Courses for Perinatal Professionals
Spiritual/Psychological Healing, Preparation & Sustenance
for You and Your Community
Courses: Beginning November 2024
🌼 Healing Birth Trauma with Bilateral Stimulation with CAMFT approved CEs for MFTs and LCSWs
🌼 Perinatal Ceremonies Facilitator Training
🌼 Healing Birth Trauma Group Model coming onto Website in November!
🌼 Healing Birth Trauma with Bilateral Stimulation with CAMFT approved CEs for MFTs and LCSWs
🌼 Perinatal Ceremonies Facilitator Training
🌼 Healing Birth Trauma Group Model coming onto Website in November!
Healing Birth Trauma with Bilateral Stimulation
Bilateral Stimulation Healing Birth Trauma Model Syllabus:
This course introduces the Bilateral Stimulation Healing Birth Trauma Model I developed and have used for many years in my Healing Birth Trauma 1-1 sessions. This model has been highly successful in resolving trauma symptoms and addressing trauma triggers from birth experiences, generally taking 3 sessions unless other major traumas including developmental affected the client's experience of her birth giving. It also has been highly effective in preventing birth trauma again for moms who go on to have another child. It combines bilateral stimulation, resourcing practices, interweaves, and honoring and witnessing the birthing person’s strengths and challenges, including obstetric violence, encountered in their rite of passage.
Content of course is based on EMDR trauma treatment, Perinatal Psychology theory and research, cross cultural healing practices and birth anatomy and physiology. This course applies these theories to increase the effectiveness of prevention and treatment of Perinatal Trauma in our community for both the service provider and the birthing woman and family.
Some of the Theory and practices presented in this workshop stem from the following sources:
Parnell, L. (2007). A therapists guide to EMDR: Tools and techniques for successful treatment. New York: W.W. Norton.
Parnell, L. (2008). Tapping in: A step-by-step guide to activating your healing resources through bilateral stimulation: An EMDR-related technique. Boulder, CO: Sounds True.
Tami Kent, Mothering from the Center
McCarty, W. A. (2012). Welcoming consciousness: Supporting babies wholeness from the beginning of life: An integrated model of early development. Santa Barbara, CA: Wondrous Beginnings Pub
Winston, Sherri.(2010) Women’s Anatomy of Arousal, Kingston, NY, Mango Garden Press
Lipton, B. H. (2016). The biology of belief: Unleashing the power of consciousness, matter & miracles. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House.
Adair, Margo. ( 1985). Working Inside and Out – Tools for Change. San Francisco, Bookpeople
Structure:
One to One 8 one hour sessions, weekly, covering all the practice model material as well as time to practice model by applying it to your own material.
Fee: $230/session or $1600 up front a $240 discount.
or
Circles: 8 one hour and a half sessions, weekly, covering all the practice model material as well as time to practice model by applying it to your own material.
If you organize committed circle of 5 people or more: $400 for Entire Series of modules and sessions 🌼
This includes:
5 people or more registered with full fee of $1400/$200 discount each or $200/session
You coordinate time of training with me and them.
8 CEs for MFTS and LCSWs approved by CAMFT
Perinatal Ceremonies Facilitator Training
9 Self Paced Modules with 9 Community Learning Circles or 1-1 Mentorship Sessions
Get what you need to bring Ceremony to your community your way.
This program is designed for the aspiring and experienced Ceremony Facilitator who is ready to learn, cultivate and offer practices in their own community. I have merged both online learning with experiential online sessions so that participants can thrive in their own spiritual practice and begin offering what they are learning from a place of confidence.
Module Meets Practice
Each module is offered online and can be completed at your own pace. They are designed to provide you the science of Ceremony and the practical steps for bringing it to your community. sessions are live, online times to gather with like-minded practitioners or 1-1 with the goal of exploration and practice of what makes your offering path sustainable. I will guide participants through Ceremonies so that you have a body memory and real time experience. We will have thoughtful conversations grounding you in the work of each module so that you can absorb the fullest world of Ceremony possible.
Training Meets Community Needs
We need ceremony community more than ever as peer perinatal professionals. Apply this training to developing a peer perinatal ceremony community where you live. Options will be provided to support you where you in your readiness to begin a circle, ranging from:
a - Handout with tips for organizing a local circle
b - Mentoring you in getting started and working with common challenges
c - Facilitating your circle for 6 months and the option of transitioning into a peer circle
Themes include:
* Confidence building for holding Ceremony
* Connecting with your ancestors, preventing Cultural Appropriation
* Practical support for sustainable community offerings
* Personal growth practices that increase self compassion and agency
* Preparation practices that allow you to navigate ceremony from a place of empowerment and safety
* Multiple Models of Perinatal Ceremonies presented
Curriculum at bottom of Page
Sign up for a Complimentary Info Session HERE!
Fee: Circles: If you organize committed circle of 5 people or more: $400 for Entire Series of modules and sessions 🌼
This includes:
5 people or more registered with full fee of $1400/ $200 discount or $200/session
You coordinate time of training with me and them.
Fee: 1-1 One hour Mentor Sessions with modules: $1600 full fee/discount $240 or $230/ session
* BIPOC and low-income individuals are invited to check out sliding scale options by contacting me at
[email protected]
Curriculum
Module 1 - Pre Ceremony Care Circle/Session 1 - Meet your Helpers
Guidelines for receiving the gifts of ceremony
Resourcing practices and Inner Helpers for your balance and agency
Understanding you are bringing original gifts and wisdom streams
Module 2 - Introduction to Perinatal Ceremonies Circle/Session 2 - Owning your Power
Cross Cultural Roots of Perinatal Ceremonies
Purpose and Definition of Ceremonies
Structure of Ceremonies
Module 3 - Guides, Protectors, Altars, Lineages Circle/Session 3 - Protection and Safety for all participants
How to cultivate protection and safety
We all have original peoples and lineages
How to make altars
Module 4 - Community Perinatal Ceremonies Circle/Session 4 - Which Community(s) is calling to you?
Model for becoming parents ceremony
Model for honoring abortions and miscarriages Ceremony
Model for fertility ceremony
Module 5 - Self Care Nature Walk Ceremony Circle/Session 5 - Guidance for your nature walk
What they are
How they work
Inner Guidance for your life and work
Module 6 - Ways to work with Perinatal Triggers Circle/Session 6- Healing a Perinatal Trigger
Triggers relationship to trauma
Roots of Perinatal Triggers
Practices for Calming them
Module 7 - Best Practices, Ethics, Self Compassion Circle/Session 7 - Students organize ceremony
Ethical Guidelines for Ceremony Facilitators
Sustainability practices including Self Compassion and Consulting
Honoring range of participants' experience
Module 8 - Supporting nervous system encountering pleasure Circle/Session 8 - Opening to the path of Bliss
Basic Sexual Reproductive Anatomy of Birth and Orgasm
Opening with your nervous system feeling supported
Altered States of Consciousness and brain waves during Orgasm and Birth
Module 9 - Bringing it all Together Circle/Session 9 - Walking our Talk, Takeaways
Map of our Perinatal Imprints and Resources
How Ceremony supports people to feel prepared for birth and parenting
Applying ceremony practices in your work
Module 1 - Pre Ceremony Care Circle/Session 1 - Meet your Helpers
Guidelines for receiving the gifts of ceremony
Resourcing practices and Inner Helpers for your balance and agency
Understanding you are bringing original gifts and wisdom streams
Module 2 - Introduction to Perinatal Ceremonies Circle/Session 2 - Owning your Power
Cross Cultural Roots of Perinatal Ceremonies
Purpose and Definition of Ceremonies
Structure of Ceremonies
Module 3 - Guides, Protectors, Altars, Lineages Circle/Session 3 - Protection and Safety for all participants
How to cultivate protection and safety
We all have original peoples and lineages
How to make altars
Module 4 - Community Perinatal Ceremonies Circle/Session 4 - Which Community(s) is calling to you?
Model for becoming parents ceremony
Model for honoring abortions and miscarriages Ceremony
Model for fertility ceremony
Module 5 - Self Care Nature Walk Ceremony Circle/Session 5 - Guidance for your nature walk
What they are
How they work
Inner Guidance for your life and work
Module 6 - Ways to work with Perinatal Triggers Circle/Session 6- Healing a Perinatal Trigger
Triggers relationship to trauma
Roots of Perinatal Triggers
Practices for Calming them
Module 7 - Best Practices, Ethics, Self Compassion Circle/Session 7 - Students organize ceremony
Ethical Guidelines for Ceremony Facilitators
Sustainability practices including Self Compassion and Consulting
Honoring range of participants' experience
Module 8 - Supporting nervous system encountering pleasure Circle/Session 8 - Opening to the path of Bliss
Basic Sexual Reproductive Anatomy of Birth and Orgasm
Opening with your nervous system feeling supported
Altered States of Consciousness and brain waves during Orgasm and Birth
Module 9 - Bringing it all Together Circle/Session 9 - Walking our Talk, Takeaways
Map of our Perinatal Imprints and Resources
How Ceremony supports people to feel prepared for birth and parenting
Applying ceremony practices in your work