Selected courses of interest to Birth Professionals
Upcoming courses
Finally, a focus on supporting the professional.
Five 90 minute presentations plus a panel discussion!
Latest trends in healthcare management now see the impact of birth trauma on the healthcare professionals as “moral injury” or “secondary trauma,” and are currently emphasizing a trauma-informed approach. This series explores what this means and how we can support the surround for birth to improve outcomes for everyone, including hospital staff.
Five 90 minute presentations plus a panel discussion!
Latest trends in healthcare management now see the impact of birth trauma on the healthcare professionals as “moral injury” or “secondary trauma,” and are currently emphasizing a trauma-informed approach. This series explores what this means and how we can support the surround for birth to improve outcomes for everyone, including hospital staff.
- Session 1: Kate White and Lois Trezise: Two Layers of Support: Recognizing the Need for Trauma Support for Birth Professionals
- Session 2: Kathy Kendall-Tackett: When Helping Hurts: Burn Out, Secondary Traumatic Stress and Moral Injury Among Birth Workers
- Session 2: Mary Koloroutis and Michael Trout: See Me as A Person: The Importance of Care and Compassion for Oneself and Each Other
- Session 4: Amber Price: The Impact of Secondary and Personal Trauma on Respectful Maternity Care
- Session 5: Karen Strange: Professional Debriefing for Traumatic Birth Events: The Healing Sweet Spot
- Panel Discussion
Somatic trauma resolution practitioners are ideally trained to specialize in helping to prevent and heal birth trauma.Healing from these early imprints can be a game changer for healthy human development.In this workshop you will learn advanced somatic resolution skills for treating perinatal trauma.
Treating birth trauma is more complex than shock trauma; it often brings up earlier and developmental traumas. It involves many people: the birthing parent, other parent or partner, the baby, and the birthing staff.
This workshop applies quintessential somatic skills to healing birth trauma:
Treating birth trauma is more complex than shock trauma; it often brings up earlier and developmental traumas. It involves many people: the birthing parent, other parent or partner, the baby, and the birthing staff.
This workshop applies quintessential somatic skills to healing birth trauma:
- Medicalized Birth Trauma
- The Shock of Witnessing
- Working with a Birthing Timeline (single episode) in relationship to the body
- Restoring Primitive Survival Responses to Overwhelming Situations
- Attack and Assault
- Near Death
- Injury and Recovery
- Repairing Relationship to Essential Self, Supportive Other, and World
Recorded courses offered online
El Jardín Birth and Family began the Birth in Pieces project in 2015. A labor of love, this project spanned multiple years and took various twists and turns as we interviewed more and more women. Patterns emerged. We realized that these individual narratives, together, painted a picture of modern birth culture. What's wrong with birth in the USA? It's time to ask mothers. The film is the outcome of their work interviewing mothers and their partners talking about their experiences with birth.
Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online is pairing with Kathleen Kendall-Tackett to support several series that feature professionals and their ways to support healing with birthing families and birth professionals. Birth in Pieces is our first series. It will feature:
Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online is pairing with Kathleen Kendall-Tackett to support several series that feature professionals and their ways to support healing with birthing families and birth professionals. Birth in Pieces is our first series. It will feature:
- The viewing of Birth in Pieces followed by a discussion with Kathleen Kendall-Tackett and Kate White about birth trauma.
- Kathleen Kendall-Tacket: Birth Trauma: Causes and Consequences of Birth-Related PTSD
- Kate White: "I Had A Baby:" A Three-Fold Path to Heal Birth Trauma
- Kimberly Ann Johnson: Call of the Wild: Healing Birth through a Real World Understanding of the Nervous System
- Molly Caro May: The Reparative Possibility in a Birth Story
Another Transdisciplinary Series for Professionals and Parents on a Paradigm that Includes the Baby's Experience
Professionals in the field of fetal medicine, birth and prenatal and perinatal somatic psychology have identified another set of adverse experiences that occur prenatally, during or after birth. In this pioneering series, you will meet highly trained professionals and parents who want to share their passion with you around models of care, experiences, and wisdom around pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and more. You will hear stories of strength and humility, and a you will look through a lens into the world of families and babies like you have not seen before. Early adverse events create their own set of neurodevelopmental challenges. We can heal them, and we can also prevent them.
Our panel includes:
Professionals in the field of fetal medicine, birth and prenatal and perinatal somatic psychology have identified another set of adverse experiences that occur prenatally, during or after birth. In this pioneering series, you will meet highly trained professionals and parents who want to share their passion with you around models of care, experiences, and wisdom around pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and more. You will hear stories of strength and humility, and a you will look through a lens into the world of families and babies like you have not seen before. Early adverse events create their own set of neurodevelopmental challenges. We can heal them, and we can also prevent them.
Our panel includes:
- Gianluca Ursini, MD, PhD, The Seeds of Mental Health May Be Planted in Early Life, but Good Gardeners Will Make the Difference
- Darcia Narvaez, PhD, The Evolved Nest and Baby ACEs
- Marti Glenn, PhD, Finding Resilience: The Impacts of Adverse Early Experiences and How We Can Foster Resilience in Ourselves, Our Families and Our Clients
- Veronique Mead, MD, MA, SEP, 5 Opportunities to Prevent, Reduce Risk and Heal Chronic Illness: Insights from Adverse Babyhood Experiences (ABEs)
- Sabrina Blau, MBSR, MBA, Mother, A Journey Towards Healing: Transforming an Adverse Birth Experience and Hospital Policies
- Kate White, Towards Maternity Care that Includes the Baby's Experience: 5 First Steps
- Ending Panel with Question and Answer
A Unique Transdisciplinary Series Bringing More Awareness to the Baby's Experience
The process of adoption affects adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents and other birth and family members throughout life. The relinquishment, separation and adoption experience may contribute to feelings of loss and grief, questions about self-identity, or a lack of information about their medical background. This 6 week course offers lectures by experts in prenatal and perinatal somatic psychology, attachment, infant mental health and more who have spent decades understanding the impact of relinquishment, separation and adoption on the baby and parents. It will also include perspectives from therapists who specialize in adoption and foster care and therapists who treat adults with the early adoption experience.
We have taken special care to bring speakers to this series who have experience with deeply understanding the baby's experience.
List of Speakers:
The process of adoption affects adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents and other birth and family members throughout life. The relinquishment, separation and adoption experience may contribute to feelings of loss and grief, questions about self-identity, or a lack of information about their medical background. This 6 week course offers lectures by experts in prenatal and perinatal somatic psychology, attachment, infant mental health and more who have spent decades understanding the impact of relinquishment, separation and adoption on the baby and parents. It will also include perspectives from therapists who specialize in adoption and foster care and therapists who treat adults with the early adoption experience.
We have taken special care to bring speakers to this series who have experience with deeply understanding the baby's experience.
List of Speakers:
- Karen Doyle Buckwalter, MSW, LCSW: Using Theraplay® to Strengthen Attachment and Connection with Adoptive Parents and Their Children
- Michael Trout, MA and Rebecca Molitor, LCPC, Prenatal Bonding (BA) Facilitator: Supporting Connection Between First Mothers and Their Unborns as an Antidote to Dissociation
- Alison Greene-Barton: Conscious Adoption: A Personal Story
- Kristin Sipley: A Journey of an Adoptee: A Glimpse into the Baby's Experience
- Becky Zal-Sanchez, LCSW: Raised by Committee: Restoring a Child's Identity and Security After Time Spent in Foster or Kinship Care
- Panel Talk
Learn about one of the unique perspectives in prenatal and perinatal early imprints
This course features speakers who have expertise in twin dynamics, especially twin loss from the baby’s experience and how to heal it. Twin dynamics have long fascinated scientists, from studying the impact of our environment on genes to how our relationships with our twin, alive or not, affects us lifelong. Twin loss, the surviving twin, the vanishing twin and twin dynamics are much discussed in prenatal and perinatal somatic psychological work. Each talk is 1.5 hours.
This course features speakers who have expertise in twin dynamics, especially twin loss from the baby’s experience and how to heal it. Twin dynamics have long fascinated scientists, from studying the impact of our environment on genes to how our relationships with our twin, alive or not, affects us lifelong. Twin loss, the surviving twin, the vanishing twin and twin dynamics are much discussed in prenatal and perinatal somatic psychological work. Each talk is 1.5 hours.
- William Emerson: Long Term Effects of Twin Loss and Types of Twin Dynamics
- Kate White: Healing Trauma and Twin Dynamics: A Three Step Process
- Olga Waters: From Survivor to Thriver: Why am I Here?
- Renee Hella: Embryology of Human Chimeras and the implications for Auto-Immune conditions, Midline and Boundary Dynamics, Multiple Personalities and More
- Nancy Greenfield: An Exploration into the Vanishing Twin Syndrome: The Case of a Three-Year-Old Boy
- Panel Talk
Nearly one in 10 people born in the United States is premature (birth before 37 weeks of pregnancy), and its complications are the number one cause of death in babies. Those who survive premature birth often have long-term health issues.
This unique, transdisciplinary approach welcomes parents, therapists and medical professionals of all kinds to gather together and take in stories from practitioners who work with prematurity and babies born too soon. Two of them were born premature themselves. Our array of practices range from neonatology (Marilyn Sanders, MD) to therapist (Kate White, MA, BCBMT, RCST®, CEIM, SEP, PPNE, Margaret Rosenau, MA, RCST®, SEP, and Fabiola Cortés-Funes, RCST®, Family and Prenatal Therapy) to prenatal neurology (Adre Du Plessis, MBChB, MPH). We offer therapies and programs that are on the cutting edge of science and practice and have come together to offer you this 6 pack of 75 minute classes.
This unique, transdisciplinary approach welcomes parents, therapists and medical professionals of all kinds to gather together and take in stories from practitioners who work with prematurity and babies born too soon. Two of them were born premature themselves. Our array of practices range from neonatology (Marilyn Sanders, MD) to therapist (Kate White, MA, BCBMT, RCST®, CEIM, SEP, PPNE, Margaret Rosenau, MA, RCST®, SEP, and Fabiola Cortés-Funes, RCST®, Family and Prenatal Therapy) to prenatal neurology (Adre Du Plessis, MBChB, MPH). We offer therapies and programs that are on the cutting edge of science and practice and have come together to offer you this 6 pack of 75 minute classes.
