NWDC Special Workshops
This year's NWDC is please to host two stand-alone workshops in addition to the conference! These workshops are open to any perinatal professionals, regardless of their attendance at the conference- but there is a registration discount for attending multiple events!
Empowering Communities Through Ancestral Rebozo Techniques with Lucia Gutierrez
Join us to be introduced to a deep understanding of the story, lifestyle uses,
and true meaning of the rebozo, from a true indigenous source.
We will have the opportunity to feel how the rebozo works and the energy behind its making; learn how to use and integrate the rebozo in your life, and practice techniques that can be used during pregnancy. This class will help to destroy myths created around the rebozo in the United States, and return the true value of the rebozo to its authentic teachers and creators of this powerful element charged with energy and ancestral wisdom. Through this class, we will gain a new appreciation for this ancient Mesoamerican technique.
Join us to be introduced to a deep understanding of the story, lifestyle uses,
and true meaning of the rebozo, from a true indigenous source.
We will have the opportunity to feel how the rebozo works and the energy behind its making; learn how to use and integrate the rebozo in your life, and practice techniques that can be used during pregnancy. This class will help to destroy myths created around the rebozo in the United States, and return the true value of the rebozo to its authentic teachers and creators of this powerful element charged with energy and ancestral wisdom. Through this class, we will gain a new appreciation for this ancient Mesoamerican technique.
October 26th ~ 10am-4pm ~ Phinney Center Community Hall
Balancing the Quest for Perfection in Birth and New Parenthood with Britta Bushnell, PhD
Learn ways to help parents develop the skills to navigate the messy, wild, and unpredictable moments
of pregnancy, birth, and parenthood
In this workshop, we will explore the quest for perfection permeating contemporary culture and the ways this ideal influences giving birth today. From social media to the availability of encyclopedic levels of information at our fingertips, the illusion that perfection is attainable and strived for weaves its way into birth and new parenthood in unhelpful and often challenging ways. As birth and postpartum professionals, we have the opportunity to support new parents in embracing the unbidden, wily, and wildly imperfect expressions of humanity that confront them along the journey from pregnancy to parenthood.
Learn ways to help parents develop the skills to navigate the messy, wild, and unpredictable moments
of pregnancy, birth, and parenthood
In this workshop, we will explore the quest for perfection permeating contemporary culture and the ways this ideal influences giving birth today. From social media to the availability of encyclopedic levels of information at our fingertips, the illusion that perfection is attainable and strived for weaves its way into birth and new parenthood in unhelpful and often challenging ways. As birth and postpartum professionals, we have the opportunity to support new parents in embracing the unbidden, wily, and wildly imperfect expressions of humanity that confront them along the journey from pregnancy to parenthood.
October 27th ~ 10am-4pm ~ Phinney Center Community Hall
Are you interested in sponsoring one of these workshops? Sponsorship allow us to increase accessibility and reduce ticket costs of these valuable trainings to our perinatal community. For more information visit here.
