The material I present in this book has a vast range of possible applications, of potential use to professionals from all kinds of mainstream and complementary therapies - and can be applied in body-oriented modalities, psychotherapies, and mentoring.
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Applying a health-oriented (non-neurological) model of the body-mind
Saturday 6th December 2025 : (Carrow House, Norwich 930-430)
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Venue: Carrow house, Norwich
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Workshop organised and hosted by the Craniosacral Therapy Association (CSTA) for qualified Craniosacral practitioners ONLY
4th July 2026
Venue: Carrow house, Norwich
Here is a rather compressed summary of some of the content of this workshop. This article was first published in The Fulcrum Issue 98 and is shared courtesy of the CSTA.
A health-oriented view of embodiment
The core of CST is an appreciation of health as an innate and continuously present force. However, most trauma-oriented material (and “trauma-aware” practice) is based on the idea of trauma-as-pathology.
A re-frame of dissociation and overwhelm as normal healthy adaptive states (for which the body has evolved a normal path to reverse) creates a very different model of “trauma” that is more in line with CST, taking the focus from neurology and more towards pre-vertebrate evolutionary stages of life and from there to biosemiotics – the science of communication in living organisms and ecosystems.
What you will learn
A re-framed version of trauma in terms of healthy biological responses and shifts in embodiment, along with a well-tested framework to use this – either hands on and/or with the patient participating.
The workshop will cover theory; self-experiential exploration; a map of the phenomenology and biology of dissociation; and some very practical tools and ideas that can be applied to working successfully with dissociation, general loss of embodiment, and imprints with dissociative patterns in a CST / bodywork practice. The course also include practical hands-on work but – for reasons that will become apparent – this will not be table-based.
See this link for a re-conceptualised and more consistent model of the motion of the cranial vault (PDF and video).
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