Free
The Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and
Social Change Summit
Conversations on Compassion, Wisdom, and Skillful Means
Hosted by Dr. Janina Fisher, Dr. Tori Olds, and Brian Spielmann
A Free Virtual Conference October 17-23, 2021
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The Psychotherapy, Spirituality,
and Social Change Summit
A Unique Event
Our mission is to bring together a diverse and preeminent faculty to create a life-changing event for the therapy community that fully expresses the interconnection between therapy, spirituality, and social change.
This unique online event includes 17 dynamic interviews from with a broad spectrum of experts, leaders, and teachers.
Plus
Introducing
Live Salon Sessions!
This is not your ordinary passive consumer summit. This is an interactive experience.
Each day of the summit, we will host Zoom sessions for you to meet with your peers to discuss the day’s presentations. Each presenter will provide discussion questions to get the conversation going.
The Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and Social Change Summit
Presentation Schedule:
Presentation Schedule:
Sunday, Oct 17
Internal Family Systems as an Agent of Spiritual and Social Change
Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.
Healing Suffering, Transcending Suffering: A Buddhist Exploration of Skillful Therapy
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Contemplative Practices for Releasing Racism and Enhancing Psychological and Social Flourishing
Kamilah Majied, Ph.D.
Monday, Oct 18
Implicit Bias in the Body: A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Investigation of the White Cultural Paradigm
Pat Ogden, Ph.D.
Decolonizing Mental Health Care: Tending to Racialized Trauma and Ruptures
Melody Li, LMFT
TUESDAY, Oct 19
A Spiritual and Psychological Approach to Healing the Wounds that Shatter the Hidden Gift in Trauma
Diane Poole Heller, Ph.D.
Grappling with Spiritual Integrity: The Sacred Role of a Therapist-person in an Out-of-control World
Lisa Lackey, MA, LCPC, CSAT, CMAT
WEDNESDAY, Oct 20
Intimate Relationship as a Crucible for Spiritual Awakening
Terry Real, LICSW
Soulfulness as a Practice of Liberation in the Context of Racial Trauma
Shelly Harrell, Ph.D.
THURSDAY, Oct 21
Embodied Healing and Social Justice
Staci Haines
Citizen Therapist: Going Beyond Blue and Red
William J. Doherty, Ph.D.
FRIDAY, Oct 22
Hidden Trauma, Hidden Gold: Ancestral Healing for Contemporary Cultural Schisms
Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Ph.D.
Finding Interdependence in a Landscape of Fear and Social Upheaval
Justine Huxley, Ph.D.
Creating a Safe Place to Talk About Race
(or, All I Ever Learned About Therapy was From a Group of Black Women)
Debra Chatman-Finley, LPC, and Gliceria Pérez, LCSW
saturday, Oct 23
Transcending Trauma Through Your Optimal Future Self
Nancy Napier, MA, LMFT
The Neurobiology of Safety in an Unsafe World
Jules Taylor Shore, LPC S, LMFT S, SEP
Releasing the Root Cause of Trauma: A Radically Positive Psycho-spiritual Approach to Healing Trauma
Deirdre Fay, MSW
Sunday, Oct 17
Internal Family Systems as an Agent of Spiritual and Social Change
Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.
Healing Suffering, Transcending Suffering: A Buddhist Exploration of Skillful Therapy
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Contemplative Practices for Releasing Racism and Enhancing Psychological and Social Flourishing
Kamilah Majied, Ph.D.
Monday, Oct 18
Implicit Bias in the Body: A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Investigation of the White Cultural Paradigm
Pat Ogden, Ph.D.
Decolonizing Mental Health Care: Tending to Racialized Trauma and Ruptures
Melody Li, LMFT
TUESDAY, Oct 19
A Spiritual and Psychological Approach to Healing the Wounds that Shatter the Hidden Gift in Trauma
Diane Poole Heller,
Ph.D.
Grappling with Spiritual Integrity: The Sacred Role of a Therapist-person in an Out-of-control World
Lisa Lackey, MA, LCPC, CSAT, CMAT
WEDNESDAY, Oct 20
Intimate Relationship as a Crucible for Spiritual Awakening
Terry Real, LICSW
Soulfulness as a Practice of Liberation in the Context of Racial Trauma
Shelly Harrell, Ph.D.
THURSDAY, Oct 21
Embodied Healing and Social Justice
Staci Haines
Citizen Therapist: Going Beyond Blue and Red
William J. Doherty, Ph.D.
FRIDAY, Oct 22
Hidden Trauma, Hidden Gold: Ancestral Healing for Contemporary Cultural Schisms
Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Ph.D.
Finding Interdependence in a Landscape of Fear and Social Upheaval
Justine Huxley, Ph.D.
Creating a Safe Place to Talk About Race (or, All I Ever Learned About Therapy was From a Group of Black Women)
Debra Chatman-Finley, LPC, and Gliceria Pérez, LCSW
saturday, Oct 23
Transcending Trauma Through Your Optimal Future Self
Nancy Napier, MA, LMFT
The Neurobiology of Safety in an Unsafe World
Jules Taylor Shore, LPC S, LMFT S, SEP
Releasing the Root Cause of Trauma: A Radically Positive Psycho-spiritual Approach to Healing Trauma
Deirdre Fay, MSW
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Meet Your Hosts...
Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
Janina Fisher, Ph.D. is the Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, a former instructor at Harvard Medical School, and an international expert on the treatment of trauma and dissociation. She is the author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017) and Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (2021). Best known for her work on integrating newer neurobiologically-informed interventions into traditional psychotherapy approaches, she is the co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015).
Tori Olds, Ph.D.
Tori Olds, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Austin, Texas. She is the training director and part-owner of Deep Eddy Psychotherapy, a training and counseling center that houses 40 clinicians. She specializes in the integration of experiential approaches to therapy and teaches four weekly training groups on this topic. She also offers online video-based trainings that offer CEU's. Tori is passionate about breaking down complex psychological theories to make them accessible to the public, which she does through her Youtube channel as well as speaking engagements.
Brian Spielmann
Brain Spielmann, CEO, and founder of Academy of Therapy Wisdom and Authentic Presence, Inc., has two decades of experience creating and producing over 500 online courses and in-person events and retreats. He is particularly interested in working with organizations and experts focused on ecological sustainability, spirituality, and human development. For eight years, Brian helped run one of the largest retreat centers in North America. Here he led marketing and program development, recruiting world-renowned faculty and overseeing the creation and designing numerous innovative programs, including the Courageous Women Fearless Living program for women dealing with cancer.
Brian has an environmental degree from the University of Maryland and a graduate degree from the University of St. Thomas Graduate School Business (MBA). He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his dog Nacho and his nettles patch.
