The Accredited Schools, and those undergoing accreditation, offer a variety of Advanced Seminars and Specialised Training for Qualified Craniosacral Practitioners.
The Karuna Institute and the Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust also offer programmes whereby participants in the advanced courses can build credits towards an Advanced Diploma via completion of advanced courses and a clinically oriented thesis.
Advanced courses are also offered by non-accredited organisations (generally, organisations which are not offering full practitioner trainings). These are mentioned briefly below. Although the individuals offering these courses are CSTA members, these trainings have not been subject to any kind of evaluation by the CSTA:
Mike Boxhall (stillness.co.uk) also offers a series of Advanced Courses.
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Mij Ferrett offers workshops from one to five days in length covering a variety of topics. He can teach seminars tailored to particular groups and focused on specific subjects. Currently Mij regularly teaches one-day post-graduate courses in West Sussex.
Recently covered topics, and courses in preparation:-
* Introductory workshops – Basic principles of CST for those who may want to go on to study CST and for those interested in ‘craniosacral touch’.
* Practical applications of psychology and philosophy – tracing Western philosophy from Hume through Kant and Schopenhauer on to the establishment of Jungian psychology and an appreciation of the archetypes gives a sound practical and theoretical background to all forms of the therapeutic exchange.
* Sexuality and sexual transference – Working with prejudice and intolerance as a key to understanding different sexual orientations and setting the stage for release of recent or long-standing issues. Sexual abuse – it is much more common than most of us would like to think but by understanding some basic principles you can enable the positive side of sexuality to free itself.
* Working off the body – working with field phenomena with ‘far touch’. How to integrate with what is photographed with Kirlian photography and the importance of this in the therapeutic relationship.
* Headaches and migraines – learning to help free the blood supply to the head as well as advanced principles of venous drainage. Relating to intra-cranial capillaries and capillary networks which can be applied throughout the body.
* Dementia – understanding and supporting the different forms of dementia. Spotting and helping to change reversible dementia and the differences between vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s. Basic and advanced principles of support for the elderly.
* Working with the organs – basic and post-graduate approaches of therapeutic relationship to the viscera. The importance of embryology and links with other treatment methods.
* Shock and Trauma – advanced techniques and modalities for working with a wide range of trauma. Exploring resources, the SIBAM model, escape strategies and a variety of ways of releasing somatised events and helping them transform.
Mij Ferrett started studying medicine in 1975 and, disenchanted with medical school, left to experiment with psychology, herbalism, homeopathy, energy medicine, nutrition, massage and psychotherapy before settling contentedly with craniosacral therapy. He has taught craniosacral therapy in Poland, the United States, France and the UK and founded a college in Italy. He is particularly interested in integrating ethics, science, spirituality, religion, and philosophy and is passionate about understanding CST and health.
For more details or for any enquiries please contact Mij Ferrett on: 0033 430 640646 mij.ferrett@aliceadsl.fr 16 rue du Tonnelier, 11220 St Laurent de la Cabrerisse, France.
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with
Graham Kennedy RCST
This series of four three-day workshops provides a detailed experiential overview of the stages of birth experienced by the baby. During each workshop, students will undertake detailed explorations of their own birth in a safe, contained and resourced way, in order to change the nature of the underlying pattern at a deep neurological level.
In addition to the experiential work, students will also explore:
Ample time is given between workshops to allow for the integration of the previous material. There is no home study required. Commitment to attendance at all four workshops is required.
Stage one explores the baby's reactions to the onset of contractions with a closed cervix through to full dilation and the initial descent of the baby. Common themes include the importance of the lie side, how we relate to stress and pressure, initiating projects and transitions.
Stage two explores the ways in which the baby needs to rotate in order to navigate through the mid pelvis. Major themes include decision-making, orientation and balance, sense of direction and our relationship to our intuition.
In stage three, the baby navigates the pelvic outlet. This stage influences how we complete projects, how we present ourselves to the world and how we handle fatigue and exhaustion while under pressure.
In stage four, the baby has been born and now becomes subject to post-natal interventions and treatments. Major themes of this stage involve our relationship to touch, bonding, separation and intimacy.
Dates – courses run twice a year, starting in June and October. For current course dates , please go to www.enhancingthefuture.co.uk
Costs – £1400 for the full course (payable as an initial deposit of £200 followed by four subsequent payments of £300 at each workshop).
Venue – College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, 19, Castle Street, Reading, Berks.
Please note numbers will be limited to a maximum of 10 participants
The workshops are facilitated by Graham Kennedy who has been a student of mind-body disciplines for over 25 years. He has completed extensive training in the resolution of prenatal, birth and attachment-related trauma and now specialises in helping individuals and families resolve these early traumatic experiences. His commitment to working to help resolve early life issues is due to his understanding that this period of time sets a template for our physical, emotional and psychological health, and that if we make changes here it can have profound effects in all aspects of our life.
For further details on this series of workshops, or to obtain a booking form, please contact Graham Kennedy on 0118 975 2801, or
email: graham@enhancingthefuture.co.uk / www.enhancingthefuture.co.uk
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With Deirdre Gordon
Please note that there are changes to this course.
Deirdre Gordon will be running this course on her own and in her own home in Milton Keynes. This means that the course fee has been reduced to £500 to reflect these changes.
There are still places so if you are interested please email Deirdre at: branchsta@msn.com
This is a course aimed at craniosacral practitioners who are at a place in their practice when they are ready to share their learning and be of support to their colleagues through the process of professional supervision. It is for people who are 4 years post-accreditation and who have developed a strong and consistent practice that has provided them with an extensive learning experience.
The aims of the course are to teach individuals how to translate this learning into a skill that will support and ‘educate’ trainees and newer practitioners as well as colleagues and help them to maintain a healthy professional practice within which they can continue to grow and learn. Moreover participants will be working with a contemplative and mindful approach, which will offer a greater holding for the work and help to deepen their practice.
The cost for the course will be £600. The training will take place over 4 weekends with the potential for a 5 day advanced training in the future and will take place in Milton Keynes.
The following topics will be covered:-
The contemplative approach
The role and tasks of supervision
The needs of new practitioners
Creating the holding field
Co-arising process
Embodied and energetic transference and counter-transference
Recognizing and working with trauma
Working with challenging material
Ethics and ethical
Data protection
Aspects of the law
During this training we will be exploring the Contemplative approach to supervision and cultivating and extending our skills of both awareness and looking at how to tune into what is held in the field through a process of joint enquiry. The course will place emphasis on the experiential element of the work, allowing participants to develop their confidence in a range of supervisory situations, whilst at the same time ensuring that this is supported by the information necessary to create ‘best practice’. Exploring embodied experience will be crucial to the learning process and case material on all aspects of supervision can be presented.
For those people without counselling skills we are offering a contemplative Counselling Skills course on 15th and 16th October 2011 as a lead-in to the supervision training.
Deirdre Gordon was a State Registered Occupational Therapist who has worked in Psychiatric field for 18 years. She is a UKCP registered Psychotherapist, a senior Core Process Psychotherapy trainer and a supervisor. She has run a private practice for 25 years and has been associated with Maura and Franklyn Sills for nearly 30 years.
She has taught Supervision trainings with Sue Taylor and has taken the contemplative model of supervision to Italy. She has also trained with Babette Rothschild in Trauma skills and has attended a 2 year Training in Kum Nye Meditation with Maura Sills.
Deirdre trained with Franklyn as a Craniosacral Therapist, has attended postgraduate trainings and been a tutor on the 2 year Training with Franklyn.
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The course is of 6 days’ duration, divided into two parts of three days (Friday to Sunday).
Learning the skills of supervision and working effectively as a supervisor presupposes a good grounding in basic counselling skills. For this reason there is a requirement that students have done some counselling skills training prior to attending the course.
All courses are led by Liz Specterman, a psychotherapist of many years’ experience, assisted by Dr Peter Jewel.
Dates and venues for this and related courses can be found at our website www.craniosacral-training.co.uk
The course costs £570, and is held at Violet Hill Studios in London.
In this highly experiential, integrated and developmental course you will explore, learn and practice the skills of supervision - skills which will also enhance your own practice.
There will be time to reflect on the spiritual dimension of our lives and how this translates and gets grounded in our work as supervisors.
Within its carefully designed framework, the course is flexible and tailor-made to meet the needs of the particular group. It will build on and develop the strengths of participants.
The syllabus will broadly follow:
Dynamic Model Of Supervision
Group Supervision
Psycho-Spiritual Perspectives Of Supervision
Liz is a transpersonal psychotherapist and child and family therapist, with a background in bodywork and clinical hypnosis. While the main focus of her work is with adults, she also works with troubled children and their families.
She has been teaching psychology skills for the last twenty years to psychotherapists, counsellors, and complementary health care professionals.
Her training work has taken me to Norway, Sweden and the USA. Ten years ago, the CranioSacral Therapy Association in London approached her to devise training programmes in counselling and supervision skills for their members, and these courses continued through until 2010.
She is a staff member of the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education and has worked within the NHS and private practice. She has an on-going interest in energy medicine systems.
Peter is a Person-Centred Counsellor and Supervisor, with a Masters and Doctoral Degree in Counselling. He has worked in medical settings, student counselling and private practice. He is external examiner for a Master Programme in Transpersonal Psychology and Consciousness Studies.
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