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Wellbeing Experience

November 8, 2026 – November 10, 2026

Escape to our peaceful barrier island, for an immersive experience to align body, mind and spirit. Collaborating with BB&R Wellness to bring a holistic event to our guests, we are thrilled to announce The Gasparilla Inn Foundations of Wellbeing Experience, November 8th – 10th, 2026.

Starting at $1,035 per room, per night, based upon double occupancy. Additional event fee of $1,250 per person. This package includes room, all event activities and meals. Daily taxes and service charge are additional. Single occupancy rate starting at $775 per room, per night, plus daily taxes and service charge. Available November 8th & 9th, 2026. Two-night minimum stay required.

To reserve your place, please call (877) 684-1064.

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Wellbeing Experience Activities

Arrive on Sunday, November 8th for a relaxing welcome reception and dinner at The Beach Club. Meet our esteemed guest experts, as well as your hosts for this experience, Doro Bush Koch and Tricia Reilly Koch. Feel the Gulf breeze and enjoy a delicious and nourishing meal to set the tone for the enlightening days ahead.

Monday, November 9th will bring our group together for morning mindfulness followed by a breakfast to awaken your senses, as we prepare to learn and grow together in a space of prioritizing physical, mental, and emotional health.

After a waterfront luncheon, we will continue our journey with afternoon breakout session and activities featuring some of the brightest minds in health and wellbeing. Our group will reconvene for a cocktail reception, emphasizing healthy ingredients, followed by a farm to table dinner under the stars on The Croquet Lawn.

Tuesday, November 10th we will take what we have gained in our experience so far and embark on the final day of enhancing our overall well-being and building a strong foundation to continue these practices in our everyday life. Our inner exploration and sharing of knowledge will continue with guest experts, moments of levity, and the encouragement to continue to improve through embracing a life a wellbeing.

Wellbeing Speakers

Lauren Hackney Behringer

Celebrity Medical Aesthetician | Certified Holistic Health Coach | Founder + CEO, Behrhaus

Lauren Hackney Behringer is a renowned Celebrity Medical Aesthetician and Certified Holistic Health Coach with over 15 years of experience transforming the skin and health of clients in NYC.

Lauren is the Founder of Behrhaus, a hormone-safe, mineral-rich skincare brand, Brand Consultant and Mother of 2. Her expertise and unique approach to wellness have earned her features in top publications such as Elle, Vanity Fair, Well + Good, WWD, Refinery 29, Into The Gloss, InStyle and Oprah Daily. Lauren’s deep understanding of the skin-body connection sets her apart, allowing her to provide holistic treatments that create lasting results.

www.behrhaus.com | Instagram | LinkedIn 

Mikel Blair

Co-Founder, Modern Revival

Mikel Blair is the co-founder of Modern Revival, a social wellness movement that blends curated experiences with tools for self-discovery. With over a decade of experience in conscience leadership and community development, Mikel specializes in helping people create lives rooted in clarity, connection, and purpose.

She is also the founder of Badlands, an award-winning interactive learning space for children, and serves as an advisor and advocate for organizations focused on education, mental health, and youth empowerment. Her work bridges psychology, neuroscience, and experiential learning, with a focus on making growth accessible, playful, and sustainable.

Mikel’s mission is clear: to help people make space for what matters most—because when we do, we not only heal stress, we unlock the joy, clarity, and connection we were designed for.

www.modernrevival.com | Instagram | LinkedIn

Dr. Matt Dawson, MD

Chief Executive Officer, TruDiagnostic™ | Co-Founder, Wild Health

Dr. Matt Dawson is the CEO and Co Founder of Wild Health, a genomics based precision medicine company. He is also CEO of TruDiagnostic, a deep science epigenetics company focused on human longevity testing. Dr. Dawson has published dozens of research articles, authored two textbooks, and written over 100 book chapters. He has won national awards in education and innovation and given talks in over 20 countries. He has a passion for not only human performance and longevity, but also bringing cutting edge research and science to market so that individuals can actually benefit from them. As such, he has founded 6 companies in the last decade, all of which are still in operation. Three of these have been acquired. His passion for human performance started in high school when he paired it with suboptimal natural athletic abilities to earn college scholarship offers in two different sports. His passion for longevity comes from a desire to be around as long as possible for his 4 children, wife, and future great grandchildren. He lives with his family and two dogs in the woods of Kentucky.

Jim Dethmer

Co-Founder + Coach, Conscious Leadership Group

Jim Dethmer is a coach, speaker, author, and founding partner at The Conscious Leadership Group. He has personally worked with over 150 CEOs and their teams to integrate conscious leadership into their organizations.

Jim also leads monthly Forums for select leaders in Chicago and New York, and trains coaches through The Conscious Leadership Group. He has spoken at Conscious Capitalism, Wisdom 2.0, Mindful Leadership Summit, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, and USC School of Medicine Greenville (where conscious leadership is part of the curriculum).

He is co-author of High Performing Investment Teams, and The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, an Amazon bestseller (2015).

Jim lives in Chicago with his wife Debbie, and in Michigan, their soul’s home, when they’re recharging during the summer months.

www.conscious.is
LinkedIn | Instagram

Kristin Hoffmann

Vocalist, Composer, Producer and Founder of Sage Productions, LLC

Kristin Hoffmann is a singer, songwriter, composer and producer who creates heart-opening music that bridges artistic expression, environmental awareness and evolutionary consciousness. A classically trained vocalist who studied at Juilliard Pre-College and later signed recording contracts with both Capitol Records and Interscope Records, she has built a career that extends beyond the traditional music industry into multimedia performance, original commissions, and music-driven social impact for organizations, global initiatives, and live performances.

Hoffmann is the vocalist for the internationally acclaimed show BELLA GAIA, a member of the respected group, Evolutionary Leaders, and a regular producer for UPLIFT.love. She has been honored with the UNITY EARTH Champion “Keeper of the Flame” Award and the Visioneers Lifetime Achievement Award in Music and Peace and has performed internationally at locations such as the Sydney Opera House, TEDx San Francisco, at the signing of The Fuji Declaration and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London.

www.kristinhoffmann.com | Facebook | Instagram | Youtube | Bandcamp

Dr. Tracy Freeman, MD

Integrative Medical Physician | BB&R Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Tracy Freeman is an integrative medical physician whose focus is achieving wellness through a combination of holistic and conventional medicine methodologies. Dr. Freeman, whose medical career spans approximately two decades, has progressively reoriented her practice to include natural treatments and a search for the root cause of disease. As the daughter of a physician and an artist, she learned early on to value a patient’s overall well-being and not to ignore alternative paths to wellness, prevention, and healing. This philosophy was reinforced when her son was born with autism and Dr. Freeman helped him through by employing a holistic approach to his treatment. Upon graduation from Howard University College of Medicine, she received a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at The University of Florida Shands Jacksonville Health Center.

www.tracyfreemanmd.com
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Paul A. Pagnato

CEO & Founder Attilio

Paul A. Pagnato CEO & Founder Attilio, Stanford Center on Longevity Advisory Member, Buck Institute on Aging President’s Circle, served as the Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Humanaut Health, the Co-Chairman & Board member of Cresset and CEO & Founder of PagnatoKarp, a top multi-family office with over +$250 Billion assets under management/advisement.

Paul also served on, Boards of INOVA Hospital Group, Openwater, Bulletproof, CFA Society, FAU Foundation, and Institute for Fiduciary Society. Paul is a Barron’s and Forbes top advisor with more than 30 years of industry leadership, ranked #1 in Virginia on Forbes Top Wealth Advisors and #2 in Virginia on Barron’s Top 1,200 Financial Advisors lists.¹ Paul has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Forbes, CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg, Reuters, and CNN, and is an international speaker through Singularity University. Featured as a Subject Matter Expert in the longevity documentary Forever Young (2026), Paul contributes to the global conversation on longevity, healthspan, and exponential health technologies.

Paul began his career as a microbiologist working collaboratively with NASA and McDonnell Douglas to search for life in outer space. When he joined the financial industry, he spent 19 years with Merrill Lynch where he founded the Washington, D.C. Private Banking & Investment Office before founding PagnatoKarp, a family office created squarely on the principles of transparency.

www.attilio.com | Linked In

Dr. Eva Selhub, MD

Founder and President, Resilience Experts, LLC | Chief of Medical Affairs, ForHumanity

Dr. Eva Selhub is a physician, healthcare innovator, resilience expert, executive advisor, and bestselling author. As Chief Medical Affairs Officer at ForHumanity, she helps shape innovative approaches to healthcare that integrate scientific rigor, novel medication delivery technologies, and whole-person wellbeing. For nearly three decades, she has worked at the intersection of medicine, neuroscience, resilience, leadership, and human flourishing, helping individuals, organizations, and audiences navigate change, perform at their best, and thrive.

A former Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and former Medical Director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Selhub has spent her career exploring how stress, physiology, mindset, relationships, and environment influence health and human potential. Her work bridges conventional medicine, mind-body science, leadership development, and the growing understanding that lasting wellbeing emerges when biological, psychological, social, and environmental factors are addressed together.
Dr. Selhub is the author of six books, including Burnout for Dummies, Resilience for Dummies, The Love Response, Your Health Destiny, and The Stress Management Handbook, and co-author of Your Brain on Nature. Her work has helped advance conversations around resilience, emotional intelligence, stress physiology, the healing effects of nature, and the role of human connection in health and performance.

Through her online programs, executive coaching, consulting, and speaking engagements, she translates complex scientific concepts into practical strategies that people can apply immediately in their lives and work.

Today, her work spans healthcare innovation, executive leadership, organizational wellbeing, and personal transformation. She advises leaders and organizations on building resilience, fostering healthy cultures, navigating uncertainty, and enhancing performance without sacrificing wellbeing. She also serves on multiple advisory boards and is Governance Chair of the Board of Directors for MariMed.

Known for her ability to integrate science, wisdom, and practical action, Dr. Selhub brings a unique perspective that helps people understand not only how to overcome adversity, but how to grow because of it. Whether speaking to thousands, advising executives, developing healthcare solutions, or coaching individuals one-on-one, she helps people cultivate the resilience, clarity, and capacity needed to flourish in an increasingly complex world.

Dr. Selhub has been featured in major media outlets including The New York Times and has authored numerous scientific publications. Her work continues to influence the fields of resilience, mind-body medicine, leadership, and healthcare innovation worldwide.

www.drselhub.com | www.forhumanity.co
LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Substack

David Starbuck Smith

Author, Exercise Therapist, Executive Coach

David Starbuck Smith is a Washington, DC-based exercise therapist, author, and speaker with over 25 years of experience helping individuals overcome chronic musculoskeletal pain and enhance athletic performance. A former collegiate and professional tennis player, he earned a degree in Human Biodynamics from UC Berkeley and trained under Pete Egoscue before establishing his own Egoscue Method clinic in San Francisco. David is renowned for his expertise in identifying postural and mechanical imbalances and creating personalized routines to restore balance and function. He has consulted for athletes across the NFL, NCAA, ATP, and WTA. As the founder of Select Healing, he offers online programs that integrate physical alignment with emotional well-being. His books, including Ageless, Painless Tennis and Align, Feel, Heal, explore the connection between emotional and physical health, guiding readers toward self-healing and lasting wellness.​

www.davidstarbucksmith.com
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