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Daily Schedule. Each day April 24th-26th, all videos will become available, at 12 pm ET | 9 am PT (time zone converter). In total, there are 4-5 talks per day, and each one is between 45-75 minutes.

 Replays Available for 48 Hours! Recordings of ALL sessions will be available for free viewing for 48 hours, so you can watch when it’s most convenient for you in your day and in your time zone.

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DAY 1

The Role of the Body in Therapy and Healing

Thursday, april 24th 2025

LIVE Opening Keynote (75 mins)

10:00AM EST

OPENING KEYNOTE: Self-Compassion: An Antidote to Shame

Featuring:

Tara Brach, PhD
Daniel J. Siegel, MD

Peter A. Levine, PhD

A Deeply Personal Account: The Ordinary Miracle of Healing

  • Experience an intimate conversation with one of the pioneers of somatic therapy as he reflects on his own deeply personal experiences which helped catalyze the creation of Somatic Experiencing
  • Discover how healing trauma can become a gateway to spiritual connection, embodied presence, and genuine self-compassion
  • Be inspired by a deeply human story of vulnerability, resilience, and the unseen forces that guide us toward wholeness

Pat Ogden, PhD

Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Healing Power of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

  • Discover how Sensorimotor Psychotherapy taps into the body’s innate wisdom to support healing when words fall short—bridging the gap between insight and transformation
  • Explore powerful clinical tools like embodying a resource, restoring empowering actions, and cultivating dual awareness to deepen resilience and foster integration in trauma processing
  • Learn how to support clients in developing somatic awareness—even those who feel disconnected from their bodies while maintaining safety, honoring pacing, and restoring choice

Linda Thai, MSW, LMSW

Mapping the Nervous System: Understanding Survival Responses and the Path to Regulation

  • Learn how attachment cries, defense cascades, and shutdown states shape the nervous system’s response to trauma
  • Distinguish between fawn, appease, freeze, and shutdown—and explore how each state reflects a unique survival strategy
  • Help clients map their window of capacity, recognize their somatic patterns, and develop personalized practices for self and community care

Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT

The Whispers of the Soma: Slowing Down, Listening Deeply, and Honoring the Healing Process

  • Explore how dropping into “organismic time” allows the body’s innate intelligence, core beliefs, and forgotten truths to gently emerge
  • Learn how to attune to subtle somatic cues—like a sigh, a tear, or a raised shoulder—as gateways to safety, integration, and inner knowing
  • Discover how mindful presence, loving attunement, and honoring resistance can help clients reclaim the full complexity of who they are

     

Roger Kuhn, PhD

Somacultural Liberation: Reclaiming the Body Through Culture, Identity, and Compassion

  • Discover how cultural experience shapes the body’s patterns of holding, hypervigilance, and belonging—and how awareness opens the door to healing
  • Explore the BOLD Addressing Model and somatic practices that support clients in reclaiming agency, cultural selfhood, and embodied safety
  • Learn how liberation is not just personal but collective, and how somatic therapy can become a pathway toward both individual empowerment and community love

DAY 2

The Embodied Therapist and Listening to the Body

Friday, April 25th, 2025

LIVE Opening Keynote (75 mins)

10:00AM EST

OPENING KEYNOTE: Self-Compassion: An Antidote to Shame

Featuring:

Tara Brach, PhD
Daniel J. Siegel, MD

Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD

Focusing: Accessing the “Felt Sense” as a Powerful Catalyst of Transformation in Any Form of Psychotherapy

  • Discover how the felt sense—the body’s way of knowing—can guide clients toward fresh insight, emotional healing, and meaningful next steps regardless of what kind of psychotherapy you practice
  • Learn how to support Self-in-Presence, a compassionate inner state that allows clients to stay connected to emotional experience without overwhelm
  • Explore how empathic prompts and presence-based language can gently invite transformation from within

Deb Dana, MSW, LCSW

Integrating Polyvagal Theory into Psychotherapy for You and Your Clients (back by popular demand – replay from the 2022 Summit)

  • In Deb’s warm and approachable style, understand the basic principles of Polyvagal Theory and how they shape our experience (autonomic hierarchy, neuroception, and co-regulation, and dorsal, sympathetic, ventral)
  • Experience practices and exercises designed to bring you and your clients into ventral regulation
  • Explore how Polyvagal Theory applies to our work in the therapy room and can benefit your clients

Staci Haines

Reclaiming the Soma: Embodied Healing Across Personal and Collective Trauma

  • Explore how social conditions, survival strategies, and inherited paradigms shape the nervous system—and how somatics can support transformation at both individual and collective levels 
  • Learn how to work with contraction, withheld emotions, and lost access in the body as intelligent responses, not resistance 
  • Discover practices for cultivating embodied safety, calm, and resilience—including somatic boundaries, emotional wave-riding, and everyday allyship

Susan Aposhyan, MA, LPC

Somatic-Cognitive Approaches to Therapy

  • Explore the central the role of embodiment in your clients’ healing and integration.
  • Experience how embodied meditation can support nervous system regulation and therapeutic presence
  • Clarify next steps for bringing more embodiment into your clinical work and personal development

Dan Siegel, MD

Integration and the Mind: A Somatic View of Wholeness and Healing

  • Explore how the mind arises from both the body and relationships—and how somatic awareness is essential to integration and mental health 
  • Learn how practices like the Wheel of Awareness and SIFT help clients widen their window of tolerance and cultivate a compassionate presence with their internal world 
  • Discover how integration across body, brain, and relationships supports transformation—not only for clients, but for therapists and communities alike

DAY 3

Somatic Tools in Action – Regulating, Resourcing, and Building Resilience

Saturday, April 26th

Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Licia Sky

Synchrony and Safety: Becoming an Anchor for Healing in Somatic Therapy

  • Explore how the therapist’s grounded presence and bodily rhythms can create a sense of physiological safety and connection for traumatized clients 
  • Learn how to support clients in feeling what’s alive in their bodies now—not just the story of the past, but the embodied experience of the present 
  • Reflect on your own healing and regulation as a therapist, and how embodied self-awareness supports deeper, more authentic therapeutic connection

Chinwé Williams, PhD

Healing Attachment Wounds: A Somatic and EMDR-Informed Approach to Shame and Trauma

  • Learn the core components of the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model of EMDR and how this applies to clinical populations experiencing trauma and anxiety
  • Discover how early attachment injuries and chronic shame become embedded in the body—and how to apply 3 EMDR-related interventions for nervous system regulation
  • Understand how to guide and support traumatized clients in safely connecting to their body’s sensations and expression

Shari Geller, PhD
Galia Tyano Ronen, MA, LCP

Grounding Psychotherapy in Presence and Self-Compassion

  • Explore the role of self-compassion for therapists experiencing shame, self-doubt or other blocks to therapeutic presence
  • Examine the importance of present, anchored, and compassionate centering for co-regulation
  • Be guided in self-compassion interventions to use with clients

Susan McConnell, MA, CHT

Embodied Self Energy: Bringing the Wisdom of the Body Into Internal Family Systems Therapy

  • Explore how Somatic IFS integrates awareness, breath, movement, resonance, and touch to help clients access deep healing beyond words
  • Learn how to work with blended parts and protective systems through embodied presence, co-regulation, and therapist self-energy
  • Discover how embodiment restores connection—not only within the client’s internal system, but with the earth, others, and the sacred

Raymond Rodriguez, Rev., MSW, LCSW

Begin with the Body: Cultivating Somatic Awareness in Therapy

  • Integrate somatic awareness into your existing framework with simple, accessible practices like grounding, orienting, and present-moment inquiry
  • Learn strategies for building buy-in and curiosity from their clients in learning more about their bodies
  • Expand your therapeutic language to include the wisdom of sensation. Explore ways to use open-ended somatic questions, playful experiments, and sensory menus to help clients connect with their inner experience in empowering ways