More information about Pre- and Perinatal Process Workshops
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 greatly affect 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 while we are still pre-verbal. If they are traumatic much of the work to resolve such trauma must occur 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 with such a sensitive focus 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, of 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 s/he chooses - somatic, early life trauma, pre- or perinatal issues, relationship, etc.
The workshop is suitable for adults who wish to prepare for conception and birth, for those who wish to work on their own prenatal or birth trauma or various other issues that have not yet resolved. These workshops are also recommended for people working in various helping professions, as they can develop deeper levels of awareness applicable to any personal or professional practice. This work is safe and considerate of those who might be pregnant and can be very helpful for those trying to conceive.
This workshop is experiential in nature and is not offered as a training. It provides an opportunity for participants to deepen their level of awareness of prenatal, birth, and somatic processes. Each participant is required to be in attendance for the entire workshop as s/he is an important part of the support environment. The initial phase of the workshop is about developing a safe and nurturing environment with interactive, communicative skills to engender a sense of safety and mutual understanding among all the participants. Then each participant has the opportunity to work on their chosen issue as the others provide support with and under the direction of the leader. This process of healing and repatterning early trauma and current dysfunctional behavior can have profound effects throughout one’s life, offering us more choice around how we respond to our relationships and opening us to deeper, more loving experiences.
Upon application for this workshop the participant will be sent a questionnaire. Answering the questions will begin the personal preparation for the workshop.