Pre and Perinatal Professional Training and Education

Providing Professional Education For Facilitating Optimal Birth And Attachment, Resolution Of Issues From Preconception Through The Attachment Period For Babies, Children And Adults.

2022-2023 Training: Western Massachusetts

Location: 108 Main Street, Charlemont, MA 01339, outside of Northampton

Class Dates, 2022-2023

March 24-28, 2022 - Module 1: Attachment

This module covers the attachment process from the preconception through age 2. Primary themes are connection/separation. The new understanding of interpersonal neurobiology and the development of emotional and social intelligence through attunement and resonance are central. We will look at child and adult attachment styles and experience specific processes for resourcing, resolving and re patterning attachment issues in infants, children and adults.

June 9-13, 2022 - Module 2: Pre conception & Conception

The embryology and imprinting in this period is delineated and related to attachment, self and co regulation. We will further develop skills of orienting, tracking and titrating autonomic nervous system cycling, fluid tide dynamics, modulating therapeutic pace, recognizing the therapeutic leading edge. We will continue to work with establishing healthy differentiation and connection within boundary structure.

September 29 - October 3, 2022 - Module 3: Vaginal Birth

This module includes the vaginal birth process, birth stages, pelvic types, cranial molding, birth movement patterns and an introduction to complications. Trainees will explore their own birth passage.

December 1-5, 2022 - Module 4: Chemical Imprinting

Chemical imprinting includes prenatal drug exposure, anesthesia, analgesics and induction drugs during birth. The effects of chemical imprinting on prenates' and babies' psyches, movement patterns, physical structure, energy patterns and the central nervous systems will be explored. Specific treatment protocols will be delineated.

March 30 - April 3, 2023 - Module 5: Surgical Imprinting

Surgical imprinting includes forceps, vacuum extraction. cesarean section and prenatal and infant surgery. The effects of surgical imprinting on prenates' and babies' psyches, movement patterns, physical structure, energy patterns and the central nervous systems will be explored. Specific treatment protocols will be delineated.

June 22- 26, 2023 - Module 6: Double Binds

This module covers life/death/loss and other double bind imprints. Double bind imprints create the most complicated dynamics in the pre and perinatal field. They amplify practitioner transference and countertransference issues and complication for facilitating groups and families. The earlier modules are 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.

We will focus on ancestral influences, twin dynamics and twin loss. Ancestral influences on individuation are explored to differentiate twin and ancestral imprinting and expand the connection to the original blueprint. Twin embryonic and placental development are correlated with twin behavior later in life, whether a person is a singleton or a twin.

Pre-Requisites:

• An Introduction to Somatic Experiencing, Somatic Trauma Resolution or Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy

• One Process Workshop with Myrna Martin, Eileen Sendrey or Susan Hall (or another Certified Process Workshop Facilitator): The pre training process workshop can be an online PW (given Covid).

Training Format:

• 6 modules of 5 days each

• One pre-training Process Workshop and two more during the training, with Myrna, Eileen or Susan

• Videotaping will be used extensively for home training and reflection. Regular group supervision via the internet included.

Please note:

Covid protocols may be in place. People will either have to have had the vaccine at least three weeks prior or be test negative just prior to attending the Module, and be in a safe bubble for the five days. This is because in the exercises in the module we will be in very close indoor contact, preferable without masks, though a final decision will be make in this regard much closer to the time, in light of the covid situation at that point.

Professional Training Overview

The Health Model: Establishing Safety within and without, learning from the inside out. This training is designed to build skills for grounding, tracking, supporting and resourcing self and others, always finding our way to the original blueprint for health. Participants will be introduced to pre and perinatal psychology and attachment through the lifespan. We will build therapeutic verbal, somatic and emotional skills to support self and clients to resource and connect with the health that is always present. This model emphasizes developing the structure and support for safe therapeutic exploration, 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, claiming disowned parts of the self and creating dialogue and integration between these parts.

We will first establish the foundational knowledge of health in the primal period. It includes a solid understanding of pre and perinatal psychology and health with effective tools to support clients and these issues. Following that we will go into more depth and add breadth in specific areas.

Trainees come from a very wide range of professional background and skills. They include craniosacral therapists, psychologists and other therapists working with families, couples, individual adults, medical and alternative health professionals and everyone associated with child bearing and early years.

The training is highly experiential so trainees must be prepared to do their own early imprint resolution work, and connect with the underlying blueprint.

Approximately 1/2 of the time in each module is experiential, and outside the training participants will do creative home projects, reading and process workshops.

Enhance Your Skills In:

• Establishing and Maintaining healthy boundaries and self regulation in yourself and clients

• Understanding the physiological basis of early trauma and the imprinting process

• Tracking somatic, energetic and fluid rhythms as well as titration, resourcing to facilitate the resolution of pre and perinatal trauma

Myrna Martin, RN, MN, RCC, RCST®

Myrna has been working with people as a nurse, family therapist, biodynamic craniosacral therapist and somatic therapist for 45 years. Myrna practices early trauma resolution work with babies and young children and their families as well as adults. This work is focused on healing disruptions in attachment, such as prematurity, low birth weight, hospitalizations, adoption, postpartum depression, difficult births, and other misattunements.

Myrna has an MN from University of Calgary in Family Therapy. She is teacher of Integrative Body Psychotherapy, and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor. She was Director of Nelson and Area Mental Health Services for many years. Since 2001 Myrna has been in private practice and created EarthSky Foundation for teaching and therapeutic services in her community. She teaches a professional training in pre and perinatal /attachment therapy internationally.. She facilitates many seminars and Intensives around the world, including Summer Residential Intensives at her retreat center in Nelson, BC. Myrna recently received the 2019 David Chamberlain Lifetime Acheivement Award from the Association of Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health at their International Congress.

Eileen Sendrey, CMT

Eileen Sendrey has a private practice in Morgan Hill, CA, as a Pre- and Peri-Natal Educator and Practitioner. She works with families during pre-conception, pregnancy, and after birth with infants, children, and teens. Additionally, she facilitates 'Connected Families' group classes supporting healthy family relationships. Eileen facilitates group work in her Womb Surround Process Workshops and somatic process for individuals to heal early developmental trauma. She has studied and apprenticed with Myrna Martin and Ray Castellino. She has been a Certified Breema Practitioner and Instructor for 23 years; She is a Whole Birth Yoga Instructor and California Certified Massage Therapist with over 25 years experience practicing massage and (BCST) Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy.

Susan Hall, MA, CMT, RCST

Susan Hall has a 25 year private practice in Redwood City, CA as a pre and peri natal practitioner and educator, and as a biodynamic craniosacral therapist. She offers both individual sessions and small group workshops oriented around healing difficult early imprints and developmental/somatic trauma. She is a graduate of Myrna Martin's advanced pre and peri natal training, and has completed requirements to become an Approved Biodynamic Craniosacral Teacher by the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America. Her background includes a Masters degree in Counseling and Transpersonal Psychology, as well as competencies in numerous somatic modalities, including somato-emotional release, acupressure, jin shin do, and massage of various kinds. Susan enjoys her 3 canine beloveds with her partner of 22 years, and is open to developing secure attachment with an adopted feline coming into the family of her 26 year old son. She also is immensely grateful to share the study and healing of pre and peri natal psychology with her 3 beloved sisters.

Cost & Application Information

Total Cost for Training: $6,000 USD

Please read the Application Information & Overview document for full instructions on how to apply.

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