Experienced Birth doula workshop - level 2

• Thursday 21 January 2010 - Tunbridge Wells
• Tuesday 2 March 2010 - Litchfield (Staffordshire)
  

This course will be of interest to you if you are presently a working doula. You will have attended a minimum of 2 births as a doula.

The objective of this workshop is to explore emotions and best practices in our work as birth doulas. We will work on successful and challenging scenarios to see how the birth environment, our own feelings and behaviour as well as the interactions with medical staff affect birth. We will aim to give participants an opportunity to reflect and learn new skills.

Facilitators : Bushra Finch , Kicki Hansard, Lulu Winfield, Valerie Goedkoop

Numbers of participants are strictly limited.

Cost :

- £35 for Nurturing Birth trainees and Doula UK members
- £60 for others

* More dates and venues to come in 2009 - if you would like the course to come to you, contact us.

Interested? Contact us for an application form

Bushra Finch is an experienced doula, recognised with Doula UK and has
held several volunteer and committee posts since 2003. She has been
featured in baby and pregnancy magazines, interviewed for several radio
programmes as well as speaking on pregnancy and birth at several
conferences. She holds personalised antenatal sessions for parents and,
in partnership with Diane Walters, has recently developed birth
preparation day workshops for prospective parents. Bushra is a Maya
Abdominal Massage practitioner, having completed practitioner and
certification training with Rosita Arvigo in America. Maya Abdominal
Massage seeks to preserve and restore women’s health by correct
placement of the internal organs. Bushra is currently training to be an
hakima - a practitioner of Tibb (traditional eastern medicine).

Kicki Hansard, Cert Soc Sci (Open), SNHS (Professional Relaxation Therapy), is an experienced doula, recognised with Doula UK and a Certified Doula with BOND. She took part in the documentary about doulas called "Mum + One" which is currently being shown on the Discovery Home & Health Channel. She occasionally holds talks about doulas to student midwives and alternative health practitioners and is currently studying for a degree in Psychology.
Kicki is married and has two children.

Lulu Winfield is a birth doula, pregnancy reflexologist, hypnobirthing practitioner and yogabirth teacher. She has attended over 90 births in her role as a professional birth doula over the last few years and offers one to one courses on "preparing to be a birth partner" or birth preparation for couples. She has been a member of Doula UK since its early days, she is a recognized birth doula, mentor and assessor, working with trainees towards achieving Doula UK recognition status. She is also involved in the training co-ordination within Doula UK. Lulu teaches pre-natal yoga and childbirth education as a certified yogabirth teacher. She has been interviewed for various complementary health and pregnancy magazines and lives in West London with her two daughters.