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Kate White, Founder and Director
Hello, I am Kate White. I am the Founder and Director of the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, and the Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute. I have developed educational and training programs in understanding the baby's experience, especially how to prevent and treat birth trauma, as co-creator of Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics, and Founding Director of the Education Department at APPPAH, creator of the Prenatal and Perinatal Educator Certificate Program. Currently, We offer an 18 day basic training program for professionals, and a 12 day advanced program. 

​I also love supporting others in my field of practice, prenatal and perinatal somatics, especially combining midwifery, somatic trauma resolution and the baby's experience so I started an online school, Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online. I am part of a rising tide that supports recognizing, reaching, and healing our earliest experiences so that humans get the best start in life. Enjoy our programs!
Explore Our Groundbreaking 6 Module Training for Professionals

Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics Training

Visit the Institute for Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics for More Information

What's New at the Center and the Online School

Classes Start September 9, 2024
10 Mondays, ending November 11, 2024
10:30 AM - 1:30 pm EST
You are welcome to join this professional course that will teach you how to skillfully bring the healing power of Shadow Constellations into your work.
We will cover the necessary theory and practice, so that you feel comfortable applying these useful tools and perspectives to the work you do with yourself and with your clients and students.
The topics selected for this course were chosen to give you a wide range of practical tools and methods to enhance your therapeutic and facilitating skills as well as support the growth of your clinic or business.

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New course now enrolling, starting September 2024
7pm - 9pm Eastern time
There are times when the journey of being a parent can almost feel like it is breaking us. But if we know how to read these moments of challenge and overwhelm, we see something new: we see that the journey is breaking us … open! Understanding the developmental needs of our own Inner Child can transform the times of parental stress, helplessness and conflict into doorways to the greatest personal growth and healing journey of our lives.
If you are a counsellor, therapist or parent-coach, and you’d like to learn how to facilitate Inner Child Journeys safely and effectively as part of your practice, this course will equip you with evidence-based skills and competency in my approach to Inner Child Journeying.
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My approach to Inner Child Journeying has brought vital and transformative changes to clients and workshop participants around the world for many years. The many obstacles and blind-alleys that parents and teachers commonly face in child-rearing will often have something to do with old emotional wounds that have been triggered in the adult. Without this insight, what we say or do for our children can too-often miss the mark. But compassionate self-awareness gives us more gifts than we might imagine. The more closely we know our Inner Child, the more intuitive we become about what our children need. Moreover, we discover that even the most painful or frustrating challenges brought to us by our children are rich opportunities for our own healing and growth. This Inner Child Process offers a safe, step-by-step method for contacting the deep feelings, thoughts and wisdom of the Child that lives in all of us, clearing a path for healing and personal unfoldment.
  • Help your clients develop their natural insight, intuition and compassion as parents
  • Help your clients become more effective and attuned as parents
  • Help your clients to differentiate between their own projections vs their children’s real needs
  • Help your clients make sense of their own childhood experiences and how these have affected their parenting style
  • Turn your clients’ parenting challenges into opportunities for personal healing and growth
  • Use this Inner Child Process for Couples Therapy, and a whole host of other contexts involving healing and personal growth
​Sessions
  • Session One: September 18, 2024 (US) September 19 (Sydney) The Neuropsychology of the Inner Child
  • Session Two: September 25, 2024 (US) September 26 (Sydney) Learning the Inner Child Process
  • Session Three: October 2, 2024 (US) October 3 (Sydney) The Sequential Steps of Psycho-Emotional Healing
  • Session Four: October 9, 2024 (US) October 10 (Sydney) Developmental Nutrients for the Inner Child
  • Session Five: October 16, 2024 (US) October 17 (Sydney) A Deeper Look at the Inner Child
  • Session Six: October 23, 2024 (US) October 24 (Sydney) Bringing It All Together
Times:
7 pm Eastern in the US, 9 am Sydney, Australian time the following day
​Each class will be 2 hours long on zoom, and you must attend session 5 live to receive your certificate. Kate White will be our coordinator. You will find more information about each class in the online module.
The Community Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Lab
with Frank Carbone, Kate White and guests

A continuing series of 2-hour sessions exploring prenatal and perinatal somatics in a community that is diverse, inclusive, creative using multiple modalities.

Starting June 26 2024 • 2-4 pm Eastern time
Welcome to the Community Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Lab! Our intention is to educate and support the experience of prenatal and perinatal somatics with special 2 hour classes. Our teachers, Kate White and Frank Carbone, and special guests are fluent in early dynamics and want to offer opportunities to dip into our Blueprint and touch our Imprints.

The experiential sessions are 2 hours on specific Wednesdays, 2-4 pm Eastern time once a month June through October 2024 as a pilot. Anyone can come to our Community PPN Somatic Lab. Are you drawn to working somatically with early imprints? We are evolving the paradigm. Come join us!
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As part of our new Advanced Bodywork in Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics. Kate, Frank and a talented team are assembling to bring to the therapeutic world a somatic oasis that will combine:
  • Embodiment Meditations
  • Embryo explorations and practices
  • Blueprint and Imprint experiential exercises and information
  • Continuum
  • And Table work, with 5 different kinds of touch and a way to work with earliest trauma.

Our themes include
  • Introduction to Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics
  • 5 Practitioner Skills
  • The Sequence
  • The Principles
  • The Embryo and Embryonic Practices
  • Embryo Qi
  • Womb Continuum
  • Umbilicas
  • Blueprint and Imprint
  • The Baby’s Experience 
  • Autonomic nervous system stress and threat responses
  • Womb as Resource
  • Sound essence of practice, practicing using sound
  • Preconception Access and Somatic Awareness
  • The Power of the Placenta
  • Breath, Birth and Movement

This Pilot Series will be: Dates in 2024:
  • June 26: Intro, Lineage, Womb Continuum, Umbilical Cord
  • July 24: Blueprint and Imprint: Blueprint Practice (Presence and Pleasure)
  • August 28: Embryo Practice, Womb Continuum, One Cell Meditation
  • September 25: Decompressing Early Layers: Skills of Recognition and Continuum Sound
  • October 23: Preconception Access and Somatic Awareness
  • No classes in Nov and Dec
Foundations Course Open for Australia online in November. The New York City training is now closed. The Virginia Training is still To Be Determined
This Foundations course in Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics™ offers the basic building blocks for working early overwhelming states that may occur starting preconception, including conception, pregnancy, birth and attachment. Often called early developmental trauma, recognition, reaching and healing ruptures or interruptions in development from this early time are increasingly seen as the cracks in the foundation of human health.  Come, study, learn, heal. ​

Current healing science now includes overwhelming childhood experiences and ancestral patterns; the prenatal and perinatal period is the missing piece. This introductory workshop will give you tools so you can normalize early difficulty and have a skill base to help families get the best possible start and individuals onto the healing path. The first step is working with your own internal states and is vital to the relationship you establish with your client base. Our course combines early trauma resolution with midwifery model of care.
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Learning Objectives. Participants will:
  • Develop skills of self and co-regulation, stabilization, and coherency in the body.
  • Demonstrate basic skills for trauma release, including resourcing, facilitated felt sense exercises, and directed energy techniques.
  • Create touch sequences to stabilize and facilitate energy in the body for trauma release.
  • Understand one aspect of the baby's experience of birth from the inside out, and the 5 point sequence as an imprint.
  • Differentiate and introductory sense of the blueprint and imprint in trauma prevention and resolution.
See also more information on our new website about our training programs at ppnsomatics.com,
The Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute:
Discover Your Professional Pathway.
A PPNCenter and CvilleBabyBodywork video:
Sleep and your Baby

Join us as Kate White and Dr. Hannah Marshall answer questions about sleep for infants, babies, children and families. With Heather Zivkovich. Recorded at the monthly CvilleBabyBodyWork free clinic held the second Friday of each month.
On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL_Pgyc-Yqo 
PPNCenter and CvilleBabyBodywork video:
Let's Talk about Car Seat Restraint

A 30-minute workshop: Learn tips to strategize helping baby feel secure and safe while being restrained and separated.
On YouTube: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gJZvwz50_0&t=1378s
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Podcasts and Presentations

Welcome to the Center

The Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs provides a place for parents, the public and professionals to get information, classes, therapy, and products that support health from preconception, pregnancy, birth and the first 18 months of life.  Practice and pedagogy weave together bodywork, trauma healing, neuroscience, epigenetics, attachment, and more.

We welcome you to the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, whether you are here for more specific information, to sign up for a class or workshop, or just to explore the readings, videos and other offerings you will find here.

​Special Feature: 10 Things to Know About Babies
We're putting together this fun Public Service messaging campaign - keep watching for all 10 things and finally what you can do about it!
​6 Lectures you can purchase in our classroom:
  • Answering the Call
  • Preconception Dynamics
  • Conception Dynamics
  • Implantation, Discovery and 1st Trimester Dynamics
  • 2nd & 3rd Trimester/Intrauterine Constraint
  • Physiological Birth and the Baby’s Experience
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Other Material and information
Listen to Kate on the Field Dynamics Podcast
Kate was a recent guest on the Field Dynamics Podcast where she gives us an overview of pre and perinatal care, her skillset in presence and reading the space between people, and the influence of pioneers in the field Ray Castellino and William Emerson. They discuss the body as memory, and the layers and imprints of pre-conception, pre-natal and birthing trauma. She shares the commonality of the "double bind" and a "stuck place" in life as a result of inherited or birth trauma. Listen to this an much more: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1958873/12407389
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Kate on the MagaMama Podcast

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Episode 107: Repairing Pre and Perinatal Trauma and Listening to Babies with Kate White

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Healing Trauma Before Birth, Jennetta Billhimer with Kate White: Healing For Parents

Attachment Theory Podcast with Kate White
Impact of Pre and Perinatal Influences on Attachment

Part One
Part Two
Episode 8: The Impact of Birth Trauma on Babies and Their Families
Returning to the Womb to Heal, with Kate White
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