Who created BOND Conference?

The Bond Conference is the brainchild of Joanna McNeilly, the founder of Center for Baby Wearing Studies (CBWS) and her team of babywearing advocates and post-partum educators, Bianca Fehn, Angelique Mai, Emily Tetzlaff, and Katie Campos.

Our shared passions have compelled us to create a new kind of conference- to host an on-going conversation that explores what we see as the foundation of infant, child, family and community health: the mechanism of human bonding- how it works, why it’s important, and how to develop, encourage and support it in our growing families and communities.

How is Bond different?    

The BOND Conference is for anyone who works with infants and their families, and for anyone interested in promoting healthy family bonding. Those who first come in contact with infants and their families are the “First Responders” in a family’s life. Decisions made during that time can have lifelong consequences, and well informed “First Responders” are a vital resource for information and support for families in the window of time that most strongly affects human bonding and family health. We created this conference for YOU: