Working with the Ancestors: Healing Ancestral and Inter-generational Trauma
Further Courses and Continuing Professional Development
WORKING WITH THE ANCESTORS:
HEALING ANCESTRAL AND INTER-GENERATIONAL TRAUMA
IN LONDON OR ONLINE
* 25TH-26TH OCTOBER 2025 *
WITH MARY BOLINGBROKE BSc.(OST)
The ancestral ‘other world’ and this one are inextricably linked. Healing in one world strengthens and enables the other. The connection goes both ways, but over the last centuries this link has weakened or even fractured. Many of the current difficulties faced in our world, environment, society and families are due to this fracture. Without our elders and our ancestry we can feel alone, homeless, lonely and afraid. With them we reconnect to their constant love, care, concern, insight and protection. Our ancestors have a job description, ‘to look after the living’, but without us they have no agency. This two-day course for all Craniosacral practitioners will include guided meditations, experientials and hands on work in pairs. Video recordings will be available to all those who register.
We will explore:
- How our fear of death, dying & the dead alters inter-generational relationships
- Factors that damage our ancestral connections and communication, including ‘lost’ or unrecognised babies and children, unresolved trauma including exclusion, abandonment, guilt and shame
- Why being in a two-way relationship with ancestors is beneficial
Survival, epigenetics and how the nature of ancestral trauma affects our mind, body and spirit and that of future generations - Healing through family ritual, beliefs, behaviours and lore
- The nature of tissue memory, and organ systems and areas of the body that carry our inherited beliefs and behaviours
- How to explore your family tree and finding areas where there may be damage and breakdown in communication
- Healing techniques and how to help (including a review of Family Constellation Therapy).
Course tutor:
Mary Bolingbroke trained at the British School of Osteopathy graduating in 1992, and has continued to specialise in cranial work. She started teaching at the British School of Osteopathy in 1993 (and set up a multi-disciplinary clinic) whilst continuing to train at the Osteopathic Centre for Children in London. With Ian Wright she co-founded the Irish Diploma In Paediatrics in 2009 and regularly teaches on the Biobasics (James Jealous) courses in the UK. Mary has a great interest in exploring the guiding principles of Osteopathy and CST as well as treating people of all ages and animals including horses, dogs and the occasional parrot.
Venue and times:
Skylight Centre, 49 Corsica Street, London N5 1JT. Nearest station: Highbury and Islington (Victoria Line and Mainline). Or, open to attend online. From 10:00am to 6:00pm on first day and 9:30am to 5:30pm on second day.
Cost:
£250 if booked by 1st September 2025, or £280 if booked after this date. All fees are non-refundable. Please get in contact for our bank transfer details.
