Healing Birth Trauma Melbourne 2022

The Healing Birth Trauma Melbourne 2022 is a must-attend event for all midwives. The unpredictable nature of birth can be viewed as a challenge or an adventure. Most women will fantasise or imagine how they would like this defining experience to unfold, and hope for a positive, fulfilling outcome. Sadly, circumstances rarely match these expectations. Many women (and their partners) can be left very bruised, both physically and mentally, with post-traumatic stress a common outcome.

Many events in a woman’s life can sow seeds for this. Understanding how a woman defines trauma and a traumatic birth is essential for midwives to develop strategies and skills when supporting women who have been traumatized by birth or by trauma that affects birth. Additionally, supporting women through subsequent births that enable healing and resolution of past traumas is not only vitally important for mothers and their family’s health, but it can also be incredibly satisfying for midwives.

This workshop will explore these crucial issues and develop practical tools to help women give birth in all settings.

Healing Birth Trauma Melbourne 2022 Aims:

• Identify the scope of birth traumas that women may experience.
• Explore factors that might contribute to the development of women’s traumatic birth experiences.
• Examine the consequences of poor birth outcomes on women, their partners and their families.
• Develop strategies for supporting women with existing trauma that may minimise or resolve trauma in future
• Explore the impact of working with traumatised women on midwives and their approach to care.

Learner outcomes:

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Describe the forms that birth trauma may take
• Identify the factors that may lead to a traumatic birth outcome for women and their partners
• Describe the consequences of poor birth outcomes on women and their future functioning
• Identify behavioural and verbal cues that may indicate previously undisclosed trauma
• Demonstrate specific strategies for providing appropriate physical and emotional support for traumatised women during pregnancy, labour, birth and the postpartum period.
• Identify personal reactions and responses that you may experience from working with traumatised women through the childbearing year.
• List support services that are available to women and themselves as midwives.

Continuing Professional Development Points

CPD Endorsed hours: 6.25

Program

Download our full Healing Birth Trauma Workshop program here FULL PROGRAM PDF

Facilitator

Learn more about our facilitator Lynne Staff.

Cost

The cost of the Healing Birth Trauma Melbourne Workshop is $250.00. The price includes morning or afternoon tea, workshop folders and notes. Also, student and group discounts are available – contact us for details by email or phone us on (02) 9630 5357 for more information.

The early Birth discount is $210.00. Save $40 when you register early! Registrations must be paid for by the 14th of October 2022 to receive this discount.

Combine workshops to save even more.

Here are the dates for the Healing Birth Trauma Workshop for 2022

• Brisbane: Friday 26th August
• Melbourne: Friday 2nd December
• Sydney: Friday 16th December

Workshop numbers are limited.

If your hospital or area health service wants to sponsor a program on this topic for the benefit of you and your colleagues, please direct them to this link, which contains information on how to set up in-service courses through Birth International.

Please note that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic may cause the workshop’s cancellation at the last minute. If this occurs, you will be given a full refund or transfer to another workshop (whichever you prefer). If travelling to the workshop, we recommend purchasing travel insurance to cover any out of pocket expenses. Please note that some venues may require a vaccination certificate.

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