BY Melanie Langer The Fulcrum, Issue 93 September 2024 There is an alchemy that brings practitioner and client together. Both are teachers, both are students. Each with their own story and path of learning. Discovering the dynamics at play in the relational field is a profoundly therapeutic process for both practitioner and client. Understanding these … Continue reading Beyond the Treatment Room: Developing a Reflective Practice
BY Dr Nicola Brough The Fulcrum, Issue 92 May 2024 I first used complementary and integrative medicine over 20 years ago to support my own ill health. It was reflexology that awoke me to my innate healing ability. I was fascinated by the body-mind results I felt, and responded so well that I decided to … Continue reading Measuring the Effectiveness of CST
The Fulcrum, Issue 92 May 2024 The goal of the Congress is to inspire confidence in the work that we do. Although this therapy is quite young and not always scientifically supported, what we do matters. Our work matters to our clients, to the world, to ourselves, and to our community. With this congress, we … Continue reading Interview with Danny Sandra of the International Cranio Research Congress
BY Miki Ettore & Kate Stuart The Fulcrum, Issue 91 January 2024 NEURODIVERSITY is a term used to describe naturally occurring variations in the human brain. Neurotypical is defined as ‘normal’ and neurodiverse is a spectrum that varies from person to person and affects how they experience and react to the world around them. It … Continue reading The Challenges & Rewards of Working with Neurodiversity
BY Carolyn Stevens The Fulcrum, Issue 91 January 2024 Lizette Villaverde and I are the birth mothers of the Craniosacral Collaborative, a space for therapists to share, enrich and empower one another through collaborative practice. Our objective is to empower practitioners and assist the wider community through acts of creative service. Lizette and I met … Continue reading Supporting Our Communities
By Sue Harding The Fulcrum, Issue 89 May 2023 The experience of adoption can sometimes feel like the occupation of a liminal space; a sense of floating between two places, times or selves. It is a before and after separation, two sets of families, (sometimes) two different names, and a sense of a silent self. … Continue reading Adoption & Duality: Navigating a Liminal Space
By Richard Kramer Having worked with babies for many years I am interested to learn more about how a breech birth can affect a baby’s development. Born with their buttocks, feet, or knees emerging first, breech babies are relatively rare, comprising one in 200 births in the UK.¹ Although breech presentation is common in early … Continue reading Breech Births
By Ally Stott The Fulcrum, Issue 88 January 2023 I live on a small island in Oxford. The river called me here eight years ago at a time of great change and transformation in my life. Three years ago, I began year-round wild swimming in rivers, oceans and lakes. It is these healing, transformational experiences … Continue reading Watery Worlds
The Fulcrum, Issue 86 May 2022 We were delighted that Franklyn Sills was able to join this year’s AGM to present his thoughts on primary respiration and the power of potency. A pioneer in the development of a biodynamic approach to CST and Core Process Psychotherapy, Franklyn co-founded and co-directed the Karuna Institute in Devon. … Continue reading Primary Respiration and the Power of Potency
By Sophie Rieu The Fulcrum, Issue 85 January 2022 I sit down and help my client settle into resource and safety. I place one hand under her shoulder and one hand under her thigh. I sit back and listen, anchored in my whole being while I tune in to hers. My contact is present, light, … Continue reading Potency: the Winged Messenger
