Workshop in Virginia

(here is a printable poster from Doran)

This is a one day workshop for birth workers to learn how to provide compassionate, comprehensive support to families enduring loss, including why and how to establish strong support resources for yourself.

If you are an aspiring doula, birth doula, postpartum doula, monitrice, midwife or nurse, this workshop is right for you.

Subjects we will explore:

providing support prior to loss.
providing support during the actual physical event of loss.
how to be supported.
how to support after a loss.

What you will gain:

This will be a hands on, interactive workshop. Using demonstrations, examples, projects and discussion, you will leave with tools you need to be better prepared in all birth situations. You will identify similarities and differences in loss to other traumas a family may experience, you’ll strengthen your understanding of the connections between events in a mother’s obstetrical history, you’ll learn the importance of being supported yourself, and you’ll see how your trust in your own support network will impact your response to your client. You’ll begin to build a strong foundation of support for yourself that you need to be the best you can be, for your clients, and for yourself.

You will spend time in reflection, evaluating your own values and interpretations of life and death. Workshops are an intimate gathering intended to enrich and inspire. More than just a checklist of things to make sure you do or say for bereaved families, the workshop environment will slow you, deepen you, and connect you with the families you serve in a profound way. The workshop is a safe environment. Please open yourself to being gently challenged.

You’ll also receive handouts that will cover what we won’t have enough time to during the workshop.

You’ll bring your own lunch, and we will take breaks between segments.

This workshop is available through a collaboration with Doran Richards of Blessing God’s Way.

When:

Saturday, June 1, 2013 – all day event

Where:

Strasburg, VA

Venue: Ridge Apartments, Community Center 170 E. Reservoir Rd., Woodstock, VA 22664

Dulles is the closest airport

Price:

Workshop plus Discounted Full Training:

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

I am strong.

— January, founder of Birth Without Fear

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.

— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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BECOME A DOULA!

Enroll now in the Birth & Bereavement Doula® program!

We onboard enrolled students into the program by email invitation.

After tuition, you can email heidi.faith@stillbirthday.com directly to expedite this step. Alternatively, if you prefer fb communications, you can join us in Admissions.