When we accept the call to be in the field of birth, where we will be supporting someone or be that someone to walk to the other side and bring the baby back, we accept the responsibility to show up prepared on an inner level for the privilege of being in the birth rites of passage.The Sacred Basket Program prepares you.
The Sacred Basket Program
Perinatal Professional Education and Certification Services
These Times are calling Perinatal Professionals to show up as never before.
The Sacred Basket Program for Perinatal Professionals will teach you to weave your own spiritual and psychological wholeness or “basket”, from which to meet and grow from the challenges you encounter in these changing times and in your work with birth and parenting.
So you can show up empowered and embodied.
These courses offer a map of growth practices for you and your clients on:
How to renew yourself after any exposure to a traumatic event, perinatal or otherwise
- How to reduce painful trigger behaviors
- How to return to the flow of power and life force we stem from again and again
- How to identify the root patterns of how we either close or open to life challenges and growth
- For MFTS in the CE Workshop for MFTs only: Models of addressing these root patterns and resolving them
- How to map a path to our inherent capacity to experience wonder, pleasure and bliss in and attending the rites of passage of birth.
Recordings and 1 hour Q &A sessions offered monthly over a year for people who sign up for two courses. off
If you sign up for 2 courses, you get $25 off of total fee for the two classes.
The following Courses can be taken as part of the Birth Spirituality and Healing Coach Certification Program or for Education and CEs only
The Cartography of Spiritual and Psychological Growth
Webcasts Release: June 21, 2020!
Preregistration required.
Cultivate a Map of Growth Practices for yourself and your clients.
We will explore the following:
- Identifying and developing your relationship with your resources and gifts
- Applying your resources to renew yourself and support your growth from the inner challenges you encounter.
- Ceremony, as a powerful vehicle for support and transformation and how to integrate it into your practice
- The neurobiological map from trauma to safety to peace, wonder and pleasure in our work.
Fee: $200
Partial Scholarships available for Women of Color and Covid19 Affected, contact me at genamccarthy3@gmail.com to arrange.
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Perinatal Trauma: Assessment, Prevention, Healing
This course is designed for MFTs and LCSWs only
6 CEs CAMFT approved
Webcasts Release: July 12, 2020!
Preregistration required.
We will explore:
- Preventing secondary trauma in yourself and primary trauma in your clients.
- Identifying and understanding symptoms and roots of perinatal trauma
- Trauma Informed Assessment and Therapeutic Guidelines
- Understanding what we are designed and capable of experiencing in the perinatal passage.
- How to support healthy spiritual and psychological developmental possible outcomes
Throughout this course you will have an opportunity to apply practices to yourself to support your own renewal and resources. All of these practices promote perinatal developmental healthy outcomes. Content of course based on EMDR trauma healing theory and Perinatal Psychology theory and research.
Fee: $200
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Perinatal Trauma: Assessment, Prevention, Healing
This course is designed for Midwives, Doulas, Nurses, Doctors, and other perinatal professionals.
Webcasts Release: July 26, 2020!
Preregistration Required.
For People who preregister before June 26, 2020, there is
We will explore:
- Preventing secondary trauma in yourself and primary trauma in your clients.
- Identifying and understanding symptoms and roots of perinatal trauma
- Trauma Informed Assessment and Therapeutic Guidelines
- Understanding what we are designed and capable of experiencing in the perinatal passage.
- How to support healthy spiritual and psychological developmental possible outcomes
Throughout this course you will have an opportunity to apply practices to yourself to support your own renewal and resources. All of these practices promote perinatal developmental healthy outcomes. Content of course based on EMDR trauma healing theory and Perinatal Psychology theory and research.
Fee: $200
Partial Scholarships available for Women of Color and Covid19 Affected, contact me at genamccarthy3@gmail.com to arrange.
Register Here
Prerequisites: The Cartography of Spiritual and Psychological Resources Course and the Perinatal Trauma Assessment, Prevention and Healing Course either for MFTS or for All Perinatal Professionals
Meets: This Course is the last course to take to be eligible to complete the BSH Coach Certification Progra
Webinars and Practice Q&A Sessions Hybrid Course Available Summer 2020!
Take what you learned in the previous two courses and apply it to Healing and Integrating:
- Your own Birth
- A birth you witnessed or heard about that was traumatic for you
Deepen your experience and understanding of the value of :
- Somatic practices and clues
- Receiving Ancestral gifts and healing intergenerational perinatal trauma
In this course you will learn a template of cognitive and experiential effective Perinatal Trauma Treatment. You will have an opportunity to apply this model to a piece of your own prenatal, birth and newborn story, to a previous secondary traumatic event from your professional practice and to your own ancestral perinatal imprints. You will also learn about the essential value of somatic tracking in yourself and your clients when working with trauma and you will have an opportunity to build some practice with that.
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Prerequisites: The Cartography of Spiritual and Psychological Resources, The Perinatal Trauma Assessment, Prevention Healing and Heal and Integrate your own Birth Courses.
A BSH coach can apply and offer the following resources to themselves and their clients to promote success with perinatal developmental needs and opportunities. A 1-1 session with BSH Mentor is required to mutually assess if intern needs more practice or is ready to become a certified coach. If intern needs more practice, a new contract and additional fees may be required.
- Bilateral Tapping In resourcing practices
- Tracking somatic experience and triggers and knowing when to apply resources to triggers to break and prevent trauma patterns
- Energy calming practices
- A Guided Imagery Healing Perinatal Trauma Practice
- An understanding of what it takes to heal birth trauma effectively and in nourishing and safe ways.
- An understanding of what are trauma informed effective assessment practices and why
- A clear understanding of how preparing to meet perinatal developmental needs can prevent trauma.
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Molly Arthur Interviews Gena McCarthy and Birth, Spirituality, and Healing
Healing Birth Trauma
Karen Brody Interviews Gena McCarthy for the 2015 BirthKeeper Summit