EUROTAS 2026 Program

An Integrative Journey of Sharing, Reflection, and Transformation

The detailed program for the EUROTAS 2026 Symposium, taking place from May 22 to 24, 2026, at the Hotel Seminário Torre d’Aguilha in Portugal.

Please note: This program is subject to change due to scheduling or organizational reasons

crowd of people sitting on chairs inside room

May

Friday - 22

13:15 – 16:00

Welcome Drink and Sandwiches
(coffee break style)

16:00 – 16:30

Opening with Live Music and Meditation

16:30 – 17:45

Opening Session with
Pier Luigi Lattuada
Mário Resende
Ilja Van de Griend

17:45 - 18:30

1st Lecture
Franz Rupert

18:30 - 19:15

2nd Lecture
Bernardette Blin

19:15 – 20:00

Music - Experiential Moment

20:00 – 21:30

Dinner

21:30 – 23:00

Event A - Active Meditation - Mário Resende & AlmaSoma

Event B - Healing Practice - Ilja Van de Griend

May

Saturday - 23

07:00 – 08:00

Yoga – Experiential – Meditation

07:00 – 09:00

Breakfast

09:00 - 09:45

1st Lecture
Ilja Van de Griend

09:45 - 10:30

2nd Lecture
Dana Biechonski Fernandes

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 11:45

3rd Lecture
Laura Latina

11:45 - 12:30

4th Lecture

12:30 - 13:00

Music – Experiential Moment

13:00 - 15:00

Lunch

15:00 - 19:00

Event A - Workshops
Event B - Signature hybrid lecture session by SOFIA UNIVERSITY

19:00 – 21:00

Dinner

21:00

Meditation Concert with
Netanel Goldberg

May

Sunday - 24

07:00 – 08:00

Yoga – Experiential – Meditation
07:00 – 09:00
Breakfast
09:00 - 09:45
1st Lecture
Regina U. Hess
09:45 - 10:30
2nd Lecture
10:30 - 11:00
Music – Experiential Moment
11:00 - 11:45
3rd Lecture
11:45 - 13:45
Lunch
13:45 – 17:30
Event A - Workshops
Event B - Sunday Afternoon Lectures
17:30 - 18:30
Closing Cerimony with Netanel Goldberg
"Singing Together for Peace, Love and Connection to a Better World"

Confirmed Speakers & Facilitators

Andrea Cardillo

Leadership trainer and coach, culture change advisor, supervisor. ICF Master credentialed Coach. PhD candidate in Transpersonal Psychology at CIIS. Trainee in Grof® Breathwork and Grof Psychedelic Therapy.

Andreas Rodenkirchen

Multidisciplinary healing arts practitioner specializing in stress, trauma, leadership, and creativity. He is certified in Grof® Breathwork and Grof Psychedelic Therapy.

António Venâncio

Clinical Psychologist, Transpersonal Psychotherapist & EUROTAS Supervisor, Jungian Analyst trainee, co-founder of SPPA and Instituto C. G. Jung Portugal.

Bernadette Blin

Psychologist, transpersonal psychotherapist, and director of IRETT, integrating bodywork and expanded states into transformative adult trainings.

Beth Sanderson

Beth is a Compassionate Inquiry practitioner and Cranio-Sacral therapist, with experience in integrated baby therapy. She integrates a somatic approach with mindfulness, spirituality, art therapy, and pre- and perinatal psychology.

Carla Alves

Carla Alves is a Somatic Psychotherapist in Biosynthesis, certified by the Biosynthesis International Institute and the European Association for Psychotherapy, with multidisciplinary training in body psychotherapies.

Catarina Carvalho

Neo-Reichian Body Psychotherapist based on Biosynthesis, with training in Psychosomatics, Epigenetics, Trauma and Neuroscience; clinical supervisor.

Cecília Valentim

Cecília Valentim holds a Doctorate and Master's degree in Social Psychology from the University of São Paulo, is a somatic psychotherapist, senior trainer, and supervisor in Biosynthesis.

Dana Biechonski Fernandes

Somatic psychotherapist, supervisor, teacher, bodyworker, movement teacher, and board member. Somatic psychotherapy-psychomotor research.

Dawn Celeste McGregor

Dr. Dawn Celeste McGregor is a professor at Sofia University whose work explores embodiment, female agency, and pragmatic mysticism. She integrates lived experience and the sacred as a pathway to a conscious, embodied life.

Franz Ruppert

Professor, psychotrauma expert and author, Franz Ruppert explores identity, bonding, and trauma in individuals and family systems worldwide.

Ida Falchenberg Espensen

Ph.D. student in psychedelic research at CIIS and an assistant professor at Innlandet University, Norway. Certified in Grof® Breathwork and Grof Psychedelic Therapy.

Ilja van de Griend

Transpersonal psychotherapist, Co-director of AlmaSoma, former EARTh president, trainer in regression, energy healing and pre/perinatal psychotherapy.

Jolanta Jaunzeme

Jolanta Jaunzeme is a transpersonal psychotherapist, teacher, and coach. She facilitates individual and group work integrating body therapy, breath, aromatherapy, and her Metaphorical Forest Journeys, guided by a deep devotion to the playful, living essence of the inner child.

Laura Latina

Laura Latina is an independent midwife, international speaker, and Certified Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner. She offers gentle, trauma-informed care and supports women in reconnecting with their innate, embodied motherhood.

Mário Resende

Transpersonal psychotherapist, trainer, and co-director of AlmaSoma, with a background in psychology, philosophy, and clinical hypnosis.

Pier Luigi Lattuada

President of EUROTAS, founder of Integral Transpersonal Institute, creator of Biotransenergetics, bridging psychotherapy and ancient traditions

Regina Hess

Clinical psychologist, shamanic practitioner, planetary educator, and sacred activist. Founder of Birthing an Ancient Future and Vice President of ETPA.

Rita Ferreira

Psychotherapist trained in Psychosomatics, Epigenetics, Biosynthesis and Transpersonal Psychotherapy; member of the European Association for Psychotherapy.

Rita Ribeiro

Clinical Psychologist, PhD in Psychology, Jungian Analyst, university professor, and president of both the Portuguese Society for Analytical Psychology (SPPA) and the C.G. Jung Institute (IJP).

Soen Moonen

Sōen is a bodywork and meditation facilitator based in Ostend, Belgium. After four years of monastic training as a lay Zen monk in Japan, he supported initiatives at the intersection of education, finance, and sustainability across Stockholm, Boston, and Cape Town.

Victoria Rose

Pre- and Perinatal Psychology & Health Educator, International Speaker, Sacred Birth Doula, Heal Your Own Birth Guide, Founder Luminous Birth.

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Andrea Cardillo

Short bio:

I am a leadership coach, trainer, and culture transformation advisor. My approach blends Western philosophy, transpersonal psychology (including psychosynthesis and Grofian psychology), and adult development studies. He has a PhD in Philosophy and has published books and articles about philosophy of religion, ethics, and cultural change. He is a PhD student in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at CIIS and is completing his training to qualify as a Breathwork and Grof Psychedelic Therapy practitioner at GLT Nordic. 

Email: andrea.cardillo1@gmail.com

Webpage: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreacardillo/

Andreas Rodenkirchen

Short bio:

Andreas Rodenkirchen is multidisciplinary healing arts practitioner who has been working with individual clients, leading workshops, coaching companies and public authorities in dealing with stress, trauma and difficult situations and relations as well as on topics such as creativity, leadership, conflict management/resolution and public speaking.
Andreas is qualified in Grof® Breathwork and Grof Psychedelic Therapy and works as core faculty in Grof Legacy training Nordic. 

António Venâncio

Short bio:

António Venâncio is a Clinical Psychologist, Transpersonal Psychotherapist and EUROTAS Supervisor. Jungian Analyst trainee (SPPA, IJP, SEPA, IAAP) and founding member of the Portuguese Society for Analytical Psychology (SPPA) and the Instituto C. G. Jung Portugal (IJP).

Webpage:: www.antoniovenancio.com

Bernadette Blin

Short bio:

Bernadette Blin is a psychologist, transpersonal psychotherapist, trainer, and author. She is the Director of IRETT (EUROTAS Transpersonal Training Institute) and a long-time Board Member of EUROTAS.

With extensive training in Neo-Reichian therapy, Gestalt, relaxation techniques, and Holotropic Breathwork, she integrates bodywork and expanded states of consciousness into her therapeutic approach. She is deeply committed to activating the inner resources of human beings through transpersonal methods.

Bernadette facilitates workshops, groups, and trainings for adults, working in both French and English.

Webpage: http://www.bernadetteblin.fr; http://www.irett.net

Beth Sanderson

Short bio:

Beth is a Compassionate Inquiry practitioner, Compassionate Inquiry circle leader, Integrated baby therapist and a Cranio-Sacral therapist. She has been part of the senior tutoring team at the College of Cranio-Sacral therapy in London for the past 8 years. Beth Integrates many modalities with a strong somatic approach, infusing  mindfulness, ancient wisdom, spirituality, Art therapy and pre and perinatal psychology

Webpage: https://compassionateinquiry.com/directory/beth-sanderson/

Carla Alves

Short bio:

Carla Alves is a Somatic Psychotherapist in Biosynthesis, certified by the Biosynthesis International Institute and the European Association for Psychotherapy, with multidisciplinary training in body psychotherapies, integrative massage and vegetotherapy, and a degree in Physical Education.

Email: escolaportuguesadebiossintese@gmail.com

Webpage: https://www.escolaportuguesadebiossintese.com/

Catarina Carvalho

Biografia

Catarina Carvalho is a neo-Reichian Body Psychotherapist based on Biosynthesis, with a degree in Social and Organizational Psychology and a master’s degree in Music Therapy, with complementary training in Psychosomatics, Epigenetics, Trauma and Neuroscience. Catarina is a clinical supervisor.

Email:: escolaportuguesadebiossintese@gmail.com

Webpage: https://www.escolaportuguesadebiossintese.com/

Cecília Valentim

Short bio:

Cecília Valentim holds a Doctorate and Master’s degree in Social Psychology from the University of São Paulo, is a somatic psychotherapist, senior trainer, and supervisor in Biosynthesis, with certification in Bioenergetic Analysis and an extensive career integrating vocal art and psychotherapy.

Email: escolaportuguesadebiossintese@gmail.com

Webpage: https://www.escolaportuguesadebiossintese.com/

Dana Biechonski Fernandes

Short bio:

Dana Biechonski Fernandes is a Somatic Psychotherapist and Certified Supervisor from Bodynamic International, the Danish school for somatic developmental psychology. She has maintained a private practice since 2014 and works internationally, supporting people with a wide range of body–mind and psychosomatic symptoms through an embodied, nervous-system-based approach.

In her clinical and teaching work, Dana weaves together somatic psychology, psychomotor research, a deep understanding of the nervous system, and fascia, exploring the relationship between connective tissue, trauma, and regulation — always held with a warm, attuned presence. She is a member of the Fascia Research Society and the European Association for Body Psychotherapy (EABP) and serves on the board of the Association for Bodynamic Psychology (ABP).

Dana’s work is deeply integrative, grounded in parallel professional trainings across psychotherapy, bodywork, and movement education, as well as a long-standing background in transpersonal psychotherapy that began in her teens and shaped the foundation of her path. By bridging hands-on manual work, somatic psychotherapy, and movement awareness, she supports healing through multiple entry points — honoring the body, emotions, and mind as one system.

Within the ABP, Dana contributed to community and professional initiatives, including support groups for Ukrainians during the first year of the war. She is also the creator and facilitator of The Family Playground, a project fostering playful movement and embodied connection between parents and children, and The Playground, a program introducing embodiment practices within psychotherapeutic schools that are often more focused on cognitive or verbal approaches.

Email: dana@heldbydana.com

Webpage: www.heldbydana.com

Dawn Celeste McGregor

Short bio:

Dr. Dawn Celeste McGregor is a professor in the BAPS and MBA programs at Sofia University, CA. She has research published on the subjects of the lived experience of awe, the correlation between grief and gratitude, and her dissertation on The development of sexual agency as effective toward middle-aged women. 

Currently, Dr. McGregor is in peer review for the publication of her research on female social conditioning and its effects on agency. Professor McGregor has been published non-academically around LGBTQ+ and women’s issues and recently published (in English and Spanish) an embodied and mystical adventure novel, The Alchemy of Wings. 

Dr. McGregor has been practicing and studying mysticism and embodiment for over 30 years, during that time she was a professional psychic and transformation leader. Pragmatic mysticism became a passion for Dr. McGregor early in her scholastic career as she discovered the need for integration of experience and divinity as a pathway to living a sacred life.

Email: dawn.mcgregor@sofia.edu

Webpage:  Dawncelestemcgregor.com

Franz Ruppert

Short bio:

Franz Ruppert is Professor of Psychology at Munich University of Applied Sciences, a post he has held since 1992. He gained his PhD in Work and Organization Psychology at the Technical University of Munich in 1985.

Since 1995, he has focused on psychotherapeutic work, specifically on the causes of psychosis, schizophrenia, and other forms of severe mental illness. He has combined this with his interest in bonding and attachment theories and modern trauma work, in order to better understand the effects of traumatic events—not only on individuals but on entire bonding systems such as families.

He teaches trauma theory at the University of Applied Sciences, works with individuals, and facilitates workshops in Germany and internationally, including the UK. He also teaches the theory and method at his own institute in Munich. He is the author of several books exploring trauma, identity, and the dynamics of the human psyche.

Email: professor@franz-ruppert.de

Webpage: https://www.franz-ruppert.de

Ida Falchenberg Espensen

Short bio:

Ida Falchenberg Espensen is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Research Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) specializing in psychedelic research. She is an assistant professor at Innlandet University in Norway where she runs an educational program in psychedelic therapy for health care professionals. Ida is also qualified in Grof® Breathwork and Grof Psychedelic Therapy, and work as core faculty in Grof Legacy Training Nordic.

Ilja van de Griend

Short bio:

Ilja van de Griend, 55, is Dutch-born with Portuguese nationality and has been living in Portugal since 2006. She is a transpersonal psychotherapist certified by the European Transpersonal Association and a professional member of the EARTh Association for Regression Therapy, with over 30 years of personal and professional experience in the field of integral development.

A trainer of therapists since 2005, Ilja has extensive training in Regression Therapy (Hans ten Dam, 1999–2002, followed by studies with Michael Newton, Morris Netherton, Roger Woolger, and Trisha Caetano, among others), Energy Therapy (licensed as a Brennan Healing Science Practitioner by the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, 2006–2010), Coaching (trained by the International Coach Academy in 2011 and Alan Seale in 2012), and Baby Therapy (through the Institute for Pre- and Perinatal Education, 2013–2017, and Pre- and Perinatal Educator, APPPAH, 2022).

She completed the Teacher of Presence training with the Eckhart Tolle School of Awakening and became a certified Art Medicine Practitioner in 2023. Ilja is responsible for the training programs in Energetic Techniques and Therapeutic Presence (ETTP) and Pre- and Perinatal Therapy (PPN) at AlmaSoma.

She was the founding president of the EARTh Association for Regression Therapy from 2006 to 2007. Ilja holds a degree in Economics (1994) and is the co-founder and co-director of AlmaSoma since 2006.

Jolanta Jaunzeme

Short bio:

Jolanta Jaunzeme has an EUROTAS certificate in transpersonal psychotherapy, teacher, coach, creator of Metaphorical Forest Journeys. Individual and group work using body therapy, aromatherapy, breathing techniques, and metaphorical forest journeys. With the greatest passion in life – to experience and create with the essence of a lively and playful inner child.

Email: jolanta.jaunzeme@gmail.com

Webpage:  https://studija-anima.mozello.lv/

Laura Latina

Short bio:

Laura Latina is an independent midwife with over 15 years of experience, an international speaker, and a Certified Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner. She has worked across four continents with organizations including Médecins Sans Frontières and the NHS, supporting maternal and newborn care in contexts ranging from community midwifery to humanitarian and clinical leadership roles.

Having supported more than 3,000 births worldwide, Laura is deeply committed to gentle, respectful, and trauma-informed birth practices. She supports women in reconnecting with their innate capacity for attuned, embodied motherhood and views birth as a sacred rite of passage. Together with Hannah Idarius, she co-created and facilitates The Portal, a Compassionate Inquiry–based, trauma-informed perinatal training.

Email: laulat84@gmail.com

Webpage: http://lauralatina.com/

Mário Resende

Short bio:

Mário Resende, 59 years old, is a member of the Portuguese Psychologists’ Association, a transpersonal psychotherapist recognized by the European Transpersonal Association, and a certified therapist by the EARTH Association for Regression Therapy. He is a former president of the Luso-Brazilian Transpersonal Association and currently serves as one of the vice-presidents of the Portuguese Federation of Psychotherapy.

He co-founded and has co-directed AlmaSoma since 2006. Mário holds a degree in Philosophy, a master’s in Clinical Psychology, and a postgraduate specialization in Clinical Hypnosis. He was a full-time high school teacher until 2006 and has additional training in Biodynamic Therapy, Waking Dream Analysis, and Active and Social Meditations.

His poetry can be found at: www.marioresende@almasoma.pt.

Pier Luigi Lattuada

Short bio:

Pier Luigi Lattuada is the President of EUROTAS and founder of the Integral Transpersonal Institute in Milan.

A medical doctor with a specialization in psychotherapy from Milan State University, he is the creator of Biotransenergetics—an integrative approach that bridges psychology, shamanism, and ancient traditions. His work focuses on Integral Medicine, transpersonal research, and consciousness studies.

With decades of international experience, Pier Luigi trains individuals and groups around the world through seminars, workshops, and a four-year professional training in transpersonal counseling and psychotherapy. He speaks Italian, English, French, and Portuguese.

Email: djirendra@gmail.com

Regina Hess

Short bio:

Regina U. Hess, Ph.D. (Netherlands/Portugal), is a clinical psychologist from Germany, a shamanic practitioner, a planetary educator, and a sacred activist, holding a Ph.D. in transpersonal psychology (USA/UK). She is the visionary Founder/Director of Birthing an Ancient Future – a Multidisciplinary Council of Peace-Builders – creating global learning spaces where Indigenous knowledges, body-centered transformation, alchemical ceremony, and psychedelic science converge. Guided by Indigenous ethics of Respect, Reciprocity, and Responsibility, her work advocates transpersonal education, planetary healing, and transcultural peace. Dr. Hess is faculty at Alef Trust (UK), serves in leadership roles on the Boards of EUROTAS and the International Transpersonal Association, and is Vice President of ETPA. An international speaker and author, she is a multidimensional, transformative weaver and bridge-builder, committed to the further evolution of sacred planetary consciousness for the benefit of all relations. 

Email: drreginahess@birthinganancientfuture.com

Webpage: www.birthinganancientfuture.com

Rita Ferreira

Short bio:

Rita Ferreira is a Psychotherapist trained in Psychosomatics, Epigenetics, Biosynthesis, Body Psychotherapy and Transpersonal Psychotherapy, with a degree in Zootechnical Engineering and a postgraduate degree in Engineering and Technology Management. Rita is a member of the European Association for Psychotherapy.

Email: escolaportuguesadebiossintese@gmail.com

Webpage: https://www.escolaportuguesadebiossintese.com/

Rita Ribeiro

Short bio:

Rita Ribeiro is a Clinical Psychologist since 1999, holds a PhD in Psychology, and is a Jungian Analyst. She teaches at university level and currently serves as President of both the Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicologia Analítica (SPPA) and the Instituto C. G. Jung (IJP).

Email: consultorio@ritaribeiro.pt

Webpage: www.ritaribeiro.pt

Soen Moonen

Short bio:

Sōen is a bodywork and meditation facilitator based in Ostend, Belgium. Prior to his four-year monastic training as a lay Zen monk in Japan, Sōen supported the development of initiatives at the intersection of education, finance, and sustainability across Stockholm, Boston, and Cape Town. 

Email: moonen.thijs@gmail.com

Victoria Rose

Short bio:

Victoria Rose is a Myofascial Release Therapist, Reiki Master, Sacred Birth Doula and Birth-Keeper Mentor. She’s an international pre- and perinatal educator — specializing in prenatal memory — certified through the Association of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health and is devoted to protecting the consciousness and sentience of babies from the very begininng of life. Her path has been shaped by years of immersion in indigenous communities and Amazonian healing traditions, apprenticing with elders and wisdom keepers in Hawai‘i, Canada, and Peru. She has several developed pioneering programs—including Transcribing Living Memory, Transform Into Birth, Luminescence Fertility and Pre-Proconception Program and a 9-Month Luminous Birth Practitioner Mentorship Program—guiding individuals and couples through life’s most profound thresholds of conception, pregnancy, and birth. Luminous Birth’s programs transcend the most breakthrough models of fertility, preconception, and prenatal care — embodying the unseen dimensions that sit at the core of cultivating humans who thrive lifelong in love, health, belonging and interconnectedness. 

As the founder of Luminous Birth, Victoria’s mission is to revive family culture on our planet, by re-fertilizing humanity—recognizing that the psycho-neuro-immuno-endocrinological developement of all human beings are informed by our core beliefs about whether or not we’re loved, welcomed, and belong in our family, community and world. Family creation is inseparably linked with the health of Mother Earth, and the flourishing of all sentient life. 

Email: birthingluminousbeings@gmail.com

Webpage: www.luminousbirth.earth

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