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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The Whispers of the Soma: Slowing Down, Listening Deeply, and Honoring the Healing Process

Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT

What you'll learn

Explore how dropping into “organismic time” allows the body’s innate intelligence, core beliefs, and forgotten truths to gently emerge
Learn how to attune to subtle somatic cues—like a sigh, a tear, or a raised shoulder—as gateways to safety, integration, and inner knowing
Discover how mindful presence, loving attunement, and honoring resistance can help clients reclaim the full complexity of who they are

About the speakers

Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT

Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT, is an internationally respected somatic psychotherapist, trauma specialist, Continuum teacher, and somatic educator with over thirty years of clinical and teaching experience. She is a founder of the Hakomi Institute of California and the creator of Embodywise, a platform for embodied learning. Manuela developed the Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Therapy Approach (ISITTA), an advanced training for therapists, and co-developed the Hakomi Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training. She is the author of four influential books: Trauma-Sensitive Movement, Embodied Psychedelic Therapy: A Somatic Guide, 125 Somatic Psychotherapy Tools for Trauma and Stress, and 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness. Her work continues to inspire practitioners worldwide who are bringing depth, embodiment, and somatic wisdom into therapeutic, healing, and collective spaces.