IPPD Level One: Basic Dynamics. . . .
 . . .We come into form, make our body, build relationship with our parent, and are born
 . . . We welcome a child into our hearts, minds and bodies, help make their body by nourishing them in our womb, and birth our baby
 . . . We are spirit, matter and relationship. Our lifelong patterns start here.

Module One: Preconception/Conception Dynamics

Preconception and Conception are vital times in human development. In prenatal and perinatal healing, we often observe that the influences on parents just before and during conception may repeat in birth. This module will bring attention to:
  • Transgenerational/Intergenerational Dynamics (Patterns of Health and Challenge)
  • Trauma-Informed, Resilience and Healing Centered Approaches
  • Trauma Sensitive Intakes
  • Creating a Welcoming Space
  • Conscious Conception
  • The Baby's Experience of Being Wanted
  • Your Practice as Safe Haven
  • Evidence Based Tools for Your Practice in Attachment, Attachment Styles, Adverse Childhood and Positive Experiences
  • Relationship of the Parents
  • Conscious Early Parenting
  • Clinical Skills:
    • Differentiation,
    • Repair
    • Embodiment
    • Presence
    • Relationship
    • Listening
    • Self and Co-regulation
    • Boundaries
    • Tracking Self and Other
    • Creating a Welcoming Space
    • Creating a Gracious Space
    • Trauma Sensitive Intake
    • Tracking the Health: Blueprint/Imprint

Module Two: Prenatal Dynamics

The themes for Module 2 in Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics focus on the prenatal period. We will traverse the territory of prenatal experience from the baby's experience, and also support the parents to practice prenatal bonding. Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics practitioners will understand the world of the vulnerable prenate, how to support parents, and the midwife's perspective on the prenatal period. Our skills will always return to understanding the map of the autonomic nervous system, working with resourcing, imparting skills of being, relationship, listening, recognition and conversation. Over arching themes include:
  • The Principle of Choice
  • How We Come Into Relationship
  • The Embryo and Early Development
  • The Placenta and What Nourishes?
  • Home and Connection
  • The Impact of Stress on Pregnancy
  • Understanding the Umbilical Cord
  • Variations on the Uterus and Placenta
  • The Baby's Experience In Utero, including Constraint
  • The Imprints from the Prenatal Period
  • Our clinical skills include:
    • Meditations
    • PPN Principles, especially the principle of Choice
    • Autonomic Nervous System states around coming into relationship, building and making a home, putting down roots, our relationship with receiving, especially what nourishes.
    • Interpersonal neurobiology
    • Recognizing intrauterine constraint
    • Broadening and deepening states as tools for stabilization and transformation
    • Table work, working with umbilical affect and touching the belly
    • Table work, working with pregnant mothers with intrauterine constraint

Module Three: Physiologic Birth Dynamics

In this module, you will identify the birth sequence patterns for mother/birthing parent and baby that may happen without any interventions. Even though many families strive for births with the least amount of interventions, the patterns without them can also be overwhelming. Your curriculum includes:
  • Recognizing birth patterns of all kinds that occur without outside interventions
  • Double binds
  • Creative Opposition, Dynamic Squeeze
  • Deepening and broadening states
  • Leading Edge
  • Identifying vectors and compression
  • Calling a pause
  • The importance of "Baby Time"
  • Speeding up and slowing down
  • Two layers of support
  • Harmonizing the surround
  • Slipping into the space
  • The clinical skills you will learn include:
    • How to make repairs for difficult births, part one
    • Learning from the inside out about the baby's experience by identifying your birth journey, and your own sequence
    • Identification of pelvis shapes and bony landmarks that the baby encounters in the birth process
    • Understanding the birth sequence, natural birth and labor and delivery
    • The midwifery model of care
    • Working with birth process on the floor
    • Working with birth process on the table