Family Practitioner Training
AN OPPORTUNITY TO FOCUS ON CLINICAL PRACTICE WITH FAMILIES, BABIES AND CHILDREN
with Mary Jackson, RN, LM, RCST® and Tara Blasco, Ph.D., RCST®
In the Family Practitioner Training, we support you to move through your next growth steps, developing the skills you need to support deepening the quality of relationships within the families that you work with and to train parents to be with their children in the Blueprint field.
The 1st Family Practitioner Training was designed and taught by Ray, Tara and Mary starting in 2019.
The 2nd Family Practitioner Training is ongoing. It is in English, translated to Spanish. It is attended by trainees from 6 countries.
The 3rd Family Practitioner Training will start in the fall of 2026. It is open to graduates and almost graduates of a Castellino Foundation Training in the US, Canada and Europe as well as other Foundation Trainings based on the Castellino model.
Graduation Requirements for the Family Practitioner Training:
- Complete requirements to graduate from a Foundation Training (this is needed to graduate, not to start).
- Attend all sessions or make up the sessions by watching the zoom videos plus doing any exercises.you missed with peers or assistants and submitting a write-up about your learning.
- Present a video of your work with families in the supervision format.
- Complete payment for the Family Practitioner Training as well as the Foundation Training.
Those who completed most of a training and have perhaps homework or womb surrounds to take or a module to make up are welcome to sign up for a future Family Practitioner Training. Graduation from the Family Practitioner Training requires graduation from a Foundation Training so you will have 2 more years to complete your Foundation Training requirements. Those who attended trainings with teachers other than Ray, Mary, Tara, please contact Sandra. You are welcome also.
Graduates of the Family Practitioner Training will be identified on the Castellino Training website as Family Practitioner Training Graduates.
CONTENT OF THE FAMILY PRACTITIONER TRAINING
Two Modules – Content
During the TWO several-day modules we will share with you the entirety of the BEBA Clinical process, including:
- How to set up a Family Clinic.
- Set up peer support teams.
- Tour of the BEBA Clinic.
- How to progress through all of the steps for sessions with families with babies and children of different ages.
- We will look at videos of family sessions facilitated by Mary, Ray and Tara from a practitioner point of view and share with you our decision making processes during the sessions.
- Supervision.
- Content presentations on family practice.
Online Meetings – Content
The online sessions will continue to further present practice topics such as working with families with sleep issues, sibling rivalry, twins, IVF, integrating new siblings into the family, processing traumatic births, blended families and more.
In the zoom sessions after module 2 we will ask you to prepare clips from sessions that you facilitated, and present a clip to receive supervision and feedback support about the session. Presenting a clip of your own work is a requisite for graduation.
Online sessions will include:
- Content presentations on family practice.
- Supervision sessions.
- Session analysis as described above
The Facilitators, Tara Blasco, PhD, RCST® and Mary Jackson, RN, LM, RCST®
Mary is retired from her decades-long career as a home-birth midwife who integrated Ray’s work and craniosacral work into her practice. She has been married since 1987 and is the mother of 2 children born at home.
Tara has a PhD in Pre and Pernatal Psychology from the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute and is a psychologist in her country of origin, Spain. With her husband Lyn, she co-directs the non-profit organization Global Resource Alliance dedicated to the alleviation of poverty and disease by supporting communities in the Mara region of Tanzania.
BEBA: Tara is the Clinical Director of the BEBA family clinic in Ojai, CA and on zoom throughout the US. Tara and Mary serve on the BEBA Board of Directors, Mary being the President of the BOD. Tara and Mary teach the Foundation Training together in the US and Spain. Both Mary and Tara are approved Womb Surround Facilitators as well as Womb Surround Mentors, Family Practitioner Mentors and certified craniosacral therapists. They both have private practices and offer classes both through Castellino Training and other sponsors.
The training is designed to develop these skills:
- How to set up BEBA Style child/baby centered family clinic.
- How to manage the flow of sessions from taking in new clients, session preparation and review (pre-briefing), doing the sessions through and including post briefs and taking session notes. We will give examples and share with you how to work with parents on the phone or zoom.
- How to establish intentions with parents on the phone/zoom and and how to learn the intentions of the children.
- How to facilitate parent pre and post session phone/zoom calls.
- How to facilitate parents and kids so you are able to model for the parents, then gradually include parents into the session play so that parents are learning BEBA parenting skills during the sessions.
- How to communicate the principles to the parents.
- How to introduce family work and evening parenting talks.
- How to facilitate parent and community presentations.
- How to work in teams.
- How to be able to video tape and use footage for teaching, for parents, themselves and future teaching.
- How to drop into the co-regulated slow rhythms, titrate a family system into co- regulated resonant social energy fields.
- How to support parents to differentiate their own histories from their children’s histories.
- How to empower dads and or partners into supportive connections with mothers and babies.
- How to support parents to be cooperative even when they disagree with each other, to get on the same side of the fence with each other.
- How to reduce and eliminate power struggles within family systems.
- How to work with families that are separating.
- How to effectively use your own counter transferences in sessions so you can perceive with greater depth what is happening in a family system.
- How to support parents to be with their own feelings in ways that deepen their understanding and connection with each other and with their children.
- How to support optimal bonding and attachment in families.
- How to do “supported attachment” with new babies and moms.
- How to establish optimal nursing patterns with babies and moms.
- How to support families experiencing sibling rivalry, tantrums, challenging emotions, sleep challenges, previous abortions attempts, parent fears, etc.
- How to help parents with parenting skills and playing skills.
- How to use Craniosacral skills in the space to invite slower rhythms and use hands on when needed.