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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A Deeply Personal Account: The Ordinary Miracle of Healing

Peter A. Levine, PhD

What you'll learn

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

About the speakers

Peter A. Levine, PhD

Peter A. Levine, PhD, is the developer of Somatic Experiencing, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma. He holds doctorates in both biophysics and psychology. Dr. Levine is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute for Somatic Education and the Founder and Advisor of Somatic Experiencing International.</ He is the author of several best-selling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, which has been published in over twenty-nine languages, and his most recent title, An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey. Dr. Levine has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from Psychotherapy Networker and the US Association for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. He continues to teach trauma healing workshops internationally.