- Describe trauma as a lived, embodied experience, informed by personal history, resilience, and nervous system responses — not solely as a diagnostic category.
- Identify at least two ethical or personal complexities clinicians may face when supporting clients while continuing their own healing journey, using the wounded healer framework.
- Identify how story, embodiment, and meaning-making can support integration, dignity, and hope in trauma recovery.
Join one of the field’s most respected voices for a rare and deeply personal conversation on healing, resilience, and the wounded healer’s journey.
For five decades, Peter A. Levine has been transforming trauma treatment worldwide, fundamentally changing how the field understands the body’s role in healing. Yet even he spent decades helping others resolve what he had not yet fully integrated in himself.
That’s why we brought together Dr. Levine and Arielle Schwartz, renowned traumatologist and bestselling author of eight books, for a rare and intimate fireside conversation exploring the paradox of the wounded healer.
And the best part? It’s completely FREE!
This isn’t a technique-focused lecture on trauma protocols. This is a candid, unscripted conversation where Dr. Levine speaks openly about his own early experiences of violence and resilience, and how joy, imagination, and bodily wisdom quietly laid the groundwork for his healing long before he had language for it.
You’ll witness:
- A firsthand account of the wounded healer paradox, drawn from Dr. Levine’s An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey
- How autobiography, neuroscience, and clinical insight intersect to reveal healing as it actually unfolds, not as theory describes it
- A reframing of trauma not as pathology to be corrected, but as a human experience that can become a source of meaning, dignity, and wholeness
Few conversations offer this level of honesty from a pioneer of the field.
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A Somatic Approach to Healing Trauma
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November 11, 2026
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Meet Your Trainers
Peter A. Levine, PhD
Peter A. Levine, PhD, holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. The developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, which conducts trainings throughout the world and in various indigenous cultures, with 26 faculty members and over five thousand students. Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA on the development of the space shuttle project and was a member of the Institute of World Affairs Task Force of Psychologists for Social Responsibility in developing responses to large-scale disasters and ethno-political warfare.
Levine’s international bestseller, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, has been translated into 22 languages. His recent interests include the prevention of trauma in children, and he has co-written two books with Maggie Kline: Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids. His most recent book, In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, was released to rave reviews. Levine’s contribution to the field was honored in 2010 when he received the Lifetime Achievement award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP).
Arielle Schwartz, PhD
Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, EMDR-C, is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified complex trauma professional, EMDR Consultant, and Kripalu yoga teacher. She is an internationally sought-out speaker, leading voice in the field of trauma recovery, and the author of eight books including The Complex PTSD Workbook, EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology, The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook, and Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga.
As the founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy, her work is rooted in the positive psychology movement, focused on enhancing resources and fostering growth. She offers an integrative, mind-body approach to therapy that includes relational therapy, somatic psychology, EMDR therapy, parts work therapy, and therapeutic yoga for trauma. Praised by Dr. Stephen Porges, Arielle specializes in applying his polyvagal theory, which focuses on addressing imbalances within the autonomic nervous system that underlie most mental and physical health conditions. Her work can be found at the Shift Network, Sounds True, Psychotherapy Networker, Embody Lab, Art of Living, Omega Institute, and more.
What Leading Voices Are Saying About Peter A. Levine
Praise from pioneers who know his work best
Peter’s work fosters healing, cohesion, and a ‘coming home’ to who we were each born to be.
Alanis Morissette
Peter Levine is a wise and kind pioneer of somatic therapies who has been a beacon for clinicians all over the world for understanding and dealing with the physical imprints of traumatic stress.
Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Author of The Body Keeps the Score
Author of The Body Keeps the Score
Peter A. Levine is one of the seminal trauma pioneers and master healers of the past half century.
Gabor Maté, MD
NYT bestselling author of The Myth of Normal
NYT bestselling author of The Myth of Normal
The bold, intuitive visionary who courageously convinced the mental health community of the important role that the body plays in experiencing the impact of trauma.
Stephen Porges, PhD
Originator of polyvagal theory
Originator of polyvagal theory
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Compelling and revelatory — showing people how to be in the world with all of its sorrows, while still finding inner freedom and joy.
Rick Hanson, PhD
Author of Buddha’s
Brain
What Clinicians Are Saying About Arielle Schwartz
From practitioners who have learned from her work
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“Dr. Schwartz is an excellent presenter and researcher! I consider myself a seasoned trauma specialist and I learned so much…”
— Marie G., PhD
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“Dr. Schwartz has been, hands down, the most effective presenter I have experienced in the PESI system. A valuable gem to the community. A whole soul who knows how to show others what it is like to care.”
— Walter D., LMFT
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“Arielle is an EXCEPTIONAL facilitator!! I will absolutely take her courses, seek them out, moving forward.”
— Workshop participant
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“Dr. Schwartz was great. Very knowledgeable while at the same time extremely receptive to others’ experiences. She is open to new ideas that will make us all more effective in helping others. I was very impressed.”
— Joseph P., Addictions Counselor
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A Somatic Approach to Healing Trauma
From Survival to
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Featuring Peter A. Levine,
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• 1:00pm – 3:00pm Central
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What You’ll Learn During This Free Training
Trauma as Lived Experience, Not Just Theory
- Childhood trauma, protection, and early resilience
- The role of joy, imagination, and embodiment in survival
The Wounded Healer’s Path
- Developing his somatic approach before personal resolution
- What it means to accompany others while still healing oneself
Dreams, Mentors, and Lineage
- Dreams, intuition, and unexpected guides (including Einstein)
- Influences from somatic pioneers, ethology, and neuroscience
- Research and the limitations
Story, Body, and the Return of Wholeness
- Why telling our stories matters — carefully and with support
- Trauma as a doorway to meaning, not identity
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PhD & Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, EMDR-C
November 11, 2026
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