"You cannot have meaningful change and integration if you do not bring your nervous system with you." – Dr. Stacy Ellis

Dr. Stacy Ellis is a trauma-informed psychologist and group facilitator who bridges clinical rigor with deep, embodied transformation. With over fifteen years of clinical practice, a decade of ongoing group work, and training in modalities like EMDR, somatic therapies, TRE, IFS, breathwork and sound healing, she helps people reprogram childhood imprints in the nervous system so they can live as their authentic adult selves.

In her work, Stacy weaves science, insight and somatic practice to create spaces where inner child work, group healing and nervous system literacy come together. She has a particular gift for helping people understand why they are the way they are, and then offering real, embodied pathways toward wholeness.

In this episode, Stacy shares:

• How her own journey from people-pleasing and caretaking into wholeness led her from conventional therapy into inner child and group work
• The story of a four-day intensive that "updated" her nervous system and transformed her relationship with her mother
• What actually happens inside well-held group containers, and why collective mirroring and co-regulation can create change that one-on-one work alone often cannot
• How she designs inner child workshops to keep the nervous system online, weaving teaching, tools, play and ritual for real integration
• Her working definitions of psychological safety and trauma-informed facilitation, and why they are about empowerment and depth, not coddling

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"Treating people with just the smallest amount of dignity in a space where they're routinely gaslit and made feel small… it's amazing how people will respond." – Dave Booda

Dave Booda is a writer, musician and social entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of IntimacyFest and hosts the Darkness Experiment, a five day relational retreat in complete darkness. Over the last 15 years he has led more than 450 workshops on connection, touch and relationships, consulted for communities, festivals and companies, and published over 200 essays on boodaism.com. He also performs as his alter ego "Boodananda," a satirical spiritual sex shaman teaching about abuse and predator warning signs, and serves on the board of the Foundation for Intentional Community while living in rural San Diego, California.

• Why the word "transformation" is so often misused in our industry and how overpromising can leave participants feeling more broken, not more whole
• The difference between transformation, peak experience and community and what ethical containers for each actually require
• How to design intense workshops as if participants were on a medicine journey, including pacing, aftercare and integration once they go home
• Practical facilitation upgrades like real customer service, high touch pre event calls, end of retreat debriefs and asking the sharpest 10–20 percent of the group for honest feedback
• His own growth edge around service, moving from "making rich people feel good" toward work that serves communities and people who would not normally access retreats

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"Embodiment is the subjective experience of the body. The body as subject, not object." – Mark Walsh

Mark Walsh has spent the last 20 years helping people get out of their heads and into their bodies, sometimes gracefully, sometimes not. He's the author of The Body in Coaching and Training and Embodied Meditation, hosts The Embodiment Coaching Podcast (3M+ downloads), and ran The Embodiment Conference with 1,000 teachers and 500,000 attendees. As founder of Embodiment Unlimited, he has trained over 2,000 coaches across 40+ countries.

In this episode, Mark shares:

• What embodiment actually is beyond trends and why understanding the body as "subject" is central for facilitators

• How embodiment helps us stay sane in a hypercognitive world

• The four elements model of facilitation and how to cultivate real range boundaries presence and humor

• What facilitators often get wrong about embodiment and the shadow side of our field around jealousy money and power

• Why simple everyday practices like nature connection community breath and prayer matter more than intense state chasing

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