Our first 1000 days - a diploma in applied pre and perinatal psychology

Experience and heal the foundations of your creative potential through immersion in a skilfully held group, the powerful hidden landscape of our earliest and formative encounters, and the breath's ancient capacity to restore joy.

Enrolment for our January 2020 diploma is open.

Join us in January 2020-November 2020, for 20 days, in London.

Faculty: Binnie A. Dansby and Elmer Postle with Julia Duthie and associates Catherine Gundry and Lynne Thorsen.

Introductory talks

Call us on 07785 926 796, or come to a free introductory talk in London with Binnie A. Dansby and Elmer Postle.

Friday, 10th January 2020 at 7:00 pm.

Venue: The Benedictine Study and Arts Centre, 74 Castlebar Road, London, W5 2DD.

See Eventbrite listing for more information and to book.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introductory-talk-our-first-1000-days-a-diploma-tickets-68294289057

The diploma

'Binnie and Elmer have created a magical and sacred space in which to integrate a new perspective and a model of self-care that resonates deep within. A truly life-changing experience' - V.S, participant, 2019.

In this 20-day course, you will develop the capacity to listen and be present to self and others through profound healing and integration of the early experiences of conception, gestation, birth, and early childhood.

Each of us has a deeply held experience of conception, pregnancy, birth, and early childhood - 'our first 1000 days'. When we are willing to enquire into this rich and often unconscious realm of personal and collective psychology, we gain access to the foundations of our creative potential. This awareness makes us more available to being with others, both professionally and in close relationships. This will take place in a gentle, safe, and supportive environment in which you can remember, release, and examine the impact, reward, and healing energy inherent in your own birth process, while learning to facilitate that process in others.

We will work with experiential source process and breathwork, birth process work models, prenatal and perinatal psychology and physiology theory, guided meditation, forgiveness practice, small and large group work, and somatic and trauma psychology practice.

Participants will receive mentoring throughout the duration of the training.

About Binnie, Elmer and Julia

Binnie A. Dansby is an inspiring teacher and a gifted counsellor, healer, author, and philosopher. She is the creator of a personal and professional development system, source process and breathwork, which she has taught in three-year, self-development training courses in England, Germany, Denmark, and Estonia for over 30 years.

Elmer Postle is a Craniosacral therapist and filmmaker with a specialisation in birth psychology. He has studied source process and breathwork, prenatal and birth therapy and biodynamic craniosacral therapy, which together form the basis of his practice.

Julia Duthie has worked as an independent midwife in the South West of England since 1990. She has trained extensively in prenatal and birth therapy for both adults and babies in a variety of modalities. Julia has four children of her own whose births taught her a lot about the importance of empowering women giving birth.

Tuition fees

Fees are £2,600. Payable by one deposit of £200 (to reserve your place), plus 10 instalments of £240 a month. All prices include VAT at 20%.

Location

Castlebar Road, Ealing, London, W5 UK.

Praise for Binnie and Elmer's work

"Anything presented by Binnie Dansby is extraordinarily worthwhile. One of the best teachers in the area of Pre and Perinatal Psychology" - Patricia Brennan

"I just want you to know that, as I sit here waiting for the lift to take me to the radio station, I am with your source process archetypal affirmations - for myself - and they are steadying me" - FL, London

"Your meditation makes me feel so safe and surrounded by love that I can relax and easily fall asleep again. It almost always works" - VW, Stockholm, Sweden

"Hi, Binnie. Following the two sessions we had together, I feel empowered, calm, and although very busy, I go to bed and wake up with positive energy" - E.N. Communications Executive, London

From Elmer Postle's film 'The Healing of Birth'

"This is an extraordinary film, and the director’s vision is truly noteworthy" - The Journal Of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health

"I enthusiastically endorse the film made by Elmer Postle on the psychology of birth. It is an interesting film and introduces in a dynamic way the key concept of the autonomy, sensitivity and intensity of the new baby" - Mr Yehudi Gordon MB CHB, FRCOG FCOG (SA), British Consultant Gynaecologist

"(The) film is tender and gentle, and the camera-work is excellent" - Sheila Kitzinger, internationally recognised author and activist on childbirth and women’s and human development

Contact NAOS Institute/download an application form and submit to;

Email: info@naos-institute.com 

Tel: 07827 923 134

Office and practice: 3 Montpelier Avenue, Ealing, London, W5 2XP.