A Post-Graduate CPD Workshop with Andrew Cook
Saturday 4th July 2026
A health-oriented view of embodiment
The core of CST is an appreciation of health as an innate and continuously present force. However, most trauma-oriented material (and “trauma-aware” practice) is based on the idea of trauma-as-pathology.
A re-frame of dissociation and overwhelm as normal healthy adaptive states (for which the body has evolved a normal path to reverse) creates a very different model of “trauma” that is more in line with CST, taking the focus from neurology and more towards pre-vertebrate evolutionary stages of life and from there to biosemiotics – the science of communication in living organisms and ecosystems.
What You Will Learn
A re-framed version of trauma in terms of healthy biological responses and shifts in embodiment, along with a well-tested framework to use this – either hands on and/or with the patient participating.
The workshop will cover theory; self-experiential exploration; a map of the phenomenology and biology of dissociation; and some very practical tools and ideas that can be applied to working successfully with dissociation, general loss of embodiment, and imprints with dissociative patterns in a CST / bodywork practice. The course also include practical hands-on work but – for reasons that will become apparent – this will not be table-based.
Andrew Cook has been practising CST for 30 years in Norfolk and has spent the past 20 years adapting trauma psychotherapy into a bodywork practice.
See body-mind.co.uk and body-mind-resilience.com
Where & When
Beech Room, Old Carrow House
301 King Street
Norwich NR1 2TG
Saturday, 4th July 2026
9.30 – 5.30
Small group of maximum 14
Investment
CSTA members: £95
Non-CSTA: £110