Professional TrainingsClinical Consultation/Supervision. Please contact Myrna if you are interested in telephone or in-person consultation/supervision. This could be either personal consultation around early trauma issues or professional consultation related to your current clinical practice or prenatal/birth/attachment therapy.
Prenatal/Birth/Attachment Professional Training
Prenatal/Birth/Attachment Practitioner Training
Biodynamic Craniosacral Practitioner Training
Biodynamic Craniosacral Introductory Seminar
Prenatal/Birth/Attachment Professional Training
Providing professional education for issues from preconception to early childhood, including the prenatal, birth and attachment periods.
The Professional Training prepares students to work with babies, children and their families in the resolution of early traumatic imprinting, thereby supporting secure attachment. It also prepares students to work with adults wanting to do their own healing from early family experiences.Trainees come from a wide range of professional backgrounds and skills. They include craniosacral therapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, acupuncturists, nurses, medical doctors, doulas, midwives, childbirth educators lactation consultants, regular and special education teachers, occupational therapists, child/youth and adult counselors, preschool teachers, infant development specialists and child care providers.
This training is also suitable for people who want to do their own personal work in a safe, secure container that continues for two+years.This training model was originally developed by Dr. Ray Castellino, and Myrna has continued to evolve the model. Myrna completed the Castellino Training, and assisted it twice. She has also studied extensively with Dr. William Emerson and other leaders in the field. Myrna has taught several trainings related to body/mind/spirit therapy throughout the past 20 years. She has completed teaching several successful prenatal/birth/attachment professional trainings in the USA and Canada. She has years of experience as a therapist in trauma resolution with individuals, families and groups.
Myrna brings this depth of experience to the training process and with it a wealth of up to date scientific information and evidence based research. She is a dynamic teacher, well organized, and graceful with the group process. The training time over the ten modules is divided approximately into one half experiential and one half cognitive learning.
Depending on the trainee's background, this training is a beginning preparation that will require supervised practice and participation as a trainee in the Strengthening Families program or similar program to practice independently.If the student is already an experienced child/youth or adult therapist this training will develop the necessary expertise to provide prenatal/birth/attachment therapy for all ages of children and their families and /or adults.
This training is very useful to all professionals who work with families during pregnancy and the early years of children's life, and it will add depth and breadth to any current practice, including those that involve only adults. Myrna will outline the clinical practicum opportunities through the Strengthening Families program in the Training.
The Professional Training is a strength based model that will teach or enhance your skills in:
- learning from the inside out
NOTE: This model does not involve ANY coercive verbal or holding interventions.
Current Professional Training started in October 2009 will be finished in February 2012.
Next Training will be in Vancouver or Victoria begin of Spring 2012 and will have a new format. Please contact Myrna at myrna[at]myrnamartin.net to show interest and to receive more details.
Nelson Professional Training
Dates
M5 September 23-27, 2010 M6 November 18-22, 2010 M7 March 31 - April 4, 2011 M8 June 9-13, 2011 M9 October 13-17, 2011 M10 February 9-13, 2012
Application Form
Application forms for professional trainings are available in both
Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF formats.Components:
The training will be 10 modules of 5 days each spread over 2+ years, plus the additional requirements listed below.
Four Process workshops:
- At least 1 is required before application to the training program, more are recommended.
- At least 1 to be taken after beginning the training.
- 5 day Introduction to Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy.
- Creative Home Projects between the training modules.
The Modules
Each training module covers a specific area of learning. The curriculum is designed to give you an overview of the work and to build specific therapeutic skills in a progressive and layered manner using didactic instruction and personal experiential exploration. Skills for facilitation of adults in small groups and families in infant/child-centered settings are emphasized throughout the training.
Module I and II
The Health Model: Establishing Safety Within and Without: focus is on building skills for grounding, tracking, supporting and resourcing self and others. Participants will be introduced to pre and preinatal psychology and attachment through the lifespan, and begin the process of learning safe, effective ways of early trauma resolution. We will build therapeutic verbal skills to support self and clients to resource and connect with the strengths/health that is present. This health model will emphasize developing the structure to support safe therapeutic regression whilst staying connected to adult resources so integration can occur. Participants will establish the skills of connection with healthy boundaries, differentiation, and somatic tracking of sensations and emotions. We will develop tools for working with belief systems, and energetic strengthening techniques. Tools for tracking disowned parts of the self and creating dialogue and integration of these aspects will be studied.
Module III
The Preconception and Conception Journey: covers the embryology and imprinting in this period and further develops the internal reference structure for prenatal/birth/attachment therapy. The skills introduced in this module orienting, tracking autonomic cycling and related fluid tide dynamics, modulating therapeutic pace, recognizing the therapeutic leading edge, and differentiating between trauma and shock imprinting.
Module IV
Attachment: covers the attachment process from early prenatal through post-birth time. The issues of connection and separation are primary themes. This module covers:
- The neurobiology and stages of attachment from preconception to age 2.
- How early imprinting affects future relationship formation, individual motivation patterns and somatic patterns.
- Prenatal implantation dynamics.
- Birth dynamics and newborn self-attachment behaviors.
- The baby's ability to attach to her mother emotionally and the establishment of healthy nursing patterns.
- Specific therapeutic protocols for resourcing, resolving and repatterning attachment trauma and establishing nursing with babies who are having difficulty with nursing.
- Child and parent attachment styles.
- Strategies to support secure attachment development and repatterning of disordered attachment in the early years.
- Adult attachment work.
Module V
Birth Imprinting: covers the vaginal birth process, birth stages, pelvic types, cranial molding, birth movement patterns and an introduction to infant craniopathy. It introduces tracking stage specific birth movement patterns. By the end of the module, students will describe their personal birth passage to a small peer group. The birth passage session will be videotaped and students will receive a copy for their personal studies.
Module VI
Chemical Imprinting: covers imprinting from anesthesia, induction drugs, nicotine, fetal alcohol and drug syndromes. We will look at the effects of chemical imprinting on prenates and babies' psyches, movement patterns, energy patterns and the development of the central nervous system. Specific protocols for resolving and repatterning of chemical imprinting are covered. Chemical imprinting affects the function of the craniosacral system. Students' understanding of the embryonic development of the central nervous system will be enhanced so that you can use your visualization, energetic sensing, craniosacral skills and bodywork skills to support the resolution of traumatic chemical imprinting.
Module VII
Surgical Imprinting: covers forceps, vacuum extraction, cesarean section and prenatal and infant surgery. Students will learn how to identify signature cranial molding patterns, movement patterns and psychological impacts of each birthing style. The cranial impacts of forceps and vacuum extraction as well as specific treatment protocols for each type of surgical intervention will be studied. We will explore the effect of these procedures on physical structure and on the expression of the body's energy and craniosacral systems.
Module VIII & IX
Double Binds: covers life/death/loss and other double bind imprints. Double bind imprints create the most complicated dynamics in the pre and perinatal field. Double binds amplify practitioner counter-transference issues and complications for facilitating groups and families. This subject matter is saved for the eighth and ninth Professional Training modules because the dynamics of these imprints provide the practitioner with the greatest counter-transference challenges in the prenatal/birth/attachment therapy field. The curricula of the first seven modules is designed to build the trainees' understanding, perception, presence and therapeutic skills so that they are more prepared to explore the effects of double binds in effective and compassionate ways.
Module VIII
Focuses on ancestral influences, twin dynamics and twin loss. Ancestral influences on individuation are explored to differentiate twin and ancestral imprinting. Twin embryonic and placental development are correlated with twin behavior later in life. Lost twin syndrome affects on singleton behavior is covered. Students will learn to identify twin psychological imprinting, the counter-transference/transference issues involved and twin dynamic therapeutic protocols. Breech birth presentation is covered in this module because a high percentage of breech presentations occur during twin births. Assisted reproductive technologies and their impacts are studied.
Module IX
Focuses on adoption, previous abortion and miscarriage, abortion attempts, traumatic impacts of death in the family during pregnancy, stillbirth and infant sibling loss and NICU experience. The skills for facilitating double bind dynamics are further developed and refined in this module.
Module X
Family and Group Dynamics is designed to transition the practitioner from foundation skill building into a model for family and small group practice. Module X covers:
- The structural components for a process session both with adults in a Process Workshop setting and with families in infant/child-centered family settings.
- Each trainee will give and receive a supervised process session in a small group setting.
Contact Myrna at myrna [at] myrnamartin.net if you need more information about the training modules.
"Myrna's Professional Training has been a huge blessing to me both personally and professionally. It has really 'connected the dots' for me in so many ways in my Craniosacral Therapy practice, especially in my work with pregnant women and small children. Myrna is a gifted and generous teacher, and her many years of experience in the Perinatal field really show in the depth and breadth of her training program."
Prenattal/Birth/Attachment Practitioner Training
Advanced Training Opportunity
The Practitioner Training is a specialized process workshop where a practitioner who has graduated from the Prenatal/Birth/Attachment Professional Training can have an opportunity to facilitate a session and a ‘discovering whose turn it is process" in a process workshop format with support and enhanced feedback and supervision. The focus of the practitioner training is to further develop your skills in small group facilitation with the direct guidance and support from Myrna. The lengthy follow up debriefing give time to examine in depth the practitioner- in- training cognitive processes and also Myrna will contribute her own cognitive awareness. In the debriefing the Practitioner- in- Training will discuss what worked for her/ him what her challenges were, and what the activations and counter transference issues were that arose in the context of the session. Clients will all be graduates or ‘near' graduates of the professional training.
The Practitioner Training is a comprehensive 700-hour course for anyone who wants to become a professional Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist.
- This training deepens your ability to listen unconditionally to the life force, so you can perceive WHOLENESS within yourself and other people.
- When you learn to resonate with health and wholeness, you invite the life force to show you and your clients the way to natural and optimal healing. This training may also transform you on a deep personal level.
- When you graduate, you will be eligible for the credentials of RCST® - Registered Craniosacral Therapist through the Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America (CSTA/NA). www.craniosacraltherapy.org
- This training is a good complement to other therapies you may already know, and you can easily incorporate the skills you will learn into any existing healing practice.
Introduction
Perceiving WHOLENESS within yourself and other people is a rare skill in our modern world - different from focusing on what is wrong (or sick or out of alignment) so it can be fixed.
In your Practitioner Training you will learn how to...
- Focus on HEALTH instead of problems or pathologies
- Participate in a resonant field where health is predominant
- Perceive the WHOLE, rather than just parts
- Work with the innate healing intelligence of the body
Outline of Certification Training
As an embryo, you began as a WHOLE, a single life-filled cell. Ideally, you were held and nourished within a loving, welcoming field created by parents and community.
In the training we create a similar field, where you can rest and be nurtured in your learning.
The early part of the training establishes your ability to invite and resonate with health and wholeness. These foundational skills are deepened and reinforced as you progress to perceive and palpate more specific motions, structures, and functions within the whole.
In the first modules you will learn to...
- Enhance your ability to settle deeply within yourself
- Establish relationship based on safe, contactful presence with and without touch
- Shift your focus to a wider view so you can perceive health and wholeness
- Sense and support fluid movement and stillness
- Appreciate the power of being rather than doing
The Teaching Team
Your teaching team - the teacher and the teaching assistants (TA's) - have all graduated from the Practitioner Training and are Registered Craniosacral Therapists with experience from their own professional practices.
With its small class size and high teacher/student ratio, this training offers some of the benefits of an apprenticeship. Our intention is to embody the principles of this work as we are with you, so you can learn through resonance, and pass this on to your clients.
- We will guide you with experiential exercises in class and provide feedback and guidance for your practice sessions and assignments outside of class.
- You will also receive brief sessions from us in class and get feedback from us when you practice your skills with us on the table.
- During in-class practice sessions, we will sit close to you, sometimes with our hands over yours, to help you to develop your skills at the table.
- There will be at least one teacher/TA for every five students.
Prerequisites to the Training
- Receive at least 3 Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy sessions from an RCST®.
It is important for you to experience the work in your body so that you begin to understand what you are committing yourself to.- Attend an Introductory Seminar. Or receive at least 1 of the 3 sessions from the instructor if possible. Or if you cannot attend an introductory seminar or receive a session from the instructor, please call for a telephone interview. It is important that we have a sense of each other before the training starts, to determine if this is the right training for you.
The Curriculum
The curriculum includes (but is not limited to):
- Skills of Being: settle into a state of neutral, being with what arises
- Relational skills: establish and maintain resonance, safety, and healthy boundaries, grounded in body-centered awareness and being
- Perceptual skills: orient to the whole and recognize specific aspects of the living system; perceive from head, heart, or belly; shift perception as needed
- Palpation skills: learn to feel and support subtle rhythmic fluctuations, tides and stillness within the body, motion and relationships of specific anatomical structures; differentiate between settling, activation and discharge, contact and dissociation
- Trauma skills: recognize signs of trauma in the body-mind and support their resolution (based primarily on the work of Peter Levine)
- Verbal skills: talk with the client to establish and maintain safety and relationship before and during table work; useful comments and questions to ask, to help deepen or integrate a process, access a more resourced or settled state
- Anatomy: Landmarks, mobility, motility, relationships and embryological development of relevant structures: - Bones (cranium, spine, pelvis, joints, face, TMJ, hyoid) - Membranes and Fascia, (dural tube, reciprocal tension membrane, horizontal diaphragms, neck, hyoid and pelvis support, pericardium) - Fluids (CSF, ventricles, circulatory system, venous sinuses) - Neuro-Endocrine system (brain, autonomic nervous system, cranial nerves)
- Theory: Biodynamic Craniosacral concepts including Health, Wholeness, Resonance, Embryological Imperative, Inherent Treatment Plan, Breath of Life as ordering principle, Primary Respiration, the Tides, Neutral, Holistic Shift, Resource, Potency, Field, Stillness, Still Points, States of Balance, Mid-line, Remote Viewing, Natural and Inertial Fulcrums, 3-Stage Healing Process, Ignition, Original Blueprint
- Specific applications and strategies: Disengagement, Lateral Fluctuation, Augmentation, TMJ and dental issues, Cranial Base, Spinal and Pelvic issues, Occipital Atlanteal Joint, Venous Sinus Drain, Nerve Facilitation and chronic pain, working with babies and prenatal and birth issues
The Practitioner Training is based on the teaching approach of Franklyn Sills
www.karuna-institute.co.uk/bios.html. The 700-hours includes:
- 350 in-class hours
- 150 hours of guided independent study or homework to be completed between modules (reading, drawing, etc.)
- Completion of an independent project such as a research paper, clinical study or creative demonstration of learning (40 hours)
- 150 hours of clinical practice. (Practice sessions are performed outside of class with non-fee paying clients)
- Receiving at least 10 sessions from a Registered Craniosacral Therapist (RCST®) paid according to their fee - 10 hours. (It is recommended that students receive sessions from at least three different practitioners)
Class time occurs through ten 5-day modules scheduled 2 - 3 months apart. Students are expected to commit to the entire training. To help you understand what you are committing to, and to determine if this training is right for you, you are encouraged to attend an Introductory Seminar.
Dates for the Nelson training
Module Date
Location
1.
Nov. 4-8, 2010 Kutenai Institute Of Integral Therapies (Nelson, BC)
2. Feb. 17-21, 2011 Kutenai Institute Of Integral Therapies (Nelson, BC) 3. Apr. 14-18, 2011
Kutenai Institute Of Integral Therapies (Nelson, BC) 4. Jun. 23-27, 2011 Kutenai Institute Of Integral Therapies (Nelson, BC) 5. Sept. 15-19, 2011 Kutenai Institute Of Integral Therapies (Nelson, BC) 6. Nov. 24-28, 2011 Kutenai Institute Of Integral Therapies (Nelson, BC) 7. Mar. 22-26, 2012 Kutenai Institute Of Integral Therapies (Nelson, BC) 8. Jun. 7-11, 2012 Kutenai Institute Of Integral Therapies (Nelson, BC) 9. Sept. 6-10, 2012 Kutenai Institute Of Integral Therapies (Nelson, BC) 10 Nov. 22-26, 2012 Kutenai Institute Of Integral Therapies (Nelson, BC)
Application Forms
Application forms for Professional Trainings are available in both
Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF formats.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Practitioner Training
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle, profound bodywork involving subtle fluctuations of fluid within the body. A mysterious force called the "Breath of Life" guides the work to enhance physical health, mental clarity, and emotional well-being.
This introductory seminar provides you with the useful skills which can transform the way you work with clients and how you interact with anyone in your life. It is designed to give you an experience of the Biodynamic approach to Craniosacral Therapy so you can see if the full 10-module Practitioner Training is for you.
You will practice techniques to:
- Settle into STILLNESS and facilitate deep rest
- Establish safe, non-invasive PRESENCE
- Cultivate HEALTH instead of focusing on problems or pathology
- Perceive the WHOLE, rather than just parts
- RELAX and release tension from the nervous system
- Track the SUBTLE RHYTHMIC MOTION of the cerebrospinal fluid
- Work with the body's INNATE INTELLIGENCE
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Seminair
Date
Location
September 9-13, 201 9:00am - 5:30pm
Kutenai Institute Of Integral Therapies (Nelson, BC)
Application Forms
Application forms for Introductory Seminars are available in both
Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF formats.
