Workshop: Perceptive Midwifery

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Women centred care offers many challenges to midwives. The women they care for have varied histories, often heavy with emotional, psychological and even physical barriers that can impact on the coming birth experience. Being perceptive means more than just being empathetic, it means finding ways of reading the signals, understanding the nuances of behaviours
and paying careful attention to the interactions necessary for facilitating healthy, healing birth experiences.

This workshop will explore more than just being "with women".
It will:

• Offer practical strategies, skills and insight into the "dance" that goes on between a midwife and a woman during a birth

• Examine the basis of establishing rapport, insight and good communication, especially when birth is complex and difficult, or a woman has special needs.

• Enable midwives to develop strategies for making even complex births as humane as possible so that further "baggage" is not created that may affect a future birth.

• Explore the importance of team work, collaboration, and mutual trust between midwives and the women they serve.

This workshop is a perfect "follow on" from the immensely popular Active Birth workshops that have been presented by Andrea Robertson in the UK over the past 10 years. If you have been to one of those workshops, this program will extend your skills and offer a valuable developmental "refresher".

Registration

There are only two opportunities to participate in this special program during April 2005. Register online now to get in early for an early bird discount. Group and student discounts are also available. Proof of student status must be supplied and groups must provide separate registration forms for each person and a single cheque or credit card for the total amount.

Workshop numbers are strictly limited and allocated as registrations are received. To ensure your place, return your registration form early with payment. Phone registration will only be taken if credit card details are given.

About your workshop leader

Lynne Staff is an independent midwife and has been in private practice since 1993 She is a midwifery tutor and staff development midwife at Selangor Private Hospital in Nambour, Queensland. Lynne is completing her Masters Degree and has her sights set on a PhD.

Andrea Robertson is a Consultant in Childbirth Education from Sydney, Australia. Her books include Preparing for Birth, Making Birth Easier, Empowering Women - teaching active birth, and The Midwife Companion - the art of support during birth. As the Principal of Associates in Childbirth Education, an independent training organisation, she oversees the world's first Graduate Diploma in Childbirth Education, and presents highly acclaimed training workshops for midwives and educators on teaching and practical midwifery, within Australia, and in many overseas countries.