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Franklyn Sills MA, RPT, RCST
Co-Founder, Director of Craniosacral Biodynamics Training
Course Coordinator, Senior Tutor
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 Franklyn
has a background in orthodox sciences and medical research. He was one of
the early students of Randolph Stone’s Polarity Therapy and studied
osteopathic practice and cranial work in the nineteen seventies and early
eighties. He has been a formative influence in the cranial field, being one
of the pioneers in a biodynamic approach. He also has a psychotherapy
background and has helped develop Core Process Psychotherapy with his wife
Maura Sills. Franklyn was a Buddhist monk for a period of time in the
nineteen seventies and considers Buddhist teachings the foundation of his
approach to being in the world . He is the author of The Polarity Process,
Craniosacral Biodynamics Vol. 1 and 2 and is currently working to update
volume one. He is also engaged in a lengthy project to integrate Buddhist
self-psychology with western objects relations and developmental theories
and is involved in writing about and teaching these concepts. He teaches on
both the Craniosacral and Core Process Psychotherapy trainings. Franklyn is
married and has two daughters. His family is his essential ground for love
and learning in life.
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Maura
was born in Edinburgh in 1950 and first qualified as an Occupational
Therapist in 1971. She then worked in Psychiatry in the NHS for the next
nine years. She was Senior Lecturer in Applied Psychiatry and Group
Psychotherapy at the London School of Occupational Therapy and District
Occupational Therapist at the Middlesex Hospital, London. While in London,
she trained under Liu Hsi Chi, a Chinese Chan Master. During the nineteen
seventies Maura trained in a variety of humanistic psychotherapy approaches,
including her own analyses in Reichian and Neo-Reichian forms. She later
worked in the USA at Stanford University Medical Centre in the Department
for Comprehensive Medicine and trained at Esalen with Dick Price, the
developer of Neo-Reichian Gestalt. Maura then ordained as a Buddhist nun
under the Ven. Taungpulu Kaba Aye Sayadaw, a revered elder Buddhist monk
from the Burmese forest tradition. This was a most formative experience and
reframed her understanding both of the psychology of self and of the human
condition. While in the USA she also studied Tibetan Buddhism as a Kum Nye
student at the Nyingma Institute. On her return to Britain Maura and her
husband Franklyn founded the Karuna Institute in London in 1982. Maura has
been a prime developer of the contemplative psychotherapy, Core Process
Psychotherapy and brings great compassion and insight to her work.