Pregnant mothers: last two spaces available on my next Active Birth Workshop

[ActiveBirthCharly]

Greetings and congratulations on your pregnancy,

I have been studying with Janet Balaskas over the last 15 months to deliver her one day workshop in Active Birth and now just need more experience of facilitating the day before she is able to fully certify me. I am also a trainee doula having completed my initial doula training with Michel Odent. I embarked on my Active Birth and doula career after having a very positive home birth experience two years ago (with the amazing Brierley midwives) and feel passionately that I would like to help other mothers have a positive birth also. An Active Birth can be summarised as one where the mother actively takes ownership of her labour and the birth of her baby both physically and mentally.

After all of this training and with three successful workshops under my belt I now need to fill the last two places on my forth Active Birth Workshop and thought I would advertise myself here. The day will start at 10am and finish at 5pm. Lunch, beverages and snacks will be provided and it will be a great time for you to meet some other parents-to-be in the East Dulwich area and hopefully set you up for a great birth experience. As I am just at the beginning of my Active Birth teaching career I am asking for ?35 per person plus very valuable (and honest) feedback. To get the most out of the workshop I would encourage you to bring your birth partner with you.

The date of the next workshop is Sunday the 21st September. The workshop will be held at my home in Camberwell where there is free parking and plenty of public transport.

Feedback from my first workshops have very positive and include the following:

-We left feeling more empowered and excited about the birth.

-Lots of useful knowledge and buckets of inspiration.

-A great mix of discussion, information, practical ideas, a birth story and videos.

-We felt quite confident [with the upcoming birth] before we came and were both surprised at just how much that was boosted by the workshop.

-It was really informative without feeling too wordy - at no point did I feel talked at.

-This was a great session and a reminder of all the things that need to be front of mind at this time. We have re-focused and it's got us talking about the birth we want and the birth that absolutely IS going to happen.

-[Charly's] obvious enthusiasm and knowledge of the topic was clear.

-The content of the course covered all the important stuff and especially about the hormones and how important it is to protect that process.

-I enjoyed the opportunity to talk to other attendees informally during the day as well as having [Charly] lead the discussion.

-[Charly] created a really lovely environment and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

In addition, so far EVERY SINGLE MOTHER who has attended one of my workshops has had a 100% natural birth with no medication and only one mother has torn (tiny and requiring no stitches). Every mother who planned a home birth achieved one.

If you are interested then please PM me or send an email to [email protected]. I shall be running workshops regularly so if you are unable to make the 21st then there will probably be an alternative date that you can make. Please also feel free to send this invitation on to other pregnant friends that you may know.

Thanks and I hope to meet you soon,

Charly.