Fearless Birthing™ Workshops
Have you read Mother’s Intention: How Belief Shapes Birth and wondered how you might be able to incorporate the ‘life coaching’ concepts found within into your interactions with birthing couples?
Do you have clients that profess to want safe and empowering birth, who take the time to come to class or invest in your doula service…only to make decision after decision that you know will get them the exact opposite experience? Do you want to know why that happens and how you can change it? Do you want to know how your clients can have the birth experience they want…and broaden your client base with glowing referrals? Do you personally want to bask in the glow of their success, rather than heal your frustrated spirit, yet again, as your best attempts to educate fall short of their potential?
Now you can!
I invite you to attend a presentation detailing just how to help parents make fact-based decisions instead of fear-based. You will take away skills that will enhance your practice and empower parents. These are ideas for improving your practice you just haven’t heard before!
Fearless Birthing Presentation Outline
The following outline is for presentations ranging from one to eight hours. Visual aids and discussion/experiential elements are adjusted to the time limit available. For 1-2 hour presentations, the front material would be the primary focus. Eight-hour workshops can be arranged for those that want to explore the concepts more fully.
I. Intro
II. Fearless Birthing(TM) grew from Mother's Intention: How Belief Shapes Birth
a. The progression
i. CBE experience 'why?'
ii. If what you're doing isn't working
iii. Wrote fact-based novel
1. advice to make it self-help. Shelved it.
iv. Found HB-learned more about mind/body-[experiential here-lemon, Kinesiology/fear/negativity. Other hypnosis convincers. Relate to fear/tension/pain.]
v. Paradigm shift, esp. regarding pain. Show videos.
vi. Simultaneously got a job in hosp. Shared paradigm shift.
vii. Resistance. Again, why?
1. With parents: Purple Cow, Seth Godin, Innovators, Early Adopters, Early & Late Majority, Laggards (resisters)-Visual aid-draw curve.
2. Parents: The Tipping Point, Malcom Gladwell
. Caregivers: Pygmalion Effect (see syllabus)
4. BOTH-Beliefs!!!
a. Self-help books. Commonalities. See selected bibliography, syllabus.
III. Facts do not touch established beliefs, erroneous or not.
a. What do we (our culture) "know" about birth that isn't so?
b. How do we tell a fact from a belief?
i. Test veracity
ii. Acknowledge Pygmalion Effect
iii. Acknowledge confounding human tendencies of guilt, denial resistance to change, fear. (See first 3 chapters Mother's Intention available free here)
iv. Develop critical thinking skills (experiential after explaining see syllabus and bibliography)
IV. Questions/discussion [approx. end of 1st hour)
V. Utilizing these concepts to help our clients.
a. Helping them to minimize self-sabotage arising from conflicts with subconscious fears/beliefs with conscious desires for birth.
b. Life Coaching techniques. Break it down, help them clarify, help them determine if they have realistic expectations (goals and expectations sheet), facilitate growth by supporting their efforts.
i. Specific tools here? see syllabus, bulleted list.
1. More in depth of how to utilize these tools. In syllabus. Experiential regarding fear release exercise.
VI. Special considerations
a. Knowing if you have willing spirit in your clients.
b. Essential that they understand they alone are responsible for direction of working relationship.
c. Addressing tough issues directly-Communication skills. Time line is short in pregnancy. They have to expect total honesty. (See MI)
VII. If it's determined the relationship will work, set it up (see syllabus for practical considerations)
VIII. Discussion/questions [approx. end of 2nd hour]
IX. Break or lunch, depending on length of workshop
X. Concepts and practice continues..
a. Setting fees
b. Setting timeline
c. Intake form information (see appendix of syllabus)
d. Getting birth team involved (or restructuring)
XI. One 'best case scenario' course of action and one 'bare minimum'
XII. Bringing baby in to decision strategies-experiential relaxation/visualization
XIII. Implementation
a. Brainstorming with client about alterations/prioritization
XIV. Assessing client satisfaction
a. Considering to continue or not
XV. Discussion/questions [approximate end of 3rd hour]
XVI. Providing a more complete experience for the client (see syllabus)
Important! This is their process, their outcome. Do not develop an emotional attachment to their outcome. Do not expect them to substitute their own judgments or opinions with yours. Do not dispense medical or legal advice. We have a responsibility to facilitate, keep it evidence-based. Do not work harder than they do on what they say they want!
XVII. Forms- go over each in open forum. See syllabus.
XVIII. Reliable resources-see bibliography, syllabus, Mother's Intention.
XIX. Integrating these new skills into existing practice, or creating new opportunity?
[end of workshop, open to discussion/questions as time permits.]
Workshop fee includes binder notes, sample forms, worksheets and a free copy of Mother's Intention.
A minimum of 8 participants is required, not including the workshop facilitator who takes the workshop for free. Facilitator also receives a complementary Better Birth Basics™ set (One copy of Mother's Intention, one relaxation CD and one Better Birth™ Deck).
Facilitator responsibilities include: arranging for a suitable location to hold the workshop, arranging ground transportation for speaker at the workshop location, coordination of meal/ options snack options, (possibly) securing acceptable accommodations for the presenter, etc. (All of these variables could affect the end cost of the workshop to the participants.)
Speaker fees are: $90 per participant for the five hour, and $120 per participant for the full day. One, two and and three hour presentations can be booked local to the speaker and for conferences for just $60 per attendee. Inquiries, please contact Kim Wildner. Email: mamamojo@chartermi.net Address: P.O. Box 265, Ludington, MI 49431
Kim Wildner 2003
Check with your local workshop facilitator for regigstration deadlines.
Like personal or corporate coaches, a Fearless Birthing™ mentors focuses on helping people identify goals and possible barriers to achieving those goals. In the childbearing year, that usually means helping pregnant couples plan for the safest, most emotionally satisfying experience possible. After learning the Fearless Birthing™ tools, practitioners then assist in facilitating progress toward the stated objectives.
Name: ____________________________ Address: ______________________________
City: ________________________ State: ______ Zip: __________ Phone:___________
Birthing Profession or affiliations: ____________________________________________
E-mail: _____________________________ URL: ______________________________
Location and date of workshop you plan to attend: _______________________________
_____ Please find enclosed my workshop fee (includes $_____ non-refundable deposit)
Send registration and fee to: Kim Wildner, P.O. Box 265, Ludington, MI
You may also register via email and pay with Pay Pal. Email mamamojo@chartermi.net with the above information and you will receive instructions on how to remit with PP.
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