Advanced Courses in Craniosacral Biodynamics

Details of courses for 2010 :

Trauma Skills in Craniosacral Therapy

This course is geared to give the practitioner a basic working knowledge of shock and trauma wihin clinical practice.  Work in craniosacral therapy can access trauma-bound energies and related patterns in the central nervous system and in the tissues and fluid fields on the body.  This direct access to trauma-bound energy, and traumatic tissue patterns, makes it imperative that the practitioner understands trauma concepts in both therory and practice.  The material in this course integrates the work of Dr. Peter Levine, a psychologist with years of experience in trauma work, and work from Core Process Psychotherapy with a biodynamic approach to Craniosacral Therapy.  Mornings will generally be spent in theoretical input, experiential processes and demonstration sessions.   Afternoons will be spent applying these at the tables within a cranial context.

Areas Explored include:

• The Biodynamic context for understanding trauma and traumatic activation in session work.
• The importance of shifting from CRI and mid-tide levels of work to Long Tide and Dynamic Stillness.
• The importance of the therapist's inner state of presence and resource.  Setting up the relational field and a safe holding environment.
• How trauma impacts the territories of source, being and self.
• The stress response:

The stages of the natural response to dangerous or traumatic experience, the orientating response, fight or flight and states of overwhelm, freezing and disssociation.

• Understanding the nature of emotional release in the context of past trauma.
• The importance of resources and resourcing your clients.
• Shock and traumatisation; overwhelm, dissociation, freezing, traumatisation, understanding hyper- and hypo-arousal states.
• Trauma skills:

Meditative/contemplative exercises on the Tides, Stillness and inner resource.

Grounding, pacing and orienting skills.

Awareness of sensations and felt-reality.

Working with emotional affect and emotional catharsis.

Working with frozen trauma-bound energies and incomplete intentions in the body, and helping them complete.

Understanding dissociation and its resolution.

Understanding the role of stillness wtihin the healing process and the importance of the Long Tide and Dynamic Stillness in working with traumatic activation.

Staff : Franklyn Sills and Staff

Dates: 27 June - 2 July 2010

Cost: £575 Non-refundable Deposit £275

course details

Courses for 2010 :Venue: The Karuna Institute, Devon

Trauma Skills in Craniosacral Therapy

July 2010 Staff : Franklyn Sills and Staff

Cost: £575

Non-refundable Deposit £275