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Kate White, Founder and Director
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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 a 28 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 7 Module Training for Professionals
Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics Training
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Subscribe to our newsletter about the Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics Training. Next training starts Spring 2027
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What's New at the Center and the Online School
“Babies are the best of us” is a quote from John Chitty. He was fond of saying that babies are the Royalty of Humanity. However, they are not often treated that way, especially in the course of labor and delivery. This free talk will introduce the beauty and power of recognizing our human nature from the beginning of life and then becoming aware of the layers of experience that happen to us.
Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics is a training program that gives participants a taste of our earliest layers of experience and skills to integrate challenges such as birth trauma for the whole family. Working with Babies is a 5-day workshop that combines John Chitty’s 5 step protocol for helping families with babies and information from the years of clinical practice of Kate White. Kate was mentored by John Chitty for the 7 years previous to his death in 2019. She also has decades of experience in prenatal and perinatal somatics. This short presentation will connect with how Babies are the Best of Us, and ways to restore ourselves and our families to their “best-ness” with practitioner skills, presence and the recognition of our innate and beautiful human nature. Recording will be provided to those who register.
Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics is a training program that gives participants a taste of our earliest layers of experience and skills to integrate challenges such as birth trauma for the whole family. Working with Babies is a 5-day workshop that combines John Chitty’s 5 step protocol for helping families with babies and information from the years of clinical practice of Kate White. Kate was mentored by John Chitty for the 7 years previous to his death in 2019. She also has decades of experience in prenatal and perinatal somatics. This short presentation will connect with how Babies are the Best of Us, and ways to restore ourselves and our families to their “best-ness” with practitioner skills, presence and the recognition of our innate and beautiful human nature. Recording will be provided to those who register.
Foundations Course for Salt Lake City, UT is now open for registration
April 30 - May 3, 2026
April 30 - May 3, 2026
June 25-29, 2026 Online
September 16-19, 2026 Chapel Hill, NC
November 7-10, 2026 Wellington, NZ
November 19-22, 2026 Near Gold Cost, Australia
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.
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.
Advanced Modules Open for Registration
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Modules 7, 8 and 9 are all about Double Bind Protocols and Modern Birth Settings.
Module 7 is Blueprint and Double Bind Skills and Identification Dates: February 19-22, 2026, 10 am - 6 pm Eastern each day except Sunday end by 3 pm or March 24-29, 2026, 6 pm - 10 pm Eastern Module 8: Double Bind Protocols and Practice
Dates: June 11-14, 2026 and July 21-26, 2026, some timing pattern as above. Module 9: Double Binds in the Modern Birth Setting Dates: September 24-27, 2026 and October 6-11, 2026. Descriptions Forthcoming |
What Are Double Binds?
Double Binds are some of the most common patterns in earliest trauma. There is a feeling of stuckness, no way that you could go offers relief, that "damned if you do, damned if you don't feeling. There are simultaneous feelings of "I must do something" and "I can't do something."
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Working with Babies hosted at the Colorado School of Energy Studies
July 8-12, 2026 $725
This class blends theory from pre- and perinatal somatics with hands-on skills to offer a holistic way to support babies and their caregivers. Kate also offers information about bodywork for babies, understanding the baby’s experience and how to work with families with birth trauma, blending spirit and science to support participants’ learning.
The workshop will expand on John Chitty’s book and seminar, Working with Babies, teaching the fundamental skills and framework for the book - and adding new information and experiential exercises from Pre- and Perinatal Somatics, Pediatric Bodywork, and her own model of care, Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics.
To Register go here: https://www.energyschool.com/additional-workshops
July 8-12, 2026 $725
This class blends theory from pre- and perinatal somatics with hands-on skills to offer a holistic way to support babies and their caregivers. Kate also offers information about bodywork for babies, understanding the baby’s experience and how to work with families with birth trauma, blending spirit and science to support participants’ learning.
The workshop will expand on John Chitty’s book and seminar, Working with Babies, teaching the fundamental skills and framework for the book - and adding new information and experiential exercises from Pre- and Perinatal Somatics, Pediatric Bodywork, and her own model of care, Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics.
To Register go here: https://www.energyschool.com/additional-workshops
Special Embryology Qigong Packages!
We've bundled the popular Embryology Qigong courses into bundles at a special price to make them available to as many learners as possible. Bob Lehnberg leads the classes which require no previous experience with either Qigong or Embryology. The introductory course - Basic Principles One - is still available separately at a lowered price.
We've bundled the popular Embryology Qigong courses into bundles at a special price to make them available to as many learners as possible. Bob Lehnberg leads the classes which require no previous experience with either Qigong or Embryology. The introductory course - Basic Principles One - is still available separately at a lowered price.
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.
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.
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Other Material and information
Podcasts and Presentations
Join Us at The Hearth: A Gathering Place for Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics
See our latest Conversation What is Sequencing? |
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6 Lectures you can purchase in our classroom:
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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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Attachment Theory Podcast with Kate White: Impact of Pre and Perinatal Influences on Attachment
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Part One
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Part Two
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Healing Trauma Before Birth, Jennetta Billhimer with Kate White: Healing For Parents
Returning to the Womb to Heal, with Kate White
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Episode 8: The Impact of Birth Trauma on Babies and Their Families
The Craniosacral Podcast with Ryan Hallford
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Supporting excellence
in pre and perinatal health
and healing locally . . .and beyond
in pre and perinatal health
and healing locally . . .and beyond
