Foundations in
Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics
Skills for Working with Birth Trauma that
​Include the Baby's Experience

March 23-26, 2024 
Bridge Between the Worlds Retreat Center
Keswick, VA
Plus
June 20-23, 2024
​Online Only
​$725
This Foundations course in Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics™ offers the basic building blocks for working early overwhelming states that may occur starting preconception, including conception, pregnancy, birth and attachment. Often called early developmental trauma, recognition, reaching and healing ruptures or interruptions in development from this early time are increasingly seen as the cracks in the foundation of human health. Current healing science now includes overwhelming childhood experiences and ancestral patterns; the prenatal and perinatal period is the missing piece. This introductory workshop will give you tools so you can normalize early difficulty and have a skill base to help families get the best possible start and individuals onto the healing path. The first step is working with your own internal states and is vital to the relationship you establish with your client base. Our course combines early trauma resolution with midwifery model of care. 
​Come, study, learn, heal. 
Times: 9:30 am - 6 pm Each Day, End by 4 pm the last day
Learning objectives. Participants will be able to:
  • Define and describe birth trauma and maternal and infant morbidity 
  • Identify the layers of earliest experience according the prenatal and perinatal time
  • Practice skills being, relationship and listening
  • Engage in skills of inquiry and the felt sense to shift state
  • Name states of regulation and stress/threat responses
  • Understand implicit baby experience, a hummingbird sip
  • Appreciate adaptation responses from early developmental trauma
  • Provide skills for self and co-regulation to integrate implicit memory
  • Assess imprints through visual recognition of compression and vector from birth
  • Identify the 5 part sequence connected to birth imprints, and where clients may have a sequencing issue

​Specific Skills
  • Creating a Welcoming Space
  • Autonomic Nervous System First Aid
  • Resourcing with the felt sense
  • Somatic feeling for building the felt sense of feeling heard
  • Creating a resonant field
  • Recognizing gesture as communication
  • Recognizing the baby’s experience
  • Tracking speeding up and slowing down
  • Calling a pause for self and co-regulation
  • Creating coherence with touch
  • Improving freeze and shutdown states with touch
  • Identification of Leading Edge and Birth Sequence
  • Understand one aspect of the baby's experience of birth from the inside out, and the 5 point sequence as an imprint.
  • Differentiate and introductory sense of the blueprint and imprint in trauma prevention and resolution.
  • Two layers of support as a blueprint