Thank you to all who came out to join us for the Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss event. Please use this page to submit local resources for other birth professionals supporting families through infant or pregnancy loss. There is also a second form to share information you have about protocols at local birth places. We will make the full list available within a few weeks, and update it regularly.
Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss
featuring Amy Wright Glenn
Saturday, April 30th 9:00am-1:00pm
"Standing with an open heart in the presence of birth is very much like standing with an open heart in the presence of death"
- Amy Wright Glenn in Doula for the Dying via Philly Voice
- Amy Wright Glenn in Doula for the Dying via Philly Voice
This 4-hour workshop is designed to benefit midwives, obstetricians, doulas, nurses, prenatal yoga teachers, hospital chaplains, ministers, therapists, and pastoral care providers etc. who support women and their families through pregnancy loss. But you need not be employed in any of these fields to participate – the training is open to all.
Participants will more clearly understand the best practices one can wisely employ when responding to miscarriage and stillbirth. In addition to the study of best practices, participants will listen to first hand accounts of pregnancy loss, engage in written reflection and small group discussion, and examine the sociological/cultural dimensions of silence, shame, and fear that too often surround these events.
Copies of Amy Wright Glenn’s book “Birth, Breath, and Death — Meditations on Motherhood, Chaplaincy, and Life as a Doula” will be available for purchase at $10 a copy.
Tuition to attend this “Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss” training is based upon a sliding scale fee philosophy with 50 percent of earnings being donated to the Maternity Care Coalition. Suggested tuition for this workshop is $100.
Participants will more clearly understand the best practices one can wisely employ when responding to miscarriage and stillbirth. In addition to the study of best practices, participants will listen to first hand accounts of pregnancy loss, engage in written reflection and small group discussion, and examine the sociological/cultural dimensions of silence, shame, and fear that too often surround these events.
Copies of Amy Wright Glenn’s book “Birth, Breath, and Death — Meditations on Motherhood, Chaplaincy, and Life as a Doula” will be available for purchase at $10 a copy.
Tuition to attend this “Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss” training is based upon a sliding scale fee philosophy with 50 percent of earnings being donated to the Maternity Care Coalition. Suggested tuition for this workshop is $100.
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Amy Wright Glenn earned her MA in Religion and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She taught for eleven years in the Religion and Philosophy Department at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey earning the Dunbar Abston Jr. Chair for Teaching Excellence. She is a Kripalu Yoga teacher, Birthing Mama® Prenatal Yoga and Wellness Teacher Trainer, (CD)DONA birth doula, hospital chaplain, and founder of the Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death. Amy is a regular contributor to PhillyVoice and recently published her first book: Birth, Breath, and Death: Meditations on Motherhood, Chaplaincy, and Life as a Doula.
To learn more, visit: www.birthbreathanddeath.com |
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Ample on-street meter parking available nearby.
Location is accessible from Septa's Market-Frankford Line (52nd Street exit, walk 1 block E, 2 blocks S) |
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