2013 Pre-Conference Workshops
Join Annie Brook to explore this creative work that helps people to unravel the ‘pre-cognitive stories’ of their lives. Such work addresses nameless anxieties, sleep issues, and self-worth and identity.
In this one day workshop Annie will bring together perinatal theories, case-studies, and methods of treatment. She is known for her experiential teaching style, which makes learning informative, enjoyable, and integrative. Her work is unique in its depth, and Annie will offer a demo session, guide somatic practices, and engage in dialog about this fascinating field of pre and perinatal treatment.
Surfacing and resolving early stories helps clients to settle. Learn the neuroscience behind work with the earliest brain states of dissociation and fragmentation, and methods to rebalance the nervous system. Come prepared to enjoy and engage. This work is highly effective with clients of all ages and is an artful form of somatic psychotherapy.
Learning objectives:
1. To learn the difference between shock and trauma and be able to describe this difference to clients
2. To demonstrate how to work with shock in a clinical or family setting and help connection be re-established
3. To explain and demonstrate the difference in the nervous system between sympathetic fragmentation and parasympathetic dissociation and how to treat at these levels
Annie is a somatic psychotherapist and movement artist. Annie founded BodyMind Somanautics, a training program for therapists that integrates perinatal experience and early attachment, and is based in movementrepatterning and neuroscience. Annie is a certified BodyMind psychotherapist, BioDynamic Cranial Sacral practitioner, and a certified Body-Mind Centering® teacher. Annie has worked as a therapist in hospitals, clinics, and public schools. She co-owns Colorado Therapies, where she leads an internship program and private practice. Annie is an international speaker and author, and former director of the Body Psychotherapy track for the MA in Somatic Psychology at Naropa University. Annie works both on land and in warm water treating infants.
Ray will share with you amazing heartfelt 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 talk and workshop will focus on birth and the primary attachment period in the first days of life.
Ray will lead you in exercises that teach new ways of being with babies and their families. This will be a very 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 talks.
In this one day workshop Ray will:
• Show you images and videos of how newborn babies are able to show and tell their birth stories after they are born.
• Show you how he and home birth midwife Mary Jackson support babies, mom’s dad’s and families to connect and form dynamic life giving bonds and attachments.
• Show a slides and a video of two home births.
• Lead you in experiential exercises that support you resonate with the primary rhythms that bring about optimal connections in bonding and attachment and all human relationships.
This talk and workshop is designed for Midwives, Obstetricians, Pediatrians, Physicians, Nurses, Lactation Consultants, Birth educators, Bodyworkers 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.
Over the past two decades scientific discoveries are creating dramatic paradigm shifts in what we know about the experience of babies, what it takes to raise healthy, resilient children and our capacity for healing and change throughout the lifespan. These new perspectives on pre- and perinatal psychology are a convergence of the diverse disciplines of epigenetics, affective neuroscience, attachment theory, prevention and healing of trauma and even economics. Given this groundbreaking research we need to take a fresh look at the way we practice our art and craft. Join Marti Glenn, pre- and perinatal psychology pioneer, for this inspiring one-day workshop and experience practical applications of these latest findings. Learning from the inside out, you will gain specific, practical tools for assisting pregnant couples, birthing families, children and adults. Marti will lead us to our own creative edges with music, humor, story and seeds of knowing that open us to new vistas.
You’ll experience and be able to illustrate:
• PPP as art and science
• Self and relationship as primary healing tool
• “Window of Tolerance”, rigidity and chaos, self-regulation, and resiliency
• Seven somatic markers of attachment
• Five strategies of attachment-focused therapy
You’ll leave with a toolkit of powerful resources to enhance your life and practice.
Marti Glenn, PhD, is founding President of Santa Barbara Graduate Institute which offers graduate degrees in Clinical Psychology, Somatic Psychology, and Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology. She has been a pioneering psychotherapist and educator for over 25 years integrating somatic principles, attachment, early development, and trauma.
