SUMMIT SESSIONS
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Day 1: Understanding the Nervous System
Peter A. Levine, PhD: Trauma and the Nervous System: Foundations for Safety, Regulation, and Healing
Arielle Schwartz, PhD: Nervous System Literacy in Therapy: Foundations for Healing and Resilience
Linda Thai, MSW, LMSW: Mapping the Nervous System: Understanding Survival Responses and the Path to Regulation (replay)
Rick Hanson, PhD: Neuroplasticity, Resilience, and The Nervous System
Jordan Quaglia, PhD: What is Nervous System Regulation? Bridging Neuroscience and Practice
Day 2: Clinical Tools & Practices for Regulation
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT: Attunement and Regulation in Virtual Therapy: Tracking the Nervous System Online
Pat Ogden, PhD: Regulation and Resilience: Exploring the Sensorimotor Approach to Developing Resources
Chinwé Williams, PhD: Regulating from Within: Nervous System Tools for Therapists and Clients
Bonnie Badenoch, PhD: Co-Regulation as Treatment: How Safety and Attunement Rewire the Nervous System
Day 3: Nervous System Resilience & Integration
David Treleaven, PhD: Broadening the Window of Tolerance for Resilience and Healing
Bessel van der Kolk, MD and Licia Sky: Synchrony and Safety: Embodied Presence in Trauma Healing
Raymond Rodriguez, Rev., MSW, LCSW: Coping with Toxic Stress in Difficult Times: Nervous System Regulation & Resilience
Jordan Quaglia, PhD: Compassion as Container and Compass: Navigating Nervous System Regulation Through Care

The Wisdom of the Body: Befriending Sensation, Supporting Healing

Raymond Rodriguez, Rev., MSW, LCSW

Subtitles Available!

What you'll learn

  • Learn how to bring the body into therapy as a source of truth, regulation, and innate healing—starting with your own somatic awareness as a therapist
  • Explore somatic interventions that help clients reconnect with present-moment experience, gently approach discomfort, and integrate positive sensations
  • Discover how orientation, curiosity, and co-created safety support clients in developing a more compassionate relationship with their bodies

About the speakers

Raymond Rodriguez, Rev., MSW, LCSW

Raymond Rodriguez, LCSW-R, Rev., is an Afro-Latino Clinical Social Worker with over twenty years of experience in working with community-based programs. He received his Social Work degree from Columbia University School of Social Work. He is a family therapist with clinical interests in the areas of immigration, diversity, LGBTQ empowerment, spirituality, and working with marginalized communities. In the last decade he has become a trauma specialist assisting clients with complex psychological trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He is certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).  He has extensive training and practice in family systems therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, and Emotionally Focused Therapy.  Raymond has served as a counselor faculty at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York; is faculty and a member of the Executive Committee of the Trauma Studies Center of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy; and is faculty at the Integrative Trauma Studies Program of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. He has served as faculty with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and as an Adjunct Lecturer at Columbia University School of Social Work and Smith College School of Social Work. He formerly served on the Boards of the National Association of Puertorrican and Hispanic Social Workers and the No More Fear Foundation.  He lives in Westchester, NY (on unceded Lakota lands) with his partner, son, and dogs.

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