Day 1: The Role of the Body in Therapy and Healing

Peter A. Levine, PhD: A Deeply Personal Account: The Ordinary Miracle of Healing

Pat Ogden, PhD: Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Healing Power of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Linda Thai, MSW, LMSW: Mapping the Nervous System: Understanding Survival Responses and the Path to Regulation

Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT: The Whispers of the Soma: Slowing Down, Listening Deeply, and Honoring the Healing Process

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

Day 2: The Embodied Therapist and Listening to the Body

Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD: Focusing: Accessing the “Felt Sense” as a Powerful Catalyst of Transformation in Any Form of Psychotherapy

Deb Dana, MSW, LCSW: Integrating Polyvagal Theory into Psychotherapy for You and Your Clients (back by popular demand – replay from the 2022 Summit)

Staci Haines: Reclaiming the Soma: Embodied Healing Across Personal and Collective Trauma

Susan Aposhyan, MA, LPC: Somatic-Cognitive Approaches to Therapy

Dan Siegel, MD: Integration and the Mind: A Somatic View of Wholeness and Healing

Day 3: Somatic Tools in Action – Regulating, Resourcing, and Building Resilience

Bessel van der Kolk, MD and Licia Sky: Synchrony and Safety: Becoming an Anchor for Healing in Somatic Therapy

Chinwé Williams, PhD: Healing Attachment Wounds: A Somatic and EMDR-Informed Approach to Shame and Trauma

Shari Geller, PhD and Galia Tyano Ronen, MA, LCP: Grounding Psychotherapy in Presence and Self-Compassion

Susan McConnell, MA, CHT: Embodied Self Energy: Bringing the Wisdom of the Body Into Internal Family Systems Therapy

Raymond Rodriguez, Rev., MSW, LCSW: Begin with the Body: Cultivating Somatic Awareness in Therapy

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

Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD

What you'll learn

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

About the speakers

Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD

Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD, is an author, educator, and internationally recognized authority on Focusing, the somatic therapeutic method originated by her close colleague, Eugene Gendlin. She has taught Focusing in more than twenty countries over the past thirty years. With her colleague Barbara McGavin, Dr. Cornell developed a technique known as Inner Relationship Focusing. Dr. Cornell has presented on Inner Relationship Focusing at the Esalen Institute, Psychotherapy Networker Conference, National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine, American Psychological Association, Association for Person-Centered Experiential Psychotherapy, Cape Cod Institute, and Embody Lab, as well as through privately organized workshops and online seminars. She is the President and CEO of Focusing Resources, Inc., an organization dedicated to promoting emotional health at the personal, community, and global levels. Her books include the best-selling The Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing, Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change, and, with Barbara McGavin, Untangling: How You Can Transform What’s Impossibly Stuck. Focusing Resources offers a two-year certification program in Inner Relationship Focusing.