Birth Trauma Awareness Week Online Summit - 2024

Name: Birth Trauma Awareness Week Online Summit - 2024
Start: 2024-07-21T05:00:28-0400
End: 2024-07-27T06:00:43-0400

Sun, 21 Jul, 5am - 27 Jul, 6am 2024 EDT

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Hygieia Health

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JOIN THE REVOLUTION: BIRTH TRAUMA SUMMIT

HEALING AND SOLUTIONS

Recently, a historic NSW Parliamentary Committee into Birth Trauma handed down its recommendations. The Committee’s findings reveal what we have already known - that there is a systematic disregard for women’s bodies and choices in the health system, leading to preventable birth trauma in our communities.

This year for Birth Trauma Awareness week we are hosting a week-long summit, with daily webinars, recorded conversations, circles and ritual, to bring the community together and focus on healing and solutions for women, families and birth workers.

We invite you to join the summit and bring your voice and energy to this important issue.

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Hosted by Hygieia Health:
Jane Hardwicke Collings
Sequoia Glastonbury
Raven Abulhawa
Bo Kowalenko
Fiona O'Shaughnessy

Our speakers at the live event will include:

Laura Latina and Hannah Betty Idarius – Midwives, Compassionate Inquiry Practitioners (the work of Dr Gabor Maté and Sat Dharam Kaur) - with special recorded video appearance from Dr Gabor Maté, Author, Physician, Trauma expert

Nisha Gill - Feminine Instincts

Maha Al Musa - Embodybirth educator

Steven Kennedy - Birthings Dads

Hazel Keedle - Professor, Researcher and speaker

In addition to our live sessions, participants will have the opportunity to purchase a series of pre-recorded sessions.

Our pre-recorded speakers are:

Anna Watts - Celebration of Birth

Melanie Briggs - Waminda birth on country

Kate White - Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs

Sharon Luna Settecase - Better Births Illawarra

Jo Hunter - Midwife, Co-creator of Birth Time

Dr Oscar Serrallach - Doctor, Specialist in Postpartum Depletion, Author, Speaker

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Session times for the LIVE online events are:

Sunday 21st July, 7pm - 8pm: Opening Circle with Hygieia Health Team

Monday 22nd July, 7am - 8am: Laura Latina and Hannah Betty Idarius, with video appearance from Gabor Maté, Author, Physician, Trauma expert. TOPIC: Creating Safety and Attunement in Pregnancy and Childbirth

Tuesday 23rd July, 7pm - 8pm: Nisha Gill, Feminine Instincts. TOPIC: Landing Softly from Birth: how to minimize the post-natal impact of overwhelming or traumatic birth experiences

Wednesday 24th July, 7pm - 8pm: Maha Al Musa, Embody Birth and Belly Dance for Birth. TOPIC: Birth Trauma - The Body Speaks

Thursday 25th July, 7pm - 8pm: Steven Kennedy, Birthing Dads. TOPIC: Reducing the risk of Birth Trauma

Friday 26th July, 7am - 8am: Hazel Keedle, Professor, Principal Investigator of the BESt study. TOPIC: What Impacts Model of Care

Saturday 27th July, 7pm - 8pm: Healing Ritual and Closing
Ceremony, with Hygieia Health Team

Recordings will be sent out within a week of the summit, if you are unable to attend live.

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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At Hygieia Health Ltd, we are dedicated to the sacred work of birth and the impact it has on the physical, emotional, and psychological well-being of women, their families, and birth workers. We believe that “Peace on Earth begins at Birth,” as Jeanine Parvarti Baker so poignantly stated. As a non-profit organization with a charitable purpose of promoting the prevention and treatment of birth trauma, we strive to provide birth workers, obstetricians, midwives, and doulas with the knowledge and skills necessary to care for themselves and others, and to return birth to its rightful place as a profound rite of passage.

Our mission is to support women on their journey to childbirth, ensuring that they receive safe and trauma-free birth services and support. We aim to raise awareness of the occurrence and consequences of birth trauma and provide women and birth workers with the tools and support they need to prepare for and experience a safe, positive birth.

To achieve this mission, we aim to establish, maintain, and operate dedicated birth houses throughout Australia. These birth houses will provide a safe and nurturing environment for women and families, and offer ongoing care and support to those experiencing social isolation. We also endeavour to develop and promote education and prevention programs for women, support people, and medical professionals, aimed at preparing mothers for birth and preventing the occurrence of birth trauma. We are working on providing support and counselling services to those affected or at risk of being affected by birth trauma, including women, their families, midwives, doulas, and obstetricians.

We advocate for greater government funding for birth centres and home birth services, and provide financial subsidies to low-income families and Indigenous women who are affected by or at risk of being affected by birth trauma. We also support research into birth trauma and source funding from the private sector, the general public, and other funders to further our mission.

Our vision is to revolutionize maternity care options to support better outcomes for women, babies, and the community. We invest our time, resources, and funds into a range of projects, including lobbying for public-funded home birth and birth centres, providing better education for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, minimizing and preventing birth-related trauma, leading or supporting campaigns for better maternity programs, building birth centres, funding and supporting research, providing support for birth workers, and extending our support to other programs with like-minded focus.

At Hygieia Health, mother and baby are held as the primary focus in all our work and thinking. We are dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of women, their families, and birth workers and to ensuring that every birth is held sacred and is a safe, positive experience. Each project we undertake is driven by this purpose, and we look forward to sharing more about each as we evolve and grow. Join us in our mission to honour birth, birth workers, and reduce and prevent birth trauma. Together, we can heal birth and heal the earth.

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Sun, 21 Jul, 5am - 27 Jul, 6am 2024 EDT

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Hosted by Hygieia Health