HEARTBEAT GUIDELINES: All exhibitors must abide by the Heartbeat Principles. Heartbeat International reserves the right to accept or deny, at its sole discretion, sponsors and exhibit space to organizations that it deems inconsistent with or contrary to Heartbeat’s Principles.
- Exhibitors propose and offer, through education and creative services, positive choices for women challenged by pregnancy.
- Exhibitors shall not discriminate in their services on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, age, or marital status.
- Exhibitors' services are personal, confidential, and non-judgmental.
- Exhibitors shall not advise, provide, or refer for abortion, abortifacients, or contraceptives.
- Exhibitors encourage chastity as a positive lifestyle choice.
SECURITY & LIABILITY:Exhibitor and Heartbeat International agree to defend, indemnify and hold each other, their affiliates, officers, directors, managers and employees harmless from and against all claims for loss or damage, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses incurred as a result of any claims related to or arising out of either Party’s performance of its duties under this Agreement, unless such loss or damage shall arise from a Party’s own negligence, misconduct or gross negligence. In the foregoing sentence, the words “loss or damage” shall include, but is not limited to, loss or damage arising directly or indirectly from any actions or omissions of any employee or authorized representative of either Party. The exhibitor understands that neither Heartbeat International nor the Hotel maintains insurance covering the exhibitor’s property and it is the sole responsibility of the exhibitor to obtain such insurance. The exhibitor understands that it also has the sole responsibility to pay any applicable taxes, including, but not limited to, sales tax, that may arise out of the exhibitor’s use of the exhibition premises.
CANCELLATION: If written notification of cancellation is received by Feb. 27, 2026, all exhibitor monies, less a $75 processing fee, will be refunded. No refunds will be given after midnight ET on Feb. 27, 2026. All refund requests must be made in writing to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Should the State of Ohio, the county of Hamilton, or the City of Cincinnati enforce regulations that make an in-person event impossible, all elements of the conference will be transferred to the Virtual Platform. Your sponsorship will be guaranteed on the Virtual Platform at the same level and any monies received beyond the cost of the Virtual Sponsorship at the level you selected will be reimbursed within 30 days of the Conference.
USE OF SPACE: Exhibitor shall not assign, sublet, or share the space allotted without the knowledge and consent of Heartbeat International.
EXHIBIT SETUP AND TEARDOWN: The 2026 conference begins with registration at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 25, and runs through Friday, March 27. Heartbeat International has contracted with the hotel to allow for exhibit set-up beginning at 8:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, March 24. We request that you make every effort to have your exhibit set up by 8:00 a.m. ET on March 25; however, if you cannot come until later, you must make arrangements with Heartbeat International.
Failure to occupy the exhibition space does not release the exhibitor from the obligation to pay the full exhibitor fee. Please contact us at 888-550-7577 if special arrangements for late arrival need to be made.
RECORDING RELEASE: The Heartbeat Conference will be recorded. Your registration constitutes your organization's consent to such recording for the booth representatives and/or any guests.
360 Center Assessment
"Our organization was seen with new eyes and the discoveries were extremely valuable."
This 360º Center Assessment is Heartbeat International’s endeavor to bring a fresh yet seasoned perspective to the efforts of your life-affirming organization. Heartbeat involves several staff members in a penetrating look into the various fundamental, formational, and future-oriented aspects that shape the ministry and its outcomes.
Though this is not an exhaustive review, it is an extensive one that looks in-depth at the core areas:
- Financial
- Services
- Marketing
- Leadership/Organization/Staff
- Fundraising
- Legal
"On a scale of 1-10, the 360 Assessment ranked 10++. The results of this process exceeded way beyond our hopes."
Our team spends many hours, in advance of a two-day on-site visit, reviewing documents, analyzing various points of data, gathering additional information, and preparing specific questions for the on-site evaluation. All of our observations, commendations, and recommendations are compiled into a report presented to the governing leadership (board and ED/CEO).
"The assessment is amazing. You found things that we would have continued to miss."
Perhaps the strongest identifier of a good organization is good leadership. Leaders are learners. Good leaders constantly seek to improve. The 360° Center Assessment is designed with this in mind.
"The Heartbeat representatives had great insights, a world of knowledge and a tender heart in presenting their findings."
The cost for this assessment for Heartbeat affiliates is $1,500 plus the expenses for at least two consultants to come on-site. (For very large multi-site/multi-program organizations, additional consultant(s) may be needed to complete the effort with a two-day visit.) Non-affiliates cost is $1,800, plus expenses.
Academy Courses
Heartbeat Learning Modules
Learning modules provided through Heartbeat International Academy are dynamic, highly interactive presentations that take users through some of our most popular materials. These trainings work in conjunction with Heartbeat materials and can help releive the burden on time and resources that training can pose for a busy center. Each training is available as a general course (where you send your student to HeartbeatServices.org/Academy and allow them to enroll themselves) or as part of your center's Private Course.
Academy Webinars
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Webinar trainings available through Heartbeat International Academy give you the opportunity to engage in dynamic, focused trainings on a wide variety of topics. These trainings vary greatly in topic, length, and cost, giving you the opportunity to participate in trainings that best meet your needs. You can choose to participate in an upcoming live training, or acess our library of recorded trainings available 24/7.
Webinar trainings provide you the opportunity to engage deeply into a given subject. Partcipation in live trainings often allows you to ask the presenter questions during a designated questions and answer period. Typically, you are able to have continuous access to the material coverd during live webinar sessions as the traings are generally recorded for continued access at a later date.
To participate in a live training, all you need is access to a computer and the internet and either speakers or headphones.
Check out our upcoming live trainings below, or visit HeartCart to see a full list of recorded trainings available. Please Note: Unless otherwise noted, times for live events are EST.
Visit HeartCart to see a full list of training available through Heartbeat Academy!
Academy Custom Training Courses
Exclusive to affiliates, Heartbeat International Academy provides the opportunity for you to take our online training materials and bring them to your staff members and volunteers in your own personalized style and format with our custom training course option. In this option, you take control of your staff member's online training by controlling enrollment, tracking progress, offering your center's own customized training, and monitoring their activity.
Priced as an annual plan, this option is ideal for:
- Centers interested in exploring new models for training that combine online and onsite training components.
- Staff and volunteers who are consistently too busy to devote entire days to training or prefer the convenience of accessing training 24/7.
- Centers that may have an annual or semi-annual all-day training, but have volunteers ready to commit throughout the year.
To purchase or inquire about a Private Course, please contact our Academy Team at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or (614)885-7577.
Initial Set-Up Fee: $150.00
| Available Trainings |
| The LOVE Approach Online |
| Answering Tough Calls |
| Raising the Standard |
| Abortion Procedures Information for Pregnancy Help Organizations |
| How to Identify and Assist Victims of Human Trafficking |
| Introduction to Abortion Pill Reversal |
| Custom Trainings |
| Recorded Webinars |
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How to Order: Ordering a custom course is easy! Use the link below to select your trainings and complete payment. Once you've placed your order, complete and return a brief questionnaire so we can set your course up to best meet your needs, and 10 business days after receiving both of these, you're ready to be trained in your Private Course!
Academy Nursing Courses
Continuing Education Contact Hours for Nurses
Heartbeat International Academy is an approved provider through the California Board of Registered Nursing (Provider Number CEP 16061). Please review the objectives and requirements for each course carefully.
These courses offer between one and two hours of continuing education contact hours for nurses. Certificates are available immediately upon completion of the course. Although specific requirments may vary between each course, typically, you will be required to view a presentation, complete a final quiz, and complete a survey in order to receive credit. Please contact Heartbeat's Medical Specialist Christa Brown at (614)885-7577 for more information about contact hours.
All Academy courses are always open to anyone who is interested, regardless of your specific educational goal. Please visit HeartCart to see a list of all course from Heartbeat Academy, including resources for nurses.
Academy LAS
Academy Resources for Life Affirming Specialists
Renewal
As part of the renewal for your Life Affirming Specialist designation, you are required to earn fourteen hours of continuing education credit at an approved training event, such as an onsite training or Heartbeat's Annual Conference. Heartbeat has made it even easier for you to renew your Life Affirming Specialist designation by offering CEU's for most of our courses and webinars.
This means if you are a Life Affirming Specialist, you can earn enough CEU's for renewal online! Once you've completed a course through Heartbeat Academy, you should receive a badge for LAS credit within 10 minutes. If you have questions about a badge not being awarded or need assistance, you can always reach out to us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Certification
To become a Life Affirming Specialist you can now meet the training requirements through Heartbeat International Academy's new course Life Affirming Specialist Certification. This course offers more than fourteen hours of instruction on key topics anyone involved in Life Affirming ministry should know, including abortion, adoption, peer counseling skills, fetal development, sexual integrity, and (most importantly!) the Biblical basis for why we are Pro-Life. Each course is taught by carefully selected instructors and points to several resources for additional information.
At the conclusion of this training, you will have earned 14 hours of approved LAS credit, and will be able to demonstrate that you have met the LOVE Approach peer counseling training requirement. This means that you'll have met 2/3 of the qualifications for Life Affirming Specialists just with this one course. For a limited time, this course is offered at the introductory rate of $115.95. Heartbeat affiliates and individuals associated with affiliated centers receive an additional discount!
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Are you a Learner?
By Betty McDowell
“Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.” Robert Martin
One of the joys of working at Heartbeat is that I am always learning. I love learning, which is a good thing, especially since I serve in a ministry that is always changing, growing, and being challenged.
Next month is Heartbeat’s annual Institute for Center Effectiveness℠ (Nov. 27–30 in Columbus, Ohio). One of the key principles we teach each year is that we are always functioning in one of two modes: judger or learner.
How do you know which mode you’re functioning in right now? Ask yourself, “What questions am I asking?”
You see, we talk to ourselves on a regular basis, and we’re constantly asking ourselves questions. When you look in a mirror, for instance, you are undoubtedly able to say something about yourself. It may be a derogatory remark about your looks or perhaps “a thumbs-up”, but it might also be a question about what you expect the coming day to bring. If the question you’d ask yourself has to do with your looks, you’re in “judging” mode, but if your question has to do with the upcoming day, you’re in “learning” mode. In other words, your self-talk tells you which mode you’re in.
Besides self-talk, we are also in one of these two modes when we’re dealing with other people. Do you find yourself thinking, “How can I prove I am right?”, or is the question your asking yourself more of, “How can I better understand what he/she is saying?” The first of these indicates you’re in “judging” mode, while the second shows you’re in “learning” mode.
If you work in a life-affirming ministry, you need to become a student of the clients you serve. Stay in learning mode and you’ll become a better listener, which will put you in a position to be of much more help to another person. Ask yourself inquisitive learning questions, rather than deciding you already know everything you need to know about a person and their situation.
The best leaders are always the best learners.
Like an inquisitive child, start to enjoy the process of learning again. Begin to examine your self-talk and the questions you ask yourself on a regular basis, and begin forming better questions about the people you are talking with and the situations you find yourself facing.
You’re never too old to become a learner.
To think more about this, pick up Change your Questions, Change your Life, a book by Marilee Adams, and attend ourInstitute for Center Effectiveness this November.
The Bucket List
by Betty McDowell, Director of Ministry Services
I think almost everyone has a bucket list—things you want to do before you “kick the bucket”. It may be in the back of our mind, it may be written in a journal, or it may be an app on your iPhone.
Some of the things I’ve been blessed to check off my bucket list are dreams like going on an African Safari, visiting Paris, leading a women's retreat, and writing something from my heart that’s worthy of publishing. As fun as it is to dream, it’s even more fun to see those dreams fulfilled.
No matter our age, our health, or our resources, all of us can dream up a bucket list. And, as followers of Christ, our bucket list should be influenced and shaped—even inspired—by God Himself. Trust me, I would never have imagined becoming a writer or speaker without the influence of the Holy Spirit.
We serve a God who wants us to accomplish the seemingly impossible. Our God created an incredibly beautiful world, and He longs to show it off to you. Our God also created amazing, beautiful people that He wants you to meet. And, our God created you with a unique set of gifts and talents that He longs for you to use for the good of others.
A God-inspired bucket list will always be headlined by ways you hope to be used for the glory of God and the good of others.
Seeing an end to abortion is at the top of my bucket list. God inspired? I think so. God continues to amaze me, as I see the Heartbeat International network grow, and as I read the testimonies of lives changed and babies saved through ministries across our nation and God’s world.
Serving with Heartbeat and playing a small part in the fulfillment of our mission and vision is both humbling and rewarding. It may not have been on my childhood bucket list, but the list God has given me along the way has brought so much more joy and satisfaction than I could have imagined.
So what are you waiting for? Maybe it’s time for you to dream, and add to your God-inspired bucket list. Dream big, and add seeing an end to abortion to your bucket list.
Our God reigns, and in His name, “all oppression shall cease.” Let’s pray that He will bring about an end to the oppression of abortion this Christmas season.
Jesus Unwrapped, the Blessing of Emanuel
by Debra Neybert,Training Specialist
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” - John 1:14
Out of a heart of perfect love, the Father gave us His greatest blessing, his beloved Son, Jesus. He was with Father from all eternity; then the time came for him to step out of eternity and into time.
The Lord of all Glory, the King of Kings, The Eternal Word, who spoke the worlds into being, descended, laying aside His glorious crown, His royal robes. He stepped into a servant’s garment and became Emanuel—God with us!
One word that is commonly translated as “blessing” in the original Hebrew means "to kneel or cause to kneel.” It’s the word that’s used in Psalm 95:6, “Let us kneel before the Lord, our God, our Maker!”
Jesus, essentially one with God and in the form of God willingly bowed so low; born in Bethlehem considered “little among the thousands of Judah.” (Micah 5:2) There He was, born in a manger, wrapped in swaddling clothes, taking on flesh and dwelling among us.
The practice of swaddling was typically done two times in life; at birth and at death. Jesus once wrapped in Kingly apparel, came in complete humility, even to the point of obscurity, and then again “humbled Himself to death—even death on a cross.” (Philippians 2:8)
As we unwrap our gifts this Christmas, let us remember the greatest gift, the greatest blessing…. Jesus Himself, unwrapped, the gift of Salvation! Because he bowed low, we are lifted high, seated with Him in Heavenly places, crowned with love and compassion, and clothed in heavenly apparel. Oh what a Savior, Emanuel, God with us!
Hotel Information
As of today, the Hyatt Regency is completely sold out. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Heartbeat has compiled a list of hotels to make your travel planning a little easier.
Explore Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) – The DART contains stops at area hotels and should help make your travel. The Hyatt Regency is located on the DART line and has a stop within the hotel.
Hyatt Regency - SOLD OUT
300 Reunion Boulevard,
Dallas, TX 75207
Phone: (214) 651-1234
Hyatt Uptown - SOLD OUT
2914 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75201
214-965-9990
SpringHill Suites Dallas Downtown/West End - on the DART line OR 4 minute drive
1907 N Lamar St
Dallas, TX 75202
(214) 999-0500
marriott.com
Rates starting at $135.00 (plus tax)
Crowne Plaza Dallas Downtown - on the DART line OR 4 minute drive
1015 Elm St
Dallas, TX 75202
(214) 742-5678
crowneplaza.com
Rates starting at $132.00 (plus tax)
Holiday Inn Dallas Market Center - 1 block from the Marketplace DART OR 8 minute drive
4500 Harry Hines Blvd
Dallas, TX 75219
(214) 219-3333
holidayinn.com
Rates starting at $106.00 (plus tax)
