Creative Workshops
For Midwives and Childbirth Professionals
We create personalized workshops to suit the needs of groups of midwives and childbirth professionals that are:
Creative and dynamic:
Our workshops are interactive and ARE NOT based around Power Point presentations. Activities may include art, meditation, drumming, chanting, yoga, massage, team challenges like ropes courses, wilderness walks and flying foxes. We aim to move midwives out of their comfort zone (which creates empathy and compassion for birthing women) while drawing out the their inner strengths (which reflects their capacity to help birthing women draw out inner strengths) and giving them a first-hand experience of skills they can use to help birthing women face their fears, relax and find the strengths they need to birth their babies.
Inspiring:
Midwives who have attended our workshops tell us they have regained their passion for midwifery, remember the ideals they had when first starting midwifery and feel the inner strength to keep pursuing midwifery in a way that supports women and also supports the midwife.
Team-building:
For us, team-building is not a systematic management strategy but rather a team approach by each individual midwife that honours where each midwife is within the team. We give midwives the skills and ongoing structure to create an environment where their individual strengths are honoured, where they feel supported by each other, and where wisdom is reciprocated within the team.
Positive and woman-centred:
Our philosophy is based on trust in women and the ability of women’s bodies to work beautifully when her inner environment and the outer environment are relaxed and trusting. We believe important roles of the childbirth professional are: to believe in women and their bodies, to help a woman bring out her unique gifts and strengths and to create an environment of trust, nurturing and love where a woman can believe in herself and birth her baby.
Unique:
Our workshops are unique in five ways: 1) they have been created through a midwife/woman partnership, reflecting the partnership of women and their carer during childbirth, 2) our philosophy is always positive and based in trust in women and their bodies, 3) we recognize that stress and fear are contagious during birth and therefore give professionals a chance to address their own stress/fears, 4) every skill learned is experienced and 5) we recognize and value the experience of all workshop participants and give time to each to share their wisdom.
PRICING:
Creative workshops cost $150 per person/day with a minimum of 10 people attending.
Travel and accommodation may need to be added depending upon the location and numbers attending.
The number of facilitators will also be dependent upon numbers.
You can request a quote for your group and for multiple days.
Alternatively, attend one of our Awaken Your Birth Power Retreat weekends in Galong, NSW. Discounts and special pricing are available upon request.
