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IAIBCST

The International Affiliation of Integrated Biodynamic Cranio-Sacral Therapy (IAIBCST) is an affiliating organisation for cranio-sacral trainings and member colleges around the world teaching the Integrated Biodynamic approach to Cranio-Sacral Therapy.

 

Graduates of IAIBCST trainings who become members are eligible to use the letters IBCST (Integrated Biodynamic Cranio-Sacral Therapist).

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IAIBCST trainings are based on the format created and developed by Thomas Attlee DO, RCST, IBCST over the past 40 years. They involve a minimum of 700 hours of training, including 350 hours of contact time, 150 hours of practice, 200 hours of study, and a minimum of 10 hours of personal treatment sessions.

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Integrated Biodynamic Cranio-Sacral Therapy is distinctive in that it integrates a wider and more comprehensive range of cranial concepts and appreciates the value and benefit of many elements within its broad-spectrum approach.

 

 

The training curriculum includes a diverse range of elements that enable practitioners to provide well-rounded and effective care. Each college or training will adapt this broad curriculum in accordance with its own philosophy and objectives.

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​A training in Integrated Biodynamic Cranio-Sacral Therapy incorporates:

 

  • Biodynamics: Deep engagement with the profound biodynamic forces of nature.

  • Biomechanics: Understanding the intricate and complex workings of the physical body.

  • Engaging with Psycho-Emotional Levels: Recognising and working with the essential role of emotional and psychological factors in determining our health and well-being.

  • Engaging with the Quantum Field: connecting with the most profound spiritual forces of nature and the cutting edge of modern science.

  • Engaging in Personal Growth and Development: understanding the crucial significance of personal growth in developing a powerful and safe therapeutic presence as a practitioner.

  • Grounding: establishing the clear calm presence, the self-awareness, and the balanced stable fulcrum through which to maintain stability and grounding under all circumstances.

  • Establishing Safety, Trust, and Support: Building a therapeutic relationship based on safety, trust, and support.

  • Dialogue: Developing effective communication and dialoguing skills to enhance the healing process in a therapeutic context.

  • Trauma Resolution, Stress Resolution, Mental Health: Comprehensive skills for addressing and resolving trauma, stress, and mental health concerns.

  • Engaging with Birth Process: Understanding and working with birth process in individuals of all ages, including babies, children, and adults, and the profound influence of childbirth on mothers.

  • Family Dynamics: recognising the complex interactions of family dynamics and their far-reaching impact on health and well-being, physical and emotional.

  • Engaging with the Whole Person: Recognising that each individual exists within the wider field of everything around them - family, work, relationships, environment, society, the global community - and facilitating each person's progress and relationship with the world within the context of their whole life.

  • Fascial Unwinding: understanding the profound significance of fascia as the matrix within which we exist; and developing high level skills in the exceptionally valuable art of Fascial Unwinding for the resolution of a comprehensive range of issues, from the deepest emotional trauma to persistent intransigent physical conditions.

  • Mindfulness: Incorporating mindfulness practice for establishing a clear calm presence and awareness, for the benefit of both clients and practitioners.

  • Tides, Rhythms, and Deep Dynamic Stillness: Embracing the full range of cranio-sacral tides and rhythms, including long tide, middle tide, and cranio-sacral rhythm, and with the most profound levels of deep dynamic stillness.

  • Grounding in Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology: A solid foundation in the science of the human body, its structure, function, and disturbances to function.

  • Clinical Practice: Extensive clinical practice and experience, in order to enable practitioners to go out into professional practice as capable confident therapists.

  • Practitionership: Developing a suitably responsible, ethical, skilful, compassionate, and professional approach to being a practitioner, together with dedication to one’s own personal process of growth and development as a therapist, in order to provide safety for clients and stability for practitioners.

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