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Conference - shaping up well!

This past week I’ve mostly spent in the UK office. It’s been a pleasant change from dashing around the countryside and its given me time to work through the final details for the Preparing for Birth Conference at Reading University in July. The publicity is out now and the registrations are rolling in - it looks like being a very popular event.

One of the messages we were given on our evaluations last time was that there was still some unresolved feelings between the community based educators and the hospital based people. This Conference is a great way of bringing these two groups together, to discover what each group is doing and learning about other ways of working. Educators based in the community often tend to work with rather homogenous middle-of- the road couples and could benefit from learning about the more diverse groups their colleagues in the NHS have in their programs, and vice versa.

As an icebreaker for these two groups, we’ve devised some fun activities for everyone after dinner on the two evenings when we are all staying on campus. I won’t reveal what’s in store, except to say we have something very different up our sleeves which is guaranteed to give everyone a great deal of fun.

The list of speakers is impressive (even if I do say so myself) and we’ve covered the topics most requested by everyone who came last year, plus some new issues of interest to educators and midwives. For full details, click here.

I have also just finalised the speaking team for the next Future Birth tour in Australia which will happen between March 20 and 27, 2007. Watch for the announcements soon on our website and through our E Bulletins - this is an iconic event for us in Australia and one that midwives never want to miss. It seems a long way off right now, but we are racing through this year already!

Posted by andrea at March 31, 2006 12:52 AM