Redefining Professional Growth in Nursing
Championing Change in Nursing Education
Keynotes, Workshops, and Panels with Continuing Education Contact Hours from Debriefing the Front Lines
In today’s healthcare landscape, nurses are asked to carry more responsibility, more emotion, and more resilience, often without spaces designed to support their own healing and professional growth. Traditional continuing education can feel disconnected from lived experience, overlooking the emotional and systemic realities of nursing.
Our Continuing Education Speaking Engagements close that gap. Each keynote, workshop, and breakout session transforms learning into reflection, connecting evidence-based frameworks with the emotional intelligence and self-awareness needed to sustain meaningful work in healthcare. Every offering is eligible for Continuing Education Contact Hours through Debriefing the Front Lines creating professional development that honors both competence and care.
Speaking Engagements
WHAT WE OFFER
Debriefing the Front Lines is a long term continuing education provider and has spoke regionally, nationally and internationally to groups as small as 6 and as large as 1,000.
Offerings
All sessions are eligible for Continuing Education Contact Hours from Debriefing the Front Lines and are led by seasoned nurse educators and thought leaders shaping the future of trauma-informed nursing education.
Keynotes
Inspiring, story-driven sessions that open minds and spark collective insight.
Workshops
Interactive, skill-based experiences that bring trauma-informed frameworks and debriefing skills into daily practice.
Breakout Sessions & Debriefing Dens
Focused discussions that explore self-reflection, discovery and collaborative care.
Panels
Whether speaking or facilitating, these collaborative conversations explore the intersection of mental health, clinical practice, and creating cultures that support care.
Our topics explore the intersection of trauma, leadership, and lived experience in nursing, providing evidence-based frameworks that foster reflection, resilience, and professional growth.
Choose from our CE library or customize a session based on your needs to create meaningful, accredited learning experiences for your audience.
Topics
Navigating Cumulative Care Taking Trauma®
Multi-Generational Nursing Workforce
Cultivating Psychologically Safe Spaces
The Ego Death of the Bedside Nurse
Meeting Your Nervous System
Trauma Responsive Leadership
Debriefing in
Daily Work
Dangerous Safe Havens: Deconstructing Institutional Betrayal
Chasing Chaos: The Link Between Childhood Trauma + Nursing
Request a Custom Topic or Speaker
What to Expect When You Book With Us
Meeting Planner
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Submit Your
Request
Share your event details, audience focus, and topic interests through our Speaker Inquiry Form.
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Schedule a Consultation
Once we receive your form, our team will connect to schedule a meeting to learn more about your needs and our offerings.
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Confirm Your Engagement
After the consultation, you’ll receive a proposal outlining the session details, CE hours, speaker logistics, and fees.
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Prepare with
Our Team
Our facilitators collaborate with your event coordinators to ensure alignment with your audience and learning objectives.
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Experience the
Event
Our speakers deliver engaging, evidence-based presentations that inspire reflection and professional growth.
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Post-Event
Follow-Up
We manage CE documentation, participant feedback, and optional post-session debriefs for organizers.
7. Continue the Connection
Stay connected for ongoing collaborations, new CE offerings, and retreat invitations.
Together, we continue championing change in nursing education.
Nursing education is evolving to meet the growing need for learning environments that are reflective, psychologically safe, and grounded in real clinical experience. Debriefing the Front Lines bridges this gap by combining research-based methodology and holistic healing modalities with lived nursing insight to create continuing education that is both credible and compassionate.
Why Partner with us
OUR IMPACT
Elevate Your Offerings
Add value and credibility to your events through accredited Continuing Education Contact Hours.
Champion debriefing forward by aligning with recognizes leaders in this work.
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Establish yourself as an advocate and thought partner within the nursing education community.
Create sustainability in your professional journey by integrating trauma-informed reflection into ongoing development.
Our Impact
Our collaborations have helped transform educational programs, foster psychological safety in learning environments, and strengthen communities of care across diverse healthcare systems.
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Debriefing Sessions
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Trained facilitators across 11 states and growing
Nurses served post-disaster through Rekindled Frontlines Outreach
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Scholarship Debriefing Sessions
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Healthcare System Debriefing Partnerships
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Nurses provided sobriety support through daily sober check in’s and monthly peer support groups
What Participants Are Saying
Reflections That Shape Our Work
Each event offers us a chance to listen, learn, and evolve. The reflections shared by our participants highlight the moments that resonated most. The insights, connections, and perspectives that continue to shape how we teach, support, and champion growth in nursing education.
What resonated most with you?
What did you find most helpful?
“The panel talk, stories and descriptions by the presenters.”
“The impact! And what to do to help our students be better equipped for traumatic experiences”
“Creating TIC policy”
“…This conference makes me want to do better for our future nurses!”
“Cope ahead plan and restorative justice”
Additional thoughts?
“Very powerful voice”
“Thank you for doing this and I hope more organizations start taking advantage of what you can offer”
“I feel as though I will bring back some great ideas to my university! Thank you for an awesome day! I would love to attend something like this again."
“Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise with us- this was wonderful!!!”
(📚Memorial Healthcare // Uncovering the Power of Debriefing in Daily Work: The Leadership Edge (Responses))
Meet the Speakers
Tara Ryan Kosmas
she /her
MSN, RN, NC-BC, CHSE, SOAR
Founding Executive Director, Debriefing the Front Lines
Life as a burn survivor shaped Tara’s experience and led her to the nursing profession. Tara’s experience spans 21 years and includes burns, academia, peer support and debriefing.
In 2020, sixteen days after a global pandemic was declared, Tara began Debriefing the Front Lines. She has since built a team of board certified nurse coaches and together they offer debriefing, sobriety support and education to individuals and healthcare systems.
When not championing change, find Tara soaking in the sun, swimming in the gulf, chasing her animals and tending to her kosmic garden alongside her husband.
Maggie Runyon
MSN, RNC-OB, CYT-500
Founding Executive Director, Your BIRTH Partners
Maggie Runyon (she/her) is a nurse, educator, writer, and speaker.
She began her nursing career in 2009 and has since practiced in hospitals and communities around the country, primarily in labor and birth environments. Maggie is currently pursuing her PhD in Nursing and loves educating, mentoring, and learning alongside other nurses. She recently published her first book, I Thought I Was Here to Help: Unveiling the Healthcare System, Unleashing the Nurse Advocate, which chronicles her early career journey and the lessons she has learned through it.
Her advocacy focuses on improving perinatal care in hospital environments through trauma-informed care, community collaboration, and reflection on nurse identity. When she's not dreaming up good trouble with other changemakers, she's doing yoga, reading a book, traveling, indulging in delicious food, soaking in fresh air outside, or hanging with her awesome partner and kids.
Book Debriefing the Front Lines
Thank you for your interest in partnering with Debriefing the Front Lines. We are grateful for every opportunity to collaborate with organizations, educators, and event hosts who are championing meaningful, evidence-based learning in healthcare.
Please complete the form below to help us understand your event goals, audience, and Continuing Education needs. Our team will follow up to schedule a consultation, discuss budget, AV needs and begin planning your session.
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