Being with Double Binds 2025

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Cherionna Menzam-Sills

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Friday – Saturday, September 5th – 6th; 12th – 13th, 19th – 20th, 26th – 27th

2 – 5:15 p.m.

*Fee**: £420 by August 5th, 2025; £450 from August 6th, 2025*

Double binds present frequently in pre- and perinatal history, and tend to be re-enacted in relationships in everyday life, including in therapy. Double binds can also be highly seductive and challenging to navigate. Because they relate to implicit memory, they feel like they are current, happening now. Both the client and the therapist can be triggered within double bind dynamics, making them more difficult to work with.

This course aims to enhance your ability to recognise double binds and address them effectively. This involves being able to name the double bind, separate out its confusing components, and differentiate and resource in relation to them. This usually takes some practice.

During the eight sessions over four weeks, Cherionna will present material about double binds, including prenatal and birth-related double binds. She will guide you through explorations of your own double bind material, both historical and current. You will have an opportunity to explore this further with a partner’s support, which also gives you practice in being with and therapeutically facilitating session work when double binds are present. Cherionna will give demonstrations with participants who volunteer. As well as in-class practice sessions, you will be encouraged to practice between meetings, with clients and/or with your peers in the seminar. There will be time for questions and discussion, including relevant supervision questions regarding double bind issues with your clients or from practice sessions during the week.

The course is for graduates of OJH only. Graduates from all training cohorts are invited to join.

This is a chance to re-connect with your peers from the training, to meet colleagues from a different cohort, and of course to deepen your understanding and skill in working with this material.

Helping to hold the field will be current OJH assistants, Federica Olivero and Federica (Fedi) Gonzati.

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Instructor

Cherionna Menzam-Sills

Cherionna Menzam-Sills is a prenatal and birth therapist, movement therapist and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist. Drawing on over 45 years experience, her background includes an M.A. in Somatic Psychology (Dance/Movement Therapy) and a Ph.D. in Pre- and Perinatal Psychology, as well as Occupational Therapy, Massage Therapy, intensive study of BMC and Body-Mind Psychotherapy with Susan Aposhyan and 10 years intensive study with prenatal and birth psychotherapy pioneers, William Emerson and Ray Castellino. She worked intensively with founder of Continuum, Emilie Conrad for the last decade of her life. Emilie authorized her to teach Continuum in 2007.

Cherionna has also practiced Craniosacral Therapy since 1991. She began teaching Biodynamic Cranosacral Therapy in 2007 after completing and assisting two-year foundation trainings with John and Anna Chitty, with whom she apprenticed to become a teacher. In 2008 she and Biodynamics pioneer Franklyn Sills began a romantic relationship. Soon after this, Cherionna began assisting Franklyn in teaching foundation trainings and post-graduate seminars.

Marrying Franklyn Sills in 2010 brought Cherionna to the UK from where she began frequently teaching in Europe as well as continuing her trainings and workshops in Canada and the USA. This included becoming a senior tutor at the renounced Karuna Institute in the UK. These years of co-teaching with Franklyn and endless discussions about Biodynamics deepened Cherionna's understanding and practice of this beautiful work, which informed also her practices and teaching of Continuum and Pre- and Perinatal Therapy.

Cherionna's work is further informed by years of intensive Vipassana meditation practice and other mindfulness practices. She has also studied trauma therapies with pioneers such as Janina Fisher and Bonnie Badenoch.

Cherionna has also authored of three books: The Breath of Life: An Introduction to Craniosacral Biodynamics, Spirit into Form: Exploring Embryological Potential and Prenatal Psychology, and The Prenatal Shadow: Healing the Traumas Experienced Before Birth

Overview

Fee: £420 by August 5th, 2025; £450 from August 6th, 2025

This course aims to enhance your ability to recognise double binds and address them effectively. This involves being able to name the double bind, separate out its confusing components, and differentiate and resource in relation to them. This usually takes some practice.

The course is for graduates of OJH only. Graduates from all training cohorts are invited to join.

This is a chance to re-connect with your peers from the training, to meet colleagues from a different cohort, and of course to deepen your understanding and skill in working with this material.

Helping to hold the field will be current OJH assistants, Federica Olivero and Federica (Fedi) Gonzati.

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*Fee**: £420 by August 5th, 2025; £450 from August 6th, 2025*