2012 Post-Conference Workshops
It is fairly easy to spot bonding disruptions, but how they occurred and what to do to repair the damage is another issue. This four-hour course will show you how to figure out what went wrong and what to do to fix it. The steps are easy—easy to learn and easy to put into action. It’s a four-step procedure:
- Being suspicious
- Finding the Bonding Impediments
- Learning how to clear out the damage, and
- Inserting a new birth in place of the old one.
Tony Madrid, PhD, is a clinical psychologist at Russian River Counselors, in Sonoma County, CA. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco for 30 years. His research and articles on helping asthmatic children by repairing bonding disruptions brought him the 2007 Hilgard Award. For more information about this course, you can contact him: madrid@sonic.net
Ray and Mary will share with you amazing ways to enter into the world of babies and demonstrate how the earliest experiences of life from the womb, birth and the first weeks of life have direct effect on our lives today. This workshop will focus on birth and the primary attachment period in the first days of life. This will be a practical workshop where practitioners will develop skills that they can apply to being with babies in the context of their families. Each exercise will be followed with group discussion and integration. This workshop is designed for Parents, Midwives, Obstetricians, Pediatricians, Nurses, Lactation Consultants, Birth educators, Body-workers and Counselors.
Dr. Ray Castellino, D.C., R.P.P., R.P.E., RCST® is the director of Castellino Prenatal and Birth Trainings; Co-founder and Clinic Director of BEBA (Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment) a non-profit research clinic for babies, children and families. He is an internationally known trainer, clinical researcher and author in the field of prenatal and birth therapy for families with infants and children, and for adults. He has designed and teaches a two-year training program for health care professionals that he began in 1995. In addition, he is a photographer who specializes in birth, infant, and family photography. Ray is married and the father of two adult children.
This half-day(4 hour)workshop will give maternity caregivers, including midwives, childbirtheducators, perinatal therapists, andboth birth and postpartum doulas, information and skills to help women andtheir partners after a difficult, disappointing, or traumatic childbirth. Unresolvedtrauma and disappointment can lead to postpartum depression or anxiety, and canaffect a woman's confidence in herself. Doulas, both birth and postpartum,midwives, and other perinatal caregivers will learn about the causes andeffects of these early traumas as well as some methods to resolve, heal, andprevent them.
Phyllis Klaus, MFT, LMSW is a licensed psychotherapist, marriage, family, therapist, and social worker. Formerly at the Milton H. Erickson Institute in Santa Rosa, California, she currently practices in Berkeley, California, providing psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, and counseling to individuals, couples, families, children, and groups. She has worked with the concerns, both medical and psychosocial of pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period for the past 30 years, and has been involved in research and training of maternity caregivers.
Much of her clinical management in the perinatal period has focused on the following: 1). women with a history of childhood sexual abuse and its effects on childbearing; 2) the use of hypnosis and brief psychotherapy to alleviate clinical symptoms of pregnancy such as premature labor, hyperemesis gravidarum, bleeding; and the psychological issues of anxiety and depression; 3) attachment disorders; 4). issues of birth trauma and loss; 5) postpartum mood disorders: and 6) methods of pain relief in labor with self-hypnosis. In addition, she has a general practice with extensive experience working with grief and loss; trauma; abuse; dissociative disorders; anxiety, depression; somatic and medical disorders and conditions; family of origin; attachment, and parent-child issues.
She is a National Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Hypnotherapy and in the American Psychotherapy Association, as well as the American Academy of Experts of Traumatic Stress. She is an EMDR Institute Facilitator, Approved Consultant, and Trainer, and has incorporated EMDR into her work for the past 13 years. She consults and gives lectures and psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, and EMDR workshops nationally and internationally. She is co-author of several articles as well as Mothering the Mother, Your Amazing Newborn, Bonding, a video, The Amazing Talents of the Newborn, The Doula Book; and When Survivors Give Birth.
