The United States Association for Body Psychotherapy and the International Body Psychotherapy Journal bring you this special forum.
This event will be recorded and available for members and non-members who register for this event. This course will not include CEs.
This event will include our special Overtime!
Overtime allows attendees to continue to ask questions and invite conversation on the event material, other related inquiries, or cases after the formal event ends.
Check back for more details to come.
Register now and receive email event updates.
Description
There is a lot of interest in understanding the impact of earliest trauma. While many professions are now beginning to include trauma from the prenatal and perinatal period, there is a group of somatic professionals that has deep expertise from decades of experience. Please come to this outstanding forum, The State of the Art of Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics to hear presentations and discussion with four experts in the field: Mary Jackson, Anna Chitty, Veronique Mead and Frank Carbone. Midwife Mary Jackson has decades of experience training practitioners with Ray Castellino, one of pioneers in prenatal and perinatal somatics. Anna Chitty taught for years with Ray Castellino and has developed her own methods for integrating the impacts of earliest wounds. Medical Doctor and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Veronique Mead developed the Adverse Babyhood Experiences and has researched the roots of chronic illness as coming from our earliest stress responses as prenates and babies. Continuum Teacher and Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Practitioner and Teacher Frank Carbone has developed a fusion of the therapies he has trained in for years called Womb Continuum, and he will talk about and demonstrate that during our forum. Discussion with these four experts will be moderated by Kate White, Founder and Director of the Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute. She will bring her nearly 30 years of study and training to shine the light on this field of practice, supporting exploration in the history, practice and future of Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics. You won't want to miss this if you are interested in the field of preverbal trauma healing!
Audience participation through Q&A and Overtime.
This forum will include:
-
We will explore how our early experience of conception and birth can impact our perception of the world as being safe or unsafe, of us being wanted or unwanted, and why we may have a pattern of getting stuck at certain places in projects and journies.
-
Parents often have the need to tell the story of giving birth to their children and have close family and friends hear it. We will explore how babies and older children have the same need, to show or tell their birth story experience and how the way they do it changes as they grow.
-
Evolution of the paradigm that began as birth psychology and is now a somatic practice
- Identification of professional practices for Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics
- Developmental origins of adult health and disease (DOHaD) and early contributions to risk for chronic disease
- Maternal-infant bonding and separation and chronic illness
- An interactive Womb Continuum experience of two creative embryonic pieces: One Cell Meditation in a somatic constellation and
- Sensing into the womb space connecting to pleasurable umbilical cord gestures
Master of Ceremonies
Kate White, Founder of the Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute
Kate White is a board member of United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP) and is the International Body Psychotherapy Journal (IBPJ) Fall Winter Guest Editor covering the topic of prenatal and perinatal somatic care. She is an advanced bodyworker and somatic trauma resolution therapist who has been involved with pre- and perinatal health for over 30 years, starting with maternal and child health, family planning, and health education as an international professional, to a practitioner of the healing arts as a bodyworker working with pregnant mothers, families and babies. Her qualifications include: BA and MA in communications Certifications in prenatal massage, infant massage, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner Training and over 25 years of study and training in Prenatal and Perinatal Somatic Psychology with many leading pioneering practitioners. She is founder and former Director of Education for the Prenatal and Perinatal Educator Certificate course for the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, 2013-2019. Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs and the Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute, Co-Creator of Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics and Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online, Creator of Baby Dynamics Clinical training, Leading Edge Somatic Skills Seminars, and the Whole Family Clinic
Meet The Panelists
- Mary Jackson, Castellino Corporation
- Anna Chitty, Colorado School of Energies Studies
- Frank Carbone, Womb Continuum
- Veronique Mead, Adverse Babyhood Experiences / Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
Mary Jackson is a Registered Nurse, Licensed Midwife, and home birth Midwife with over five decades of experience, having attended around 3000 births in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Ojai, California. Now working with a second generation of babies, she integrates Cranio-Sacral, Somatic Experience, Circle of Security, and Castellino Prenatal and Birth Training into her practice. In one year, she attended 63 consecutive home births with no transfers to the hospital, most labors under 14 hours, and all babies breastfeeding. Mary is committed to helping families integrate birth imprints and heal from early life challenges. She has spoken internationally, co-teaches the Castellino Foundation Training, and is the President of the BEBA Clinic in Ojai, CA.
Anna Chitty has spent 45 years exploring and teaching the interdependence of body, mind, emotions, and essence. She co-created a training school in Boulder Colorado and is the director of the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy 700-hour training program, as well as the Somatic Blueprint Training. She combines experiential and cognitive teaching approaches informed by her understanding of the Polyvagal System, Pre and Perinatal Somatics, Embryology, and Biodynamic Principles. She collaborated with Ray Castellino for many years, teaching a training called Body into Being. Anna was a founding member of the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America and co founder of the International Association of Biodynamic Trainings. She has been a keynote speaker at numerous conferences, has collaborated with holistic health leaders, is a teacher of the Diamond Approach, and has spent many years in the Rinzai Zen tradition.
Frank Carbone is a seasoned professional with expertise in somatic health, music, and movement. A retired NYC Sanitation Worker from Queens, New York, he has been active in the music scene since age 15, performing as a singer and songwriter with projects like WOOFWOOF and NY Groove. Frank is an authorized Continuum teacher, trained under Emilie Conrad, and also trained in prenatal and perinatal psychology under Dr. Ray Castellino. He developed the Womb Continuum, blending these practices to facilitate deep somatic healing. Frank is a certified Gyrotonic instructor and offers Womb Continuum Process Workshops worldwide while maintaining private practices in Ojai, CA, and New York.
Learn more, www.wombcontinuum.com
Veronique Mead is a former Board Certified family physician and Dartmouth-affiliated assistant professor of family medicine. She retrained with a Master’s degree in somatic psychotherapy from Naropa University and specialty training in pre and perinatal trauma and somatic experiencing (SE). For the past 25 years Veronique has explored the scientific literature on how effects of trauma from the prenatal and other periods in a person’s life influence risk for autoimmune and other chronic illnesses. She shares the research on her blog Chronic Illness Trauma Studies.com. Veronique offers consultations on chronic illness and trauma to health professionals and people living with chronic illness.
Coming Soon!
Tracing Life’s First Imprints: Read this Forum’s IBPJ Companion Issue on Prenatal & Perinatal Somatics
The next issue of the International Body Psychotherapy Journal is a companion to the upcoming forum event, diving deep into Prenatal & Perinatal Somatics with transformative insights from leading experts. Featuring articles on the impact of earliest trauma, attachment imprints, transgenerational healing, and somatic therapeutic approaches, this special edition explores cutting-edge perspectives that significantly reshapes our understanding of early life experiences and how they influence lifelong patterns. Don't miss this essential collection of research, interviews, and clinical perspectives—subscribe now to stay at the forefront of somatic psychology!
Our guest editor for this issue is Kate White, the Founding Director of Education at the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH), and the Founder and Director of the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs.
Kate White’s editorial guidance offers a vision—one in which the prenatal and perinatal field is no longer sidelined, but fully integrated into somatic psychotherapy. The IBPJ Editorial team suggests this area of somatics is not merely a niche within body psychotherapy; it serves as the foundation upon which all somatic inquiry is built.
Learn more about the IBPJ.
SUBSCRIBE
Get invited to events like these, updates on free resource materials and more. Subscribe to the USABP Highlights Newsletter.
Sign Up
Check back as new information on our events happen regularly and updates are ongoing.
These exclusive webinars are brought to you by the USABP and its proud educational and training institute member organizations.
These live webinars are for Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs. Counselors, Somatic Practitioners, Body Worker and other Health Professionals.
IMPORTANT NOTICE!
Registration is in three steps. Get the details below.
Non-members see special message* to you below.
Members you must be logged in to be able to access free registration.
*NON-MEMBERS SAVE NOW:
Non-members are better off to join the USABP. For a little more money paid as a member - instead of an event registrant - you can participate in 12 plus upcoming webinars FREE and get access to our library of training - lectures. Plus get our International digital and/or printed version of our International Peer Reviewed Journal and much more.
ABOUT OUR EVENTS
Our events often include demonstrations, video and slide presentations, experiential exercises, Q & A discussions, insights from attendees, presenter shares about their personal journey and inspirations, and much more.
These courses content levels serve introductory or beginning level; intermediate level; or advanced level.
Please cancel prior to 24 hours before the course starts. For questions or concerns, phone 202-466-1619.
Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.
DON’T FORGET!
REGISTRATION is in three steps:
1) Register first on the USABP website (click the register button on this page), and then
2) Register at Zoom too. Use the Zoom link that we will email to you after you register with USABP (click the register button on this page to begin registration).
3) Once you register with Zoom. Zoom will send you your login link.
We look forward to seeing you at this premiere event.
