Unlock the full potential of courage and confidence in our Master Class "Breaking through Fear" with Justin Michael Williams.

Learn how to confront and conquer the fears that limit you, reclaim your inner strength, and unlock a life of freedom and possibilities. In this powerful session with Justin, you'll explore the eight hidden forms of fear that often lead to self-sabotage, and learn tools that you can incorporate immediately to dismantle these fears and create instant breakthroughs whenever they arise.

In this workshop, renowned psychiatrist and trauma expert, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, delves into the profound long-term impact of adverse early life experiences on the brain, focusing especially on areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. Drawing from decades of clinical experience and cutting-edge research, Dr. van der Kolk will explore the psychological and physiological consequences of disrupted attachment and childhood trauma. Participants will gain a deep understanding of how early trauma can shape an individual's emotional, cognitive, and social development. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk will discuss the latest insights into the neurobiological effects of trauma and offer innovative practical strategies for therapists and other professionals to support those affected by early adversity.

Discover the inner workings of drama addiction in Dr. Scott Lyons' transformative class based on his groundbreaking book, Addicted to Drama. Delve into the profound psychological, biological, and social roots of drama as an addictive behavior. Through insightful discussions, uncover how drama serves as a coping mechanism, perpetuating a relentless cycle of crisis and chaos. Learn to identify the underlying pain driving this addiction and explore healthier avenues for self-expression and fulfillment. Gain tools to break free from the grip of drama and cultivate a more balanced and peaceful existence. Join us on a journey towards understanding and healing.

Grounded within the principles of Polyvagal Theory, affective neuroscience, and trauma-informed care, this Master Class with Dr. Arielle Schwartz will help you gain a better understanding of how our brains and bodies respond to stress and trauma and offer a self-led healing journey toward feeling more empowered, grounded, clearheaded, inspired, and at ease.

Treating Developmental Trauma as a practitioner can be challenging because the signs are often masked by more recent traumas. This program will help you to identify, in the body, preverbal neglect and attachment wounds, explore what could have been missing, and learn specific tools to help restore your clients' sense of agency, direction, and purpose.

Join transformational somatic coach, Qualified Mediator, and somatic sex educator Kai Cheng Thom for this Master Class on somatic practices for embodied equanimity— learning how to find our center and dance gracefully with the multiple truths that exist within and all around us. This class will be particularly helpful for those struggling with current-day social conflicts, or for practitioners who are looking for somatic strategies to facilitate challenging group dynamics.

We were born lovable, and ready to love and be loved. And yet so often the events of our lives lead us to feel unlovable, and to find it difficult to truly love ourselves.

In this Master Class with Dr. Ann Weiser Cornell, we will apply the somatic practice of Inner Relationship Focusing to resolving the blocks to loving ourselves unconditionally. We will learn to form a healing connection with the part that feels unlovable, as well as to the inner critic that is trying to blame and shame it into being "good enough." We will learn methods to enable our clients to take this same journey, from feeling unlovable to being able to fully receive love.

Having a voice is a fundamental part of being human and allows us to connect to others in healthy ways: to communicate our needs and desires; to speak up when expectations have not been met, or when boundaries are over-stepped; and to connect and to share our innermost worlds. This part-experiential, part didactic Master Class with Linda Thai will delve into the vibratory resonance of sound as the first experience of attachment, the developmental actions of attachment and attunement, and sounds, vocal expression and songs as portals to attachment and to embodiment.

Holding complexity and navigating contradictions seems to be essential life skill these days. Whether it’s working with our internal experiences and healing, navigating relationships and family, or engaging in the world and our collective future, complexity and contradictions are there. How do we work with these skillfully, from a somatic perspective? How can we welcome complexity and not lose ourselves? How do we navigate contradictions without polarizing?

Through this Master Class with Staci K. Haines, we’ll learn to expand our embodied ability to notice, be with, and take skillful action amidst complexity. We’ll discover how contradictions live in the soma, and how we can shift from reacting to them to embracing them. Complexity and contradiction hold wisdom. Through embodied practice and process, we’ll discover this wisdom and let it inform our healing, relationships, and action.

Who among us has yet to feel the sharp sting of shame in the midst of conflict? Shame is among the powerful and painful somatic experiences that can arise in the field of relationship, and our instinctive attempts to avoid it often become a part of our fundamental shaping. Yet avoiding or rejecting shame can result in patterns of behavior and perception that prevent us from living as our full selves and creating the kinds of relationships that we most desire. Conflict offers us a window into our experience of shame like no other.

Join Kai Cheng Thom, professional embodiment coach and Qualified Mediator, for a class on practical somatic approaches to holding and healing shame in the body. We will also explore the notion of the "shadow," and the impact of collective trauma and systemic oppression on shame. Together, we will lean into the question - what would be possible if we learned to love our most shameful parts?

In this session, Dr. Stephen Porges and Dr. Scott Lyons will engage in a conversation around recreating the fundamental elements of safety when boundaries and a sense of protection has been ruptured. They will explore how enhancing neuro-reception can help those who have experienced trauma to once again, discern cues of danger and safety, allowing that individual to move into connections, co-regulation and, ultimately, ease.

Breath inspires movement, and movement inspires breath. The natural allies and dance partners often become estranged in bodies experiencing oppression, fear, distress and trauma. Continuum is a moving practice that uses breath and sound to invite free-form, organic movement, helpful for interrupting the somatic and movement patterns that are no longer in service of our wholeness. This highly experiential class will teach Continuum sounds and sequences to promote restoration of our core rhythmicity, empowerment, and balance in our bodies.

The body’s ability to self-evoke tremors during stressful or frightening events is genetically encoded in every mammalian and human organism. The purpose of this organic tremoring process is to down-regulate the nervous system and release the chronic myofascial tension patterns associated with the stressor. This process of restoring the organism to an internally relaxed and peaceful state produces the sensation of survival and growth. The result of the completion of this process is a deeper regard, gratitude, and humility of simply being alive and appreciating our life to its fullest degree.

This 90 minute webinar with Lisa Dion introduces participants to boundary setting with the brain in mind. Participants will learn how to think about boundary setting in a way that promotes connection instead of disconnection and integration instead of shame. Understanding the role of co-regulation, using the body as feedback to understand when it is time to set a boundary, how to work with emotional flooding and how to do repair will be explored.

Discover the transformative potential of embracing clear and healthy boundaries in your relationships in this Master Class “Power of Boundaries” with Justin Michael Williams.

Learn the invaluable skill of speaking up before tensions escalate, understanding the distinction between boundaries and rules, and gaining the wisdom to discern when to establish boundaries and when not to. In this powerful session with Justin, you'll learn the tools to foster harmonious connections with your friends, family, coworkers, and loved ones and cultivate authentic and fulfilling relationships, where respect, communication, and personal growth thrives.

Join Dr. Schwartz for a special online workshop titled “Internal Family Systems (IFS) & Compassion“. IFS is a gentle, yet powerful, healing delivery system that releases the therapist from the need to be clever because it trusts and empowers the clients’ Compassionate Self. In addition to fostering a generalized sense of self compassion, IFS helps people have compassion for all parts of them—even the parts that screw up their lives or stand in the way of giving and receiving love fully. In that sense, IFS is radical self-compassion!

Somatic Symphony: Navigating Trauma with the Full-Octave Relational Model with Dr. Albert Wong is a workshop designed for trauma therapists, somatic practitioners, and mental health professionals who are interested in exploring a groundbreaking approach to somatic trauma therapy.

In this workshop, we will introduce participants to the innovative Full-Octave Relational Model and its profound impact on healing trauma. The Full-Octave Relational Model takes inspiration from the world of music, drawing on the metaphor of a symphony to guide our understanding of the therapeutic process. By incorporating the concepts of harmony, rhythm, and resonance, we will discover how to create a therapeutic experience that promotes deep healing and resilience.

In this Master Class, we explore the intersection of science, soul, and soma as the foundation for embodied spirituality. Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga offers a set of interventions that involve improving self-awareness, engaging in conscious breathing, and applying sensory input to create greater regulation of your autonomic nervous system. Our brains are constantly learning and that we can shape our growth in a wanted direction. Whatever you repeatedly think, feel, sense, and do builds new or strengthens existing neural pathways. You can rewire your nervous system to enhance your resilience.

In this workshops we will explore quieting the threat response in healing overly frightening or chaotic childhood experiences to enhance relative safety and restore healthy connection.

Through experiential learning we will explore how to help heal the disorganized attachment style, known as the most complicated disrupted attachment style which usually involves unresolved developmental trauma.

Disorganized attachment involves autonomic dysregulation and an entangling of the attachment system with the threat response. We will differentiate between situational disorganized and chronic disorganized that may manifest in combination with avoidant attachment or in combination with ambivalent attachment or both.

Many people experience some degree of immobility, freezing, numbness, fawning, and/or dissociation during their lifetime. These experiences can often occur in childhood and go unnoticed. As we grow, our body attempts to rid itself of these defensive neurological processes and behaviors so it can restore its natural ability for full sensation and aliveness. It is through this process that we will be challenged to transform or reframe these past experiences so we can gain a point of new perspective and move from disillusion to evolution.

In a time marked by global strife, political polarization, and identity-based conflict, new models for conflict transformation and relationship repair are needed more badly than ever. In this workshop qualified Mediator and Somatic Coach Kai Cheng Thom will present an introduction to her Loving Justice model, an emergent strategy for healing relationships and crises of the soul.

Kai will explore the dynamics of interpersonal conflict as a dance between two opposing forces: love and rupture. By acknowledging the interconnectedness of conflict and love, participants will learn how to navigate difficult conversations with grace, curiosity, and empathy. This workshop is designed to provide a safe and supportive space for participants to deepen their understanding of conflict resolution, develop new skills for managing conflict, and foster a deeper sense of connection and compassion with others.

Join Dr. Siegel for a special online workshop titled “Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence.“ In this presentation, we’ll dive deeply into the nature of presence, and how learning a reflective practice such as the Wheel of Awareness can build the mental skills of focused attention, open awareness, and kind intention that research suggests are three pillars of mind training that have been empirically shown to cultivate important aspects of social, psychological, and physiological flourishing.

This class is a continuation of Self-SOULstice Model of Affirmation: The Process of Self-Healing, which introduced participants to a four-stage model of affirming self and others and introduced components of a life-line to self-healing.

When we learn to identify and acknowledge our emotions, we give voice to them. We begin to learn how our bodies conspire with our emotions to give us information about the relationship between our emotional and physical well-being.

In this class, participants will learn to anchor the connection between the cause of their emotions and the meaning that they attach to the cause; and chart their emotional life-line.

Join Richard Strozzi-Heckler for a special online workshop titled “The Art of Somatic Coaching.“ In this Master Class, we will engage in the techniques, moves, and states of being that can be utilized with clients as well as shaping the practitioner’s somatic embodiment. There will be a Q&A period and, if time allows, Richard will work with an attendee.

Join Dr. Siegel for a special online workshop titled “Adjusting an Identity Lens: Facilitating a Great Turning“. In this Master Class, Dr. Dan Siegel will address these current challenges by considering how modern culture shapes our experience of self, these questions of identity and belonging are addressed through the lens of the interdisciplinary framework, interpersonal neurobiology, that uncovers the common ground, or consilience, shared among Indigenous knowledge, contemplative insights, and empirical western science to explore how humans develop identity and belonging across the lifespan. This dive into the subjective experience, perspective, and agency at the heart of our experience of self –the “SPA” of self-experience—reveals that we may not only be who we are so often told we are in modern culture—separate selves emanating solely from the body alone, with a mind emanating only from the skull-encased brain: the isolated, solo-self may be a mis-taken identity.

Movement is not something we do; it’s who we are. The human body is a sea-change of movement. From the subtle rhythm of breath to our dynamic individual and collective expressions as bodies in action, we are always shifting, moving, migrating. The body, and this primary language of movement, provide the most direct access to change in service of well being, restoration and liberation.

This Master Class will weave a brief theoretical overview of the presenter’s Polyvagal-Informed Somatic and Dance/Movement Therapy, a human rights-based approach accessible to all who want to source the wisdom of their own body’s restorative capacities with breath, movement and rhythm based practices to cultivate self-regulation and support co-regulation for those of us working, living or caring for others.

In this class we will explore working with implicit memory that underlies attachment injury toward regaining secure attachment capacities.

Many clients bring to therapy the remnants of attachment wounds experience before they learn to speak so talk therapy is often ineffective at getting to the root of early memories that can continue to roil emotions and disturb relationships. This master class presents a unique approach to correct insecure attachment to specific corrective experiences that address emotional injuries that incurred in early life. We will focus two different styles of disruptive attachment on the avoidant and ambivalent style in part one.

Individuals who have experienced relational trauma frequently get caught in familiar, but negative patterns of relating, especially with those who they care about most. These negative patterns of interaction, left untended, can erode their connection and safety with their loved ones. This class will introduce students to the important skill of identifying negative relational cycles of contact and illustrate how to create different, more positive cycles to help them heal relational trauma and connect again with those they love.

Join Dr. Judith Blackstone, creator of the Realization Process, for a special online experience. This class will teach the main embodiment practices of the Realization Process for deepening and refining your attunement to yourself and your surroundings. By inhabiting the internal space of your body, and accessing the innermost core of your body, you can uncover the most subtle dimension of your being: fundamental, unified consciousness, pervading your body and your environment. As fundamental consciousness, you experience your individual wholeness and your oneness with everyone and everything around you, at the same time.

In this session, Dr. Stephen Porges and Dr. Arielle Schwartz will engage in a conversation around how Polyvagal Theory provides an innovative scientific perspective to study feelings of safety that incorporates an understanding of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. This perspective identifies neural circuits that downregulate neural regulation of threat reactions and functionally neutralize defensive strategies via neural circuits communicating cues of safety that enable feelings of safety to support interpersonal accessibility and homeostatic functions. Basically, when humans feel safe, their nervous systems support the homeostatic functions of health, growth, and restoration, while they simultaneously become accessible to others without feeling or expressing threat and vulnerability.