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in-person course offerinG
Some hybrid spaces available for those living out of East Coast area or overseas

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

Instructor: kate white

6 modules, August 2024-april 2025 • new york city/ONLINE

PREREQUISITE: INTEGRATED PRENATAL AND PERINATAL DYNAMICS™ TRAINING May 2-5

Stillpoint is thrilled to have Kate White teach with us this summer in NYC. Kate is an incredible instructor and can hold such depths and layers of healing for families. She is on a mission to help prevent and heal birth trauma and to train practitioners to do the same. Her work is inspiring and speaks to how a passionate practitioner can make a big difference in the world.

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. Our course combines early trauma resolution with midwifery model of care.

​Come, study, learn, heal.

Audiences:

  • Somatic Experiencing Practitioners

  • Trauma Therapists

  • Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapists

  • Birth Professionals


+ Module 1: August 2-4 2024
Preconception/Conception Dynamics

Preconception and Conception are vital times in human development. In prenatal and perinatal healing, we often observe that the influences on parents just before and during conception may repeat in birth. This module will bring attention to:

  • Transgenerational/Intergenerational Dynamics (Patterns of Health and Challenge)
  • Trauma-Informed, Resilience and Healing Centered Approaches
  • Trauma Sensitive Intakes
  • Creating a Welcoming Space
  • Conscious Conception
  • The Baby's Experience of Being Wanted
  • Your Practice as Safe Haven
  • Evidence Based Tools for Your Practice in Attachment, Attachment Styles, Adverse Childhood and Positive Experiences
  • Relationship of the Parents
  • Conscious Early Parenting Clinical Skills:
  • Differentiation
  • Repair
  • Embodiment
  • Presence
  • Relationship
  • Listening
  • Self and Co-regulation
  • Boundaries
  • Tracking Self and Other
  • Creating a Welcoming Space
  • Creating a Gracious Space
  • Trauma Sensitive Intake
  • Tracking the Health: Blueprint/Imprint

+ Module 2: October 4-6, 2024
Prenatal Dynamics

The themes for Module 2 in Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics focus on the prenatal period. We will traverse the territory of prenatal experience from the baby's experience, and also support the parents to practice prenatal bonding. Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics practitioners will understand the world of the vulnerable prenate, how to support parents, and the midwife's perspective on the prenatal period. Our skills will always return to understanding the map of the autonomic nervous system, working with resourcing, imparting skills of being, relationship, listening, recognition and conversation. Over arching themes include:

  • The Principle of Choice
  • How We Come Into Relationship
  • The Embryo and Early Development
  • The Placenta and What Nourishes?
  • Home and Connection
  • The Impact of Stress on Pregnancy
  • Understanding the Umbilical Cord
  • Variations on the Uterus and Placenta
  • The Baby's Experience In Utero, including Constraint
  • The Imprints from the Prenatal Period Our clinical skills include:
  • Meditations
  • PPN Principles, especially the principle of Choice
  • Autonomic Nervous System states around coming into relationship, building and making a home, putting down roots, our relationship with receiving, especially what nourishes.
  • Interpersonal neurobiology
  • Recognizing intrauterine constraint
  • Broadening and deepening states as tools for stabilization and transformation
  • Table work, working with umbilical affect and touching the belly
  • Table work, working with pregnant mothers with intrauterine constraint

+ Module 3: December 6-8, 2024
Physiologic Birth Dynamics

In this module, you will identify the birth sequence patterns for mother/birthing parent and baby that may happen without any interventions. Even though many families strive for births with the least amount of interventions, the patterns without them can also be overwhelming. Your curriculum includes:

  • Recognizing birth patterns of all kinds that occur without outside interventions
  • Double binds
  • Creative Opposition, Dynamic Squeeze
  • Deepening and broadening states
  • Leading Edge
  • Identifying vectors and compression
  • Calling a pause
  • The importance of "Baby Time"
  • Speeding up and slowing down
  • Two layers of support
  • Harmonizing the surround
  • Slipping into the space The clinical skills you will learn include:
  • How to make repairs for difficult births, part one
  • Learning from the inside out about the baby's experience by identifying your birth journey, and your own sequence
  • Identification of pelvis shapes and bony landmarks that the baby encounters in the birth process
  • Understanding the birth sequence, natural birth and labor and delivery
  • The midwifery model of care
  • Working with birth process on the floor
  • Working with birth process on the table

+ Module 4: February 7-10 2024
Chemical Imprints and Womb Dynamics

In this module you will learn about chemical imprints and their effects on the baby especially, and anesthesia, analgesia from the birthing parent's perspective.

  • Toxic Womb (Chemicals - endogenous and from substances)
  • Stress and its impact on the baby, and parent/baby bond
  • Anesthesia
  • Analgesia/Pain Relief
  • Augmentation
  • Inductions Clinical skills will emphasize
  • Boundary Repair
  • Recognition of chemical imprints
  • Feeling Tone as practitioner
  • Time and Tempo as a trigger
  • Flushing the ventricles
  • Shifting Freeze to Fight/Flight in doable pieces
  • Inescapable attack from chemical imprints
  • Restoring a defensive gesture
  • Vibration, growl and push

+ Module 5: April 11-13, 2025
Birth Intervention Dynamics, Surgical and Mechanical Interventions

In this module, you will learn about birth interventions, their impact on mothers/birthing parents and their partners, and on babies. These interventions include:

  • Perinatal Tears/Episiotomy
  • Cesarean Section
  • Vacuum Assist/Ventous
  • Forceps Additional information includes:
  • Research on doulas and midwifery model of care
  • Hypertensive disorders
  • Working with near death states for mothers and babies
  • Neonatal resuscitation Clinical Skills will emphasize:
  • Working with the Blueprint
  • Mapping resources and layers of support
  • Search and Restore Inner Knowing
  • Repair for difficult births
  • Restoring a Defensive Gesture
  • Working with Medical Trauma, Horror and Assault
  • Working with Shame and Grief

+ Module 6: TBD, 2025
Perinatal Dynamics and Integration

  • The Sacred Hour, supported attachment, integration
  • Crying, Sleeping and Feeding Trauma
  • Integrating the Birth Story and working with families, Family Dynamics
  • Working with Adults, prenatal and perinatal assessments
  • How to do the Holding Healing Story and Messages of Repair
  • Putting the Baby in the Chair, the work of John Chitty
  • Getting Starting on Your Business Plan

Kate White is an award-winning prenatal and perinatal educator and an advanced bodyworker.  She is trained in somatic therapies, prenatal and perinatal health, lactation, brain development, infant mental health, and has specialized in mother-baby dyad care using somatic prevention and trauma healing approaches for nearly 20 years. She is a mother of two children, holds a BA and MA in Communication, a Registered Craniosacral Therapist in the Biodynamic Craniosacral method and a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. Her work combines somatic therapy, birth preparation, recovery from difficult birth, trauma resolution and  brain development to help give families with babies and small children the best possible start. She is the Founding Director of Education for the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health and where she administered an online program for professional educators, runs a private practice and offers her own seminars and training as the Founder and Director for the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, ppncenter.com. Her lineage of teachers include William Emerson, Karlton Terry, Myrna Martin, Ray Castellino, Tara Blasco, Mary Jackson. John Chitty, Anna Chitty, Berns Galloway, Ariel Giaretto, Kathy Kain, Stephen Terrell. She also has a podcast: A More Beautiful Life: Recognizing, Appreciating and Integrating Earliest Life Experiences


Tuition & ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Workshop Fee: $785 per module
Pre-requisite: Foundations in Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics (Jan 25-28, 2024)

Some hybrid spaces available for those living out of East Coast area or overseas