Kiara Armstrong was invited as a featured speaker at the 2026 Holistic Wellbeing Summit, a free 7-day virtual event bringing together 60+ global wellness leaders, researchers, and teachers from June 8-14, 2026.

Presenting on June 10th alongside luminaries including Dr. Dawson Church, Kiara's talk — "The Most Underutilized Wellness Tool: Reclaiming Touch as a Tool for Mental Health" — explores the neuroscience and research behind context-driven touch as a bottom-up tool for healing stress, anxiety, depression, and pain. Drawing on a landmark 2024 meta-analysis demonstrating moderate to large effects on clinical and general populations, Kiara makes the case that our cultural touch binary — clinical or intimate — is leaving a profound healing resource largely inaccessible, and introduces Rubber Band Method® as a solution for wellness and movement professionals.

The Holistic Wellbeing Summit is free to attend and available on-demand. Register here.