Makin Institute for NeuroChange

What if the people we’re trying to help aren’t resistant, unmotivated, or spiritually immature? Rather, we are just using change strategies that don’t go deep enough into how the brain actually changes!

Most of us were trained to help people through truth & right thinking, insight, encouragement & positivity to downplay painful experiences, incorporate more effective behaviors, biblical instruction and practices, accountability, and coping skills for emotional management. Those can help—but they often don’t reach the deeper emotional and relational patterns that keep people stuck under stress.

That is why I’m excited to invite you to the NeuroRelational Summit 2026: Rewired by Grace, happening September 18–20 in LaFontaine/Wabash, Indiana. This Summit is for counselors, executive coaches, leaders, pastors, social workers, helping professionals, and anyone who wants to understand how people actually grow and heal.

You’ll learn cutting-edge neuroscience-informed principles like memory reconsolidation, corrective relational experiences, dyadic affect regulation, right-brain-to-right-brain attunement, evocative memories, neural narrative anchoring, response specificity, and the power of the “real” relationship.

And this will not feel like another sit-and-take-notes conference. Expect a relational, grace-filled, down-to-earth atmosphere with meaningful conversations, laughter, practical workshops, immersive skill labs, optional process groups, and experiences designed to help truth become lived—not just learned.

If you help clients, coach leaders, shepherd people, lead teams, or simply want deeper personal growth, I really encourage you to consider coming.

NeuroRelational Summit 2026: Rewired by Grace.
September 18–20, 2026 • LaFontaine/Wabash, Indiana

Click here to learn more and register. But email me if you want to go, I have a coupon that will give you 33% off the regular cost.

“Listen with the same passion with which you want to be heard.” — Harriet Lerner

Every person longs to be known, heard, and understood. We want someone to slow down, care about our story, and listen beneath the surface.

And so does the person in front of us.

Real friendship offers others the same gift we desire: presence, curiosity, patience, and care. Healing begins when our listening says, “You matter. Your story matters. I want to know you.”

Gil Dukeman, workshop presenter at the NeuroRelational Summit 2026, will speak on Perfectly Flawed Leadership: Why Vulnerability Makes Leaders Stronger.
https://youtube.com/shorts/dJd4GvhN-Fw?feature=share

He is a Former Lead Pastor, Marriage & Family Counselor for True Relationships, a Global Ambassador for North America & the Caribbean for EQUIP (Canada), and the founder & CEO of Exponential Leadership Solutions.

NeuroRelational Summit 2026 Workshop presenter, Gil Dukeman, talking about our upcoming Conference. Gil Dukeman, workshop presenter at the NeuroRelational Summit 2026, will speak on Perfectly Flawed Leadership: Why Vulnerability Makes Leaders Stronger.He is...

Join us Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 7:00–8:15 p.m. EST to discover how The Brain Remembers Grace: How Memories Restore Calm and Strength

In this workshop, you will discover how emotionally rich memories of nurturing relationships, meaningful successes, and even sensory experiences like music, places, and objects can help restore calm, strengthen your core self, and bring stability when you feel overwhelmed or alone.

It is a practical, experiential workshop where you’ll learn the concept, experience it yourself, and leave with a tool you can begin using with clients, leaders, ministry members, or yourself.

$15 basic registration | $25 with NBCC CEs
https://community.makininstitute.com/events/77927F

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Why do so many people gain insight, feel motivated, and still fall back into the same old patterns when stress hits?

Because information, effort, and behavior change by themselves often do not reach the deeper emotional and relational patterns underneath.

That is one of the big reasons we are hosting NeuroRelational Summit 2026: Rewired by Grace.

This Summit is for people who are tired of surface-level change strategies that sound good but do not hold up in real life. We want to help people see how God actually designed growth and healing to happen—through truth, grace, and relationships that reach the roots.

Join us September 18–20, 2026.

NeuroChange Summit | Makin Institute for NeuroChange Rewired by Grace NEUROSCIENCE-INFORMED. RELATIONALLY GROUNDED. SPIRITUALLY ROOTED. Discover how God uses safe relationships to heal what information alone cannot. September 18–20, 2026 • LaF

You were never meant to heal alone.

Sometimes the most powerful moments of change happen in the context of safe, grace-filled relationships. That is why we are creating an experience that is relational, immersive, and deeply renewing, not just informative, but transformative.

If you are longing for hope, healing, meaningful connection, and friendships that refresh your soul, we would love to welcome you.