The
Professional Practitioner Training comprises:
Stillness Trainings is accredited by the Pacific Association of Craniosacral Therapists (PACT) www.biodynamic-craniosacral.com.
The professional practitioner training runs over 48 days, divided into eight blocks of six days over two years. The eight blocks of training are spaced approximately three months apart.
The training is normally open only to professionally qualified practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds. However, due to the nature of the work and the training curriculum, we are able to offer a limited number of places to suitable applicants with limited or no therapeutic background, but with an aptitude and commitment to study Craniosacral Therapy and who fulfill all other admission criteria.
Admission Criteria:
• A sound understanding of anatomy and physiology with a minimum of 80 hours of course study and its successful completion.
• An understanding of the importance of a healthy lifestyle.
• Being or having been in professional practice in orthodox or complementary medicine or therapy for at least one year.
• Successful completion of a minimum of a three-day introductory training in biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy.
• Assessment for suitability to be accepted on to the Practitioner training, for all applicants, takes place during the three-day (or five-day) Foundation seminars.
• Two letters of reference- one from a colleague or teacher or employer and one from a personal friend - and satisfactory assessment by tutors of the completed application form.
• A follow-up interview may be necessary, particularly where Stillness Trainings’ tutors may have no experience of the applicant.
Places are limited to a minimum of 12 full fee-paying students and a maximum of 16, and are assigned on a first-come basis.
The final stage of ensuring your place on the training includes payment of a 10% deposit of the full training fees plus the completion of a financial contract. This commitment by you ensures the viability of the training for all students.
Discounted fees are offered to CST Diploma graduates and to students when either the training fee is paid in full or in two installments, the first prior to module one and the final payment one month prior to seminar four.
Teaching and Study Format:
Teaching methods include lectures, demonstrations, the use of visual aids and models, guided meditation and visualisation, small group study, exploration and feedback, practical exercises, supervision and feedback sessions.
Throughout the training, the skills learnt within the Foundation seminar continue to be built upon, interwoven and deepened with the new work presented, and new skills are introduced and developed as appropriate.
Detailed course notes are provided with each seminar. Course study continues at home between seminars.
There are practical assessment and feedback sessions scheduled throughout the training, which support the refinement of palpatory skills.
Students must undertake to have regular therapy sessions from a qualified practitioner between seminars. These sessions support student’s own process, health and progress in the application of the work.
Process workshops are offered to students before, during and after graduation. Currently highly recommended by both tutors and students/graduates, completion of at least two process workshops may become an integral, mandatory, part of the professional training.
Core skills include:
• Clear definition of boundaries.
• Self-responsibility and regulation.
• Presence, pacing, light contact and listening that allow a dialogue to occur between the body and the practitioner’s hands, and for this to have a clinical perspective.
• Awareness of the senses and understanding of body language as diagnostic tools.
• Working and Being in Resonance, from a place of Stillness, Being and Presence with the Breath of Life and the Tides.
• Practical appreciation of the organisation of the body and the ability to track the unfoldment of tissue and fluid motions within the body.
• Awareness of sensation of the different tissues and fluids of the body and the ability to differentiate between them.
• Palpatory awareness of how the body responds as it self-heals, self-regulates, self-balances and reorganises.
• Understanding transference and counter transference.
Core teaching content, which runs throughout the training includes:
• Practitioner development
• Dialogue and communication
• Embryology
• Pathology
• Nutrition
• Stillness and Stillpoints
• Student clinic
• Practical professional practice skills
• Management of Shock and Trauma
• Various forms of Self-assessment
• Skills tracking process
• Sensory development
• The Body-Mind connection
• Review and Integration
Specific presentations include:
1. Cranial bones -their movement and relationships, contact and practice.
2. Embryology, theory and practical.
3. Pathology and Nutrition and the Body-Mind with reference to the Immune System.
4. Biogeometry®
5. Many Pathology presentations.
6. The Reciprocal Tension Membrane System.
7. Creative Opposition.
8. The Venous Sinus System.
9. The Spine and Pelvis.
10. The Human Bioenergy System.
11. Transverse Diaphragms.
12. Facilitating Shock and Trauma Titration, Resolution and Integration.
13. The Organs of Movement – Embryology and practical discovery.
14. Connective Tissue including muscle, bone, joins and the Fascia, theoretical and practical exploration.
15. Transference, Countertransference and meeting our own needs.
16. The Five-Pointed Star, Craniopelvic Balancing & Dr Randolph Stone – theoretical and practical application.
17. The Chakra System.
18. Facilitated Segments.
19. The Nervous System.
20. The Central Nervous System.
21. The Ventricles of the Brain.
22. The Temporomandibular Joint.
23. The Sphenobasilar Junction.
24. Exploration of your development and discovering Birth.
25. Working with Mothers, Fathers, Babies and children of all ages and the Family.
26. The Mindful Brain.
27. The Face, Neck and Mouth.
28. The Cranial Nerves.
29. The Viscera.
30. Being in Practice.
Core study format includes:
• Self-assessment.
• Creative group and individual home study projects.
• Reading and drawing.
• Practice patients and writing up practice sessions.
• Case histories.
Home study is essential, as it not only offers us the opportunity to assess your needs but home study also:
• Promotes personal development.
• Promotes areas of understanding of the work.
• Promotes practical application of the work.
Final assessment for Graduation is based upon the following:
• Self-assessment and tutor assessment process.
• Satisfactory completion of all home study.
• Final personal and tutor appraisal and interview.
• All financial obligations have been met.
"Stillness Trainings encapsulates the essence of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. The training is delivered in a way that allows the depth of the work to be appreciated fully. The impact was noticeable in all participants. A profoundly elegant resonance developed amongst our group which facilitated transformation personally and professionally. I am reminded of the saying "Be the change you want to see in the world"
D.S. Central Coast, NSW.
