The Conference will explore key factors that organise how we function, beyond just the physical form. It is intended to provide a forum and meeting place for exchanging ideas at the cutting edge of holistic healthcare.

Parleranno alla conferenza

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

Clinician, researcher and teacher in the area of post traumatic stress, and author of Psychological Trauma, Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society, and the best-selling book The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma.

Dr. Gabor Maté

Renowned speaker on addiction, stress and childhood development, and author of In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts, When The Body Says No and Scattered Minds – The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder.

Robert Lever

Osteopath with over 40 years’ experience, former lecturer at the European School of Osteopathy, recipient of a Medal of Honour for services to osteopathic education, and author of At The Still Point of the Turning World and Finding Healt 

Dr. Wendy Anne McCarty 

Co-founder of BEBA (a centre for family healing), founding chair of the Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology programme at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute and author of Welcoming Consciousness: Supporting Babies’ Wholeness from the Beginning of Life – An Integrated Model of Early Development. 

Dr. Rollin McCraty

Director of research at the Heart Math Institute, fellow of the American Institute of Stress and author of numerous published research papers about the subtle physiology of the heart and emotion. Co-author of the book Heart Intelligence. 

Dr. Gerald Pollack

Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, founder of the Pollack Laboratory, pioneering researcher into the properties of biological water and author of The Fourth Phase of Water, Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life and Muscles, Water and the Cell. 

Dr. Cherionna Menzam Sills + Katherine Ukleja

Therapists and international educators of Craniosacral Biodynamics, and ‘grandes dames’ in this field.

Cherionna also has a background in pre-natal psychology and Continuum Movement, and Katherine originally trained in osteopathy.

With more than half a century of joint experience they bring a profundity of understanding to the continual enquiry into the nature of Primary Respiration.