For Perinatal Professionals including Licensed MFTs and MSWs 
Spiritual/Psychological Preparation to work in the Birth Field
Connect to the potency of your wholeness, open to wonder, feel confident to prevent trauma.
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Program Launching 2/1O/21!
Connecting with your Wholeness is like weaving a basket. Your connections with your wholeness can be strong in some places and have leaks in others.
We will teach you how to strengthen your basket, repair leaks caused by trauma, recognize, heal or integrate the powerful effects birth has in your life and work. You can apply these skills to yourself and to your clients. Grow in compassion, skill and embodiment from the challenges you encounter in these changing times in your life and work with birth and parenting.
6 months of self paced webcast content, optional homework and reading assignments,
6 monthly consult circles, the circle community is available to join and stay in indefinitely. The only prerequisite is you are or have taken the Sacred Basket Course. We will be offering two circles, one FOR MFTS, LCSWS, AND INTERNS and one for all other Perinatal Professionals to honor different consult needs.
1 CAMFT approved CE for each Consult Circle attended. 6 required.
11 CAMFT approved CEs total for program.
Flyer for CAMFT approved CEs here.
scholarships for BIPOC and Covid affected. To find out more, contact genamccarthy3@gmail.com
This course offers you an opportunity to go beyond treating trauma and into preparing for wonder, including addressing trauma as needed for your clients and for yourself. You will have the opportunity to use this course for skill building and for personal growth. It is based on EMDR trauma healing, Perinatal Psychology and Cross Cultural Shamanic theory, practice and research. You will learn practical exercises and the neurobiological theory behind them starting with Self Regulation Resources and then moving into healing and wonder preparing exercises as well as a deep look at how your own birth imprints affect your work and how to prevent trauma beginning in your assessments. This program is designed to encompass all pregnancy outcomes including all the ways people choose to make families. Detailed Curriculum Below.
Cultivate your ability to:
Bring healing and/or integration of your perinatal imprints from your implicit memory to your explicit memory, becoming a significant new resource for you and your clients
Understand the connection between your client’s perinatal imprints and where they get stuck in their current perinatal passage and parenting development.
Assess the roots of client’s issues: including past trauma, perinatal imprints, and inequity traumas.
Have swift and effective routine renewal practices for you and your clients
Understand the shift in brain wave frequencies that takes place in birth and how you and your clients can prepare to feel safe and present with them and the experience of wonder with pleasure
Offer practices that access the limbic system and implicit memory to address trauma and triggers effectively
Enjoy, Bless and be Blessed by a like hearted community of women in monthly live consult circles
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Curriculum:
Module One
Map of Perinatal Spiritual and Psychological Influences
I. Resourcing before studying Birth material builds Safety
II. Sacred Basket Weaving ~Your Materials~ Your Map~
Reconnecting you with your inherent Wholeness
III. Cultivating your relationships with your resources for sustaining balance~
IV. Preparing to enter the Birth Field
Module Two
Sacred Birth Developmental Challenges and Possibilities
Lesson1
I. Preparing to Enter the Birth Field continued
II. How Preparing for Wonder Prevents Trauma
III. Case examples: Reconnecting to Safety
Lesson 2
Ceremony as Support for You and Your Client
I. What is Ceremony
II. Perinatal Ceremony
Module 3
Cultivating Your Relationship to Your Resources
Lesson 1
I. Original Life Resources and the psychological benefit for parents and babies
II. Our Unique Attributes, A Video by Angeles Arrien, PhD
III. Guided Meditation on Your Original Resources
Lesson 2
Your Earth Relationship, A Somatic Resource
I. Enhancing our somatic experience through receiving internal and external nature guidance
2. Tending to our wild and domestic gardens as a form of somatic therapy
Lesson 3
Ceremony Practice for You
I. What to Expect
II. Ceremony Practice and Integration
Module 4
Perinatal Resources, Triggers & Assessments
Lesson 1
I. Review Definition and Practice of Resourcing
II. Triggering possibilities in perinatal assessments and education
Lesson 2
How Perinatal Imprints effect our Assessments
I. Definition
II. Internal and External Causes of Perinatal Trauma
III. How different types of birth influences life patterns
IV . Connecting the dots between birth imprints, work patterns and traumatic or healthy outcomes
Module 5
Assessments
Lesson 1
How Perinatal Imprints effect our Assessments Continued….
I. Neurobiology of Perinatal Imprinting
II. Range of perception during assessments related to implicit memory
III. Trauma Mitigation Resources
Lesson 2
Assessments
I. Client’s Strengths, Resources, & Triggers
II. Assessment Questions can be Triggering
III. Body Language
IV. Educate Client about Trauma and how it affects us
VI. Clients with a history of sexual abuse
VII. Strategies for old triggers and current traumas
VIII. A Healing Exercise
Module 6
Prevention & Healing
I. When to Apply Resourcing as prevention for yourself and your clients
II. Ways to Mitigate and Prevent Trauma
III. Models of Healing
To Register for next program, beginning, February 2021 click here!
Testimonials from people who have taken these courses:
Testimony by Angela Rodriguez, @OneloveDoulaclc:
“Gena McCarthys birthspiritualityandhealing class has been incredibly healing for me. I highly recommend it. Gena is nurturing, direct in her teaching and teaches practical skills to cope and help our clients cope”.
Testimonials from people who have taken these courses:
Testimony by Angela Rodriguez, @OneloveDoulaclc:
“Gena McCarthys birthspiritualityandhealing class has been incredibly healing for me. I highly recommend it. Gena is nurturing, direct in her teaching and teaches practical skills to cope and help our clients cope”.
Prerequisites: Sacred Basket Program
Heal and Integrate Your Own Birth
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 2021!
Take what you learned in the previous course and apply it to Healing and Integrating:
- Your own Birth
- A birth you witnessed or heard about that was traumatic for you
- Ancestral Imprints
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.
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Prerequisites: The Sacred Basket Program 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.
- 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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