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This is a panel of presentations by the professional staff at the Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment (BEBA) clinical co-founded by Ray Castellino in 1993.

The five 90-minute presentations will cover topics and approaches to support families who have had difficult prenatal and perinatal experiences, and will cover such topics as recovery from birth trauma, understanding the impact of early trauma on families and babies, help with adoption and conception after miscarriage, and attachment dynamics.
* All of our online courses and workshops will be recorded, and the replays of each class will be available to those who are enrolled.

BEBA Family Healing Summit

Support for Families to Thrive in
Challenging Perinatal Times

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A 5-part series

presented by the Staff of the BEBA Center

Kate WHite
Alison Greene-Barton
Tara Blasco
Sarah Theismann
Lynn Korst
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5 Thursdays in May & June

May 14, 21, 28
June 4, 11
2026

10am - 11:30am PDT
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About BEBA ~ Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment

A Center for Family Healing

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The Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment (BEBA) clinical approach, co-founded by Ray Castellino, focuses on healing family relationships through the promotion of secure attachment and bonding. This approach emphasizes the importance of early experiences and relationships in shaping a person's emotional well-being and ability to form healthy connections. Through a combination of therapeutic techniques and experiential activities, the BEBA clinical approach aims to support individuals and families in building strong, nurturing relationships.

See more about the clinic at beba.org.

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During the Family Healing Summit

Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the key principles of the BEBA clinical approach and how they can be applied in their own lives and relationships. From understanding the impact of early attachment experiences to learning practical strategies for building secure bonds within the family unit, this session will provide valuable insights and tools for promoting healing and growth.

By exploring the foundational concepts of BEBA and engaging in interactive discussions, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the role of attachment in family dynamics and ways to enhance bonding and connection.



Disclaimer:
This course is for educational purposes only, and is not to be used in place of a practitioner training.
 More information about What this Summit offers

Babies Have a Story to Tell

Supporting Families After Difficult Births

~ Kate White ~


Many families report that their births felt traumatic, or that elements of their experiences have been overwhelming. Current trends in care for families who have difficult births include perinatal mental health, trauma-informed care, medications and working with the birth story. Not many approaches include the baby’s experience or how they show their side of the story. The clinical approach of the BEBA clinic is to hold that babies can and need to tell their story; they “show” their story through movements, gestures, postures, crying or emotional expression, and facial expressions. Babies are aware, conscious and want to show their story. This presentation will give examples of the ways that babies have a story to tell that includes videos and pictures for practitioners and parents to grasp the baby’s experience. 

Coming Home Together

Supporting Attachment & Healing in Adoptive and Foster Families

~ Alison Greene-Barton ~


How can we help a child feel truly safe, settled, and welcomed in a new family?

This presentation explores how early experiences — including separation and loss at birth, adoption, and foster care— can affect a child’s ability to connect and trust. We’ll look at how the nervous system stores these early imprints and how they show up in the child’s behaviors and relationships.

Using pre- and perinatal somatic tools, we’ll focus on how to:


  • Understand what a child’s behavior is communicating through play
  • Create environments that help children feel safe in their bodies and relationships.
  • Support attachment, regulation, and a sense of belonging


This work supports caregivers to become a steady, supportive presence so children can begin to heal and grow in connection.

Memory & Consciousness in the Prenate and Baby

How Early Imprints Shape Our Lives 

~ Tara Blasco ~


During this presentation we will explore how intense and significant experiences during our prenatal and birth history can have a tremendous impact in the way we live our lives, even if we are not aware of them. Experiences from conception, gestation to the first 18 months of life are recorded implicitly as non-verbal memories in the form of sensations, movements and emotions leaving an imprint responsible for many of our habits and preferences, even though we aren’t conscious of their origins.

We will watch a video of a 6-month-old baby showing some imprints from the time he was in the womb and understand how bringing this into awareness of his parents changed everything.

The Courage to Love Again

Supporting Secure Prenatal Attachment After Pregnancy Loss 

~ Sarah Theismann ~


Pregnancy loss is a devastating experience that happens to many parents every year and most go on to conceive again. Going through such a loss can turn gestation into a time that feels tenuous and full of worries, making it harder for parents to feel safe enough to bond with their growing baby. Our own histories and our ancestral imprints around death and loss have an impact on how we move through the loss of a baby, making this phase possibly even more challenging.

We know that the prenatal period is one of the most impactful attachment phases for both parents and children, making it crucial to offer support to families so they can find their way back to a sense of safety. While parents are often well supported in the physiological aspects of conceiving again after pregnancy loss, the emotional impact of the loss and how this will affect the connection with their new child needs holding as well. For the new being coming in it is essential that parents process their loss and find the safety and trust inside to open up to love again.

Attachment Dynamics

How They Impact Our Daily Lives

~ Lynn Korst ~


Our early attachment patterns are the most influential aspect of our physical, emotional, mental, social and spiritual lives. They are the template for all of our relationships. These patterns build the foundation of our nervous system and our future health.

Our attachment dynamics or (survival strategies) are imprinted and encoded in our body- based memories. By becoming aware of what did and often what did NOT happen in our early lives is the beginning of the repatterning process.

The developmental shift into (l)earning secure selfhood or secure attachment comes from repatterning our early adaptive strategies. We all carry these dynamics but they are often hidden from us beneath our awareness. We need a clear and coherent mirror to reflect truth and health back to us. 

No matter what our beginning looked like it is our birthright to feel welcomed, safe, connected, embodied and resilient. 

  MEET THE PRESENTERS , Members of BEBA Staff 

Kate White

Kate White is an award-winning educator and an advanced bodyworker. She is trained in somatic therapies, prenatal and perinatal somatic health, lactation, brain development, infant mental health, and has specialized in parent-baby dyad care using somatic prevention and trauma healing approaches since 1999. She is a mother of two children, holds a BA and MA in Communication, is a Registered Craniosacral Therapist in the Biodynamic Craniosacral method, a Polarity Life Counselor and a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. Her work combines somatic trauma healing, especially the approach of Anna Chitty’s Blueprint Resonance work, energetic therapies, bodywork, pediatric therapies and education about the nervous system to help give families with babies and small children the best possible start. She is Founding Director of Education for the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health where from 2013 – 2019 she created and ran the Prenatal and Perinatal Educator Certificate program, a large online educational program for professionals. She went on to found Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online and the Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute. She teaches classes online and in person, and offers training called Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics that she co-created with midwife Lois Trezise. She has a private practice in Chapel Hill, NC called Kate White PPN (katewhiteppn.com) and offers her own seminars through the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, ppncenter.com and the Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute, ppnsomatics.com
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Alison Greene-Barton

Alison is a pre and perinatal somatic therapist who has worked with families, couples, babies, children, and individuals for the past 28 years. She specializes in the healing of early wounding and trauma from conception through adulthood. Alison has worked with families at the BEBA Clinic (Birthing, Enhancing, Bonding and Attachment) in California and online for ten years. She has worked closely with Ray Castellino and co-facilitated family sessions and womb-surround workshops for several years. 

Alison is certified as a Craniosacral Therapist, and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and she holds certifications in Pathwork, Body into Being, Energy Healing, and Shamanism. Alison is an experienced Facilitator of Womb Surround Process Workshops and has been involved in the Castellino approach for 23 years. 

Alison has created Pathwork (Spiritual/Psychology) training programs, somatic pre and perinatal workshops, and parenting classes incorporating the Castellino somatic pre and perinatal approach. She has implemented these programs internationally in Japan, Israel, Brazil, and North America. She currently lives in Amherst, MA.

Alison currently lives in Amherst, MA, with her son, Rohan.

Tara Blasco

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 was the co-director with Ray Castellino until he passed in December 2020. She works as the facilitator at the Ojai BEBA clinic and offers online sessions. She is a certified craniosacral therapist. She is a Certified Womb Surround Process Workshop facilitator through Castellino training. She co-teaches Dr. Castellino’s Foundation Training in Spain and in the US together with Ray Castellino (until he passed) and Mary Jackson. She is the co-director of the non profit organization Global Resource Alliance dedicated to the alleviation of poverty and disease, and supporting communities in the Mara region of Tanzania.
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Sarah Theismann

Sarah grew up in Germany and Austria and moved to California in 2001. She has been studying methods of healing since 1994 and is trained in prenatal & birth therapy, various forms of bodywork, expressive arts therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Sexological Bodywork and Polarity Therapy. She has an MA in PPN Psychology from SBGI and studied intensively with Ray Castellino in the last 10 years of his life. Sarah has been working with families and children since 2011 and leading Womb Surround Workshops since 2013. She works with individuals, families and couples around their early imprints, relationship skills, and sexual intimacy. One of her specializations is how our prenatal period impacts our adult sexual intimacy. Sarah writes and teaches about the intersection of PPN Psychology, Consciousness Studies and Sexology.  

Lynn Korst

After spending her early career in the corporate world Lynn transitioned into the field of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology after becoming a parent. She currently supports adults and families with early attachment trauma histories.

She is a graduate of the Castellino Foundations training as well as a Prenatal and Perinatal Educator (PPNE)  from the Association of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH). She has completed the Castellino Family Practitioner Training and is on staff of the Building & Enhancing Bonding and Attachment Clinic (BEBA). She is working towards becoming an approved Womb Surround Process Facilitator.

She is a certified practitioner of NARM (Neuro Affective Relational Model) which helps integrate early childhood survival strategies. She holds a certificate in Trauma Informed Somatic Therapy and is a facilitator of the Circle of Security Parenting Program.

Her greatest joy is spending time with her family. She is the proud mom of three grown children and lives with her husband in Boulder Colorado.