Summit: Healing Through Somatic Attachment Therapy

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

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