About 'Womb Surround' Process Workshops

What is a 'Womb Surround' Process Workshop?

A 'Womb Surround' Process Workshop is a small group format developed and refined by Raymond Castellino beginning in 1992. It creates a safe, welcoming environment in which to explore early imprinting from preverbal life that is affecting your present life. Typically there are 4-6 participants in a workshop. The facilitator is often assisted by trainees or graduates from the Castellino Foundation Training. What follows is a writeup about the general format developed by Raymond Castellino for in-person 5-day womb surrounds. The format will necessarily vary when online and with different facilitators.

The format for this was created by Dr. Castellino because he found by experience that complete and lasting transformations most often happen in a small group setting. The span of five days or an evening plus four days allows the work to occur in a spacious way that supports the integration of material from your own and others' work.

The facilitator begins each workshop reviewing the 8 Principles: basic interactive, empathy and contact skills allowing participants to actively support each other during the workshop with the intention of creating a safe and nurturing "womb surround." Each participant receives a 1.5 - 3.5 hour session with the facilitator with group support during which he or she explores physical and emotional patterns of prenatal, birth or infancy origin. Each session is followed by individual and group debriefing, integrative processing and discussion. Tools used include group interactive processes, energy awareness, craniosacral work and other touch and empathy skills.

The purpose is to heal and re-pattern early trauma and to create more options for current behavior and ways of being in relationship. In addition to healing prenatal, birth and other early trauma, this process has the principle impact of encouraging loving bonding within primary relationships. Participants commonly state that the process is transformational on a deep level.

Approved Womb Surround Facilitators - Please contact them individually about their offerings

All those listed below have demonstrated competence to facilitate a womb surround. They have met specific requirements that indicate their skill and experience. Womb Surrounds whose faciliators have been approved by Ray or another supervisor may be taken as a prerequisite for required Womb Surrounds for trainees and potential trainees who wish to apply to T17 and are open to anyone for personal and/or professional growth. For information, please contact the relevant facilitator directly. Many travel to offer Womb Surrounds. Some offer zoom workshops. The practitioners listed below also offer other courses/workshops and work with families and individuals.

Not everyone who is approved currently offers Womb Surrounds. Those who are actively offering (scheduled or willing to schedule) in 2023 are starred (*). A 'P' following the * means 'in-person'. A 'Z' following the star means 'zoom'. They are actively offering WSs now unless it is stated, eg. (*P-fall'23) meaning they plan to start then. Workshops are in English unless otherwise stated. Workshops by Claudia Koehler, Klaus Kaeppeli, Regina Bucher and Sabera Dringenberg are in German only. Carme Renalias, Lin Vermeiren and Rebecca MacSween offer workshops in both English and Spanish (usually one or the other). Everyone else, please assume the workshops are in English. The 2nd column, first line is where the facilitator lives, the 2nd column, 2nd line is where they offer Womb Surrounds. If there is no 2nd line, they have no Womb Surrounds scheduled.

Below is a list of workshops offered between October, 2023 and 2024. I have just put out an email to the facilitators to add their workshops for 2024 so more in the US will be posted soon. Any of these through January 2024 can be taken as a prerequisite to applying to the T17 training. They are also open to others. To 'count' as a prerequiste or a training requirement, the Womb Surround must have a minimum of 4 participants.

MARCH, 2024

Mary Jackson, March 2-6, Oak View (between Ojai and Ventura), CA

Gitte Virkmann Larsen, March 7-10 - Mailing, Denmark (in Danish)

Eileen Sendrey, March 13-16 - Santa Cruz, CA

Mary Jackson, March 15-20, Oak View (between Ojai and Ventura), CA

Regina Beucher and Klaus Buecher, May 17-10, Merdingen, Germany (in German)

Frank Carbone, March 19-23 - Ashton, MD

Sabera Dringenberg, March 23-26 - Offenburg, Germany (in German)

Gitte Virkmann Larsen, March 29-31 - Sydney, Australia

APRIL, 2024

Mary Jackson, April dates to be decided, Oak View (between Ojai and Ventura), CA

Claudia Koehler, April 4-7, Dresden, Germany (in German)

Regina Beucher and Klaus Kaeppeli, April 4-7, Merdingen, Germany (in German, priority to trainees, others may apply)

Lin Vermeiren, April 5-7 - Girona, Spain (in Spanish)

Gitte Virkmann Larsen, April 12-14 - Melbourne, Australia

Cherionna Menzam-Sills April 18-21, zoom (base is the UK)

Rebecca MacSween, April 18-21, near Escorial, Spain (in English)

Tara Blasco and Sarah Grace, April 19-22, Ojai, CA (wait list only)

Carme Renalias, April 26-28 - Fontcoberta, Spain (in Spanish/Catalan)

Kristin Sipley and Cynthia Cutting, April 18-20 - Boulder, CO

MAY, 2024

Gitte Virkmann Larsen, May 2-5 - Mailing, near Aarhus, Denmark (in Engiish (a change))

Kristin Sipley assisted by Seiji Ohno, May 6-9 - Narusawa Mura, Japan

Sabera Dringenberg, May 16-19 - Offenburg, Germany (in German)

Regina Beucher and Klaus Buecher, May 16-19, Merdingen, Germany (in German)

Mary Jackson, May 17-21, Oak View (between Ojai and Ventura), CA

Carme Renalias, May 24-26 - Fontcoberta, Spain (in English)

Scott Engler, May 24-27, Petaluma, CA

JUNE, 2024

Charisse Basquin, June, Scotland

Eileen Sendrey, June 5-8 - Santa Cruz, CA

Cherionna Menzam-Sills, June 6-9, zoom (base is the UK)

Frank Carbone, June 18-22 - Ashton, MD

Carme Renalias, June 21-23 - Fontcoberta, Spain (language to be determined: English or Catalan/Spanish)

JULY 2024

Regina Beucher and Klaus Buecher, July 6-9, Merdingen, Germany (in German)

Frank Carbone, July 12-15, Queens, NYC, NY

Kristin Sipley and Alison Greene-Barton, July 15-18 - Amhearst, MA

Cherionna Menzam-Sills, July 18-21, zoom (base is the UK)

Regina Beucher and Klaus Buecher, July 25-28, Merdingen, Germany (in German)

AUGUST, 2024

Tara Blasco, August 15-18, Ojai, CA

SEPTEMBER, 2024

Scott Engler, September 19-22, Petaluma, CA

OCTOBER, 2024

Sabera Dringenberg, October 3-6, Offenburg, Germany (in German)

Cherionna Menzam-Sills, October 3-6, zoom (base is the UK)

Mary Jackson, October 3-8, Trieste, Italy

Regina Beucher and Klaus Buecher, October 10-13 Merdingen, Germany (in German)

Regina Beucher and Klaus Kaeppeli October 23-26 - St Gallen, Switzerland (in German, priority to trainees, others may apply)

Scott Engler, October 31-November 3, Petaluma, CA

NOVEMBER, 2024

Scott Engler, October 31-November 3, Petaluma, CA

Claudia Koehler and Bodhi Marion Kotowsky, Nov 14-17, Dresden, Germany (in German)

Sabera Dringenberg, November 21-24 - Offenburg, Germany (in German)

Regina Beucher and Klaus Kaeppeli, November 21-24, Merdingen, Germany (in German, priority to trainees, others may apply)

DECEMBER, 2024

Cherionna Menzam-Sills, December 5-8, zoom (base is the UK)

MAY, 2025

Charisse Basquin and Klaus Kaeppeli, Scotland

Spain
Name and Email or Website Location: Lives/Offers Womb Surrounds Phone
Alison Greene-Barton, RCST®
www.greenebartons.com
Amherst, MA (United States) 805 276-8207
(*P) Carme Renalias, RCST®
carmerenalias(at)gmail.com
Fontcoberta (Spain)
Spain
+34 629 291-654
Chantek McNeilage, RCST
chantekmary(at)live.co.uk www.becomingmindful.co.uk
Essex, England (United Kingdom) +44 07970 181 775 (cell)
(*PZ) Charisse Basquin, DC, MSc
earlyimprintsuk(at)gmail.com www.earlyimprints.co.uk
Anstruther, Fife, Scotland (UK)
UK, Europe, Turkey, Taiwan
+44 7531 863160
(*Z) Cherionna Menzam-Sills, PhD, RSMT/E, RCST
birthingyourlife@icloud.com
www.birthingyourlife.org/
Devon (United Kingdom), zoom, UK time +44 7801-515-865
(*PZ) Cindy Barnum, LMT, RCST, CD(Dona)
cbarnum2@msn.com
Florence, OR and Fresno, CA (United States) 541 991-6217
(*P) Claudia Koehler, PT
info(at)lebens-wandel.net
www.lebens-wandel.net/
Dresden (Germany) +49 351-2679271
(*P) Cynthia Cutting, CNP, SEP, BCST, CNMret
cynthiacutting(at)gmail.com
Williamsville, VT (US) and Squamish, BC (Canada) 917 902-6114
(*P) David Haas, B.Sc.(Hons), RPP, RCST
www.first-expression.co.uk
Surrey, England (UK) and Malling, Denmark +44 7715 171075
(*PZ) Eileen Sendrey, CMT
eileensendrey(at)mac.com
www.eileensendrey.com
Santa Cruz, CA (United States) 408 892-2820
(*PZ) Frank Carbone
frankjcarbone(at)aol.com
www.wombcontinuum.com
New York, NY (United States) +805 320-7985
(*P) Gitte Virkmann Larsen, RPE
Gitte@satori.dk
www.healingcenteret.dk
Malling, Denmark and Perth/Sydney, Australia 45 8693 0377
(*P) Judyth Weaver, PhD, RCST®, SEP, SAL, RMP
www.judythweaver.com
Cortes Island, BC (Canada) and Seattle, WA 206 361-4124
250 935-8500
(*-fall'23) Kevin Davis®, LCSW, LMFT, LCAS, SEP
kevindavis701(at)gmail.com
Charlotte, NC (United States) 704 807-8939
(*P) Klaus Kaeppeli, dipl.psych.FSP
klaus.kaeppeli(at)bluewin.ch
Eggersriet, CH-9034 (Switzerland)
Switzerland
+41 7122 34891
(*P) Kristin Sipley, RCST®
kristin(at)consciousbeginnings.net
Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
CA, CO, OH, NC (US), willing to travel, zoom
831 295-8384
(*P) Lin Vermeiren
biodinamicaperinatal(at)gmail.com
Girona (Spain) +34-690-179-969
(*P) Mary Jackson, RN, LM, RCST®
mjmidwife(at)gmail.com
www.birthinconnection.com
Ventura, CA (United States)
805 649-3063
Myrna Martin, MN, RCC, RCST®
www.myrnamartin.net
Comox, Vancouver Island, BC (Canada) 250 509-1033
(*P) Rebecca MacSween, RCST;
rebeccamacsween(at)gmail.com
Madrid (Spain) and Montreal, Quebec (Canada) +34-91-327-2785
(*P) Regina Buecher, RPP, RCST, dipl.Heilpaed
rbuecher@einstueckwegbegleitung.de
www.einstueckwegbegleitung.de
Merdingen (Germany) +49 7668 950764
(*P) Sabera Dringenberg, Heilpraktikerin, BCST
sabera(at)web.de
Stuttgart(Germany) +49 176 4200 5788
(*P) Sarah Theismann, MA, CMP, SEP, CSB
www.somatictraumahealing.com
Berkeley, CA (United States), Hungary, Croatia 510-610-0320
(*P) Scott Engler, MA, RCST, BCST
www.heartofstillness.com
Petaluma, CA (United States) 707 953-1441
(*P-fall'23)Susan Lange, OMD, LAc
www.meridianholistic.com, thebirthdance.com, playformula.com
Patagonia, Arizona (United States) 310 395-9525 x2#
(*P) Tara Blasco, PhD, RCST®
tarablasco(at)gmail.com
www.tarablasco.com
Ojai, CA (United States) 805 570-4314 (cell)