Online Introductory Course to Cutting the Ties that Bind Method

We are offering two courses, one for beginners to the method, another that builds upon the beginner one and adds dreamwork and cuts from personal symbols. These courses are offered in English; we can provide a course in Spanish if there are enough people interested.

Recommended reading: Phyllis Krystal, Cutting the Ties that Bind, Growing Up and Moving On. 

This 6-session course provides an introduction and practice using the method Cutting the Ties that Bind. It was created, developed, and taught by Phyllis Krystal from the 1950s until her death in 2016. She shared her work with thousands of people worldwide and there is a growing group of practitioners and facilitators that continue to use it. The method consists of learning and using specific techniques, symbols and rituals to free oneself from anything or any person that is negatively controlling them. 

This method reaches the subconscious mind to permanently release negative conditioning taken on from anything or anyone earlier in life. For example: childhood programming that no longer serves you, ties to ex-partners, negative emotions that control you, etc. One cannot change oneself unless one changes the unconscious mind. It is a means of gaining greater independence and internal security as a whole human being. 

The course is led by Almendra Staffa-Healey and Mandy Staffa. 

The method helps you detach from the control and overlay of family, authority figures, culture, and reactions to events that impede you from expressing your true or real Self. These controls and overlays are described as invisible ties that bind us and hinder us from being who we really are. 

For more information: please read our blog post

Course start date: February 24, 2025

Course End date: March 7, 2025

Time: 6:30 to 8:00 PM (Europe/Madrid)

Session duration: 90 minutes every week over 6 weeks, plus an optional 30-minute wrap up on March 7th, and WhatsApp or Telegram community chat for ongoing questions and answers throughout the course.

Delivery Mode: online via Zoom** 

Minimum group size: 3

Maximum group size: 9

Price per person: 360€ + 21% VAT (if billing in Spain)*

*If you find this produces financial hardship for you, please contact me to find a suitable solution so that you can participate.

** Please note that the Zoom link will be provided closer to the start of the course

Introductory Program:

• 1st session Jan 24, 2025: overview of the program; introductions and sharing our intentions for participating; overall introduction to the method and its techniques; a guided waking reverie will be included in this session so you can make a personal connection with your Higher Consciousness (Hi-C) using the Maypole exercise; as well as an introduction to some of the cutting the ties that bind symbols: the figure 8, the cylinder and the beachball for protection, and how to use these in your everyday life.
  
  
• 2nd session Jan 31, 2025: check-in on progress with the figure 8 technique and symbols used over the past week, introduction to the star or jack symbol for fear, and the tape measure symbol for concentration, group connecting to the Hi-C and practicing the two new symbols.
  
  
• 3rd session Feb 7, 2025: check-in on progress with the symbols used over the past week, introduction to cutting the ties that bind from a parent or a person, introduction to the tree symbol, connecting to the Hi-C and practice of the symbol, and then finding out who you will cut from in 3 weeks’ time.
  
  
• 4th session Feb 14, 2025: check-in on progress running the figure 8 for your cut and how things are going with using the symbols, introduction to the snake in the tree symbol for release from distracting emotions and the tightrope symbol for equanimity, connecting to the Hi-C and practicing the two new symbols.
  
  
• 5th session Feb 21, 2025: check-in on progress running the figure 8 for your cut and how things are going with using symbols, introduction to the scales and crossroads symbols for decision making, connecting to the Hi-C and practicing the two new symbols.
  
  
• 6th session Feb 28, 205: review of a person cut and cutting ceremony. 
  
  
• Optional wrap up session Mar 7, 2025 for 30 minutes: connecting to the Hi-C, sharing the experience of doing the cut and an open Q&A on anything that is coming up; course closure.
  
  
• Optional: participation in a WhatsApp or Telegram chat group during the 7-week program to ask questions, share observations and connect with your Cutting the Ties that Bind community of facilitators and course participants

After completing this program and before joining the Online Intermediate Course you will be able to partake in follow-up mini group sessions as well as 1:1 sessions to keep doing cuts from other primary caregivers and from people whom you feel to be  negatively controlling you.

Other items that may interest you after completing this program are:

• Joining the CTB community of practice.
• Joining the Online Intermediate Course (cohort 2 dates forthcoming - to see what was covered in cohort 1 please see the Feb 24 to Mar 7 2025 program).
• Mentoring or coaching for leading others in the method.

Cutting the Ties that Bind Facilitators

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Almendra Staffa-Healey

Almendra has been practicing Cutting the Ties that Bind since 1992 and has been leading groups and individuals in the method since the year 2000. She has delivered in person trainings in Spain and online sessions to people from around the world. She is a firm believer in and advocate for collective wisdom for healing and transformation in community. Almendra is a certified coach that specializes in developmental and transformational coaching, as well as an intercultural competencies trainer. She lives in Madrid, Spain. 

Mandy Staffa

Mandy has been practicing and delivering Cutting the Ties that Bind trainings to people from diverse nationalities and backgrounds since 1991. She trained with Phyllis Krystal over many years. She has delivered in person trainings in the USA, England, Denmark, Spain, and India. Mandy is also an artist, writer and illustrator. She lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia (USA).