Summit: Healing Through Somatic Attachment Therapy

Rewire relational wounds, restore secure attachment, and cultivate an embodied sense of belonging — with Dr. Dan Siegel, Dr. Judy Ho, Dr. Stan Tatkin, Ann Weiser Cornell, Kai Cheng Thom, and more.

Summit: Healing Through Somatic Attachment Therapy.
Somatic attachment therapy helps us build a more intimate, safer, and authentic relationship with ourselves and others. Through a somatic approach, we learn how to rewire and reconnect at every level — regardless of the past — and experience an embodied sense of belonging. Across two days of experiential sessions, ten of the world's leading voices in somatic attachment therapy share the practices, frameworks, and clinical tools that transform relational wounds into pathways of connection, compassion, and resilience.

Comprehensive Curriculum

Day 1

  • Somatic Tools for Healing Anxiety in Relationships — Kai Cheng Thom
  • Cross-Generational Trauma and Personality: How Overwhelming Experiences, Genetics, and Epigenetic Inheritance Shape Who We Are — Dr. Dan Siegel
  • Inner Relationship Focusing as Somatic Healing — Ann Weiser Cornell
  • Creating Sacred Self-Care Through Body Consciousness — Dr. Fanny Brewster

Day 2

  • The Role of Somatic Attachment in Relational Repair — David Cooley
  • Nurturing Intimacy Where We Find It: Cultivating Love When Traditional Attachment Figures Aren't Reliable — Cyndi Darnell
  • Investigating Safety & Safeness — Jessica Montgomery
  • Anchoring into Secure Attachment — Manuela Mischke-Reeds
  • Rewiring Self: How Attachment Shapes Self-Concept, Self-Talk, and Core Beliefs — Dr. Judy Ho
  • Interview with Dr. Stan Tatkin — with Dr. Scott Lyons and Kai Cheng Thom

Learning Outcomes & Professional Benefits

By the end of this summit, you will be able to:

  • Recognize how early attachment patterns and cross-generational trauma shape personality, self-concept, and core beliefs
  • Apply somatic tools to soothe relational anxiety and discharge avoidant or anxious activation in the body
  • Use Inner Relationship Focusing to become a healing presence for parts of self that hold attachment wounding
  • Identify and create the conditions of "safeness" required for therapeutic transformation, using mindful awareness, pendulation, anchoring, and co-regulation
  • Recognize and amplify moments of secure attachment in the therapeutic relationship
  • Guide repair after relational rupture by attending to four core attachment needs
  • Cultivate intimacy and chosen-family attachment beyond traditional romantic or familial structures
  • Practice reparenting techniques that reshape inner narratives, self-talk, and self-concept
  • Integrate psychobiological and nervous-system-informed approaches into couples and individual work

Who This Is For

- Therapists, counselors, and psychologists working with attachment, trauma, or relational wounds
- Somatic practitioners, body-based therapists, and trauma-informed coaches
- Couples therapists and relationship coaches seeking nervous-system-based tools
- Mental health professionals integrating attachment theory with embodiment practices
- Educators, social workers, and helping professionals supporting clients with developmental trauma
- Individuals on a personal healing journey seeking to understand and rewire their own attachment patterns