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

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May

Friday - 22

13:15
16:00

WELCOME DRINK

16:00
16:30

LIVE MUSIC
Inês Ripamonti

16:30
17:45

OPENING SESSION
Mário Resende
Symposium President
AlmaSoma Co-Director

Ilja van de Griend
Symposium Scientific Comitee
AlmaSoma Co-Director

Pier Luigi Lattuada
EUROTAS President

Dorote Weyers-Lucci
DBA and Leadership Program Chair at Sofia University

17:45
18:30

LECTURE
Franz Ruppert
Early Trauma - How Early Life Experiences Can Be Traumatizingh

18:30
19:15

LECTURE
Bernadette Blin
From Biological Birth to Emotional and Spiritual Rebirth

19:15
20:00

LECTURE
Dana Biechonski Fernandes
Somatic Pathways into the Earliest Wounds: From the Womb to Easly Life

20:00
21:30

DINNER

21:30
23:00

EVENT A
Ilja van de Griend & Roberta Treno
The Womb Within - An Intuitive Painting Experience with Drums and Voice

EVENT B
Mário Resende & AlmaSoma
Active and Ecstatic Meditation

May

Saturday - 23

07:00
08:00

MORNING YOGA
Bárbara Moura

07:00
09:00

BREAKFAST

09:00
09:45

LECTURE
Ilja van de Griend
How Babies Help Us Remember Who We Really Are

09:45
10:30

LECTURE
Luis Miguel Gallardo
Regression and Pre- and Perinatal Imprints: From Shadow to Essence Through the Integrative Transformation Model

10:30
11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00
11:45

LECTURE
Laura Latina & Beth Sanderson
Integrating Compassionate Inquiry into our Perinatal Professions

11:45
12:30

LECTURE
Rita Ribeiro
The Primary Bond and the Awakening of the Numinous at The Begginning of Life

12:30
13:15

LECTURE
Siegmar Gerken
Transpersonal Dimensions of Embodiment and the State of Love

13:15
15:00

Lunch

15:00
19:00

EVENT A
WORKSHOPS

Andreas Rodenkirchen & Ida Falchenberg Espensen
From First Breath to Full Incarnation: A Grofian Breathwork Journey – Grof® Breathwork Session

Franz Ruppert
Early trauma - How To Deal With It By The Self Encounters And The Intention Method

Dana Bienchonski Fernandes
The Somatic Journey os Birth: Exploring Early Imprints through the Body

Rita Ribeiro / António Venâncio
Self-experience in sandplay: Witnessing the numinous in silence

Laura Latina / Beth Sanderson
Birth Imprints: the Compassionate Inquiry approach for Healing Early Wounds

Bernardette Blin
Rebirthing Into the Self Through Breath and Mantras

Luis Miguel Gallardo
Returning to the Beginning: An Experiential Journey Through Age Regression, Pre-Natal Imprints, and Life Between Lives Toward Fundamental Peace

Siegmar Gerken
The Living Pulsation of Embodiment - From Birth to Buddhahood

Alex Caiano
Before Words: Healing Preverbal Trauma Through Baby Therapy

Désirée Gonzalo
imagery & Rescripting in Healing Transgenerational Wounds

15:00
19:00

EVENT B
SIGNATURE HYBRID LECTURE SESSION by SOFIA UNIVERSITY


15:00 - 15:40
Amarillis Vázquez Morales & Amanda G. Rizik Mayo
The Womb as First Environment: Exploring Prenatal Experience Through Embodied Inquiry

15:40 - 16:20
Regina U. Hess & Dawn Celeste McGregor
Pre and Perinatal Foundations of Relational Transpersonal Leadership and Responsible Agency

16:40 - 17:10
Jaspr Chang, Ilja van de Griend & Dorote Weyers-Lucc
Immersive Dialogue: Designing Experience for Whole-Person Learning and Transformation

17:20 - 18:00
Etel Leit
Before Words: Embodied Communication with Infants Through Signs

18:00 - 19:00
Amanda G. Rizik Mayo, Amarillis Vázquez Morales, Dawn Celeste McGregor, Dorote Weyers-Lucci, Ilja van de Griend, Pier Luigi Lattuada, Regina U. Hess
Round Table Discussion/Panel: Peace, Birth, Balance — The Womb as the First Ecology of Leadership

19:00
21:00

DINNER

21:00

MEDITATION CONCERT
Netanel Goldberg

May

Sunday - 24

07:00
08:00

MORNING YOGA
Bárbara Moura
07:00
09:00
BREAKFAST
09:00
09:45
LECTURE
Mavi Marin
Embodied Eros: Conscious Sexuality and the Deconstruction of the Self at the Origin of Human Development
09:45
10:30
LECTURE
Marion Meisser
Soul Obstetrics : Becoming a Mother in an Unmotherly Society - A transpersonal view of motherhood, nurturing and caring
10:30
11:00
COFFEE BREAK
11:00
11:45
LECTURE
Temu Loveth
Tradition and Prenatal Psychology
11:45
12:30
LECTURE
Regina U. Hess
Multidimensional Transformation of Transgenerational prenatal and birth imprints into awakened incarnations
12:30
14:00
Lunch
14:00
17:45
EVENT A
 WORKSHOPS

Andreas Rodenkirchen & Ida Falchenberg Espensen
From First Breath to Full Incarnation: A Grofian Breathwork Journey – Grof® Breathwork Session

Pier Luigi Lattuada
Triunity: Mastering the Transpersonal Process of Death and Rebirth

Portuguese School of Biosynthesis
Inhabiting the Body: From the Embryo to the Consciousness of Being

Dawn Celeste McGregor
Learning to Trust the Body’s Wisdom: Relational Agency and the Sacred Yes and No

Jolanta Jaunzeme
Metaphorical Forest Journey – “Family Patterns”

Robert Zappe
Burn: Activating and Processing Old Stuck Emotional Wounds through Movement

Irina Irimia
The Feminin Oracle

Daniela Chaves
From The Spirit To The World - Transforming the poison in the soil from pre and perinatal experiences into medicine of the seed for fulfilling incarnations and lives

Cristiana Franco
The Child Within
13:45
18:00
EVENT B
HYBRID WORKSHOPS

13:45 - 14:15
Victoria Rose
Welcoming the New Human

14:15 - 15:45
Kate White
18:00
19:00
CLOSING CEREMONY
Netanel Goldberg
"Singing Together for Peace, Love and Connection to a Better World"

Confirmed Speakers & Facilitators

Alex Caiano

Alexandra works with babies and families from conception through early life, supporting the release of prenatal and birth trauma and helping parents engage in their baby’s healing journey.

Amanda G. Rizik Mayo

Puerto Rican midwife trained in Mayan and traditional practices, integrating ancestral knowledge with modern bodywork, anatomy, and nervous system understanding.

Amarillis Vázquez Morales

Dance/Movement Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor with over 15 years of experience, integrating psychology, embodiment and transpersonal approaches to support regulation, transformation and well-being.

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.

Bárbara Moura

Bárbara Moura is a certified yoga teacher whose work integrates movement, breath, fascia, the nervous system, and somatic practice as pathways to regulation, presence, and integration.

Bernadette Blin

Clinical and social psychologist, transpersonal psychotherapist, Gestalt therapist, teacher, and supervisor, accredited by Stanislav Grof in Holotropic and Grof Breathwork. Co-founder of CESHUM and former president of EUROTAS, with extensive work in transpersonal psychotherapy training across Europe. Author of several books and articles, currently researching the collective impact of transpersonal psychotherapy and transpersonal values.

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.

Cristiana Constantino De Figueiredo Vaz Franco

Cristiana Vaz Franco is a conscious parenting mentor, breathwork facilitator, and integrative therapist whose work focuses on inner child healing, consciousness expansion, and reconnecting with one’s essence.

Dana Biechonski Fernandes

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

Daniela Marisa Medeiros da Cunha Chaves

A systemic therapist and consciousness educator specialising in transgenerational, early-life and developmental trauma, guiding healing from ancestry and pre-conception through to adulthood.

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.

Désirée Gonzalo

Désirée Gonzalo, DClinPsych, PhD, is a clinical psychologist trained at King’s College London and University College London. With 30+ years of experience, she integrates CBT, EMDR, and mindfulness. Her work focuses on conscious parenting and healing transgenerational trauma.

Etel Leit

TEDx speaker, PhD in Transpersonal Psychology and 5x author, Dr. Etel Leit helps people transform attachment, communication and trust into safer, steadier and more authentic connection.

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.

Irina Irimia

A practitioner with 17 years of experience in psychosomatics, applied neuroscience, and transpersonal healing, currently deepening this integration through advanced training and certification.

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.

Karlton Terry

Pre and perinatal pioneer Karlton Terry has led 400+ trainings worldwide and is recognised as one of the world’s leading baby therapists and instructors.

Kate White

Award-winning educator and bodyworker specialising in prenatal and perinatal somatics, trauma healing, infant mental health, and parent-baby care.

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.

Luis Miguel Gallardo

Luis Miguel Gallardo is a global leader in well-being, hypnotherapy, consciousness, and transformative leadership, advancing systemic change through education, policy, and human flourishing.

Mário Resende

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

Marion O. Meisser

Marion is a medical doctor specialised in gynecology and obstetrics, and trained in transpersonal psychology. She integrates modern medicine and ancient healing arts in the field of women’s health.

Mavi Marín

Mavi Marín is a relationship and sex therapist whose academic and clinical work explores conscious sexuality, embodiment, alterity, and transpersonal connection.

P. Jaspr Chang

Licensed psychotherapist, transpersonal practitioner and experiential artist, Jaspr creates immersive healing experiences exploring prenatal life, trauma, transformation and community renewal.

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).

Robert Zappe

Body-and-emotions coach with a long spiritual path, now completing advanced training in E-motion, offering deep work on unconscious experiences rooted in birth and early childhood.

Siegmar Gerken

Siegmar Gerken is a pioneer in Somatic, Humanistic, and Transpersonal Psychology, with over 50 years of teaching, research, and international work in consciousness and trauma.

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.

Temu Loveth Igho

Temu Loveth Igho is a nurse and midwife whose work bridges maternal health, prenatal psychology, holistic care, and African traditional wisdom across diverse cultural contexts.

Victoria Rose

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

Eurotas 2026 | Symposium
Alex Caiano

Short bio:

Alexandra works with babies, parents, and families at the very beginning of life – from conception and into the first years. Her work is rooted in psychoanalytic developmental psychology and pre- and perinatal psychology.
She helps parents hold space for their baby’s implicit memories of birth and the womb, guides families in releasing trauma held in the body, and supports parents in becoming sovereign in their baby’s healing journey – and their own.
Alexandra collaborates closely with Karlton Terry and co-manages Karlton Terry Baby Therapy, bringing this paradigm shift to practitioners around the world.

Email: alex@ktbabytherapy.com

Website: www.theholdingmother.com, www.ktbabytherapy.com

Amanda G. Rizik Mayo

Short bio:

Amanda G. Rizik Mayo, a certified Puerto Rican midwife, trained in Quetzaltenango. In Guatemala, Amanda studied at the Traditional Midwives School of the Highlands, where she learned about the human body according to the Mayan worldview and its connection to the Cosmos. Amanda lived in Mexico and apprenticed directly with the Mexican midwife Angelina Martínez, from whom she trained in childbirth care, learned about herbs, healing practices, and medicinal baths. 

Currently, she is studying to become a Massage Therapist at the Puerto Rico Massage & Bodywork Institute, where she is enriching her knowledge with cutting-edge understanding of human anatomy and physiology from a Western perspective and delving into studies of the nervous system and human behavior.

Amarillis Vázquez Morales

Short bio:

Amarillis Vázquez Morales, PhD, BC-DMT, LPC, is a Dance/Movement Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor with over 15 years of experience integrating psychology, embodiment, and holistic wellness. With a doctorate in Transpersonal Psychology, she specializes in mind-body approaches that support emotional regulation, transformation, and well-being.

She is the founder of Souls In Motion and a qualified educator and supervisor in her field, bringing a grounded, experiential approach to healing that bridges science, movement, and transpersonal practice—particularly in supporting individuals through transformative life stages.

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

Bárbara Moura

Short bio:

Bárbara Moura is a certified yoga teacher (Yoga Alliance RYT 500H) whose work understands yoga as a practice of listening, self-observation, and reorganisation. She teaches Vinyasa, Hatha, Yin, Restorative, and Yoga Nidra, integrating knowledge of fascia, the nervous system, and somatic practices. Her approach sees yoga not only as physical practice, but as a space for regulation, presence, and integration. She has trained in multistyle yoga, Yin Yoga and Fascial Release, advanced Iyengar Yoga studies, and yoga for babies, children, and families. Bárbara also works as a Shiatsu therapist, integrative energetic massage therapist, and Reiki master. 

Bernadette Blin

Short bio:

Clinical and Social Psychologist.
Transpersonal Psychotherapist, Gestalt-therapist, Teacher and Supervisor.
Co-founder of CESHUM, training institute in transpersonal psychotherapy in France.
Former President of EUROTAS.
Accredited by Stan Grof as teacher of Holotropic and Grof Breathwork.
Representative of the Grof Legacy Training for French European countries
Author of many articles on Transpersonal Psychotherapy.
Author of several books: Healing the ego, revealing the being, the challenge of Transpersonal Therapies, Manual of Transpersonal Psychotherapy, and When Consciousness will awaken.

My research today focuses on the impact of transpersonal psychotherapy and transpersonal values on the collective.

Email:: blinlery@gmail.com

Webpage:
bernadetteblin.eu
ceshum.et

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/

Cristiana Constantino De Figueiredo Vaz Franco

Short bio:

Cristiana Vaz Franco is a conscious parenting mentor, breathwork facilitator, and integrative therapist whose work focuses on inner child healing, consciousness expansion, and reconnecting with one’s essence.

Trained in Conscious Parenting by the Conscious Coaching Institute, inspired by the work of Dr. Shefali Tsabary, Cristiana supports parents and adults through deep processes of self-awareness, helping them recognize how early wounds, inherited patterns, and unconscious emotional responses manifest in relationships — especially in the relationship with their children.

Her work integrates somatic practices, guided meditation, conscious breathing, inner reflection, and group sharing, creating safe spaces where body, emotion, and awareness can meet. Her approach is grounded in the understanding that children are often living mirrors of the inner world of adults, inviting them to reconnect with their own childhood — not to remain trapped in the past, but to transform the way they love, parent, relate, and inhabit life.

She is also the host of the podcast A Caminho de Casa, where she leads conversations on consciousness, healing, parenting, spirituality, love, and human transformation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-jUTUuuAPk&t=3057s

Email: cristiana@cristianavazfranco.com

Website: https://www.instagram.com/cristianavazfranco/

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

Daniela Marisa Medeiros da Cunha Chaves

Short bio:

Daniela Marisa is a systemic therapist, a teacher and consciencesness educator, specialising in transgenerational, early-life and developmental trauma. 

Her practice focuses on a systemic, integrative and multidimensional approach, guiding processes of healing and transformation by working across the various dimensions of the self and along the timelines, from ancestry and pre-conception through to adulthood. 

Her vision is rooted in the foundations of life: the family, operating within the sacred triad of father–mother (the family system) and child, supporting human beings from before conception and throughout their lives, both in their individual development and in their conscious preparation to welcome a new life. 

“For every family that comes into being is born from another. 
And every new life begins to take shape long before its conception, in an invisible realm where everything collides, reorganizes and prepares itself. 
To care for this origin is to care for the lives of those who are here, and those who are yet to come, and it is to bring forth a New Era, a New Earth and a New Humanity.”

Email: d.chaves@outlook.com

Website: https://www.instagram.com/danielamarisa.movimentosdalma/

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
dawnceleste333@yahoo.com 

Webpage:  Dawncelestemcgregor.com

Désirée Gonzalo

Short bio:

Désirée Gonzalo DClinPsych, PhD earned a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at King’s College London and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London.

She worked in brain research for 9 years, then in clinical psychology, clinical research, and psychotherapy for 21 years. She has trained in CBT, EMDR, Schema Therapy, Mindfulness, and Good Enough Parenting, and is currently training in Transpersonal Coaching. She has taught at UCL, Westminster University, and University of New York in Prague.

She offers individual psychotherapy for individuals, as well as seminars, workshops and courses in Life Skills and Deliberate Parenting. She is passionate about her work in parenting and healing transgenerational trauma. She is currently based in Prague.

Email: drdesireegonzalo@gmail.com

Webpage: multilingualpsychologicalservices.com

Etel Leit

Short bio:

Dr. Etel Leit is a TEDx speaker whose 2025 talk became the second most viewed TEDx talk globally, a 5x author, and PhD in Transpersonal Psychology helping people repair love, rebuild trust, and communicate with clarity. She received the LA Times Leadership in Business Award for turning relationship science into tools people actually use.

Seen on CNN, FOX, and NBC, she works internationally with individuals, couples, and organizations to replace disconnection with emotional safety. Her work blends science and story while exploring attachment, early relational imprinting, and communication in the age of AI, revealing how modern connection can intensify attachment while weakening real closeness.

Known as “Your Love Doctor,” she teaches people how to speak differently so love stops feeling obsessive or uncertain and becomes steady, mutual, and real. Her work bridges early developmental communication, embodied connection, and relational healing across the lifespan.

Website:
www.DrEtelLeit.com 
 www.SignShine.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

Email: ilja@almasoma.pt

Website: https://almasoma.pt

Short bio:

Ilja van de Griend is a Dutch-Portuguese transpersonal psychotherapist and Certified Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner. She is the co-founder of AlmaSoma Transpersonal Training Institute, where she leads trainings in Energetic Techniques & Therapeutic Presence, as well as Pre- and Perinatal Therapy for adults and babies.

With more than 20 years of clinical and educational experience, alongside over 35 years devoted to her own personal integration journey exploring a wide range of therapeutic and developmental approaches, she specializes in Pre- and Perinatal Integration for people of all ages.

Certified by EUROTAS and a professional member of the EARTh Association for Regression Therapy, Ilja brings together a rich interdisciplinary background that includes training in Pre- and Perinatal Education and Therapy, Compassionate Inquiry, Regression Therapy, Brennan Healing Science, Presence, and Coaching.

Originally trained in Business Economics with a specialization in Management, she is currently completing a Master’s degree in Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology at the Open University.

Her work is rooted in the understanding that our earliest experiences lay the foundation for our entire lives — and that it is never too early or too late to access, process, and integrate these experiences in support of a fuller, more embodied life, where we feel safe, loved, and deeply connected to the human family.
From this understanding emerged the wish to organize the symposium “Happy Babies, Full Incarnations,” with the intention of bringing together people who recognize the importance of our earliest beginnings. Through this gathering, she hopes participants leave inspired and empowered, bringing greater wholeness into both their lives and professional practice.

Irina Irimia

Short bio:

17 years of studying and working with psychosomatics, applied neuroscience and transpersonal healing contexts, only recently officially integrating them all as a 3rd year master student with the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology of Barcelona, freshly certified as a Somatic Psychedelic Facilitator and a novice in dr. Alberto Villoldo’s school of Shamanic Energy Medicine

Email: irina.irimia@icloud.com

Website: transpersonalretreats.com

Jolanta Jaunzeme

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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/

Karlton Terry

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Early in his career as a businessman, Karlton Terry (KT) became interested in the healing arts and developed a naturopathic healing center in Denver. Colorado. He began studying under pre and perinatal pioneers, including William Emerson and Graham Farrant, and he continued building upon his education to fine tune what he had learned, and has developed his own curricula: some 12 different individual courses.
He became a pre and perinatal workshop leader, and for the last 25 years has taught, toured, lectured, and led 400+ workshops/trainings. Through his travels teaching in the US, Canada, Mexico, Western and Eastern Europe as well as the UK he has worked with and trained many top pre and perinatal practitioners.

Evolving into one of the world’s leading baby therapists and instructors, his courses are now being taught across Europe where he supervises and continues to influence some of the preeminent baby therapists of this generation.

Email: ktbabytherapy@gmail.com

Website: https://ktbabytherapy.com/

Kate White

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Kate White is an award-winning educator and an advanced bodyworker. She is trained in prenatal and perinatal somatic health, lactation, and infant mental health, and has specialized in parent-baby dyad care using somatic prevention and trauma healing approaches since 1999. She is a mother of two children, holds a BA and MA in Communication, is a Registered Craniosacral Therapist in the Biodynamic Craniosacral method, a Polarity Life Counselor and a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner.

Her work combines somatic trauma healing, especially the approach of Anna Chitty’s Blueprint Resonance work, energetic therapies, bodywork, pediatric therapies and education about the nervous system to help give families with babies and small children the best possible start.

She founded the APPPAH Department of Education, the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online and the Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute. She teaches classes online and in person, and offers training called Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics that she co-created with midwife Lois Trezise. She has a private practice in Chapel Hill, NC called Kate White PPN (katewhiteppn.com) and offers her own seminars through the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, ppncenter.com and the Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute, ppnsomatics.com

Email: : katercst@gmail.com

Website: : ppnsomatics.com ppncenter.com katewhiteppn.com

Laura Latina

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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/

Luis Miguel Gallardo

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Global Leader in Hypnotherapy, Well-Being, Leadership, and Consciousness

Luis Miguel Gallardo is a visionary thought leader, strategist, and educator dedicated to realizing a world of freedom, consciousness, and happiness for all. As the Founder and President of the World Happiness Foundation, he leads initiatives that empower individuals, communities, and organizations to cultivate well-being and systemic change.

With a background in Sociology, Political Sciences, Peace Studies, and Conflict Resolution, Luis Miguel holds degrees from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, IMD in Switzerland, and Lancaster University in the UK. He has also earned an MBA and holds professional certifications in Clinical Hypnotherapy from the Institute of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy (IIH) in the USA and as a Professional Mental Health Coach.

Luis Miguel is a Professor of Practice at the Yogananda School of Spirituality and Happiness at Shoolini University, the Director of the Gross Global Happiness Program at UPEACE, the United Nations-mandated University for Peace, and the World Happiness Academy, where he spearheads leadership and coaching programs for changemakers worldwide. His expertise in regenerative leadership, systemic transformation, and human flourishing has led him to be a featured speaker at global forums such as COP28, IPPA Congress, and the USA Conference of Mayors.

As an acclaimed author, Luis Miguel has written influential books, including:

  • Happytalism—a paradigm-shifting approach to well-being and societal progress.
  • The Exponentials of Happiness—exploring scalable strategies for happiness and impact.
  • Brands & Rousers—a holistic framework for leadership and organizational success.
  • The Meta Pets Method—a system for self-inquiry, healing, and awakening.
  • Unlocking the Light Within—hypnotherapy stories for transformation.
  • Hypnotherapy: The Essential Guide to Fundamental Peace and Conscious Realization.

A recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship in the USA and ERASMUS in Europe, Luis Miguel has contributed to shaping global well-being policies and initiatives like Cities of Happiness, Schools of Happiness, and Enterprises of Happiness. His work integrates hypnotherapy, coaching, and transformative leadership, ensuring that healing and personal growth are at the heart of systemic progress.

Committed to co-creating a thriving world, Luis Miguel continues to inspire global leaders, educators, and social entrepreneurs through his research, books, and pioneering programs.

Email: lgallardo@worldhappiness.foundation

Website: www.gallardohypnotherapy.com

Mário Resende

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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.

Marion O. Meisser

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Marion is a Swiss board-certified gynecologist and obstetrician who has accompanied thousands of women and babies during pregnancy, labor and postpartum. She has given birth to three children herself, both spontaneously and by cesarian section. Marion also holds a diploma in transpersonal psychology from CesHum in France, and has completed the intensive course of modern matriarchal studies at Hagia Institute in Germany. After more than 25 years of clinical practice as a medical doctor she is currently developing an online platform for an earth-integrative approach to women’s health. She lectures and works in German, French and English.

Email: hello@marionmeisser.ch

Website: www.marionmeisser.ch

Mavi Marín

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Mavi Marín is a relationship and sex therapist, holding a PhD in Communication and Culture, alongside master’s degrees in Sociology and Mindfulness.

A mother of two beautiful human beings, she regularly facilitates workshops in yoga, meditation, and conscious movement. Currently, her research lies at the intersection of contemplative sciences, phenomenology and the philosophy of alterity.

Her academic and clinical work explores conscious sexuality as a profound context for the deconstruction of the self, investigating how the embodied erotic encounter and transpersonal connection transform our understanding of human existence.

Email: mavimarinlovecoach@gmail.com

Website: www.mavimarinlovecoach.com

P. Jaspr Chang

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Jaspr is licensed psychotherapist, transpersonal practitioner, experiential artist, and social entrepreneur. He is the creator of the psycho-aesthetic experience, 1st Impression, a multi-sensory immersion into the prenatal and perinatal periods of life. He is also the founder of the creative mental health publication, Kaiyros.org. Jaspr has spent the past 15 years helping people transform addiction, trauma, existential crises, and non-ordinary experiences into pathways of self-discovery and community healing. He carries a deep love for music, poetry, nature, travel, cultures, and wisdom traditions; is a semi-aficionado for chocolate and coffee; a mild enthusiast of sports and integrative science, and a student of all things whimsical.

Website: https://www.kaiyros.org

Pier Luigi Lattuada

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Pier Luigi Lattuada M. D., Psy. D. Ph. D.

Founder of Biotransenergetics a new integral transpersonal psychotherapeutic approach.

Pier Luigi is the CEO of the Integral Transpersonal Institute of Milan. He is also director of the Transpersonal Psychotherapy School in Milan, fully recognized by the Ministry of Education University and Research since 2002. 

He is Faculty at Meridian University

He is President of EUROTAS, Global Transpersonal Network.

Pier Luigi has published twenty books and several scientific articles.

Email: djirendra@gmail.com

Website:
www.pierluigilattuada.com
www.integraltranspersonallife.com
https://integraltranspersonal.academia.edu/PierLuigiLattuada
https://www.youtube.com/user/biotransenergetica
https://www.facebook.com/drPierLuigiLattuada
https://www.linkedin.com/in/djirendra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Luigi_Lattuada


Regina Hess

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Regina U. Hess, Ph.D. (NL/PT), is a German clinician and transpersonal psychotherapist with a joint Ph.D. in transpersonal psychology from Sofia University, USA, and the UK. Her work unfolds where scholarship meets ceremony, trauma-informed practice meets Indigenous sciences, and expanded states of consciousness open pathways of remembrance, healing, and transformation. As Visionary Founder/Director of Birthing an Ancient Future – Multidisciplinary Council of Peace-Builders, she weaves co-creative spaces between ancient worlds and emerging futures, rooted in relational multispecies eco-cosmic consciousness. She advances relational transpersonal leadership and agency grounded in respect, reciprocity, and responsibility, in service of sacred belonging, regenerative futures, and living pathways of transformation. She serves in leadership roles on the Boards of EUROTAS and the International Transpersonal Association, is Vice-President of the European Transpersonal Psychology Association, and is a faculty member at the Alef Trust (UK). 

Email: drreginahess@birthinganancientfuture.com

Webpage: www.birthinganancientfuture.com

Rita Ferreira

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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

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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

Robert Zappe

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Robert Zappe works as a coach specializing in bodywork and emotional processes. He began his spiritual journey as a teenager, but it took a more serious direction in 2018 when he enrolled in Brandon Bays’s two-year accreditation program, Journey.

He has continued his professional development through both study and practical work with numerous coaches, primarily from the Anglo-American world. Over time, he established his own coaching practice, where he works with individuals and small groups.

Robert is currently completing another accreditation program focused on deep work with the body and emotions, under the guidance of German psychotherapist and bodyworker Dorothe Trassl. Her method, called E-motion, focuses on accessing and processing emotional experiences stored in the body.

The workshop he offers during this symposium is part of this training program and focuses on processing deep unconscious experiences rooted in birth and early childhood.

Email: rob.zappe@gmail.com

Website: https://www.dobroucestou.cz

Siegmar Gerken

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Siegmar Gerken, PhD, ECP, HP (Psychotherapy), studied Anthropology, Education, and Psychology. With over 50 years of teaching experience, he is a pioneer in Somatic, Humanistic, and Transpersonal Psychology. He has taught at institutions including the JFK University Somatic Psychology Department, the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, the Esalen Institute, and the Behavioral Therapy Training Institute in Hamburg.

For nearly 20 years, Siegmar studied and taught with John C. Pierrakos, MD, until 2001. Encounters with Jiddu Krishnamurti and David Bohm, together with the practice of Zen and the exploration of multiple dimensions of consciousness, shaped his lifelong commitment to building bridges between psychology and spirituality, environment and personality, ecopsychology, science, medicine, healing, and the subtle dimensions of life.

He currently teaches at universities and private institutes worldwide, focusing on the interconnectedness of psychosomatic processes as they manifest through body, emotions, mind, will, and consciousness. For almost 15 years, he also led Change Management workshops at the Norwegian Defense University College.

His research on the human energy field and biological light documentation with Prof. F. Popp, exploring psycho-emotional states within the Body-Feeling-Mind field, opened new horizons for both scientists and practitioners. He is co-founder of the Scientific Committee of the EABP and works internationally as a lecturer, therapist, trainer, and supervisor.

Together with his wife Cornelia, Siegmar co-founded the International Training Institute of Core Evolution® and CoreSoma®. He also developed the specialized Core Evolution Trauma Trainings™, addressing the integration of unresolved stress patterns and developmental, shock, family, generational, and collective trauma. In addition, he created the International Institute for Energy & Consciousness®, dedicated to applied mindfulness in psychology, spirituality, and science, including programs in authority and leadership, as well as love and consciousness.


Website: https://www.coreevolution.de

Soen Moonen

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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

Temu Loveth Igho

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Temu Loveth Igho is a Registered Nurse and Registered Midwife with over 20 years of global experience in maternal and child health. She is Registered Nurse and a registered Midwife e, with advanced academic training in biology and maternal health, grounding her work at the intersection of clinical science, prenatal psychology, and holistic care.

Her practice has been shaped by extensive work across Africa, Europe, and the Americas, where she has supported women through pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period within diverse cultural and psychosocial contexts. Drawing from African traditional knowledge systems alongside contemporary evidence-based practice, Lovetti explores how ancestral rituals, community holding, and maternal symbolism influence fetal consciousness, maternal mental health, attachment, and postnatal integration.

Guided by ancestral wisdom, women’s autonomy, and reverence for birth as both a biological and psychological threshold,Loveth work invites birth workers to re centre culturally grounded approaches to prenatal and postnatal care restoring birth as a protected, meaningful, and psychologically formative experience.

Email: info@wienerhebamme.at

Website: https://wienerhebamme.at

Victoria Rose

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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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