WOMB SURROUND
PROCESS WORKSHOPS

Introduction

In the tradition of Ray Castellino, Zephyr facilitates Womb Surround

Process Workshops. This unique modality developed by Dr. Castellino

engenders a high level of trust and choice among participants, laying

the foundation for deep personal transformation nurtured by the

health and safety of a resonant field.

Workshop Format
This workshop is conducted in person. There may be four to

seven participants in the workshop. The duration of the workshop

is four to five days, depending upon the number of participants. Each

person will have a turn and, the following day, a debrief. Every

participant brings the spirit of mutual cooperation and support to

the group, and forms part of the surround for person taking a turn.

Womb Surround Process Workshops are grounded in the prenatal

and perinatal (PPN) principles formulated and refined by Ray Castellino

over decades of working in this form. The principles will be shared at

the outset of the workshop, as they provide the

fundamental container for the work.

This workshop is experiential and easily accessible to laypersons

with no knowledge of the PPN field. Every person has implicit

somatic memory of their own birth, which inherently

serves as a personal reference and guide.

This workshop is not constellation work. Although participants may inhabit

the energetics of family members of the person taking their turn, when this

happens, it happens organically and is not directed by the facilitator.

Participants are never acting a role. Interactions are authentic

expressions of each participant’s present experience.

This workshop is not regressive. There is no attempt to place a

person into a prenatal or infantile state to re-experience their past.

Such an approach has been shown to put the individual

at risk of being re-traumatized.

This workshop supports the individual to fulfill an intention that serves

their present life. The workshop provides a strong, safe container

within which to engage what may be blocking the intention,

enabling transformation of the locked energy into a depth of resource

that affords choice. The participant gains freedom to recognize multiple

options and to exercise discernment as to which option best serves their

intention in the present moment. In addition to appreciating the implications

of each individual’s work for their own lives, the supporting participants

in the surround learn to "give what they were not given," form “I”

statements, and provide accurate reflection. Differentiation

and role clarification are key aspects of the work.

Inquiries

To request a workshop application,

please contact Kilometer Thirteen

Unless otherwise noted, Kilometer Thirteen

works in Los Angeles, California.

Participants may organize a group and provide

an alternate location for a workshop.