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(in addition OB-GYN Courses)
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Choose a theme to suit your conference
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General
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| As a heatlh care provider, I have developed new ideas in the wellness and communications fields for the past 3 decades since moving to the United States from Australia. My 8 books, 4 DVDs and 3 audios/CDs cover a range of topics on healthcare, with emphasis on prevention. I explain degenerative diseases from cross-cultural comparisons that my wide travels have given me the opportunity to make. I explore the influence of events during our births and before that influence our emotions, behavior and health. I give suggestions for optimal nutrition through whole foods. I demonstrate physical exercise with simple equipment like Flo® tubes and gymnastic balls. I involve you in relaxation skills, too, so that you can develop a healthy balance for mind, body and spirit through your lifecycle. |
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| Technology is causing us to become ever-more sedentary. I will show you ways to sit and work at a desk that will keep you limber and energized. The first thing you need to do is to replace you chair! I will share tips for good posture and avoiding fatigue, and how to utilize pauses for printing, downloading etc.to take care of your body and soul. |
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| Does it bother you to listen to poor English? Do you understand how the unconscious mind reacts to negative imperatives? Come and hear some classic mistakes made by President Clinton and Anthony Robbins! You can save words and enhance results as you learn to clarify your intent in spoken and written words. Understand the secret language of metaphors and the significance of body language. Whatever your message is, you must communicate it effectively on multiple levels. |
Pelvic Power: An Evening Public Presentation
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| Over 13 million Americans will begin and end their lives in diapers! Learn how to to maintain lifelong health and vitality of your pelvic organs and stay dry and clean, front and back. Strenthen bones, back and hips. This interactive seminar can be a lecture plus observation only or lecture and particpation with participants receiving a video of the program which combines movement and meditation. In this multimedia presentation, I explain the structure and function of the vulnerable pelvic areas (hips that can fracture from osteoporosis, female and male incontinence, prostate, lower back and knee problems). You will learn ways to alleviate and prevent these increasing problems in our sedentary society. |
Pre- and Perinatal Origins of Dysfunction and Disease
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| Recent developments in prenatal psychology have relevance for health in general, and in particular for the patient with recurring or recalcitrant symptoms. Trauma during the pre- and perinatal period forms engrams that may affect a person's emotional and behavioral development, including the type and time of onset of illness. Case histories will be presented, along with a questionnaire and genogram for personal exploration among the audience |
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For Clinicans
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Preventing Professional Burnout: Personal Growth for Maternity Care Providers
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| A weekend intensive covering controversies in childbirth education, organic experiences in preparation for birth, labor support, the new frontier of pre- and perinatal psychology, accessing memories of birth and birth, exploring motivations for OB-GYN careers, and exploring dysfunction and disease. |
Hands on Pelvic Assessment & Treatment
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| This is a hands-on training course limited to 6 participants. Evaluation and demonstration treatments of volunteer patients with a variety of conditions such as incontinence,uterine prolapse, cystocele, rectocele, vulvodynia, chronic pelvic pain, postpartum episiotomy and post-Cesarean wound pain. The course is taught on request at clinics which recruit the patients. Due to the small registration, the course is rarely advertised. |
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Prenatal Preparation
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Empowerment Challenges for Expectant and New Parents
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| The medicalization of pre-and perinatal events frequently causes parents to set aside their intuition and common sense regarding optimal childbearing and child raising. The aim of this session is to solicit ideas from the audience on how best to share information that is generated at conferences designed to maximize fetal and maternal well-being, in a way that causes CHANGE. Preliminary research into how parents "just say NO!" to interventions, with the example of circumcision, will be discussed. |
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Psychophysical Aspects of Pain in Labor
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Pain in birth is the result of resistance to opening up, which occurs on all levels - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. A stretching exercise with a partner prepares expectant mothers for the intense energy of birth and the use of sound. Testing one's limits in this way, and bonding with the child within, facilitates a harmonious collaboration during the process of birth. Includes underwater birth video, Channel for a New Life.
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The Pregnancy Playshop: Weekend Childbirth Intensive for Expectant Parents
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An experiential personal growth retreat for 5 couples to explore their personal realities-pre- and perinatal influences, reproductive loss and other life crises that may stand in the way of the upcoming birth. Activities include partner stretches to prepare for labor, encounters for touch, massage and affectivity and writing of the "Birth Story". Each participant completes a questionnaire on the history of their own conception, gestation and birth as well as of the present pregancy. They also list their major life crises and attach a one-page autobiography.
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New Dimensions in Support for Childbearing Year
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Various physical, emotional and spiritual perspectives on preparation for birth will be explored and evaluated during this one-day workshop. Experiential sessions will facilitate relaxation, body awareness and self-discovery. The significance of each individual's experience of gestation and birth will be addressed as we identify events for autonomy that minimize fear, pain and unfulfilled transitions during pregnancy and labor.
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Childbirth Preparation and Unfulfilled Transitions
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| An examination of some physiological, psychological and philosophical fallacies of childbirth education and their role in creating performance anxiety. The mind-body dichotomies in obstetrics, language, and Western culture will be explored and new avenues for developing a couple's intuition, flexibility and confidence will be suggested. The importance of maternity care providers accessing and acknowledging their own prenatal events will be stressed. |
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Reproduction and Birth in A Technological World
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An exploration of the impact of technology and scientific knowledge as it displaces intuitive knowing and Einstein's concept of individual reality by creating an illusory "shared reality" with its hidden pressures. The increase in assisted conceptions and the high Cesarean rate will be examined from a feminist perspective as well as from the orientation of prenatal psychology. Strategies for social change will be suggested.
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Marching Backward: The Malaise in the Natural Childbirth Movement
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| An overview of the historical influences on birth in the USA, the rise of interventions, the well-intentioned "white bread" philosophy within the wider political and economical context. With more than enough data to support the natural process, we need to move from information-gathering to action. A discussion of ways parents and providers can force change, and regain their power through the recognition of common priorities, particularly the rights and welfare of the child. |
The Power of Knowing: Psychological Strategies for Expectant Parents and Maternity Care Providers
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This presentation will explore the difference between intellectual knowledge and intuitive knowing, and will relate these distinction within the contact of holistic versus mechanistic paradigms. A person's own experiences of conception, gestation and birth are imprinted in the deeper memory, and influence those same reproductive events as he/she undergoes them in later life. This concept has particular significance for those who have chose maternity care as a professions. Helping couples to access preverbal and prenatal memories helps to clear obstacles in the way of natural birth and expands the opportunities for bonding with the unborn baby.
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Tapping the Unconscious Mind
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Inside Experiences: Guided Recall for Birth & Before
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| lthough only women give birth, we have all experienced being born. Participants will have the opportunity to make personal connections with their own conception, gestation and birth in a deeply-relaxing and supportive milieu. This visualization session beings with a 37 minute CD of specially- composed music to arouse prenatal and perinatal memories.Your journey will begin with egg and sperm and end with meeting your parents for the first time. Making connections afterward fosters new insights into your behavior and relationships. |
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Reproductive Technology
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Anonymous Donor Gametes and Genealogical Bewilderment
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Genealogical bewilderment refers to no knowledge, or uncertain knowledge of at least one biological parent. The resultant confusion and uncertainty may undermine a child's concept of self, as has been observed in adoptees. Yet the current use of anonymous sperm and egg ignores the lessons of adoption reform. The harmful effects of secrecy and deception will be explored, plus the anguish of missing links as I argue that falsification and/or destruction of biological identity is a moral violation of a person's birthright and ignores prenatal consciousness.
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Multiple Pregnancy
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Fetal Surveillance And The Nocebo Effect: Recommendations For A Normal Pregnancy, Vaginal Birth and Optimal Outcome.
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| Despite increasing screening, monitoring, and surgical delivery of twin pregnancies, the incidence of preterm births and low birth weight infants has steadily increased in the past 3 decades. Evidence has shown that bed rest is not only useless, it is harmful. Neither tocolytics or ultrasound has improved outcome. This session will explore what we learn from mothers who carry normal birth weight babies to term, birth them naturally and breastfeed |
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Pre and Perinatal Loss of a Twin
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| Despite advances in obstetrics and neonatal care, the risk of loss in a multiple gestation remains three of more times that of singletons-up to 15 percent. This presentation will explore the death of a twin during early pregnancy ("vanishing twin") through the perinatal period and the impact of this paradoxical event (the need to bond and to grieve simultaneously) on parents, siblings and most significantly, the surviving twin. |
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An overview of the special challenges in psychological adaptation that occur with twins or other multiples. Unresolved issues of infertility, assisted conception, gender preference compound the unique situation of a mother having to incorporating more than one baby into her self-image. Special bonding tasks include the process of moving from identifying the unit to the individuals, and honoring the unique emotional ties of twinship.
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Sharing Space: Twinship Experiences in Utero
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Evidence of prenatal memories confirmed by the other twin and/or the mother indicate the profound awareness of the unborn child. This lecture will review scientific and popular literature, and also movies, in which explicit descriptions or metaphors of twin existence are portrayed.
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