Curriculum

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The following curriculum will be covered through the Training:
Ground
Looking at Perception, space, Palpation, Relational field and Tides within the Biodynamic context. Setting the ground for the whole curriculum
 
  1. History
  2. Developing Relational Field
  3. Palpation & perception
  4. Health, Potency, Primary Respiration
  5. Negotiating Contact - Boundaries
  6. Perceptual field
  7. Tides - Palpation
  8. Resources, stillness, stillpoints
The development of awareness and perceptual ability is the foundation of this training course. Students will learn to initiate within and cultivate the stillness and presence from which to relate to the patient's system. Creating the Relational Field will be introduced and explored. Students will explore processes, which relate to the establishment of resources and safety. The role of resources in autonomic and emotional activation will be introduced. Palpation sessions will focus on shifts in perceptual fields and the perception of the inherent Health of the system.
Motion - Midline and Neutral
Exploring the manifestations and therapeutic effects of the Breath of Life inherent within the tissue field.
 
  1. Fluids, Tissues and Mobility/Motility
  2. Primary Respiration and motility in tissues, structures and systems
  3. Perception of classical Craniosacral motion, flexion-extension; external-internal rotation
  4. Reciprocal tension membranes.
  5. Resources reviewed and developed within the context of trauma
  6. The Neutral- Local and systemic neutrals. Levels of neutral, the holistic shift, the state of balanced tension
  7. The Long Tide, mid-tide and CRI
  8. Fulcrums defined. Natural, Inertial, automatic shifting fulcrums
  9. Rollin Becker 3 steps and beyond
  10. Balance and stillness in the healing process
  11. Trauma and overwhelm, hyper-arousal skills introduced
The 'Primary Respiratory System' is introduced and the palpation of tissue motility and mobility is undertaken. Students will discover that tissue structures express an inner breath. Palpatory awareness will be explored within the major structures of the body.

The classical craniosacral motion dynamics of flexion-extension and external-internal rotation are introduced as well as the state of balanced tension and Neutral. An understanding of reciprocal tension will be introduced and clinical approaches to balanced tension explored.
Inertia and inertial fulcrums are looked at as well as the Dr Becker 3 steps in this context and the idea of inertial or variant potencies will be introduced.
The perception of biodynamic and biokinetic forces will be explored and differentiated via palpation. The action of potency within the fluids will be introduced. Trauma skills will be introduced. Approaches to traumatic overwhelm, autonomic activation and hyper-arousal states and skills are explored.
Conversations
This aspect of the Training focuses on how to initiate and negotiate conversations with the tissues, potency, fluids and inertial fulcrums. The skills of Engagement - Disengagement are explored.
 
  1. Palpating inertial fulcrums and the history of the patient
  2. Fluid skills: Conversations with fluids and potency, perceiving and relating to lateral fluctuations
  3. The principle of disengagement as a conversation skill
  4. Disengagement, within sutures and joints
  5. CV4 and EV4
  6. Trauma skills reviewed, dissociation discussed
students continue their clinical exploration into inertial fulcrums and begin to learn further ways of relating to them. Within this context, various clinical approaches to fluids and tissues are taught as conversation skills. Students learn to listen to the story, or history, of the patient and to use particular skills to converse with them. Disengagement as a natural process and the action of potency within space is discussed and explored.

Additional attention is also placed on the therapeutic role of stillness and on stillpoint facilitation. Students are introduced to the stillpoint skills of CV4 and EV4 in relationship to trauma and autonomic nervous system cycling.  Dissociation as a protective mind-body process is discussed and related verbal skills are introduced. CV4 and EV4 clinical benefits in dissociation are discussed.
Midline, CNS (Central Nervous System)
Exploration and orientation to the Long Tide and the dynamics of the central nervous system.
 
  1. The Embryological forces and Midline Structures -notochord & organizing principles
  2. Dural tube dynamics, palpation and clinical approaches
  3. Pelvic dynamics, sacroiliac joints and the lumbosacral junction
  4. Vertebral dynamics: motility and relationship to the primal midline
  5. Palpation of vertebral dynamics, facilitation
  6. Trauma and hypo-arousal states
  7. CNS facilitation- Shock and clinical aspects
  8. Inherent Treatment Plan
The concepts of midline and embryology as a way to understand the organisation and health of the human system are presented. We introduce the embryological ordering principle of the primal midline. Within this context, the motility and mobility of the dural tube, pelvis and vertebral column are explored. Students are introduced to facilitation and its resolution within these dynamics.
The CNS motility is explored from an embryological viewpoint and the relationship to its motility is worked with. Students also learn to further orient to the Long Tide and its therapeutic aspects. Birth related issues are looked into. Clinical trauma skills in relationship to dissociative states are approached. The Inherent Treatment Plan and its therapeutic aspects is developed.
Birth
Explores intra-uterine development. Identify birth dynamics and the impact of birth process and how to relate to these in a craniosacral context.
 
  1. Perinatal aspects in the craniosacral context, attachment and bonding
  2. Occipital Triad and cranial base patterns - traumatic impact effects
  3. Patterns at the sphenobasilar junction (SBJ)
  4. Force vector issues and entrapment
  5. Traumatic impacts of cranial base patterns
  6. Ignition
In the perinatal context, the dynamics of the occiput atlas and axis are explored via palpation. Cranial distortion patterns are explored and clinical approaches presented. The influence of birthing forces, trauma impacts and clinical issues relating to cranial base patterns
are presented. Trauma skills relating to hyper-arousal states are discussed.
Trauma & Visceral
Students will become able to identify the onset of trauma affect in a session and effectively support the client towards resolution and integration. The skills of helping a client resource are studied. Explore the importance of visceral work and its therapeutic effects. Joints dynamics are studied.
 
  1. Deepening the understanding of the viscerocranium
  2. Trauma resolution skills
  3. Polyvagal theory- Fight, flight, freeze
  4. Practice of verbal communication skills
  5. Facilitation of the CNS
  6. Connective Tissues, Joints and Viscera
The Issues of CNS facilitation and hypersensitivity are explored clinically. Students learn to orient to shock affect in the body and support discharge within the healing process. Students explore the fascial dynamics of the body via tracts and transverse diaphragms. Clinical approaches to joint dynamics and relationships throughout the body are explored within the context of skills already learned. The visceral system and visceral relationships are explored.
Deepening & completion
Students will ground their knowledge and practice skills and to deepen their general and clinical preparation for individual practice.
 
  1. Dynamic Stillness further developed
  2. Doing versus non-doing
  3. Non-linearity
  4. Acute vs chronic conditions
  5. Serious illness
  6. Short, medium and long term relationships with clients
  7. Practice Management. Ethical issues
  8. Graduation
  9. Completion