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Essential Educator and Active Birth workshops

Over the last three days I have been presenting the Essential Educator workshop in Sydney. We had a terrific time exploring the possibilities of prenatal education and the practicalities of facilitating programs for parents.

The group were from all over – UK, Japan, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, rural areas and of course, Sydney. It was a lovely mix of experienced and new recruits and we all had a lot of fun working through a variety of teaching strategies, based on the Essential Educator kit we have developed.

I’ll be scheduling more of these workshops next year – one in the UK in April and others in Australia from mid-year. It seems unreal to be planning workshops so far ahead, but the year is racing by.

Next weekend I am in Cairns for an Active Birth workshop and the midwife from the UK is also attending that program. She works in a midwifery led unit near Sheffield and will be using all these ideas in her work when she returns home from a year long holiday in sunny Australia.

I am also putting together an Active Birth schedule for next year and will be happy to accommodate any requests from readers. As I have several overseas trips in the planning stages as well, even an overseas workshop could probably be squeezed into the calendar. Just send me an email and we can talk dates: andrea@birthinternational.com

Posted by andrea at October 16, 2007 09:06 AM