CASTELLINO FOUNDATION TRAINING, in person in Barcelona 2027 – 2031
20th CASTELLINO FOUNDATION TRAINING, in person in Barcelona 2027 – 2031
This is the 4th training held in Spain.
Bilingual English/Spanish
Module A – April 2 al 7, 2027
Module 1- September 10 al 15, 2027
Module 2 – March 31 to April 5, 2028
Module 3 – September 8 al 13, 2028
Module 4 – April 6 al 11, 2029
Module 5 – September 7 al 12, 2029
Module 6 – April 5 al 10, 2030
Module 7 – September 13 al 18, 2030
Module 8 – April 4 al 9, 2031
There are some pre-requisites to apply for this training. Please kindly look into the tab about inscriptions.
There will be interviews with the teachers starting in 2026.
If you are interested to apply please send an email to:
formacioncastellinotara@gmail.com
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CASTELLINO FAMILY PRACTITIONER TRAINING, in person & online 2026-2028
With Tara Blasco Ph.D. and Mary Jackson Midwife
Please join us for the third offering of post-graduate Family Practitioner Training open to graduates and almost graduates of a Castellino Foundation Training in the US and Europe as well as other Foundation Trainings based on the Castellino model.
Tara and Mary designed with Ray in 2019 a comprehensive training that continues to be facilitated by Mary and Tara and will focus on supporting you to move through your next growth steps for developing your Castellino Family Practitioner skills. We will focus on 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.
PREREQUISITE: Graduates and trainees that have almost graduated from Castellino Foundation Training and equivalent trainings.
INTENTION: To support graduates to build and ground their Family Practitioner skills and be able to set up a BEBA style clinical setting in their hometowns.
FORMAT: 2 in-person modules of 5 days and 16 online meetings via zoom.
In person modules: Module 1: 14-18th October 2026 & Module 2: 6-10th October 2027
One group will meet in Sant Martí de Sesgueioles, Barcelona
Another group will meet at the BEBA Clinic in Ojai California, EEUU
Part of the teachings to both groups will be offered by Mary and Tara online, connecting for a couple of hours each day via zoom (evening and night time in Europe and in the morning in the US). All other practices and exercises will be organized separately and will be held in person during daytime hours for each group.
Online classes: teachings and supervision, dates to be confirmed but with the intention to hold these meetings once a month on Thursday, European time 18.30 to 21.30 h.
8 monthly online meetings during 3 hours in between the in-person modules (morning schedule for US and afternoon/evening for Europe) and 10 monthly online meetings during 3 hours after the second in-person module.
Recordings will be available to participants who are not able to attend all the online classes.
For more information and registration please contact Tara Blasco: tarablasco@gmail.com
Contact for in-person Barcelona logistics: Olga Molina: formacioncastellino@gmail.com
Contact for participating in the US: Sandra Castellino: sandra@castellinotraining.com
COST:
A total of 5 payments of 730 euros each.
Deposit 730 e (early bird registration before July 31, 2026, 700 e)
Module 1: 730 e
8 Zoom calls between module 1 and 2: 730 e
Module 2: 730 e
10 Zoom calls after module 2: 730 e
Dates for the online calls and schedules will be announced soon.
CONTENT FOR THE IN-PERSON MODULES
During the TWO 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.
- Content presentations on family practice
ONLINE MEETINGS
The online sessions will continue to further present practice topics like: 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.
SKILLS OUTLINE that we will cover in the Family Practitioner Training in both in person modules and online session:
- 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.
- Know 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.
Graduation Requirements:
(1) Complete requirements to graduate from a Foundation Training (this is needed to graduate, not to start)
(2) 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.
(3) Present a video of your work with families in the supervision format.
(4) Complete payment for the Family Practitioner Training as well as the Foundation Training
Faculty
Mary Jackson, RN, LM, RCST
Mary Jackson has been married since 1987, is the mother of 2 children who were born at home. Mary has been a home birth Midwife since 1975. She is an approved Castellino Process Workshop facilitator and co-teaches the Castellino Pre and Perinatal Training. She is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and leads trainings throughout the world.
Tara Blasco, Ph.D.
Tara has a Ph.D in prenatal and perinatal psychology from the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, and has worked at the BEBA clinic since 2001. Currently she is the director of the Beba clinic and works as a facilitator at the in person Ojai BEBA clinic as well as online with families all over the world. She is a certified craniosacral therapist. She is a psychologist in her country of origin, Spain. She is an approved Womb Surround Process Workshop facilitator through Castellino training. She co-teaches Dr. Castellino’s Foundation Training in Spain and in the US together with Mary Jackson. 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.
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CASTELLINO CERTIFIED WOMB SURROUND PROCESS WORKSHOPS in English
Facilitated by Lin Vermeiren – contact: biodinamicaperinatal@gmail.com
Facilitated by Mary Jackson: mjmidwife@gmail.com
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Facilitated by Tara Blasco Ph.D. in California and online: tarablasco@gmail.com
Facilitated by Carme Renalias: carmerenalias@gmail.com, www.terapiacraneosacral.net
