Course dates for 2024

Core Process Craniosacral training – working with stillness, London

3, 4, 5, 6 October 2024

Core process craniosacral integrates Craniosacral Biodynamic principles from Franklyn Sills with an understanding of the way in which the human body organises experience drawn from, amongst others, Stanley Keleman and Ron Kurtz. 

According to the osteopath Rollin Becker, stillness is the key to healing the body-mind, as stillness liberates the potency contained within the breath of life. This thirty-hour course introduces the learner to therapeutic stillness and teaches the skills necessary to integrate stillness into their current therapy or bodywork practice.

This is a practical course that teaches the foundational concepts of craniosacral biodynamics but with special attention on working with the emotional body. Apart from some notable and important exceptions, core process craniosacral therapy offers a way of integrating unresolved experiences held in the body without the need for verbal processing. In this respect, we find some common ground with EMDR.

This course explores how we hold and organise unresolved experiences using the transverse structures of the body (thoracic inlet, respiratory diaphragm, pelvic bowl, etc.) The craniosacral techniques taught are those we can use to bring attention to and invite softening within these structures.

Throughout the course we will search for a movement towards holism – not as an idea but as a shift in perception. This shift reveals the stillness within our own and within our patient’s being. Out this stillness the intentions of the healing process can manifest.

The syllabus covers:

  • The development of the biodynamic approach to craniosacral therapy
  • An exploration of the concepts of inherent health, breath of life and primary respiration
  • An exploration of the neutral, the relational field and levels of stillness
  • An exploration of the mid-tide, long-tide, and still-points
  • Sensing tides and rhythms
  • The transverse diaphragms and their role in organising experience
  • Practitioner and patient resources
  • Who to treat and who not to treat.

Learning outcome: On completion, the learner will be capable of giving a fifty minute core craniosacral treatment and of integrating the techniques into their existing therapy practice.

This course is accredited for continuous professional development (CPD) credits with Complementary Health Professionals (CHP).

Core Process Craniosacral – Trauma and the return to love. Zagreb, Croatia

16, 17, 18, 19, 20 October 2024. Fully booked, waiting list available for next time

We are each a member of a family line that has survived trauma. Our predecessors may have experienced persecution, war, famine, plague, pandemic, flood, earthquake, accident or illness. Their survival and, hence, our existence, is thanks to a combination of good luck and resilience.

In core process craniosacral, we refer to resilience as potency, an intelligent expression of our life force, constantly responding to internal and external challenges. Sickness occurs when potency is overwhelmed.

Our current age, unlike any that have gone before, offers a special kind of trauma. We are exposed to an unremitting stream of disturbing images and information. We are at risk of overwhelm through a vicarious social traumatisation without time to experience relief, to rest and recover.

In this workshop, we will learn to engage directly with individual potency and develop a sense of collective resilience using concepts and techniques of craniosacral biodynamics.

Howard Evans trained with Franklyn Sills, founder of craniosacral biodynamics, in 1996. He brought to this encounter his previous training in integrative, formative and core process psychology. Core process craniosacral is the integration of those influences. It is a simple bodywork, freed from the complexity of its osteopathic and psychotherapeutic origins, and dedicated to the body sensations of love and compassion.

On completion of this course, you will be capable of offering a fifty minute session during which your client will develop a deeper connection with their own resilience, sensed as love and with the wider community sensed as compassion.

 

 

Past training courses

Craniosacral Therapy training in Alaro, Mallorca, October 2023

Flyer for craniosacral therapy course in Mallorca, October 2023