Early Relationship, Womb experience and Personality Formation

Teacher

Overview

A Two-Part Series with Franklyn Sills

In these two presentations, we will orient to the nature of early relationship and felt-experience as the underpinning of personality formation and sense of selfhood. We will also explore the importance of our time in our mother’s womb and “umbilical affect” as the root of these experiences. In these talks, we will be looking at the work of some early British psychoanalysts who dramatically broke away from Freud, shifting from “pleasure seeking” to the importance of early relationship. These include the work of Donald Winnicott, Ronald Fairbairn and Frank Lake.

Course Features

Lectures 2
Quiz 0
Duration 2 hours
Skill level All levels
Language English
Students 18
Certificate No
Assessments Yes

Curriculum

1 Section
2 Lessons
Lifetime

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Course Videos
2
- 2.1
  The Relational Field
  60 Minutes
- 2.2
  Umbilical Affect and Early Development
  50 Minutes

Instructor

Franklyn Sills

Franklyn has been a major influence in the worldwide development of a biodynamic approach to craniosacral therapy. He has been teaching in this field for over 30 years, and has influenced many current teachers and trainings throughout the world. He has presented at many Conferences over the last twenty years and his books, Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics Volumes 1 and 2, are seminal texts in the field.

Having originally studied medical sciences, Franklyn has a long history of study and clinical practice in psychotherapy as well as in craniosacral therapy. His original psychotherapeutic orientation was in humanistic psychology, working with neo-Reichian and pre-natal and birth psychotherapy. He has studied and collaborated with Dr. William Emerson, one of the prime developers of pre- and perinatal psychology. Franklyn also lectures in the Core Process Psychotherapy Training, a mindfulness-based psychotherapy program developed at the Karuna Institute, which he co-founded. He offers his expertise through presentations on Buddhist psychology, pre-natal and birth psychology, personality formation, mindfulness practice and trauma skills. He also teaches the neurobiology of mindfulness, stress and trauma, and he has brought this into the Institute’s Trainings. Franklyn has helped to develop the integrated paradigm of being and selfhood used in the Core Process training.

Franklyn was a Buddhist monk under the most venerable Taungpulu Kaba Aye Sayadaw of Northern Burma, and also studied in the Zen and Taoist traditions. His experience in the cranial field has convinced him that the body must be included in any form of therapy. His published books include The Polarity Process, Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics vol. one and two, and Being and Becoming, Psychodynamics, Buddhism and the Origins of Selfhood.