Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics

Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics™

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.

Each human being has an embryological 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

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:

Application and interview;
Introduction to Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics
- March 14-17, 2019, Between the Worlds
- May 30-June 2, 2019, Bridge Between the Worlds
- September 12-15, 2019, Massachusetts or Vermont
- January 16-19, 2019 Washington, DC
One process workshop with Kate White
Best practice: License to touch.

Location TBA

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 normalize difficult birth patterns for mothers and their partners.
Recognize and normalize 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: Each module is $495.00. If all 5 modules paid in advance: $2200.00

Dates:
Module 1: March 19-21, 2019 + Clinical Day March 22
Module 2: May 14-16, 2019 + Clinical Day May 17
Module 3: July 16-18, 2019 + Clinical Day July 19
Module 4: September 24-26, 2019 + Clinical Day September 27
Module 5: November 18-21, 2019 + Clinical Day November 22

Venue: The Journey Space, 6110 Oberlin Ave, Glen Echo, MD 20812
https://thejourneyspace.com/

Times: Thursday-Saturday for the training dates
Thursday, Friday 9:30 - 6 pm, Saturday, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Clinical Day is optional: Sunday 9:00 am - 3 pm. We might be able to see 3 families. Fee is sliding scale $75-$125

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 hours)
- Overall patterns of health, connection to spirit, coherent states, blueprint of human experience
- The Principles of the work reviewed; Intention as a resource and the 5 point sequence
- Trauma Sensitive Intake: Ancestral patterns and adverse experiences, family stories, transgenerational-intergenerational trauma, attachment styles
- Preconception attraction complex, dance of the egg and sperm, conception as blueprint/imprint
- Clinical Practice as Safe Haven: Establishing a safe space (attachment dynamics in clinical practice)
Module 2: Prenatal Dynamics (19 hours)
- Implantation, embryology and the embryo, discovery, mother-baby dynamics
- Stress and other adversity, introduction to resiliency
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd trimester dynamics, prenatal bonding
Module 3: Birth Dynamics 1 (19 hours)
- Physiological birth, birth sequence
- Maternal pelvis, placenta, in utero constraint, the baby's experience of different birth presentations
Module 4: Birth Dynamics 2 (19 hours)
- Surgical, chemical and mechanical births
Module 5: Perinatal Dynamics and Integration (19 hours)
- The Sacred Hour, supported attachment, integration
- Understanding perinatal mood disorders
- Integrating the Birth Story and working with families, Family Dynamics
- Working with Adults, prenatal and perinatal assessments
- Next steps

Hours each day: TBA

Instructors: Kate White, MA, BCBMT, RCST®, CEIM, SEP and Lois Trezise, CNM. More about the instructors coming soon.

Fees: Introduction to Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics is $550.00
Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics fees: $495 per module; $2200 if paid in full in advance.

CEUS pending.

Homework: Each Module will require homework to practice applied skills
Reading List:

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. Director of Education for the Prenatal and Perinatal Educator Certificate course for the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health 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.