Online Intermediate Course to Cutting the Ties that Bind Method
This 7-session course provides further introduction and practice using the method Cutting the Ties that Bind
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.
Pre-requisite: Participants need to have completed cuts from primary caregivers and any other major childhood authority figures. [If you haven’t done these, please sign up for the Introductory Course]
This 7-session course provides further learning 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: 4:30 to 6:00 PM (Europe/Madrid)
Session duration: 90 minutes every week over 6 weeks, plus a 45-minute wrap up on March 7th, and a 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: 400€ + 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
Intermediate Program:
- 1st session Jan 24, 2025: overview of the program; introductions and sharing our personal experiences with CTB; introduction to the hourglass symbol to answer or bring to you any specific need or request that you have and that breaks the limiting ceiling you have put on yourself or that has been put on you by others; connecting to the Hi-C using the Maypole exercise and practicing the hourglass; review of the method with active participation followed up by a Q&A; suggestion to practice some of the symbols over the week.
- 2nd session Jan 31, 2025: check-in on progress with the symbols used over the past week; introduction to the Yin Yang symbol for balancing the heart and the head or male and female aspects; introduction to cutting the ties that bind from a symbol; connecting to the Hi-C and practice of the symbol and then finding out what you will cut from in 4 weeks’ time.
- 3rd session Feb 7, 2025: check-in on progress running the figure 8 for your cut and how things are going with using the symbols; introduction to the pyramid exercise for finding out which is your strongest function, and introduction to the mandala symbol for achieving balance in the four functions of intuition, sensation, feeling or emotion, and intellect or thinking; group connecting to the Hi-C and practicing the new symbol.
- 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 balloon cut to release you from the niche role you initiated in infancy to get as much attention (primary needs of food, security, acceptance and love) as possible from your family; introduction to Phyllis Krystal’s method on dreams; connecting to the Hi-C and practicing the figure 8 on your personal symbol cut.
- 5th session Feb 21, 2025: check-in on progress running the figure 8 for your cut and how things are going with using the symbols; introduction to the Russian dolls (nest-of-dolls) cut to release from the roles that have been placed on you as you were growing up; further introduction to Phyllis Krystal’s method on dreams; connecting to the Hi-C and practicing the figure 8 on your personal symbol cut.
- 6th session A (personal symbol cut) Feb 28, 2025: review of a symbol cut and cutting ceremony.
- 6th session B (person cut) Feb 28, 2025: review of a person cut and cutting ceremony.
- 7th session Mar 7, 2025 wrap up session for 45 minutes: sharing the experience of doing the cut and an open Q&A on anything that is coming up; explanation and practice to the hall of mirrors exercise connecting to the Hi-C, 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 you will be able to partake in follow-up mini group sessions as well as 1:1 sessions to keep doing cuts from people and personal symbols you feel to be negatively controlling you. We strongly recommend that you book a 1:1 session for the following: corridor of doors exercise, negative mother and father archetype cuts, and inner enemy cuts.
Other items that may interest you after completing this program are:
- Joining the CTB community of practice.
- Mentoring or coaching for leading others in the method.
Cutting the Ties that Bind Facilitators
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).