We specialize in courses for trauma therapists to understand the impact of earliest trauma.
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Recorded courses offered online
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Seven Rites of Passage -
Developmental healing, for developmental wounds This series of online lectures delivers a detailed map of seven universal stages of psycho-emotional development. This map enables us to decipher human suffering as our attempt to complete key developmental steps that were arrested in our formative years, from conception to 25 years. This map of the seven rites of passage (seven stages of core psycho-emotional development) is a lens of compassion, redefining our dysfunctional behaviours and ‘disorders’ as memory: archival footage of experienced shock, overwhelming loss, violations, denials of our developmental needs. |
"I absolutely loved the Seven Rites of Passage course. It was such a profound journey of thinking about how when our developmental needs are not met they can impact us on such a deep level personally and in our close relationships, but also the way we interact as part of society and the world for our whole lives."
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Five 90 minute recorded presentations plus a panel talk
Our earliest layers of experience form the roots of health on every level: body, mind and spirit. These earliest experiences include preconception, conception, the prenatal period, birth and after birth. Many practitioners of all kinds now seek to know more about how to work with earliest trauma in adults, especially with the increased awareness of developmental or complex trauma, and in the impact of the Adverse Childhood Experiences study. |
Often called early developmental trauma, recognizing, reaching and healing ruptures or interruptions in development from this early time are increasingly seen as the cracks in the foundation of human health. Current healing science now includes overwhelming childhood experiences and ancestral patterns; the prenatal and perinatal period is the missing piece.
Once the patterns from earliest trauma are recognized, they cannot be unseen. Our challenge is to give the tools of recognition to practitioners of all kinds while laying the groundwork for prevention, which is doable in our world today.
We have invited five practitioners who work in the field of prenatal and perinatal somatics to help share with you tools, skills and their approach to helping with adults with earliest wounds.
Once the patterns from earliest trauma are recognized, they cannot be unseen. Our challenge is to give the tools of recognition to practitioners of all kinds while laying the groundwork for prevention, which is doable in our world today.
We have invited five practitioners who work in the field of prenatal and perinatal somatics to help share with you tools, skills and their approach to helping with adults with earliest wounds.
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Finally, a focus on supporting the professional
Five 90 minute presentations plus a panel discussion! Latest trends in healthcare management now see the impact of birth trauma on the healthcare professionals as “moral injury” or “secondary trauma,” and are currently emphasizing a trauma-informed approach. This series explores what this means and how we can support the surround for birth to improve outcomes for everyone, including hospital staff. |
- Session 1: Kate White and Lois Trezise: Two Layers of Support: Recognizing the Need for Trauma Support for Birth Professionals
- Session 2: Kathy Kendall-Tackett: When Helping Hurts: Burn Out, Secondary Traumatic Stress and Moral Injury Among Birth Workers
- Session 2: Mary Koloroutis and Michael Trout: See Me as A Person: The Importance of Care and Compassion for Oneself and Each Other
- Session 4: Amber Price: The Impact of Secondary and Personal Trauma on Respectful Maternity Care
- Session 5: Karen Strange: Professional Debriefing for Traumatic Birth Events: The Healing Sweet Spot
- Panel Discussion
Somatic trauma resolution practitioners are ideally trained to specialize in helping to prevent and heal birth trauma.Healing from these early imprints can be a game changer for healthy human development.In this workshop you will learn advanced somatic resolution skills for treating perinatal trauma.
Treating birth trauma is more complex than shock trauma; it often brings up earlier and developmental traumas. It involves many people: the birthing parent, other parent or partner, the baby, and the birthing staff.
This workshop applies quintessential somatic skills to healing birth trauma:
Treating birth trauma is more complex than shock trauma; it often brings up earlier and developmental traumas. It involves many people: the birthing parent, other parent or partner, the baby, and the birthing staff.
This workshop applies quintessential somatic skills to healing birth trauma:
- Medicalized Birth Trauma
- The Shock of Witnessing
- Working with a Birthing Timeline (single episode) in relationship to the body
- Restoring Primitive Survival Responses to Overwhelming Situations
- Attack and Assault
- Near Death
- Injury and Recovery
- Repairing Relationship to Essential Self, Supportive Other, and World
Have you always wanted to study with Ray Castellino? Ray is a master teacher and therapist for understanding our earliest experiences, especially how we grow as babies in the womb and are born. He is founder of Castellino Foundation Training, an approach to prenatal and perinatal somatic psychology and co-founder of Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment, a clinic for families.
In this 6 session course, Ray will talk about foundation skills needed to work with prenatal and perinatal implicit memory.
The classes include:
In this 6 session course, Ray will talk about foundation skills needed to work with prenatal and perinatal implicit memory.
The classes include:
- From Self to Social Nervous System: Working with Energetic Systems
- The Principles: Creating a Safe Container for Deepening into Implicit Memory
- Intention Setting and its Role in Working with PPN Implicit Memory
- Leading Edge, Titration and Pendulation
- Working with Movement and PPN Somatic Therapy
- Introducing "The Form" as Part of a PPN Somatic Therapy Toolkit
- Summary, Q & A, and Conclusions
Another Transdisciplinary Series for Professionals and Parents on a Paradigm that Includes the Baby's Experience
Professionals in the field of fetal medicine, birth and prenatal and perinatal somatic psychology have identified another set of adverse experiences that occur prenatally, during or after birth. In this pioneering series, you will meet highly trained professionals and parents who want to share their passion with you around models of care, experiences, and wisdom around pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and more. You will hear stories of strength and humility, and a you will look through a lens into the world of families and babies like you have not seen before. Early adverse events create their own set of neurodevelopmental challenges. We can heal them, and we can also prevent them.
Our panel includes:
Professionals in the field of fetal medicine, birth and prenatal and perinatal somatic psychology have identified another set of adverse experiences that occur prenatally, during or after birth. In this pioneering series, you will meet highly trained professionals and parents who want to share their passion with you around models of care, experiences, and wisdom around pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and more. You will hear stories of strength and humility, and a you will look through a lens into the world of families and babies like you have not seen before. Early adverse events create their own set of neurodevelopmental challenges. We can heal them, and we can also prevent them.
Our panel includes:
- Gianluca Ursini, MD, PhD, The Seeds of Mental Health May Be Planted in Early Life, but Good Gardeners Will Make the Difference
- Darcia Narvaez, PhD, The Evolved Nest and Baby ACEs
- Marti Glenn, PhD, Finding Resilience: The Impacts of Adverse Early Experiences and How We Can Foster Resilience in Ourselves, Our Families and Our Clients
- Veronique Mead, MD, MA, SEP, 5 Opportunities to Prevent, Reduce Risk and Heal Chronic Illness: Insights from Adverse Babyhood Experiences (ABEs)
- Sabrina Blau, MBSR, MBA, Mother, A Journey Towards Healing: Transforming an Adverse Birth Experience and Hospital Policies
- Kate White, Towards Maternity Care that Includes the Baby's Experience: 5 First Steps
- Ending Panel with Question and Answer
A Unique Transdisciplinary Series Bringing More Awareness to the Baby's Experience
The process of adoption affects adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents and other birth and family members throughout life. The relinquishment, separation and adoption experience may contribute to feelings of loss and grief, questions about self-identity, or a lack of information about their medical background. This 6 week course offers lectures by experts in prenatal and perinatal somatic psychology, attachment, infant mental health and more who have spent decades understanding the impact of relinquishment, separation and adoption on the baby and parents. It will also include perspectives from therapists who specialize in adoption and foster care and therapists who treat adults with the early adoption experience.
We have taken special care to bring speakers to this series who have experience with deeply understanding the baby's experience.
List of Speakers:
The process of adoption affects adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents and other birth and family members throughout life. The relinquishment, separation and adoption experience may contribute to feelings of loss and grief, questions about self-identity, or a lack of information about their medical background. This 6 week course offers lectures by experts in prenatal and perinatal somatic psychology, attachment, infant mental health and more who have spent decades understanding the impact of relinquishment, separation and adoption on the baby and parents. It will also include perspectives from therapists who specialize in adoption and foster care and therapists who treat adults with the early adoption experience.
We have taken special care to bring speakers to this series who have experience with deeply understanding the baby's experience.
List of Speakers:
- Karen Doyle Buckwalter, MSW, LCSW: Using Theraplay® to Strengthen Attachment and Connection with Adoptive Parents and Their Children
- Michael Trout, MA and Rebecca Molitor, LCPC, Prenatal Bonding (BA) Facilitator: Supporting Connection Between First Mothers and Their Unborns as an Antidote to Dissociation
- Alison Greene-Barton: Conscious Adoption: A Personal Story
- Kristin Sipley: A Journey of an Adoptee: A Glimpse into the Baby's Experience
- Becky Zal-Sanchez, LCSW: Raised by Committee: Restoring a Child's Identity and Security After Time Spent in Foster or Kinship Care
- Panel Talk
