Thursday Pre-Conference Workshops
Registration for these sessions will begin in early September, 2009
Thursday Pre-Conference Workshops
9:00 am to 5:00 pm (both days – be sure to register for both)
B1 — Trust Birth Midwifery Skills Intensive (2 parts — total of 1,020 min; Esplanade–Thurs; 40; Catalina — Fri. $315, $250/AAMI students) — Dana Combest, Jenny West, Pamela Hines Powell
Instructors will present two days of intensive hands on midwifery training from very general skills such as gloving and sterile technique to more complicated skills such as I.V. Therapy to catheterization and suturing. Learn from some of the most experienced midwives how to use this knowledge while still trusting birth and practicing in a non-interventive way. It is a great time for perfecting skills you have seen or been taught before but have not had time to really practice. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to learn from the best!
9:00 am to 3:30 pm
B2—Herbs to Know and Love (390 min: Esplanade; max 40; $70)— Be more familiar with herbs to strengthen and support the childbearing family. Learn about herbs contraindicated in pregnancy and lactation and which herbs are traditionally used to nourish pregnancy, labor, lactation and the whole family.
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm, 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
B3 — Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Workshop (240 min: Esplanade; 20; $100) — Sondra Rose
Learn how to use EFT through instruction by Sondra Rose with hands on training as you focus on birth trauma, pregnancy, labor, and birth; and, how you, as a professional, can use the techniques to help your clients as well as yourself. You will be equipped to use the techniques on yourself and your clients immediately after this workshop is completed.
6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
B4 — CranioSacral Therapy for the Birth Worker — (240 min: 30; $125) — Jenny West and Paul Barlow
CranioSacral is named for the cerebrospinal fluid that flows up and down the spinal cord from the cranium (head) to the sacrum (tailbone). As it slowly flows it creates a rhythm throughout your body. Learn from Jenny and Paul how you can assist this rhythm to self-correct dysfunctions in the body. Where there is a dysfunction, the rhythm is “stuck” and the individual feels pain, immobility, tension, etc. This can occur anywhere in the body. The cause is usually the result of a recent or past physical or emotional trauma. Jenny and Paul will teach you to use a very gentle, non-invasive light touch to locate the “stuck” areas and to assist the return of rhythm to these areas. As this occurs there is a deep feeling of relaxation, more freedom of movement, and less pain. It is very quiet and passive. The individual can remain fully clothed for this therapy. This is the most relaxing technique because it is working with the fluid that nourishes all the nerves in one’s spinal cord.