Teaching Adults How to Understand Babies
At “The Miracle of Birth Congress.”
Thursday, April 23, 2009 — 9:30AM-4:30PM
Judyth Weaver
This experiential workshop will teach simple exercises that can be used to assist adults to learn more about the child’s experiences-from the inside out-somatically as well as emotionally and intellectually. The more fully teachers, therapists, medical professionals, parents and other adults understand the situation of the child, the more sensitive and connected they can be to those children. They can communicate more intuitively and coherently with children. Playing roles of baby and adult in turn will give participants understandings and skills that can support health and communication during pregnancy, can set the temperament for the passage of birth, promote empathy, build healthier connections and bonding with the newborn, and develop sensitive interactions that support relationships into childhood and beyond. These exercises can be used to teach adults to become more attuned to children, help children of all ages to repair and resolve traumatic experiences, and help adults understand their own past traumas and how to repair and resolve them.
Sensory Awareness on Cortes Island, B.C., Canada - NATURE AND OUR NATURE, July 8-15, 2009
See below: video of Sensory Awareness Workshop on Cortes Island 2006.
The practice of deeply exploring our sensations, our actions and interactions, can guide us back to our natural resources and lead us to more authenticity and vitality. In this workshop, participants will explore their sensations and responses internally and externally, in relationship with others, with nature and with our human nature. These explorations can bring a trust and security that may assist us in finding the ability and pleasure of responding more sensitively and authentically in our lives. As we find our natural vitality we can relate more fully with others, find peace and satisfaction in our selves, and the ability to extend it further into the world. Time to rest, swim, play, and enjoy beautiful Cortes Island will be an integral part of this workshop.
from July 8-15, 2009
Tuition: $550. If registration by June 1st. Deposit $200.
After June 1st: Tuition $600. Deposit $200.
Meals and accommodations extra.
(There are camping/lodging possibilities on Judyth’s property as well as B&B’s in the neighborhood and a motel. Please tell Judyth when registering what you would like.)
Register with: Judyth Weaver - 415-388-3151 or judyth@judythweaver.com.
After June 15th - 250-935-8500.
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It will open up in a new (pop-up) window. The video will first load (18 megabytes) and then play. You will need a video player that can play MOV (QuickTime) files.
Pre- & Perinatal Somatic Process Workshop July 16-19, 2009 - Cortes Island, B.C.
The field of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Therapy has grown from research showing that babies within the womb, during birth, and post natally feel, have consciousness and memories, and react specifically to their experiences. These experiences affect greatly not only early childhood and development, but continue all the way through our lives into adulthood. Evidence confirms that many health issues - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual — are linked to prenatal and birth experiences and parent-infant bonding. Patterns for ones ability to deal with stress and trauma are also laid down in these early times. They inform us and follow us throughout our lives. These early responses that go so deep are developed before we are pre-verbal. If they are traumatic much of the work to resolve such trauma must engage on the pre-verbal level. Process workshops are excellent ways to work with such issues.
Dr Raymond Castellino, DC has developed these birth process workshops for adults out of his work with babies, infants and families. The nature of working in small groups enables us to transform material that inhibits the fulfillment of our potential — our birthright. Working somatically within this process workshop setting can have deep, profound and often comparatively quick resolution to issues that have seemed to resist other therapeutic attempts.
The workshop setting offers the opportunity to uncover, explore and support healing, with understanding and compassion, our own prenatal and birth imprinting. By connecting to this early layer of physical and emotional experience, within a safe, sustaining environment, there is the potential to repattern our bonding and attachment, clarify, ease, and transform early trauma and current unsupportive reactions. In small group settings (no more than seven participants over three days or two days with four or five participants), each participant is supported in his/her exploration of whatever issue they choose - somatic, early life trauma, pre or perinatal issues, relationship, etc. This in turn can offer us more choice around how we respond to our relationships and open us to deeper, more loving experiences.
This workshop is experiential in nature and is not offered as training. It provides an opportunity for participants to deepen their level of awareness of prenatal and birth process.
Each participant is required to be in attendance for the entire workshop as s/he is an important part of the surround. The initial phase of the workshop is about developing a safe and nurturing environment, then each participant has the opportunity to work on their chosen issue as the remaining members provide support with and under the direction of the leader. Upon application for this workshop participant will be sent a questionnaire. Answering the questions will begin the personal preparation for the workshop.
Registration for this workshop will be confirmed after questionnaire is filled and returned to leader.
Register with Judyth: 415-388-3151; June, July & August: 250-935-8500 or: judyth@judythweaver.com
Tuition - $600.00
PLEASE REGISTER EARLY, these workshops are limited and fill up quickly
NOTE: Pre- and Perinatal Process workshops by Judyth are approved for 23.5 units of CEU’s by the American College of Nurse-Midwives. Learn more about Pre- and Perinatal Therapy
