Workshop Topics
 


BIRTHING FROM WITHIN® offers workshops and talks on a variety of topics. If you are interested in having someone present a talk or workshop at your event or in your community, please read this page.

This is a sample of the kinds of workshops and talks we can present. We are open to customizing these and/or developing new programs for you.

Presented by Pam England and/or other BIRTHING FROM WITHIN Facilitators:

  • Introduction to the BIRTHING FROM WITHIN Approach for Doulas (or Midwives, Nurses, etc.)
  • How to Effectively Teach Proven Pain-Coping Practices to Parents
  • The Truth about Pain in Birth & How to Compassionately Prepare Parents for It
  • The LabOrinth Journey: The Labyrinth as a Metaphor for Birth and Postpartum
  • Birth from Four Perspectives: Mother, Father (Partner), Baby, and Culture
  • Fathers’ and Birth Partners’ Unique Role in
  • Labor Support: The BIRTHING FROM WITHIN Approach
  • Postpartum Preparation: The BIRTHING FROM WITHIN Approach
  • The Spiritual Cesarean
  • The Power of Birth Art
  • Doula Training (Beginning and Advanced)

Presented only by Pam England:

  • Cesarean Healing and Information: New Ways of Seeing Cesarean Birth
  • New Perspectives on Giving Birth in an Epidural Culture
  • Hypnosis and Visualization for Childbirth
  • Birth Tiger Safari: Helping Parents Face Their Fears
  • Ceremony and Ritual for the Childbearing Year
  • Power of the Word in Birth: Using “Delicious Speech” in Birth
  • Mindfulness and Holding the Space in Birth and Beyond
  • Inanna’s Descent, Initiation, and Return: A Story for Women in Life-changes
  • The Archetypes of Birth
  • Out of the LabOrinth: Preventing and Healing Emotional Birth Trauma in Parents and Birth Professionals

Presented only by other BIRTHING FROM WITHIN Facilitators:

  • Introduction to BIRTHING FROM WITHIN for Doulas (or Midwives, or Nurses, etc.) (2.5 day workshop/20 hours, also known as “Level 1 Training”) 

If you are interested in having one of our facilitators spea:k at your event, or present a talk or workshop, please contact us with the following information:

 

-Name of organization
-Location of event
-Dates of event
-Nature and length of time of the speaking engagement (keynote, break-out session, public talk, etc.)
-Anticipated attendance (intended audience and number of attendees)
-Speaker fees and honoraria
-Travel, hotel and any other covered expenses.
-Any other requirements the speaker must satisfy in advance and all relevant deadlines