Interface: Function, Connection and Empathy
Further Courses and Continuing Professional Development
- Further Courses Overview
- ‘Creative Embodiment: New Ways to Access Primary Respiration and The Long Tide’ with Dr Jim Feil DC, RPT, BCST on May 29th-31st 2026
- ‘Transitions’ with Ian Wright BSc.(OST), DPO, FSCCO on October 9th-11th 2026
- ‘The Embryo In Us’ with Dr Jaap van der Wal on April 8th-11th 2027
- Advanced Seminar – Details to be announced with Mary Bolingbroke BSc.(OST) on April 24th-25th 2027
- ‘The Biodynamics of Living and Dying’ with Michael Kern BCST, DO, ABD, ND on date to be confirmed
INTERFACE: FUNCTION, CONNECTION & EMPATHY
– IN PERSON OR ONLINE
* 28TH-30TH MARCH 2025 *
WITH IAN WRIGHT BSc.(OST), DPO, FSCCO
A deep dive into the functional face and how we interface with the world.
Topics explored include:
- Functional developmental fields of the face
- Arches, pouches and the Long Tide
- Cranial facial mechanics brow to palate
- Development of feeding to development of speech, tongue and palate mechanics
- Vision as a two-way function
- Developmental cascades of the cranial nerves
- The Face – bonding, empathy, connection, communication and emotion
- Development of bite and occlusion – working with dentists
- The face – regulation and executive function.
This three-day seminar can be taken in-person in London or online, with plenty of time sensory explorations, practical table sessions and meditations. Online participants participate in all sessions and are sent a seminar schedule to arrange practice clients at home. Video recordings will be available for review. Open to all craniosacral therapists and cranial osteopaths.

Course tutor:
Ian Wright qualified from the British School of Osteopathy in 1992, and has taught Cranial and Paediatric Osteopathy for over 25 years internationally, including Russia, Sweden, Germany, Italy, UK and Ireland. He founded the Irish Diploma in Paediatric Osteopathy, teaching paediatrics to osteopaths and treating complex cases in a charity clinic setting. He is a teacher and Fellow of the Sutherland Cranial College (UK), and teaches with the International Paediatric Pathway in Italy. He practices in Florence, London and Ireland. Ian is the author of ‘Dynamics of Stillness’, ‘Healing Anxiety’ and most recently, ‘The Therapeutic Odyssey’.
Venue and times:
Skylight Centre, 49 Corsica Street, London N5 1JT. Nearest station: Highbury and Islington (Victoria Line and Mainline). Times are from 10.00am to 6.00pm on the first two days, and 9.30am to 5.00pm on the last day (UK time).
Cost:
£355 if the fee is received by 10th February 2025, or £375 if the fee is received after this date. Please make cheques payable to CTET, or contact our administrator for bank details to make a transfer. All fees are non-refundable and non-transferable.
