Workshops

Birth Story Healing

Birth doesn’t always go the way you wanted it to. You can be left feeling hurt, upset, disappointed, angry, guilty, lost. In this workshop, you will re-tell your birth story as part of a healing journey. The one-day workshop will include:

• Drumming relaxation
• Birth story sharing
• Body-mapping (a creative, arts-based method to visualise how we feel in our bodies)
• Listening from the heart and finding the words to rewrite your story
• Guided visualization

No matter how long ago you experienced a difficult birth – weeks, months, or years – you are welcome to join. If your baby is still small, feel free to bring them to the workshop! We will work around feeding times and other needs.

We use trauma-informed techniques to avoid re-traumatisation. We will create a safe space where you and your experience are honoured, witnessed and transformed. 

COST: 110 EUROS incl. light lunch

Confident Birthing Workshop

For women in all stages of pregnancy to help prepare for a confident positive birth. This workshop empowers women to trust their bodies, their babies, and their own strength.

The workshop includes:

• Let’s talk about birth: a safe space to connect with other women, share experiences and ask questions
• The basic needs of a woman in labour: understanding what happens during labour and how to create a safe space to support the birthing process
• Pain relief: breathing, relaxation and coping with pain
• Birth positions: exploring different positions and how they can affect the birth process
• Your body, your baby, your choice: find reliable information to help you decide what’s right for you and your family
• Bump massage: time to connect with your baby with voice and touch
• The birth partner: how to involve your partner in the birth process

COST: 80 Euros

Confident Birth Partners

This workshop prepares you – the birth partner – to be the best possible support:

• Meet other Dads/Parents to be;
• Learn do’s and dont’s of birth support;
• Explore your hopes, fears and intentions for the upcoming birth;
• Develop confidence in your capacities as a birth partner;
• Leave feeling relaxed and enthusiastic about the birthing process.

COST: 45 EUROS (online) 

Rising Up – Feminist Tools for Birthing Autonomy

A monthly online programme for mamas, mamas-to-be and birth workers who want to dive deep and unpack the politics of birth. We explore the social norms and deeply engrained patriarchal, capitalist structures that are the root of trauma, disrespect, and lack of autonomy in our birth culture.

Through hands-on exercises, creative tools and group discussions, we practice self-exploration, intuition and critical consciousness.

Whether you are pregnant, or a mama, or a birth worker supporting birthing people – this programme will help you make sense of your own or others’ birth experiences and prepare you for more empowered, autonomous births in the future.

Together we discover all the things we need to rewild within ourselves to change birth.

A different theme each month! You can join any or all of these. Themes include:

• We are wild animals. How to give birth like a cat, or: the physiology of mammalian birth.
• One Born Every Minute. What we are told about birth by the TV and others, and how that affects us.
• Knowledge is power. Research evidence, the ‘truth’, and where to find it.
• What I need. Identifying and expressing our needs, and why that is so hard.
• Knowing from within. Practicing intuition.
• Speaking Up. Facing medical authority and how to tap into your inner warrior.
• Our bodies, ourselves. Exploring our relationship with our bodies, our strength and our pain.
• The threshold. How do we cope with the spiritual and emotional intensity of birth?

COST: 30 EUR per monthly session. If you want to take part and this is not affordable for you, get in touch and we will work it out.

Self-Care Programme

SELF CARE TECHNIQUES FOR PREGNANT WOMEN AND NEW MUMS

We cover a different self-care technique every week, including breathing, reawakening your resources, organising your day, creating community, affirmations and meditation, creative activities such as painting and singing, and connecting to nature.

A wellbeing pack will to be posted out to each of the participants. There will be an activity at the end of each week for women to practice at home. Group sessions will include check-ins and open questions and answers.