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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Grounding Psychotherapy in Presence and Self-Compassion

Shari Geller, PhD and Galia Tyano Ronen, MA, LCP

What you'll learn

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

About the speakers

Shari Geller, PhD

Shari Geller, PhD, C.Psych., is an author, clinical psychologist, certified teacher of Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC), and a leader in the field of therapeutic presence. With over thirty years of experience integrating psychology and mindfulness, Shari offers international training in therapeutic presence as part of a long-term vision of establishing presence as foundational across psychotherapy approaches. She is the co-editor and co-author of Grounding Psychotherapy in Compassion, with Galia Tyano Ronen, and created the Therapeutic Rhythm and Mindfulness Program. Shari serves on the teaching faculty in Health Psychology at York University and is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. She is a co-developer and core faculty member of the Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy (SCIP) certificate program and chairs the Membership and Networking Committee for the International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy. She is also co-director of the Centre for MindBody Health in Toronto. Shari’s thirty-five-year meditation practice—and her love of nature and her dogs—helps her stay grounded in the present moment. Check out Shari and Galia’s latest book, Grounding Psychotherapy in Self- Compassion * For those in the US and Canada, use 15% discount code ADRON5 through June 30th, 2025

Galia Tyano Ronen, MA, LCP

Galia Tyano Ronen, MA, LCP, is a licensed clinical psychologist with over thirty years of experience in private practice, specializing in mind–body–spirit, mindfulness-based psychotherapy and supervision. She is a certified Focusing-Oriented Therapist, a certified Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teacher, a mindfulness teacher for children and adolescents, and an artist. Galia is the program developer and former director of the Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy (SCIP) certificate program. She is also a certified mindfulness teacher and mentor under Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield, and a practitioner and teacher of Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness. Galia serves on the teaching and supervision faculty in the Mindfulness-Based Body–Mind Psychotherapy program at the Shiluv Center, affiliated with the University of Haifa. She has pioneered MSC in Israel, led global workshops, and translated the MSC program into Hebrew as a representative on the MSC Europe Council. She created a bilingual MSC course for Arabs and Jews. Galia also translated, scientifically edited, and narrated the meditations for Sitting Still Like a Frog by Eline Snel. She contributed chapters to Pandemic Psychology and Mind the Body, and co-edited Grounding Psychotherapy in Self-Compassion with Shari Geller. Check out Galia and Shari's latest book, Grounding Psychotherapy in Self- Compassion * For those in the US and Canada, use 15% discount code ADRON5 through June 30th, 2025