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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Somatic-Cognitive Approaches to Therapy

Susan Aposhyan, MA, LPC

What you'll learn

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

About the speakers

Susan Aposhyan, MA, LPC

Susan Aposhyan, MA, LPC, is a master teacher of meditation, embodiment, and psychological wellness, skillfully blending the three in a way that is accessible, immediate, and profound. Her newest book, Heart Open, Body Awake: Four Steps to Embodied Spirituality is available through Shambhala Publications. Susan has practiced meditation for over fifty years. She is a psychotherapist and the founder of Body-Mind Psychotherapy, in which she has trained practitioners internationally. She was founding director of Naropa University’s Somatic Psychology program. Her second book, Body-Mind Psychotherapy: Principles, Techniques, and Practical Applications was published by W.W. Norton in 2004. She published Natural Intelligence: Body-Mind Integration and Human Development with Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins in 1999. Currently Susan consults, teaches, and leads groups online in both Body-Mind Psychotherapy and Embodied Spirituality.