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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 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
What's New at the Center and the Online School
Two Free Talks Coming Soon!
We're hosting Robin Grille and Nir Esterman as they deliver free talks in advance of their upcoming classes (see below!)
We're hosting Robin Grille and Nir Esterman as they deliver free talks in advance of their upcoming classes (see below!)
In The Field with Indigenous Midwives of North America
August 24, 2024 3 pm - 4:30 pm Eastern time
All Proceeds Support the Indigenous Midwife Project Welcome to a presentation about the past, present and future of indigenous midwives in the United States, Mexico and Canada, and the importance of recognizing the existence and importance of indigenous midwives.
Marinah Farrell, Director of Indigenous Birth will discuss why the re-indigenizing midwifery for all traditional communities, and the recognition of the history of midwifery. in the United States, is critical to understanding of the United States decimation of midwifery and its impact on communities of color, the resilience of midwives, and the need for creating systems of health that include traditional medicine and ceremony as a path to greater healing. This is a Fundraiser for the Indigenous Midwife Training Project to train indigenous midwives in the prevention and treatment of birth trauma. Poor birth outcomes for indigenous people are the highest of all the outcomes, with morbidity rates up 350%. (JAMA 2023) Our hope is to mitigate this rate by training midwives who attend birthing parents and their families. One midwife explained to us "We are ground zero." This training is for practitioners who are interested in working with families who have difficult births, babies and with adults who have prenatal and perinatal trauma patterns. Thank you for being a part of the change we need for indigenous people! 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. |
The Embryo In Us - Human as Embryo
Understanding ourselves as Embryo and how that relates to our consciousness and psychosomatic being A four-day course divided into two 2-day webinars August 30-31 and September 6-7 2024 9am - 6pm EST The Embryo in Us ~ Human as Embryo is Jaap's seminal course that will help you understand our deepest mysteries held in our bodies. It is the fourth time that this webinar has been presented by the Center. This time the course will be taught live over two two-day webinars in August and September 2024.
As a bonus for registering, participants will have free time-limited access to a Dropbox page where they will find all the articles and chapters Jaap has ever published. All the videos and animations shown during the course plus the entire PowerPoint presentation that is used, can be viewed and downloaded as well. expand for more info
Each day there will be three sessions: 9:00 am - 12:00 am EST, Lecture with a short break (5 – 10 minutes) 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST. Lecture with a short break (5 – 10 minutes) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm EST, Lectures & Activities plus room for Questions & Answers Course Contents A detailed overview of the course content can be found on Jaap's website www.embryo.nl, in particular https://www.embryo.nl/template-course-embryosophy/ Day One: The Undivided Embryo (8/30)
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. Read More
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.
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
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!
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:
Our themes include
This Pilot Series will be: Dates in 2024:
- 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. Expand for more info
Learning Objectives. Participants will:
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. |
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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 |
Podcasts and Presentations
Join Us at The Hearth: A Gathering Place for Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics
See our latest Conversation What is Sequencing? |
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.
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
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 |
Kate on the MagaMama Podcast![]() |
Interviews with Kate:
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Attachment Theory Podcast with Kate White
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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