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The Start a Center Workshop is a 1.5 day course hosted by Float Tank Solutions before the Float Conference. The course will include pragmatic and hands-on information, including sections on construction, float tank maintenance, cleaning schedules and operations, regular expenses and finances, and float specific marketing

The Salty Success: Marketing & Management Strategies Workshop is a one-day event hosted by Mindfull Solutions. The course will include an overview and implementation tips of topics such as growing your team, employee onboarding, team engagement and retention, social media, local marketing, management processes, retail sales, and more. 

Hop on a bus with all your floaty friends to explore three Float Seattle locations featuring multiple modalities. Snacks and beverages will be provided -- it's a moving party! Registered folks can meet in the Regency Foyer!

It is time. Grab your badge at any time, and feel free to ask any questions you may have!

Kick back and relax in the Wellness Lounge with a traditional Chinese tea ceremony, compression boots, arts and crafts, wellness tools, and more. The perfect place to regroup or catch up on some emails during the busyness of the Conference.

The Start a Center Workshop is a 1.5 day course hosted by Float Tank Solutions before the Float Conference. The course will include pragmatic and hands-on information, including sections on construction, float tank maintenance, cleaning schedules and operations, regular expenses and finances, and float specific marketing

This interactive workshop hosted by Dr. Justin Feinstein with the Float Reserach Collective is designed for float centers in the Project Arcturus initiative. You'll learn how to use the Project Arcturus social platform to ask questions, report issues, and stay connected with the broader research community.

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The Buddy System is a fun little program that we put together to help connect first time attendees and newer attendees with more experienced Float Con goers. Anyone is welcome to join us at this quick meet up to introduce yourself and ask any questions you may have. It's a great way to kickstart your networking experience!

Take some time to visit the Sponsor Booths - online and in person.

The official opening of the main event - the Float Conference! Join us for a special suprise to start our Conference experience.

The moment we've all been waiting for. Stephen Johnson sets the stage for us with him opening remarks. We will go over some logistics and then we will dive right in to our Conference talks.

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Connor explores how generative AI can revolutionize floatation therapy businesses by enhancing customer experiences, encouraging employee professional development, and building thriving wellness communities. This session will introduce two core concepts: journey flows, a powerful tool for understanding customers and identifying opportunities to enhance your business by integrating generative AI, and the User Outcome Connection, a framework for identifying critical metrics within that user journey. Walk away with clear strategies to harness the power of AI and elevate your float center’s impact.

A chance to refill your coffee, connect with fellow attendees, and visit the sponsor booths - whether you're in Bellevue or online.

Step into stillness and movement in this rejuvenating Qigong session. You'll learn gentle, flowing exercises that balance energy, calm the mind, and restore the body.

When float center owners face declining revenue, rising costs, and overwhelming uncertainty, it’s easy to slip into panic mode. This workshop is for anyone feeling the pressure—or seeing it on the horizon. Together, we’ll break down real-world strategies to stabilize your business, including how to create a financial safety net, cut costs without cutting corners, ask for help when you need it, and focus your energy on high-impact actions that make an impact. You’ll leave with a clear action plan, renewed clarity, and the reassurance that you're not alone.

Bathing in Sound, Rooted in Stillness is a guided Soundbath and meditation experience designed to support nervous system regulation, integration, and deep rest amidst the busyness of the Float Conference. Using sound bowls, chimes, and grounding vocal tones, this session offers a sonic landscape that invites you to soften, settle, and reconnect with your inner stillness. It’s a nourishing pause—an opportunity to release, restore, and return to the body as home.

Join us for a unique opportunity to learn from each other! Kim Hannan will facilitate the discussions so that you can get even more of what you've been loving about the Float Conference for years - asking questions, hearing stories, and just being in the company of other float center owners and operators who "get it". During this time, each table will be given a specific business or operations topic to discuss, and then we'll share some of the key highlights and takeaways form the conversation with the larger group.

In this workshop, we'll go over some of our favorite HelmBot features and have a healthy question and answer section to cover anything that you might be curious about. HelmBot is jam-packed with features and shortcuts to save you and your staff time (and since time is money, and money is power, and power corrupts, we'll also include some easily implementable strategies on avoiding accidental villainy as you get better at using Helm).

Join Cheri Kuhn for a fun and engaging learning experience! She will begin with a high level understanding of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) before diving into the tools and disciplines embedded in the People and Data components of the EOS Model. This will be an interactive session with time to work with the tools to help you understand what it means to have great people in your unique business and what activities that help them and you know they are doing their jobs well each week. You will walk away with actionable next steps to further the work you will do in the session.

Explore the Seattle and Bellevue area with your new Float Con friends! Attendees can share ideas and get groups together using our forum. There's so much to do in the area, whether you want to stay near the hotel or explore.

Step into stillness and movement in this rejuvenating Qigong session. You'll learn gentle, flowing exercises that balance energy, calm the mind, and restore the body.

Float center owners and frequent floaters know that floating works. Expanding why and how floating has the ability to change people's lives beyond relaxation and bodily recovery.

The science of the microbiome has suddenly become pervasive. From popular books to a Netflix docuseries, it’s impossible to avoid the growing body of research that the microbes living in harmony with our bodies are deeply intertwined with our health. But what affects the health of these microbes, and what the heck does this have to do with floating? Join Dr. Flux on another scientific journey to explore the “exposome,” the vast quantity of environmental exposures that impact the health of all living organisms. With colorful science, and a little help from his pal Clara, he’ll explore the implications of this research on how to promote holistic wellness in a float center, with an emphasis on skin care products and beverage/food sales.

A chance to refill your coffee, connect with fellow attendees, and visit the sponsor booths - whether you're in Bellevue or online.

Join us for a unique opportunity to learn from each other! Kim Hannan will facilitate the discussions so that you can get even more of what you've been loving about the Float Conference for years - asking questions, hearing stories, and just being in the company of other float center owners and operators who "get it". During this time, each table will be given a specific business or operations topic to discuss, and then we'll share some of the key highlights and takeaways form the conversation with the larger group.

This workshop will provide an overview of current floatation-REST research, with a focus on scientific findings, ethical considerations, and opportunities for engagement. Participants will learn how to distinguish rigorous floatation-REST research from the collection of testimonials for marketing purposes, as well as gain insight into key elements of study design. The session will highlight findings from ongoing and recently completed projects and offer a sneak peek at upcoming studies to illustrate the future direction of the field. The workshop will conclude with a discussion of potential avenues for collaboration and participation, followed by a Q&A session.

It's expensive - this we know. This workshop will walk you through how I was able to complete my Buildout using State grants. I will share the processes for how I located the grants, my grant-writing samples, and how the monitoring for my grants worked. While specific to my situation and location, you will come away with an idea of what is possible.

A chance to refill your coffee, connect with fellow attendees, and visit the sponsor booths - whether you're in Bellevue or online.

One of our favorite parts of the Float Conference is hearing how the float affects lives. Listen in to this float story to fill your heart with yet another way the float has changed a life.

In this presentation, I’ll outline a practical and accessible approach to building a professional-grade vibroacoustic setup without relying on expensive turnkey solutions. Drawing from firsthand experience prototyping a multi-transducer bed system for both personal and professional use, I’ll walk through the essential components—transducers, amplifiers, signal routing, and materials—while demystifying key technical terms for a non-engineering audience. I’ll share cost-effective configurations at different budget levels, discuss the unique affordances of vibroacoustics in float center contexts, and evaluate both the benefits and limitations of integrating this modality. Whether you’re seeking to expand your center’s sensory offerings or deepen personal experimentation with sound and somatic experience, this talk offers a replicable roadmap.

The Maui Calm project was first envisioned at the 2023 Float Conference, only two weeks after the devastating fires destroyed Lahaina and killed over 100 people, making it the deadliest wildfire that America has experienced over the past century. The project aims to provide free float therapy to all fire survivors, first responders, and frontline workers on Maui in effort to address the unprecedented surge of PTSD on the island. Following an extensive fundraising effort, our float facility will officially be arriving to Maui this summer as a mobile float facility that is specially-constructed inside of a shipping container. This presentation will detail how Maui Calm was brought to life, from its initial conception to constructing the float facility in partnership with Floataway to finding a central location in Lahaina for placement of our facility. Since we are a research-based nonprofit, we plan to collect data and track outcomes over time, which will provide a pivotal proof-of-principle for using this deployable model of float therapy to address real-world traumas and disasters from the moment they occur.

Arguably the best pat of the Float Conference - lunch! Find a friend, new or old, and take a load off as you enjoy lunch with your fellow attendees. There's plenty of time to visit the sponsor booths or take a quick walk around Bellevue or fold your laundry.

Besides the basic trend of independent businesses closing there is also a basic weakness in the business model of float centers that is causing businesses to not thrive. Unless that weakness is corrected, the downward trend will continue especially with the advent of harder times. As individual business owners we can easily correct our contribution to the problem and have a successful business. But we must make the correction. This talk tells you how.

In a time of widespread division, it's important to focus on inclusivity like offering content, activities, and events that bring people together. From Book Club and Art Nights to Plant Bingo, sound baths, and meditation hours in the Zen Garden, Shawnee will share how these simple yet impactful gatherings reflect her 20+ years of experience in grassroots community building.

Join us for a unique opportunity to learn from each other! Kim Hannan will facilitate the discussions so that you can get even more of what you've been loving about the Float Conference for years - asking questions, hearing stories, and just being in the company of other float center owners and operators who "get it". During this time, each table will be given a specific business or operations topic to discuss, and then we'll share some of the key highlights and takeaways form the conversation with the larger group.

A chance to refill your coffee, connect with fellow attendees, and visit the sponsor booths - whether you're in Bellevue or online.

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We'll provide shuttles from the host hotel to Rhein Haus for some dinner (on us!) and bocce ball. Network with other attendees, talk about all you've learned, and have some fun.

Join us for a transformative journey of healing and deep relaxation as we immerse every cell of the body in therapeutic sound and vibration. The gong acoustically elevates us, naturally guiding the body into a deep, spontaneous meditative state — restoring harmony, vitality, and inner balance.

You’ll leave feeling tuned, refreshed, and uplifted — aligned in body, mind, and soul.

Our Cosmic Gong Meditations feature a variety of tuned planetary gongs, each handcrafted in Germany and precisely calibrated to the Cosmic Octave — the resonant frequency each planet produces as it orbits the sun. These instruments are as precise as they are powerful, offering a vibrational experience that is truly out of this world.

FTA Members are encouraged to attend this annual member meeting, where the FTA Board will share some updates from the past year, share some insights on the coming years.

A chance to refill your coffee, connect with fellow attendees, and visit the sponsor booths - whether you're in Bellevue or online.

Join us for a unique opportunity to learn from each other! Kim Hannan will facilitate the discussions so that you can get even more of what you've been loving about the Float Conference for years - asking questions, hearing stories, and just being in the company of other float center owners and operators who "get it". During this time, each table will be given a specific business or operations topic to discuss, and then we'll share some of the key highlights and takeaways form the conversation with the larger group.

One of our favorite parts of the Float Conference is hearing how the float affects lives. Listen in to this float story to fill your heart with yet another way the float has changed a life.

In today’s fast-paced world, chronic stress has become the norm—and it’s costing teams their focus, creativity, and capacity to lead with confidence. In this powerful and practical session, Rachel Benton blends science-backed education, real-life stories, and actionable tools to help individuals understand and regulate their nervous system in everyday moments of stress.

Attendees will learn how the body responds under pressure, why traditional stress management tools often fall short, and how to activate a calm, focused state—right in the middle of the chaos. This session isn’t about bubble baths and deep breathing (though those are nice, too); it’s about giving people a clear, usable framework to access the version of themselves that shows up powerfully in interviews, presentations, and problem-solving—even under pressure.

Join Marshall as he explores his team's experiences being owners of the world's first employee-owned cooperative float tank center. He'll talk about their triumphs and struggles, how they operate, what their goals are, and how close they are to achieving them. Marshall will explain the collective's democratic decision making processes, their purchase of the Float Tank center, and how being a cooperative has helped or hurt the business, and what they love or don't love about running Float Tank center this way. (spoiler - so far they love it, but it's also been a challenge!)

Arguably the best pat of the Float Conference - lunch! Find a friend, new or old, and take a load off as you enjoy lunch with your fellow attendees. There's plenty of time to visit the sponsor booths or take a quick walk around Bellevue or fold your laundru.

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Float centers can easily find themselves in conflict with their local health department. Health codes, regulations, memorandums of understanding, standards, guidelines, and best practices are a maze of conflicting requirements and directions. How do you know which is best for your center and which will be your doors paddle locked? Why and how does this happen? Understanding the role and the thought processes of health department staff is key to keeping both your current as well as expanding float centers open.

A chance to refill your coffee, connect with fellow attendees, and visit the sponsor booths - whether you're in Bellevue or online.

In "The magic is within you" Vivian uses her understanding and lived experience to explore the deep rooted trauma landscape on Northern Ireland shaped by 30 years of conflict and intergenerational pain. She will explore her proprietary approach R.A.F.T (Reconnection And Floatation Therapy) as a powerful therapeutic tool that supports individuals to reclaim their sense of self and possibility.
Through this talk, you'll gain insight into the emotional legacy of trauma and discover how inner healing can unlock personal burdens igniting growth, and transformation.

We're not crying; you are. Join us to close out this year's Float Conference, and maybe you'll get a hint about next year's!

The CPO training course is one of the most respected certifications in the pool and spa industry. Commercial pools are often required to have CPO certified staff members on hand. The course is an excellent primer of pool/spa sanitation, equipment, and operation. While the course itself is not built to be oriented toward float tanks, this class will be taught by Dr. Roy Vore, who you may have seen speak at previous Float Conference. Dr. Vore will help put the information in the context of a float center.