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Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics™​

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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.  Each module will present the issues and patterns that come from this distinct time in a mother/baby's life: preconception, conception, prenatal experience, birth, and the postnatal period.  Our experiences in infancy lay the ground for our lifelong health and happiness.  This training will also include the latest science on epigenetics and polyvagal theory, patterns from the prenatal and perinatal period, the midwife's perspective, birth stories, and somatic approaches to help families, babies and adults recover from difficulty and go on to thrive.

The Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics™ training is the fruit of the relationship between Kate White, MA, BCBMT, RCST©,SEP, CEIM, PPNE, PLC  and Lois Trezise,CNM over nearly 20 years of collaboration. Kate brings a wealth of somatic trauma resolutions skills, the study of prenatal and perinatal somatic psychology, and working with families with babies. Lois brings 40 years of midwifery, childbirth education and her own experience of prenatal and perinatal psychology. They each bring their own years of spiritual and physical practices for nervous system regulation and connection. The training is 18 days long taught in 3 day segments over 12-16 months. We provide additional opportunities for trainees to learn. All of our work is recorded. You will have lifelong access to the materials. We are still growing as a community and as a teaching team, so we expect our materials to grow and season. 

Each human being has a bio-psycho-spiritual blueprint. This aspect of health is at the basis of our physical bodies and has been illustrated by such images as a tree of life. Included in this logo we have a young baby within an adult tree, showing the idea that the seeds of experiences in our first years continue to affect us into adulthood. In our program, Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics™, we work with imprints from early traumas or overwhelming experiences. In our understanding, the best trauma resolution therapies must include a thorough understanding of health and sensitive ways to support people who have had overwhelming experiences. Our logo shares a message of hope, that therapeutic work aligning with the blueprint can reach and shift even life-long held patterns in people of any age.
 
Each mammal lives within a group, each tree relates to others whether in a forest or not. Our image is not meant to stand alone -- we hold true that each being has layers and layers of support and relationships.  Come study with us! ~ Kate White and Lois Trezise 
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The Training:

A training for practitioners of all kinds who work in clinical practice interested in supporting the mother/baby dyad and healing early imprints from the prenatal and perinatal period. 
Prerequisites:   Location: Online

Learning Objectives. Practitioners will:
  • Understand autonomic nervous system threat responses, and gain skills to shift them into healthy functional states.
  • Be able to hold space with deep listening, touch skills, and principles related to prenatal and perinatal somatic health, especially for the mother/baby dyad. 
  • Recognize and repair difficult birth patterns for mothers and their partners.
  • Recognize and repair difficult conception, in utero, birth and after birth patterns from the baby's experience.
    • Learn to be a "baby doula."
  • Gain facilitation skills for birth story process for mother, partner, and baby.
  • Learn bodywork approaches to healing early developmental trauma, and appropriate verbal skills
  • Know when and to whom to refer.

Fees:  $595 US per module for the Virginia Training. New York City fees are managed by the host school, Stillpoint. 
Dates: The Training starts in 2024 in New York City, and Arizona. Virginia training will start in 2025. The Australia training will start November 2024. Each module will be 3 days with an optional clinical day. Modules will be every two months, with a Sunday afternoon meeting every month we are not training. You will be given a Teaching Team member to report to in between modules and home work assignments to complete. 

We also offer the third Sunday of each month we are not in training as a check in and practice, support for homework integration and more. 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Eastern time

Venue: online via zoom, Stillpoint Cranial School in Manhattan for New York City. Arizona is an invitation only training, and Australia is being managed through the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs and the Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute. Our in country manager is Vanessa Worthington. See more at Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute website.
​Dates and Times for the Modules in New York City, 2 month intervals
2024 Modules 1 - 4
May 3-5, 2024, 9:30 - 6 pm 
August 2-4, 2024, 9:30 - 6 pm
September 27-29, 2024, 9:30 - 6 pm
December 6-8, 2024, 9:30 - 6 pm
2025 Modules 5 - 6
February 7-9, 2025
April 11-13, 2025
Clinical Days:
Opportunities to Observe Clinical Work
​with Kate and Lois
Free clinic for families with birth trauma
Online
The observational clinic days are included in your tuition for the training. 
Dates
IPPD Student Connect Dates
These are optional dates when you can come and practice with your fellow students
The Third Sunday of each month we don't have clinic
2:00 - 4:00 pm Eastern time
Curriculum Design: Each module will feature somatic trauma healing practices for you to learn while working with the themes and topics The Online Classroom will feature lectures with handouts for you as preparation for the classes.  
  • Module 1: Preconception/Conception Dynamics and Intention (19.5 hours) Preconception and Conception are vital times in human development. In prenatal and perinatal healing, we often observe that the influences on parents just before and during conception may repeat in birth. This module will bring attention to:
    • Transgenerational/Intergenerational Dynamics (Patterns of Health and Challenge)
    • Trauma-Informed, Resilience and Healing Centered Approaches
    • Trauma Sensitive Intakes
    • Creating a Welcoming Space
    • Conscious Conception
    • The Baby's Experience of Being Wanted
    • Your Practice as Safe Haven
    • Evidence Based Tools for Your Practice in Attachment, Attachment Styles, Adverse Childhood and Positive Experiences
    • Relationship of the Parents
    • Conscious Early Parenting
    • Clinical Skills:
      • Differentiation,
      • Repair
      • Embodiment
      • Presence
      • Relationship
      • Listening
      • Self and Co-regulation
      • Boundaries
      • Tracking Self and Other
      • Creating a Welcoming Space
      • Creating a Gracious Space
      • Trauma Sensitive Intake
      • Tracking the Health: Blueprint/Imprint
  • Module 2: Prenatal Dynamics (19.5 hours)The themes for Module 2 in Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics focus on the prenatal period. We will traverse the territory of prenatal experience from the baby's experience, and also support the parents to practice prenatal bonding. Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics practitioners will understand the world of the vulnerable prenate, how to support parents, and the midwife's perspective on the prenatal period. Our skills will always return to understanding the map of the autonomic nervous system, working with resourcing, imparting skills of being, relationship, listening, recognition and conversation. Over arching themes include:
    • The Principle of Choice
    • How We Come Into Relationship
    • The Embryo and Early Development
    • The Placenta and What Nourishes?
    • Home and Connection
    • The Impact of Stress on Pregnancy
    • Understanding the Umbilical Cord
    • Variations on the Uterus and Placenta
    • The Baby's Experience In Utero, including Constraint
    • The Imprints from the Prenatal Period
    • Our clinical skills include:
      • Meditations
      • PPN Principles, especially the principle of Choice
      • Autonomic Nervous System states around coming into relationship, building and making a home, putting down roots, our relationship with receiving, especially what nourishes.
      • Interpersonal neurobiology
      • Recognizing intrauterine constraint
      • Broadening and deepening states as tools for stabilization and transformation
      • Table work, working with umbilical affect and touching the belly
      • Table work, working with pregnant mothers with intrauterine constraint
  • Module 3: Birth Dynamics 1 (19.5 hours)  In this module, you will identify the birth sequence patterns for mother/birthing parent and baby that may happen without any interventions. Even though many families strive for births with the least amount of interventions, the patterns without them can also be overwhelming. Your curriculum includes:
    • Recognizing birth patterns of all kinds that occur without outside interventions
    • Double binds
    • Creative Opposition, Dynamic Squeeze
    • Deepening and broadening states
    • Leading Edge
    • Identifying vectors and compression
    • Calling a pause
    • The importance of "Baby Time"
    • Speeding up and slowing down
    • Two layers of support
    • Harmonizing the surround
    • Slipping into the space
    • The clinical skills you will learn include:
      • How to make repairs for difficult births, part one
      • Learning from the inside out about the baby's experience by identifying your birth journey, and your own sequence
      • Identification of pelvis shapes and bony landmarks that the baby encounters in the birth process
      • Understanding the birth sequence, natural birth and labor and delivery
      • The midwifery model of care
      • Working with birth process on the floor
      • Working with birth process on the table
  • Moduel 4: Chemical Imprints and Womb Dynamics (19.5 hours) In this module you will learn about chemical imprints and their effects on the baby especially, and anesthesia, analgesia from the birthing parent's perspective. 
    • Toxic Womb (Chemicals - endogenous and from substances)
    • Stress and its impact on the baby, and parent/baby bond
    • Anesthesia
    • Analgesia/Pain Relief
    • Augmentation
    • Inductions
    • Clinical skills will emphasize
      • Boundary Repair
      • Recognition of chemical imprints
      • Feeling Tone as practitioner
      • Flushing the ventricles
      • Shifting Freeze to Fight/Flight in doable pieces
      • Inescapable attack from chemical imprints
  • Module 5: Birth Dynamics (19.5 hours) In this module, you will learn about birth interventions, their impact on mothers/birthing parents and their partners, and on babies. These interventions include: 
    • Perinatal Tears/Episiotomy
    • Cesarean Section
    • Vacuum Assist/Ventous
    • Forceps
    • Additional information includes:
      • Research on doulas and midwifery model of care
      • Working with near death states for mothers and babies
      • Neonatal resuscitation
    • Clinical Skills will emphasize:
      • Working with the Blueprint
      • Mapping resources and layers of support
      • Search and Restore Inner Knowing
      • Repair for difficult births
      • Restoring a Defensive Gesture
      • Working with Shame and Grief
  • Module 6:  Perinatal Dynamics and Integration (19.5hours) 
    • The Sacred Hour, supported attachment, integration
    • Postpartum Moods and 1 Question Assessment
    • Integrating the Birth Story and working with families, Family Dynamics
    • Working with Adults, prenatal and perinatal assessments
    • How to do the Holding Healing Story and Messages of Repair
    • Putting the Baby in the Chair, the work of John Chitty
    • Getting Starting on Your Business Plan

Instructors: Kate White, MA, BCBMT, RCST®, CEIM, SEP and Lois Trezise, CNM. 
CEUS pending.

Homework: Each Module will require homework to practice applied skills
Reading List:
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Cancellation Policy:
  • ​If you cancel 1 month in prior to conference, full refund
  • If you cancel 3 weeks in prior to conference, refund minus $50 fee
  • If you cancel 2 weeks in prior to conference, half of the price is refunded
  • If you cancel 2 weeks up until the workshop date, no refund
In case of illness or family emergency, full refund.

Instructors

Kate White, MA, LMT, RCST®, CEIM, SEP

Kate White is a massage and Biodynamic craniosacral therapist has been involved with pre- and perinatal health for over 25 years, starting with maternal and child health, family planning, and health education as an international professional, to a practitioner of the healing arts as a bodyworker working with pregnant mothers, families and babies.  Her qualifications include: BA and MA in communications Certifications in prenatal massage, infant massage, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. Completion of the Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner Training. Nearly 20 years of study and training in Prenatal and Perinatal Somatic Psychology with many leading pioneering practitioners. Founder and former Director of Education for the Prenatal and Perinatal Educator Certificate course for the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, 2013-2019. Founding Director of the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, Co-Creator of Integrated Preantal and Perinatal Programs,  Creator of Baby Dynamics Clinical training, Leading Edge Somatic Skills Seminars, and the Whole Family Clinic You can see a complete list of her trainings and education here. 

Lois Trezise, CNM

Lois Trezise is a nurse-midwife of 35 year’s experience with a Master’s Degree in Midwifery and certification in hypnosis from ASCH.  Lois has attended births at home, out-of-hospital birth centers, and both large city and small community hospitals.  Her experience has given her an in-depth overview of all the different ways in which labor can unfold and how to help prepare and support families.  She currently lives in Brattleboro, VT, and presents several times a year at the Center.