Myrna Martin: Prenatal, Birth and Early Trauma Therapy and Training

Myrna Martin,
MN, RCC, RCST ®

Prenatal/ Birth/
Attachment Therapy
and Professional Trainings

Pre and Perinatal Professional Training:

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Providing professional education for issues from preconception to early childhood, including the prenatal, birth and attachment periods.

Components

The Professional Training will be 8 modules of 6 days each spread over 2+ years

Four Process workshops. At least 1 is required before application to the training program, more are recommended.

At least 1 to be taken after beginning the training.

Creative Home Projects between the training modules.

5 day Biodynamic Craniosacral Introduction Course

Cost
The tuition will be $5504. A deposit of $100 is due with your application. You will be notified within two weeks if your application is accepted, and a trainee contract will be mailed to you. This signed contract and an additional $1400 are due one month after your application is received to secure your place in the training. This total deposit is non refundable at this point. The further payments of $572 will be due at the beginning of each module, except Module 8, as the total payment will be completed in Module 7.

Applications will be accepted starting in Jan. 2007. Payment Plans for the deposit can be arranged.

The Boulder training is non residential. Lists of convenient places to stay will be made available.

The Massachusetts training is non-resedential. It will be held in Florence, MA, which is a five-minute drive from Nortampton, MA. Please contact Myrna about convenient places to stay.

Each training module covers a specific area of learning. The curriculum is designed to give you an overview of the work and to build specific therapeutic skills in a progressive and layered manner using didactic instruction, facilitation skills and personal experiential exploration. Skills for facilitation of adults in small groups and families in infant/child- centered settings are emphasized throughout the training.

Module I
The Preconception and Conception Journey, shock imprinting and developing the internal reference structure for prenatal and birth therapy are this module's primary subject areas. You will be introduced to an integration of energetic, somatic, physiologic and psychotherapeutic principles which form a foundation for the prenatal/birth/attachment therapist. The skills introduced in this module include therapeutic centering, orienting, tracking autonomic cycling and related fluid tide dynamics, modulating therapeutic pace or tempo, identifying resource behaviors, recognizing the therapeutic leading edge, and differentiating between trauma and shock imprinting.

Module II
Attachment covers the attachment process from early prenatal through post-birth time and into the early years. The issues of connection and separation are primary themes as are issues of receiving nutrition and emotional nurturing. This module covers:

How early imprinting affects future relationship formation, and individual motivation patterns.
Prenatal implantation dynamics, the development of the placenta and the umbilical cord.

Energetic umbilical dynamics, and related movement imprinting.

Birth dynamics, the cutting of the umbilical cord, newborn self-attachment behaviors and the nature of the baby's first contact with her mother and father after birth.

The baby's ability to attach to his/her mother emotionally, at the breast and the establishment of healthy nursing patterns.

Specific therapeutic protocols for resourcing, resolving and repatterning attachment trauma and a means for establishing nursing with babies who are unable to nurse or having difficulty with nursing.

Module III
Birth Imprinting covers the vaginal birth process, birth stages, pelvic types, cranial molding, birth movement patterns and an introduction to infant craniopathy. It introduces tracking fluid tide dynamics and tracking stage specific birth movement patterns. By the end of the workshop, each of you will describe your personal birth passage to a small peer group. Your birth passage session will be videotaped and you will receive a copy for your personal studies.

Module IV
Chemical Imprinting covers imprinting from anesthesia, nicotine, fetal alcohol and drug syndromes. We will look at the effects of chemical imprinting on prenates and babies' psyches, their movement patterns, their energy patterns and the development of the central nervous system. Specific protocols for resolving and repatterning of chemical imprinting are covered. A new theory is presented explaining the way chemical imprinting affects the function of the cerebral spinal fluid system. Your understanding of the cranial / sacral fluid tide system and the embryonic development of the brain will be enhanced so that you can use your visualization, energetic sensing, fluid tide palpation, and bodywork skills to support the resolution of traumatic chemical imprinting.

Module V
Surgical Imprinting, covers forceps, vacuum extraction, cesarean section, circumcision and prenatal and infant surgery. You will learn how to identify signature cranial molding patterns, movement patterns and psychological impacts of each birthing style. You will learn the cranial impacts of forceps and vacuum extraction as well as specific treatment protocols for each type of surgical intervention. We will explore the effect of these procedures on physical structure and on the expression of the body's energy and fluid tide systems.

Module VI and VII
Life Death Loss and Double Binds: Double bind or paradoxical imprints provide the most complicated dynamics in the field. Double binds amplify practitioner counter-transference issues and complications for facilitating groups and families. This subject matter is saved for the sixth and seventh Foundation Training modules because the dynamics of these trauma impacts provide the practitioner with the greatest counter-transference challenges in the prenatal and birth therapy field. The curricula of the first five modules is designed to build the trainees' understanding, perception, presence and therapeutic skills so that they are more prepared to explore the effects of double binds in effective and compassionate ways.
Having two modules devoted to developing skills for facilitating double binds give plenty of space to explore the depth of these early complicated imprints. Special attention is given to how double bind imprints affects families and group dynamics.

Module VI
focuses on ancestral influences and twin dynamics / twin loss. Ancestral influences on individuation are explored to differentiate twin and ancestral imprinting. Twin embryonic and placental development are correlated with twin behavior later in life. Lost twin syndrome affects on singleton behavior is covered. You will learn to identify twin psychological imprinting, the counter-transference / transference issues involved and twin dynamic therapeutic protocols. Breech birth presentation is covered in this module because a high percentage of breech presentations occur during twin births.

Module VII
focuses on adoption, previous abortion and miscarriage, abortion attempts, traumatic impacts of death in the family during pregnancy, stillbirth and infant sibling loss, A.R.T. (Assisted Reproductive Technology) and NICU experience. The skills for facilitating double bind dynamics are further developed and refined in this module.

Module VIII
Family and Group Dynamics is designed to transition the practitioner from foundation skill building into a model for family and small group practice. Module VIII covers:

The structural components for a process session both with adults in a Process Workshop setting and with families in infant/child-centered family settings.

Each trainee will give and receive a supervised process session in a small group setting.

Application Forms

Application forms are available in both Microsoft Word and Adobe Reader formats. (more info)

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