A 'Womb Surround' Process Workshop is a small group format developed and refined by Raymond Castellino since 1992. It creates a safe, welcoming environment in which to explore early imprints from preverbal life that is affecting your present life. Typically, in Frank’s workshops, there are 3–6 participants, along with Frank Carbone as facilitator and usually 1-2 assistants. Dr. Castellino created this format because he found that complete and lasting transformations most often happen in a small group setting like this. This 5 day format allows for spaciously establishing a safe relational field, exploration of the early material presented, and time to integrate. Frank has added Continuum Movement using “creative exploratory embryology” as a deep resource and integration tool. Each workshop begins by reviewing basic interactive, empathy, and contact skills so that participants are actively able to support each other during the workshop with the intention of creating a safe and nurturing "womb surround." Each participant receives an approximately 1.5–2.5 hour session with Frank with group support during which they explore physical and emotional patterns of prenatal, birth, or other early origin. Each session is followed by individual and group debriefing, integrative processing, and discussion. Tools used include group interactive processes, energy awareness, Craniosacral work and/or other touch, movement, mindfulness, and empathy skills. The exploration is done with an orientation to present-time resources and the layers of support provided by the group. The purpose is to enhance awareness and resolve early trauma, creating more options for current behavior and ways of being in relationships. In addition to healing prenatal, birth, and other early trauma, this process has the principle impact of encouraging loving bonding within primary relationships. Participants commonly state that the process is transformational on a deep level.