guided visualization, you’ll walk away relieved and resourced—with more capacity to stay with the question long enough to land on an answer you can stand behind for a lifetime.
Never done a visualization before? It’s fully guided — you just show up, listen, and let me lead you. The visualization is less than 10 minutes, but set aside the full 30 for the full session.
Vision & Values Live Workshop
Reconnect to What You Want and Map Your Next Aligned Move
Presented By Summit Host: Kay Bea
As you gather new ideas to explore, you might walk away feeling hopeful and informed, but also even more acutely aware of the kind of impact your decisions will make for a lifetime.
This interactive workshop helps you anchor back into what matters most: your vision and your values. You’ll write, reflect, and move through structured exercises designed to help you decide what deserves your attention right now. You’ll walk away with a focused next step that honors both the complexity of the decisions ahead and your commitment to choosing in ways you can stand behind—with integrity, alignment, and care for the child at the center of your future.
The 5 Shifts for Returning to What Matters When Care Meets Complexity
A live webinar for queer people navigating big decisions and tender seasons
Presented By Summit Host: Kay Bea
Becoming a queer parent means moving through highly complex decisions that touch the practical, the emotional, the logistical, and the spiritual. It’s a season where the stakes are high, and the pressure to “get it right” can feel relentless. And in that pressure, if you aren’t able to consistently and reliably center your values, the choices you make today will become the anchor point everything else rearranges itself around, even if it wasn’t aligned with what matters most. In order to consistently center your values, you must be able to engage skillfully with complexity. This webinar gives you a clear, practical framework for navigating that complexity —even when (especially when) the path feels uncertain or demanding so that your values aren’t fragile at the exact moments they’re needed most.
The 5 shifts to stay connected to what matters when the pressure rises
Learn how to separate real constraints from inherited assumptions so your choices open up.
Learn what it takes to return to your values when real life pulls you in ten directions — so your choices reflect the person and parent you want to be.
Understand the foundational skill that keeps your choices aligned with your values over time — the same skill that shapes how you’ll navigate hard moments, big decisions, and everyday parenting long after this season.
WHEN AND WHERE
Becoming a Queer Parent will run from [DATE RANGE], with a variety of presentations to choose from each day. This event is entirely virtual, so you’ll be able to attend from anywhere in the world with internet access.
EXPERT SESSIONS
Attend presentations from our lineup of [##] speakers with trainings on [EXAMPLE OF 2-3 CATEGORIES OF TOPICS COVERED]. Your free ticket includes 24 hour access to each presentation during the week of the summit.
Private Summit Community
Join our private community (off social media) - a space to practice applying what you learn, reflect on your own decisions, and connect with others who are thinking critically about the same questions AND get direct interaction with the speakers. Come for the talks, stay for the breakthroughs, reflections, and relationships.
Upgrade for a VIP Experience!
After registering, you’ll have the chance to upgrade to the All Access Pass which includes ongoing access to the presentations after the summit wraps up, premium bonuses from our speakers, and more! You’ll get all the details (and a special offer) after grabbing your free ticket!
INTEGRATION DAY
Because this season asks a lot of you, we designed this day of LIVE sessions to help you take what you’re learning at the summit, make intentional decisions, and move forward with clarity. By the end of the day you’ll know exactly what the next six months will require of you to move through the big decisions and transitions ahead in a way that reflects your values and leaves you at peace with the choices you make.
PLUS: Limited Opportunity to Shape a One-of-a-Kind Queer Parenting Coaching Community & a Chance to be Selected for 90 Days Free
The Summit will stir up energy — questions, ideas, inspiration. By the end, you may find yourself craving the structure and community to maintain momentum and turn those insights into decisions you’ll feel proud of for a lifetime.
That’s exactly what The Lab was built for. This is a rare opportunity to join a small group of founding members who will shape the culture and heartbeat of this community from the very beginning.
Eligibility (and the chance to be selected for 90 days free) will be based on two things: your application fit and how you engaged with the Summit — in both depth and frequency.
This event is about more than logistics
Throughout history, queer parents and advocates have been carving out spaces of support, visibility, and change — often against enormous odds. This summit builds on that legacy with gratitude, offering a reflective container to slow down, honor their hard work, and make values-aligned decisions inside the very systems we’re all still working to evolve.
This is about alignment. We’re not here to tell you the “right” way to become a parent. We’re here to help you uncover what’s right for you.
It centers queer-specific questions, fears, and family structures. You won’t have to translate. You’ll be seen, spoken to, and supported in ways you’ve always deserved.
This is not the kind of space that tells you “don’t overthink it.” It’s built for deep thinkers, vision builders, and values-driven decision makers.
This space refuses the false binary that says you must choose between centering your child or honoring yourself. It’s built for the third space — where both your needs and your child’s future are held with care. Where choices like donor conception, adoption, or surrogacy are approached with integrity, not avoidance. Where complexity is named, not bypassed — because doing right by your child begins with being honest about what these decisions truly ask of you.
Partners:
You'll Walk Away With...
Peace of mind that your choices are grounded in your values, not someone else’s expectations.
A deeper understanding of what each path to parenthood really asks of you — emotionally, ethically, and practically. So that you can decide in integrity
A clearer vision of how you want to begin — and what you want your child to inherit.
This is a space to slow down long enough to hear yourself — your values, your instincts, your questions — and build the capacity to move forward with intention.
About The Host
Kay(she/her) is the Founder of Conscious Queer Parenting and the queer community: Alignment Practice Lab, a space where queer parents can navigate their most complex, deeply personal parenting decisions with clarity and confidence.
A master-certified Jungian life coach and queer parent, Kay has spent two decades immersed in personal development and over a decade coaching clients through major life shifts and redefining success on their own terms. Now, she brings that expertise to queer parents.
As a queer parent herself, she is particularly passionate about working with and building community with queer parents because they’ve already done the radical work of creating family beyond rigid norms.
Kay practices what she teaches, using these same frameworks in her own life and evolving alongside her clients—ensuring that intentional living isn’t a finish line, but a practice that deepens every day.
You are blazing a new trail
Not only are you unpacking what you want to keep and leave behind from your own childhood, but you’re also navigating new layers of complexity as a queer family.
You want to create magical childhoods and empowered adulthoods—without passing down the shame, silence, or fears you may have grown up with.
And while the stakes are high and you want to get this right, you don’t want to feel like every decision, every day is a test you’ll only know the results of ~25 years from now.
You want to enjoy the everyday—morning cuddles, belly laughs, bedtime stories—while knowing deep down that you’re giving them the foundation they need to thrive.
It’s about raising them with care—not just love, but the confidence, security, and belonging that ensures they carry that love forward into the world.
That’s why I created Conscious Queer Parenting & the Becoming a Queer Parent Virtual summit.
So you’re not just hoping for the childhood and adulthood you want for them… you’re actively creating it.
Do I have to attend live?
For Days 1-3, not at a specific time — but yes, on that day. Each talk is pre-recorded and available for 24 hours only (10am–10am CST). You’ll get a daily email with links to that day’s lineup. If you want more flexibility (or to revisit them later), you’ll have the option to upgrade for extended (and early) access. Information here. There are a few exceptions: there is a live hot seat coaching available on Day 2 and Day 4 is our live integration day. I highly recommend you block off time to attend them live (details on times will be updated in the registration page), but if you are unable to attend live, replays will be offered for a limited time.
What’s the format of the summit?
Each speaker shares a short, pre-recorded talk (15–25 minutes). You’ll get a daily email with links to that day’s talks, and you can watch on your own time — anytime in the 24-hour window (10am–10am CST). There are a few live events. No complicated tech, just click the link, and click play on the video. That's it! There’s also a private online community (off social media) where you can meet other attendees, connect with speakers, and process what’s coming up — so you don’t have to do it alone. You will get a link to join that community as well when you register. If you have any tech qs, just hit reply and we will help get you squared away!
Is this just for queer people?
The summit is lovingly, intentionally centered on queer people and families — and designed to speak to the emotional, ethical, and structural questions many of us face on this journey. But allies are welcome to join, and anyone living intentionally & outside the heteronormative relationship model or rigid gender roles will benefit.
What are the accessibility options?
We want this summit to feel welcoming and accessible, even within the realities of a small, early-stage event. Every session includes live captions and 24-hour replays so you can engage in the way that works best for you.
If you need another format to participate more fully, please reach out at [email protected]. We’re happy to check whether the format you need is something our current setup can accommodate.
That said, we know this isn’t the full picture of accessibility, and we’re building toward something more expansive as our community and resources grow. If you’ve seen accessibility tools or approaches that felt especially supportive, we would welcome learning about them. We will maintain a resource list to revisit as our community grows and our resources expand, so that we can broaden our accessibility offerings to meet a wider range of needs more fully going forward.
Is the summit really free?
Every session is free to watch during the live event window. If you’d like to revisit them later or access extra resources, you can choose to purchase the optional All Access Pass.
You’ve already done the hard work of breaking free from societal expectations, choosing authenticity over conformity, and learning to live in alignment with your values. These are the very gifts you now have to offer your child—a family culture rooted in self-expression, courage, and love.
Queer parenting offers the chance to build a legacy.
By breaking generational patterns and living in alignment with your values, you create ripples that extend far beyond your home. You empower your children—and everyone they touch—to live authentically, courageously, and joyfully.
That’s exactly why this summit exists—to help you carry that intention into the big choices that will define your family’s story for a lifetime.
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