Healing Developmental Trauma Training, Summer Intensive: Level 1
Week 1: Preconception, Prenatal Period/Intrauterine Experience, Attachment Process
Week 2: Birth Experience
Registration & Instructor Info Below
Learn to facilitate healing for early developmental trauma in babies, children or adults. Understanding the primal period, from conception through the first year of life is vital for anyone who works therapeutically with people, including infants, children, families, and adults. this training provides an opportunity to work with the cognitive level of our brains, the limbic level, as well as the brain stem (somatic) level of our brains. The program is constructed in such a way that you will get current western scientific information from many fields that relate to the primal period. These fields include Embryology, Neurophysiology- development of the human brain and the body, Interpersonal neurobiology, principles of body psychotherapy, and trauma resolution.
This is a unique experiential training that prioritizes the creation of a safe relational field through providing and building a container of secure attachment through love, inclusion/belonging, safety, protection, accurate reflection, and Fun.
“Early developmental issues get created in a relational field, and in this training we have an opportunity to work with those issues in a healthy, well supported, nurturing emotional field.” - Myrna Martin
We do many experiential exercises in this training where participants get direct experience with what you will be learning in your own body and emotional system so that the information becomes embodied, rather than being only an intellectual exercise.
This is a Level 1 of 3 offered intensives. You can participate in one or all three summers of learning, each summers curriculum builds on the summers before. There is also continued support available throughout the year from teachers and teaching assistants to help you integrate both your personal and professional development as you move forward in your life.
In 2014, Myrna and her husband Ken began offering two-week Pre and Perinatal Education residential intensives every summer at their retreat center nestled in the pristine mountains surrounding Nelson, British Columbia. They continue to be an enriching experience to all that attend, and the center is now branching out. Starting in 2020, Level 1 Summer Intensives will be taught by Elsa Asher, Clara Cunningham, and Eileen Sendrey in Bellingham, Washington at The Human Development Center. These summer intensives will be non-residential in the year 2020.
This intensive will include in depth personal experience as well as a chance to practice skills to utilize everyday in your work while in a safe, nurturing, supporting surround. The intensives are very appropriate for Craniosacral Therapists and anyone who works with families in the child bearing or early years, or who works with adults therapeutically. The intensive includes doing many shorter exercises in triads, with hands on support, as well as cognitive learning, including handouts, videos and live teaching. We study practical strategies for healing early developmental trauma as well as have opportunities for personal healing work and practice facilitating others. This Intensive is at least 50% experiential. Each participant has an opportunity to do a longer 2 hour session with the facilitators.
Level one is limited to 12 participants
Dates: offered twice
July 6-17, 2020
July 20-31, 2020
Location:
Human Development Center
1101 N State St., Suite 300,
Bellingham Washington 98225
Note: this is not a residential training, you are responsible for your accommodations and food, there are many Airbnbs in the area, and we recommend you book ahead of time because it is peak summer season in the Pacific Northwest.
Tuition: $ 2,200 includes learning resource of Myrna Martin’s video series valued at $1000
Registration: email Clara via this link
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
Clara Cunningham, HHP, CST, PPN Educator
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Clara is co-director of The Human Development Center. She is a biodynamic craniosacral therapist in Bellingham, WA. She began studying craniosacral therapy 20 years ago while working as a care provider for children living with disabilities and in hospice.
Growing up in Alaska gave Clara a deep respect and intimacy with nature and the raw elemental power of this earth that shaped her views of life, and the continuum of life. She currently works with prenates, newborns, infants, children, families, and individuals of all ages offering somatic process work, attachment and bonding support, birth work/education, BCST, and holistic resiliency. She offers experiences to groups and organizations facilitating womb surrounds, Systemic Family Constellations, trauma intervention, ceremony, guided wilderness experiences, and movement therapy for somatic reclaiming.
Clara is currently teaching a two-year personal development course in pre and perinatal somatic process work, and also assisting Myrna Martin In PPN trainings around North America. She has worked for many years internationally as a holistic health practitioner that included a variety of bodywork modalities including myofascial release, somatic experiencing, Chi Nei Tsang, meridian massage, teaching yoga/breathe awareness, and shiatsu. Clara has apprenticed for the past 15 years in tai chi, sensory awareness, and pre and perinatal somatic process work with both Judyth Weaver and Myrna Martin. She is a facilitator and educator in Pre and Perinatal Somatic Psychology, also known as primary psychology.
Born with a natural curiosity and focus of living in the spirit, Clara’s path has woven through many heart-centered disciplines which have guided and manifested her course of life studies and learning of what it is to be truly human. She is currently the director of The Human Development Center which she founded in 2016 in Bellingham WA. Clara and her husband lead a simple and blessed life with a thriving practice. Inspired by the process of personal transformation to live clearly in truth, simplicity and love. Clara is devoted to the unfolding of the inner most nature in herself and others.
Eileen Sendrey
Prounouns: she/her/hers
Eileen 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.