For many clients, trauma leaves a devastating impact, including debilitating symptoms, damaged relationships, and fragmentation from their former self. It can cause them to feel split inside, with parts oppressed, polarised, dissociated, hidden, and exiled, as they navigate the pain and devastation.

Through presentation and guided exploration, participants will examine various parts maps along the parts continuum, from adaptive and conscious parts to fragmented and dissociated states. You’ll understand how trauma and developmental injuries influence the predictive brain, embodiment, and relational functioning. Rooted in interoceptive wisdom and somatic practices, we will explore strategies for recognising, engaging with, and integrating different parts. The masterclass will focus on building safety and guiding you towards greater coherence, confidence, resilience, and wholeness.

In this workshop, Dr. Richard Schwartz presents emerging perspectives on the intersection of Internal Family Systems and experiences often described as spiritual or transpersonal. Drawing from decades of clinical work, he explores phenomena that extend beyond traditional psychological models, including experiences of Self-energy and supportive inner or ancestral presences. Through experiential exercises, guided practice and demo videos, participants will consider how these findings expand our understanding of consciousness, healing, and connection within the IFS framework.

We invite you to a rare one-on-one Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) session demonstration with internationally renowned trauma expert Peter A. Levine, PhD, developer of SE™, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma.

During this demonstration session, Dr. Levine will lead us in exploring how we may be influenced by circumstances that our ancestors experienced during their lifetimes. These influences may be beyond our conscious awareness - we may have no knowledge of our ancestors. Through awareness of our unconscious connection, we can approach the complexities of our family line and childhood trauma with reverence to heal the Self.

Intellectualization is one of the most subtle and insidious forms of self-sabotage, showing up when clients and even practitioners use analysis and logic as a shield to avoid fully feeling and processing their emotions. In this masterclass, we’ll unpack what intellectualization is, why it blocks true transformation, and the hidden purpose it often serves. You’ll learn how to recognize it in yourself and others, what warning signs to watch for, and practical strategies to help clients move beyond “knowing” into genuine healing and lasting results.

What nervous system beliefs guide your personal life and professional work? Perhaps it's "my nervous system knows the way," "story follows state," "micro moments are the pathway to change," “everyone has a home in ventral” or one of the many other adages Polyvagal Theory has helped us understand. In this workshop we will first explore our personal guiding nervous system beliefs and how these beliefs sustain us and then dive into ways the wisdom of the nervous system shapes our clinical choices. Using the organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory we will identify autonomic truths and bring curiosity to how they can be applied to support client safety and therapeutic success.

Forgiveness is often a triggering and complicated issue, particularly as it relates to relational trauma or complex PTSD. Some clients don’t want to forgive their abusers, even after they’ve severed all ties. Others hold onto anger and resentment but stay in unhealthy relationships, nonetheless. And some will forgive prematurely and struggle with not getting what they’d hoped for as a response. In this workshop, we’ll explore different dimensions of forgiveness: when it's premature and when it’s forced, when it's used to avoid feelings of pain and betrayal, whether it's necessary to fully heal from abuse, whether it serves the victim or the perpetrator, and when it leads to true acceptance and freedom.

This experiential workshop offers an introduction to the transformative Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz. Tailored for clinicians, helpers, and anyone seeking profound personal or collective healing, the workshop provides a supportive space to explore the psychological and emotional burdens we carry—both personal and inherited.

Join Dr. Scott Lyons and Dr. Bessel van der Kolk for an illuminating Master Class, Somatic Approaches to Trauma Healing and the Role of Psychedelics. This session explores the profound connection between body-based practices and trauma recovery, offering insights into how somatic approaches help regulate the nervous system and promote healing. Discover the emerging role of psychedelics as a transformative tool in trauma therapy, bridging mind and body to unlock deeper resilience. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from two leading experts in trauma healing and somatic integration.

This process offers a compassionate approach to ancestral trauma by helping clients identify and gently engage with the core wound of one parent at a time. Through the shared relational field, clients bring in competent external resources—not from themselves—to meet their parent’s unmet developmental needs. This careful boundary restores the client's (as a child’s) role and helps heal the “parentified child” dynamic as well as possibly mitigating adult estrangement. As the parent begins to receive support, healing often reverberates through the lineage, touching previous generations and descendants alike—illustrated powerfully in John’s work with his abusive father and paternal grandmother.

Join Positive Psychologist Niyc Pidgeon for this powerful masterclass training where you’ll discover how to integrate somatic practices with the science of happiness to boost wellbeing without bypassing real emotions. Discover why true positive psychology isn’t about being happy all the time, and how to use evidence-based tools to create lasting breakthroughs and transformation with your clients. You’ll walk away with proven strategies that support deeper growth, emotional resilience, and results, rooted in science and embodied in practice.

Even with the best tools, healing can stall—not because you’re doing it wrong, but because old survival patterns are still protecting you. In this presentation, Dr. Russell Kennedy (The Anxiety MD) unpacks the five hidden barriers that block somatic healing, even when we’re “doing the work.” Through the MADDS framework and his ABC method, you'll learn how to gently identify and dissolve the protective patterns keeping you stuck—so you can move from managing anxiety to truly healing it at the root.

Join Sah D’Simone, founder of the Somatic Activated Healing Method™, for a 90-minute exploration of how we reckon with our humanity. Being human hurts. The somatics of being human is how we stop turning that hurt into war.

You’ll begin with a 30-minute practice combining trance dance, body keys, dynamic meditation, breathwork, and affirmations—designed to help you embrace discomfort and unlock growth. This is followed by a 30-minute talk on the healing power of discomfort, and a 30-minute Q&A exploring how to move through emotions with clarity and care.

How can we work with the body's natural healing intelligence to create lasting change from trauma? Join experienced Hakomi trainer Manuela Mischke-Reeds in this masterclass Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Therapy: A Hakomi Approach to Trauma Healing. Manuela will explore how trauma gets stored in the body and demonstrate practical somatic techniques that go beyond traditional talk therapy. You'll learn how to use mindfulness and movement interventions to help clients regulate their nervous systems and access their body's innate capacity for healing. Drawing from her extensive experience with first responders, torture survivors, and other trauma populations you'll explore concrete skills that you can immediately apply to help your clients achieve deeper stabilization and transformation.

How do we stay balanced, heart-centered, and true to our values in these times of deep political strife and unrest? How do we face our fears and speak truth to power in an era of widespread censorship? What does it mean be alive and embodied when the world appears to be collapsing around us?

Join somatic teacher, trauma healer, and cultural worker Kai Cheng Thom for this Master Class on the somatics of resistance and resilience for trauma healing and social change.

Learn actionable strategies to step into your power, ask for what you truly want, and live with bold, unapologetic authenticity. What does it truly mean to show up as your authentic self—in relationships, at work, and in life? In this music-infused, science-backed workshop, best-selling author and Grammy-nominated musician Justin Michael Williams introduces the 3 Skills to Build True Authenticity. Learn practical, Harvard-backed tools to boost confidence, navigate conflict, and create meaningful, lasting success in all areas of life.

We invite you to a rare one-on-one Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) session demonstration with internationally renowned trauma expert Dr. Peter A. Levine, developer of SE™, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma.

During this demonstration session, Dr. Levine will lead us in exploring how we can track shame patterns within our clients and lead them out of collapse into experiencing a sense of pride. Learning from observation, practice, and discussion is an integral way to understand bottom-up somatic-based healing, no matter what level. Please join us for this wonderful opportunity to dive deeper into the understanding of SE™ and Dr. Levine's work in the field, including Q&A.

Does love mean that we ‘belong’ to one another?

This idea can sound romantic—but the normalized ownership template most of us were raised with has created some challenging dynamics within our partnerships.

Understanding the interplay of energetics and how they come to life in our relationships is the key to healing our codependent tendencies and creating more harmony in all of our relationships. This class is for all relationship types. These energetics are alive in all of us regardless of gender identification, sexual orientation and the ways we've all been socialized to hold gender binaries.

Shame is a wound of not belonging. It leaves you feeling like an exile; a stranger in a strange land. An important key to healing from shame is recognizing that inside of your embarrassment, sense of failure, or experience of rejection lies your undeniably legitimate human needs for connection, kindness, acceptance, and love. In this master class with Dr. Arielle Schwartz, we will take a look at the origins of shame and how to work with this therapeutically to cultivate a sense of compassionate connection to Self.

Discover essential tools to help children navigate the immediate aftermath of trauma in this transformative Master Class with Dr. Scott Lyons. Learn practical, age-appropriate strategies to foster safety, emotional regulation, and resilience in young minds. Whether you’re a caregiver, educator, or mental health professional, this class equips you with the insights needed to respond effectively to crises, empowering kids to process their experiences and regain a sense of stability.

Betsy Polatin will explore with us how Trauma affects Support, Suspension, and Breath. Trauma tends to fragment and/or diminish our sense of self. This experiential presentation will offer simple exercises to enhance sensory skills by exploring the musculoskeletal, respiratory, and nervous systems, and how they relate to the larger universe, and to trauma. Learn to awaken inherent potential by finding the support from the ground that can lead to full stature and the expanded Self, while noting how trauma and overwhelm can interfere with this process. Session will include live demos with participants.

Join renowned spiritual teacher and author Sah D'Simone for an illuminating exploration of craving and attachment through the lens of Buddhist wisdom. In this 90-minute workshop, you'll discover how ancient Buddhist teachings can transform your relationship with addictive patterns and compulsive behaviors. Through guided meditation, somatic practice, and interactive discussion, Sah will share practical tools for breaking free from cycles of craving and returning to present-moment awareness. Whether you're dealing with substances, relationships, social media, or other forms of attachment, this workshop offers profound insights for your healing journey.

The body is the foundation of all our experiences and is the place of transformation. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy welcomes and values the wisdom of the body as the landscape for therapeutic change. In this experiential and engaging session, we will lean into the guiding foundations and principles of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and the wise therapeutic maps and structures that have been informed and emerge from these principles. We will learn and deepen understanding of how to nourish a therapeutic container in SP that sets the groundwork for embodied transformative healing.

Our human bodies, like the earth, are mostly water. Continuum is a practice that engages breath, sound and movement to restore our inherent fluidity and moving flow. This pre-solstice movement class in the Northern hemisphere’s dark time will explore how and where our light can play in our own inner landscape. Come prepared to play with the audability and emergent music of breath as an invitation to invoke your authentic ways of moving and being. Dress comfortably for movement, and please bring “nesting” materials (mats, blankets, cushions) and something to write in.

In this Master Class, we’ll apply somatic tools to help relieve and uncover the real causes of chronic pain patterns that evade diagnosis. Often, unresolved trauma and emotional stress are deeply involved. Through somatic techniques, we’ll explore effective methods for pain relief and work towards lasting resolution.

Science shows us that extended periods of regulation aren’t necessary to shape new patterns. In this experiential session, we’ll explore the power of micro-moments to resource regulation. We’ll consider how small naturally occurring moments accumulate, shape our biology, and how we might intentionally use them to write new stories of safety and connection. We’ll learn how the negativity bias gets in the way of taking in positive experiences, build a glimmer practice, and test the steps of savoring.

What does it really mean to embody social justice? What is the direct body experience that gives these words meaning? How can movement liberate from oppression, trauma, fear in our bodies? This experiential conversation will share ideas and practices from the facilitators human rights somatic framework for working with trauma and oppression. The concepts of microempowerments, state-shifting and interoception will be explored through embodied theory and movement in service of an inquiry into how movement liberates.

Step into your power with the Unstoppable Confidence Master Class led by Justin Michael Williams.

Discover the transformative art of building genuine self-confidence and self-esteem. Equip yourself with practical tools to assert your authenticity and enhance every aspect of your life, from career aspirations to personal relationships. Join this dynamic session to transform your potential into reality, one confident step at a time.

The body holds the secret to engaging with our deepest fears and darkest shadows. Join Kai Cheng Thom, MSW, MSc, Qualified Mediator, Certified Professional Life Coach, Certified Jungian Life Coach, for a somatic perspective on "shadow work"—a term that has become popularized in healing and personal development but is often ill-defined and poorly understood.

In this masterclass, Kai Cheng will draw from her study of the applications of depth psychology for coaching as well as her expertise in somatic trauma healing in order to provide participants with a clear and practical foundation for understanding the "shadow" in psychological terms and ways in which this concept relates to embodiment work.

Join us for 'Happy Endings: Grief, Dying, and End-of-Life,' a workshop that intertwines the art of poetry and somatics to explore these profound topics.

Under the expert guidance of Sah D'Simone, immerse yourself in a rich tapestry of poems that uncover the beauty and wisdom in the realms of loss, mortality, and life's inevitable conclusion. This workshop aims to cultivate somatic acceptance and a deeper understanding of these universal experiences.

Enhance your personal and professional practice: Somatic Self Touch is a simple and highly effective way of bringing immediate relief and support to emotional and physical suffering.

Using targeted self-contact in areas where emotional and bodily tension is focused, individuals experiencing emotional overwhelm and trauma can find self-regulation and experience accelerated results in somatic and conventional therapy.

In this Master Class, participants will gain valuable skills to find significant support during challenging emotional states, such as anger, rage, fear, terror, disembodiment, and numbness.