Keynote Speakers
Babette Rothschild
Babette has been a practitioner since 1976 and a teacher and trainer since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including her classic bestseller, The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment (2000) and Revolutionizing Trauma Treatment: Phased Recovery via Sensory and Autonomic Balance (2017, 2020).

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She is the Series Editor of the WW Norton 8 Keys to Mental Health Series. After living and working for 9 years in Copenhagen, Denmark in the 1990’s she returned to her native Los Angeles. There she is writing her next books while she continues to lecture, train, and supervise professional psychotherapists worldwide.
In recent years, together with members of her Somatic Trauma Therapy team, the London office of WW Norton, the Complex Trauma Institute, and Doctors Without Borders, she has been providing probono training and support for thousands of psychotherapists and other helping professionals in Ukraine and other crisis areas or the world. For more information, visit her website: www.trauma.cc
Babette’s books are translated into more than 19 languages including Danish, German, French, Spanish, and Japanese and are all published by WW Norton.

Nick Totton
Nick has been working for over 40 years as a body psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor. He has created two trainings, in Embodied-Relational Therapy and in Wild Therapy, which continue under other trainers; and has written books mostly about body psychotherapy and other therapy-related themes.
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His books include Reichian Growth Work; Embodied Relating: The Ground of Psychotherapy; Body Psychotherapy for the 21st Century; Wild Therapy: Rewilding Inner and Outer Worlds; and Different Bodies: Deconstructing Normality.
Nick has long been a full member of EABP, and for the last decade a member of the EABP ThinkTank. He has been Chair of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, of the UK Body Psychotherapy Network, and of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Union, the last two of which he helped create. He was also founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Psychotherapy and Politics International. He is now semi-retired, lives in Sheffield with his partner and grows flowers and vegetables.
María Paz Cardín García
María Paz is currently a professor at the European University of Madrid, Director of Biosynthesis for Spain, and an International Senior Trainer in Biosynthesis. She is officially recognized by the European Association of Psychotherapy (EAP).

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María Paz holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and is a Clinical Psychologist (Academic Award) from the Universidad Cardenal Cisneros. She is a Certified Somatic Psychotherapist by the International Institute for Biosynthesis (IIBS) and a Certified Therapist in Bioenergetic Analysis (CBT) by the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis (IIBA).
She also holds a Master’s in Clinical Psychology from the Pontifical University of Comillas, is a Registered Psychologist (no. M-27426) with the UCM and serves as a member of the editorial board of the International Journal for Psychotherapy (IJP) — www.ijp.org.uk

Steve Hoskinson
Founder of Organic Intelligence®, Steve is an internationally recognized teacher, mentor and author in Post-Trauma Growth (PTG). Over the past 20 years, he has presented at
professional conferences globally, and trained thousands of helping professionals worldwide.
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Steve has served as Adjunct Faculty for JFK School of Psychology, Advisory Board Member for The Trauma Foundation, the US Association for Body Psychotherapy, International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC), and former Senior International Instructor for the SE ® Trauma Institute.
His teachings were invited to be on Dr. Mark Hyman’s Broken Brain docu-series, the 2019 Plum Village Neuroscience Retreat, and in Somatic-Oriented Therapies: Embodiment, Trauma, and Polyvagal Perspectives edited by Herbert Grassmann, Maurizio Stupiggia and Stephen Porges.
Dedicated to empowering coaches and therapists worldwide, Steve has created a host of mindfulness-based programs for Post-Trauma Growth, including The End of Trauma™ Course, and The End of Trauma Podcast and the OI™ Coach Certification program.
Marian Dunlea
Marian Dunlea, M.Sc., IAAP, ICP, is a Jungian analyst, somatics practitioner, teacher, and author. Creator of BodyDreaming®, an embodied Jungian practice, she directs the online BodyDreaming Training Programme and leads workshops internationally integrating body and soul, the somatic and imaginal.

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She is Head of Training at BodySoul Europe, sister organisation of the Marion Woodman Foundation, where she is core faculty. Marian’s work weaves neuroscience, trauma therapy, and attachment theory with Jungian psychology and a phenomenological awareness of interconnectedness. Her book BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma (Routledge) received the 2019 Gradiva Award and the IAJS Best Book Award. www.mariandunlea.com
The title :
At the stillpoint of the Edge : Moving through polarities with the body
“Except for the point, the still point, there would be no dance; and there is only the dance.” T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

Tricia Healy
Tricia is a biodynamic and integrative psychotherapist and artist who has specialised in palliative care and end of life for many years. She completed her higher diploma in Tracht Psychotherapy Foundation in 2010 and her masters in Clinical Psychotherapy in 2024 from The Tivoli Institute and SETU.
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She has researched the potential role of the psychotherapist working transpersonally in end of life care (EOLC) and presented her findings at the Palliative Care Research Network Symposium in Dublin in 2025. She is a passionate advocate of open communication in EOLC.
She has written and delivered several trainings for health care professionals on care of mind, body and soul, on beginning the conversation in EOLC, on self care in the caring professions. She has spoken at TedX Tralee.
Tricia facilitated and curated the groundbreaking Guthanna Idir an Dá Linn, Voices from the Inbetween, an art installation, with a group of 7 palliatively ill people. It debuted in 2024 and is organically transforming into a travelling, educational, legacy piece.
https://vimeo.com/1024886862/54daaf4d32
Thomas Harms
Thomas is a psychologist and body psychotherapist and the director of the Center for Primary Prevention and Body Psychotherapy (ZePP) as well as the Crying Baby Clinic in Bremen, Germany.

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He is the founder of Emotional First Aid (EFA), a body- and attachment-oriented approach to crisis intervention and acute parent–baby therapy, and of Attachment-Oriented Body Psychotherapy for therapeutic work with adults.
Over the past ten years, Thomas has developed a clinical project in South Tyrol, Italy, where he and his team have established and trained a task-force group of Emotional First Aid therapists. These professionals work directly in birth clinics and neonatal units, offering early crisis intervention and body-oriented trauma support when complications arise before, during, or shortly after birth.
Thomas works internationally as a trainer and supervisor and is the author and editor of several books.

Christiane Lewin
Christiane is a body work therapist since 1981, a trainer, supervisor and lecturer. She is as well the co- founder and co-director of the Ecole Biodynamique (Biodynamic School) in Montpellier – France – since 1987 and responsible for the French Biodynamic Psychology Schools’ training program.
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As an international training manager, she teaches Biodynamic Psychotherapy in Europe, Latin America and Japan. She is invited by other international Schools.
Christiane started to work as a therapist in 1977 by opening two Ergotherapy departments in psychiatric hospitals within she introduced Body psychotherapeutic practices. Then she encountered Biodynamic Psychotherapy, and also studied Shiatsu and acupuncture at the same time.
For the last 40 years, she has continued her own researches around the chanted voice and its clinical use in body work therapy, to go through and dissolve emotional trauma. She has elaborated a whole therapeutic technique around the sound. She enriched Biodynamic with a work with dreams, the symbolic and the conducing of imagery work.
Christiane developed more specifically an approach to positive regression and “re-parenting” process, to repair the problem of attachment and the right to exist. She pursued her research on the treatment of borderline patients. Equally, she develops family lineages work.
She is an active member of the European Association of Body Psychotherapy (EABP) within she was an elected member of its Ethic Comity for 6 years.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
