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The next UK trip

I am setting out today for the UK. This next round of workshops will take in Northern Ireland (Belfast and Derry), Hemel Hempstead (just north of London), Nottingham, Burton on Trent, and Solihull (Birmingham). There is also a week in Spain, with two workshops scheduled, one near Alicante at the Acuario Birth Centre and another in Murcia, about 2 hours further south.

In the middle, I will have a few days with my good friends the Habananandas from Thailand, who spend part of each year in Bournemouth. We will be discussing how we can set up a training program for childbirth educators in Thailand, as part of the work of the Childbirth and Breastfeeding Foundation of Thailand’s work. Birth International will be consultants for this project.

There will also be a day out with my office manager in the UK, Fran Gallwey, to inspect the proposed site for our big conference on childbirth education next year. We will be checking out the facilities at Reading University, which are looking promising. This will be a landmark event for the UK, not only for Birth International, but also for childbirth education, as no-one has offered a program such as the one we have planned, which will ensure that all participants are able to attend 6 workshop sessions on specific educational topics over the two days. There sill also be Plenary Speakers (of note!) and a video evening, where all the new releases will be shown. During my visit to the UK, we will be finalising the program and speakers, so keep an eye on our Web site for the details, which we plan to have available in July.

OK, now to finish the packing.....

Posted by andrea at May 30, 2004 10:34 AM

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