IMHAANZ + AiMH UK Joint Event | Supporting Healthy Parent-Infant Relationships When Parents Are Impacted By Trauma

IMHAANZ is delighted to announce our first joint event with the Association of Infant Mental Health United Kingdom (AiMH UK). 

This event takes place during the UK's Mental Health Awareness Week and will bring awareness to the impact of trauma on the mental health of both parents and infants, as well as work that is being done in the UK and in New Zealand to protect the well-being of both current and future generations.

Please join us for this special event focused on supporting healthy parent-infant relationships when parents are impacted by trauma.

EVENT OUTLINE

6.00-6.05am: Opening
6.05-6.25am: Professor Jane Barlow (UK) - Introduction to Trauma in Infancy.	Jane will bring us an update on the latest research into the impact of trauma on infancy: how infant trauma can be recognised and what can be done to prevent trauma being passed through generations.
6.25-7.15am: Coretta Ogbuagu (UK) - Racial Trauma: Working with the Impact of Systemic Racism on Parental and Infant Mental Health.	Coretta, a psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapist in the UK, will describe her work with a parent and infant over time, where systemic racism has affected the mental health of both the mother and baby. She will use video and case material to show how this dyad were supported to thrive.
7.15-7.25am: Break
7.25-8.15am: Luke Sniewski (NZ) - The Essence of Compassionate Inquiry + Maria Mareroa (NZ) - Integrating Compassionate Inquiry with Māori approaches to heal the Epigenetic Trauma of Colonisation.	Luke Sniewski will describe Compassionate Inquiry and how it can be incorporated into professional practice, followed by Maria Mareroa (who integrates both Māori and western models into her practice) describing how she uses Compassionate Inquiry in her work with indigenous parents at Ohomairangi Trust where she also helps run Mellow Parenting programmes.
8.15-9.00am: Sarah Haskell & Heidi Pace (NZ) - Healing Intergenerational Trauma by Understanding & Transforming the Ghosts of Traumas Past.	Sarah and Heidi will describe work with a lone father and his infant daughter and how they were able to scaffold the healing of intergenerational trauma; Sarah, through a relationship-based intervention, helping the father understand and thereby transform the ghosts of his unremembered past - and Heidi, through psycho-education, helping the father to understand the effects of trauma on the developing brain and the needs of his young daughter.
9.00am: Closing

There will be time for questions for the speakers throughout this event.