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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Reclaiming the Soma: Embodied Healing Across Personal and Collective Trauma

Staci Haines

What you'll learn

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

About the speakers

Staci Haines

Staci Haines has been working at the intersection of personal and social transformation for over thirty years through somatics, trauma healing, embodied leadership, and transformative justice. She is the author of The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice and Healing Sex: A Mind–Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma. An innovator in the field of somatics, she focuses on how it can expand transformative capacity within social and climate justice movements and help heal the effects of trauma and oppression. Staci runs both online and in-person programs and teacher trainings, and she partners with social and climate justice organizations. She co-founded Generative Somatics, a multiracial organization dedicated to building social justice capacity, and she serves as a senior teacher at the Strozzi Institute, where she plays a central role in shaping its methodology. In 1999, she founded generationFIVE, a transformative justice nonprofit committed to ending child sexual abuse within five generations.