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Come join us as different professionals from the Castellino Training Community offer focused presentations and discussions on various topics that include their unique perspectives, experiences, and passions relating to Pre- and Perinatal Somatics .
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Free Virtual Talks

Pre- and Perinatal Somatics

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presented by professionals from the Castellino Training Community 
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2nd Thursday of each month
10-11:30 am, Pacific Time
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Each talk is recorded and its replay will be made available to all those who register for up to a year after their original presentation.

In addition, some of our speakers will be offering mini-series to explore certain topics in more depth.
The cost of each mini-series will vary and registration for those mini-series is separate. 
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Wed, August 13, 2025

Healing Relationships from the Inside Out

Where IFS Meets Attachment

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Leslie Petruk
IFS Lead Trainer
Approved IFS Consultant

Free Talk: Where Internal Family Systems (IFS) Meets Attachment
Discover how blending Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Attachment Theory can deepen your personal insight, your relationships, and transform your clinical work.  

Join us for this free experiential workshop where we’ll explore the powerful intersection between IFS and Attachment Theory—two transformational frameworks that, together, offer a more complete map of healing and awareness of personal and relational dynamics.  

Whether you’re a parent, therapist, coach, or curious learner, this workshop will give you a taste of the integrative approach we’ll be diving into in our upcoming 4-part series.You’ll walk away with:

  • A clear understanding of how IFS and Attachment Theory complement one another
  • Practical tools to recognize attachment patterns through the lens of parts work
  • Insight into how early relational wounds show up in our internal systems
  • An invitation to join a deeper journey in our 4-part series


This is more than a lecture—it’s an opportunity to connect, reflect, and experience this integrative model firsthand.
Miniseries: Exploring Attachment through the Lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS)
This immersive 4-session workshop blends the powerful insights of Attachment Theory with the transformative framework of Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help therapists, coaches, healing professionals, and parents deepen their understanding of relational dynamics - in those you support and yourself.
About the presenter: Leslie Petruk
Leslie is a Director at The Stone Center for Counseling & Leadership and a Clinical Supervisor. She has worked as a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor since 1996. Her clinical experience includes working with children, individuals, couples and families using a systemic approach and she is a Certified IFS therapist and a graduate of Castellino Foundation Training.

Her “4 Kids Sake Parenting Programs” were developed to assist parents with the various challenges they face in dealing with each developmental stage and to facilitate cooperative co-parenting when families are going through a divorce or separation. Prior to moving to Charlotte in 2001, Leslie maintained a private practice in Austin, Texas. Her specialized training as a play therapist and marriage and family therapist serve her well in her focus with children, couples and individuals who are dealing with grief and loss, depression, anxiety, trauma, adjustment and relational issues.

Additionally, she works with special needs children and their families, children and families experiencing divorce, and children with behavioral issues in school, for which she provides parenting consultation, coaching and school observation/remediation services. Leslie conducts parenting workshops, marriage seminars and presentations related to these and other issues.

Leslie is also a Board Certified Coach and offers life coaching services. She specializes in coaching working mothers who seek to find their passion, live more fully, decrease their stress and overwhelm and increase their life fulfillment. Leslie is available to conduct workshops and seminars to your group, company or organization related to increasing productivity, teamwork, leadership skills, and managing work and life (she believes work/life balance is a myth).
Thursday, July 10, 2025

It's Never Too Late to Heal

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Rebecca Thompson Hitt
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Previous Talks ...

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April, 2025

The Prenatal Shadow

An Introduction to the Book and Its Concepts

* A 3-part miniseries , The Prenatal Shadow: Healing through Awareness, starts June 2 2025.
For more information, click here.
Cherionna Menzam-Sills
MARCH, 2024

The Days and Works of Ray Castellino

Prenatal and Perinatal Sciences Hall of Honor Inductee, 2023

* A special series , The Teachings of Ray Castellino, 2,  starts April 2 2024.
For more information, click here.
Ray Castellino
8 February, 2024

Becoming Secure

Supporting Secure Attachment in Our Adult Lives

* A mini-series , Creating a Secure Self with the Circle of Security starts March 19 2024.
For more information, click here.
Lynn Korst
11 January, 2024

The Power of Stillness and Movement

Trusting What Emerges

* A mini-series , of the same name starts February 6 2024.
For more information, click here.
Carme Renalias
9 November, 2023

Waiting for a Child

The Challenging Way with Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART)

* A mini-series , of the same name starts November 27, 2023.
For more information, click here.
Klaus Käppeli
14 September, 2023

Deepening Connections

The Importance of Starting with Oneself

* A mini-series , Rediscovering our Sensing Self that explores this topic of Sensory Awareness starts December 5, 2023.
For more information, click here.
Judyth Weaver
13 July, 2023

Open House

What is the Foundation Training and Why Join It?

Find out more information about the Foundation Training here.
Tara Blasco
Mary Jackson
8 June, 2023

Introduction to The Power of Your Face

To Shift Deep Levels of Trauma and Enhance Bonding, Connection, and Rejuvenation

* A special offer , The Power of Your Face that explores this topic more in depth starts July 12, 2023. 18 CEUs offered for certain organizations.
For more information, click here.

Susan Lange
11 May, 2023

Embodying Embryo Folding

 ... Discovery and Welcome

* A mini-series , Embodying Embryo Folding, Discover, and Welcome that explores this topic of embryonic development and the experiences of discovery and how we are welcomed starts June 13, 2023.
For more information, click here.

Cherionna Menzam-Sills
13 April, 2023

Womb Continuum:

Moving Health

Frank Carbone
9 March, 2023

From Relinquishment, Through Separation, To Adoption:

Understanding the Layers of Experience and Complexity Involved in the Journey

Kristin Sipley
9 February, 2023

Prematurity:

Beginning Life in the Hospital

* A mini-series , Prematurity: Different Perspectives of the Premature Birth Experience that explores this topic of Prematurity further is also available
For more information, click here.

Fabiola Cortés-Funes de Urquijo
12 January, 2023

Living the Principles in Everyday Life

Regina Bücher
Klaus Käppeli
8 December, 2022

Ways to Meet Teenagers in Their Power:

How Creative Opposition with Toddlers Makes a Difference for Teenagers

* A mini-series , Ways to Meet Teenagers in Their Power: Meeting Babies, Toddlers, and Teenagers as Full Beings that explores this topic of Teenagers further is also available
For more information, click here.

Claudia Köhler
10 November, 2022

Learning Your Baby's Love Language

* A mini-series of the same name that explores this topic further is also available
For more information, click here.

Eileen Sendrey
13 October, 2022

Working with Babies and Children Following the BEBA (Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment) Clinic Model: 

How to Support Families to Thrive When Birth (or another early event) is Traumatic

* A mini-series of the same name that explores this topic further, with presentations, exercises, and client videos is also available
For more information, click here.

Tara Blasco
8 September, 2022

The Dance of the Embryo: 

Connecting to the Original Movements and Gestures of Life

* A mini-series exploring this journey further with Kristin Sipley will be coming in 2023.
Kristin Sipley
11 August, 2022

The Leading Edge: An Essential Pre- and Perinatal Somatic Skill



* A mini-series with Kate White and Eileen Sendrey, "Transforming the Trauma Tree" also is available ...
For more information, click here.

Kate White
Eileen Sendrey
14 July, 2022

The Formative Principle and Formative Intelligence

* A mini-series, "An Exploration of and an Inquiry into Formative Intelligence" also is available ...
For more information, click here.

Jim Feil
9 June, 2022

Meet the World, Receive What Is, and Discover What's Next:

Applying Aikido Principles to working in the Pre- & Perinatal Somatics Field and in Life

* A mini-series, "Pre- and Perinatal Trauma Work, Somatics, and the Natural World" also is available ...
For more information, click here.

Scott Engler
12 May, 2022

Where Your Attention Goes, Energy Flows:

How Intention Guides Your Day-to-Day Experiences


Charisse Basquin
10 March, 2022

The Rainbow Bridge Continuum:

Birth, Life, and Death through the Pre- and Perinatal Perspective

* A mini-series of the same title also is available ...
For more information, click here.

Moriah Melin
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10 February, 2022

The Pre- and Perinatal Continuum:

The Soul's Journey, Embodiment, and Imprinting

* A mini-series, "Listening to Little Ones" w/ Karen Melton also is available ...
For more information, click here.

Karen Melton
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13 January, 2022

The Somatic Blueprint:

Connecting to Our Essence

Anna Chitty
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