Childbirth educators and labor companions give so much of themselves to all whom they teach and support. But, they must take a much needed "time-out" for themselves on a regular basis. We may be great at teaching others these principles, but we don't always practice what we preach. This session is intended to re-introduce much-needed 1-minute comfort measures to be used by labor companions so that they can continue to provide the best support ever. By "doula-ing" ourselves, we are in a position to be the best birth magicians we can be, as we teach and support one birthing couple at a time. General Audience

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B. #19102 Instinctive Breastfeeding--The Magic Mother-baby Dance
Suzanne Shapiro, RN, BSN, IBCLC, HBCE

When women experience difficulty with breastfeeding, overly interventional approaches may be introduced that interfere with natural , instinctive ways for the mother and baby to achieve a successful breastfeeding relationship. We will focus on baby-led practices, which rely on recognition of natural sucking instincts and physiologic patterns of newborns. You will learn improved skills in coaching and observation of the mother-baby dyad in this session. General Audience

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C. #19103 Transforming Parent's Fears into Beliefs; Making Your Classes Magical
Robin Frees, BA, CHt, IBCLC, HBCE

Fear is the signal for a need to change. Once we start "listening" to our fears, we can start to adapt to new ways of thinking. This interactive session is for all HypnoBirthing Practitioners who are looking for ways to bring new life into their classes. Using the Emotion/Fear Release worksheets, participants will share class experiences and learn how to best prepare their students for the Emotional Release Hypnosis session in Unit 3. Fun techniques will help you transform your parents' ability to adapt to any situation with calmness and confidence. General Audience

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A. #1911 Understanding The Webster Breech-Turning Technique
Barbara Davison, RNC, CI, DCH, HBCE

Currently known as "Webster's in-utero Constraint Technique", this technique is being used successfully by many chiropractors in relieving intrauterine constraint, thus allowing babies to move into the best possible position for birth. Intrauterine constraint is defined as any forces external to the developing baby that obstructs his normal turn from breech to vertex position, resulting most often in surgical birth. Nearly 13% of all cesarean births performed are due to breech presentation. Come and learn why you should be familiar with this technique and should seek a reference source for your parents in your own area. General Audience

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B. #1912 Integrative Eye Movement Therapy Techniques
Steve Griffiths, DHyp, NLP, HBI Faculty, ASK, NRH

Integral Eye Movement Therapy is a brief therapy that utilises the application of neurological principles in order to generate rapid change in the area of undesired emotional conditioning.

The I.E.M. therapy model answers the question, "How did the client learn to feel this way, about that thing?" and applies specific change at the right neuro-logical level.
By building resources inside the problem state, I.E.M. Therapy brings the client more into the present and enables the client to stay out of past negative experiences permanently.

Integral Eye Movement Therapy is not a grand unified theory of therapy, but is a complete model. I.E.M. Therapy provides an excellent remedial tool for emotional change and a generative tool for identity change. Thus I.E.M.T. enables excellent results where previously a good outcome might have appeared improbable.

The workshop will demonstrate the practical application using delegate interaction so that each participant gains a practical and personal experience of the principles behind IEMT.

If you are therapist interested in learning additional techniques to help your clients change you will not want to miss this workshop. Hypnotherapists

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C. #1913 Helping Couples to face Pre- or Perinatal Loss
Pauline Rzepecki, RN, CHt, HBCE

If you are concerned about not feeling prepared to help couples who experience a pre- or perinatal loss, this is the seminar for you. You will gain a better understanding of how differently men grieve from the way in which women grieve. You will learn various ways in which you can assist and suggest in a compassionate way when you find yourself in a situation where you need to help support a grieving family. General Audience

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A. #1931 When Labor Rests, and You Wish You Had A Magic Wand
Jenny West, Certified Professional Midwife, TBM, HBCE

TBA

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B. #1932 Transforming Fear into Beliefs--Refining Your Skills in Teaching Adults
Jennifer Elliott, B.Ed, CHt, CD, HBCE

Jennifer Elliott, a trained teacher with 16 years experience in teaching adults will help you to become a more confident, competent childbirth educator. You will learn the principles and strategies of teaching adults and learn how you can apply these guidelines in your classes. There will be small group work and presentations on how you can better promote HypnoBirthing. General Audience

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C. #1933 HypnoBirthing #101--Fine Tuning Your Classroom Presentations
Sherry Gilbert, BA HBCE, HypnoBirthing Exec. Dir.

Inspire the parents in your classes! Teach in a way that will infuse your families with confidence and enthusiasm. We know that the language that our families use and the way they envision their births makes all the difference in the world. Let's apply these same principles to the way you present HypnoBirthing material in your classes. You'll learn how to pique their enthusiasm even more as you present our beautiful birth stories, teach them how to role play, and help them to thoroughly understand and use our special breathing techniques, and motivate them to practice. You'll discover how easy it is to use your textbook when the copy is tabbed and organized, and you'll experience how to walk your parents through important demonstrations. General Audience

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A. #2981 The Bigger Secret--Learning to Believe and Achieve Wonderful Births Using Abraham-Hicks Theories
Vickie Haren, CLC

Vickie Haren will excite you as she brings you into the world of enjoying and using the Bigger Secret of Life--Abraham Hicks. Using the principles of the Abraham-Hicks Program, you will learn how to manifest what you want to see and program your life and your career for helping parents to create wonderful births and wonderful lives for themselves and their families. You will personally be motivated to use these great theories in your daily life, operating with the empowerment that comes from knowing that life is full of abundance in relationships, health, and finances. General Audience

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B. #2982 The Updated Brewer Diet--The Magic of Food Weight gain and Size of Baby
Jenny West, Certified Professional Midwife, TBM, HBCE

Using the book, What every Pregnant Woman Should Know, as the basis for this discussion, Jenny West, midwife extraordinaire, will take you through the main components of the Brewer Diet and help you to understand the importance of having a firm foundation on the topic of diet for your HypnoBirthing parents. Through discussion and handouts Jenny will explore the connection between water/salt/protein; the effects of low-fat diet on the brain; gestational diabetes, and the risks of reduced calorie/carb diets. General Audience

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C. # 2983 Using The Magic of Networking--Getting Recognized within Your Community
Marie Berwald, HBCE

Networking is a buzz word that gets thrown about in business magazines and television programs. But how do you take networking to the next level, beyond just exchanging business cards? A networking group is an excellent way to harness the power of networking.  This seminar will teach you how to develop your own networking group, whom to recruit, how to organize it (including bylaw), how to avoid potential pitfalls, and most of all, how to reap the many benefits that come from belonging to a focused networking group. General Audience

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A. #29101 The Circle, The Snake, and The Spiral--Meaningful Symbols to Call Our Own
Laura Stewart-Panko, BA, BSW, CHt

This interactive workshop teaches participants why symbolism matters  and how the circle, the snake and the spiral are tremendously powerful aspects of life – especially in the areas of birth, hypnosis and change.  Through an engaging mix of poetry, storytelling, discussion, visuals, and experiential learning, professionals will discover the multiple origins of these symbols; how they operate in today’s world; and how to use them to enhance the work you do.  Participants will learn to deepen their teaching of HypnoBirthing by recognizing how several aspects of the program are an expression of these symbols. General audience

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B. #29102 Talking to Your Brain--Marketing Yourself and Your Program Persuasively and Powerfully
David Frees, JD, CHt, NLP Instructor

Would you like to have a more fulfilling practice?  Would you like to be able to help more people in a more profound way?  What if you could achieve those goals and effortlessly make you business life less stressful, more profitable, and have more time for yourself and those you love?  Dave Frees, who regularly generates millions of dollars of revenue from his businesses and practice, shares with you how to find the marketer within you so that you can achieve more of what you want and also become more profitable.  This seminar will also include a hypnotic wealth induction that you cannot afford to miss.  General Audience

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C. #29103 HypnoBirthing®--Not Just a Method, But a Mission Becoming a leader in Evidence-Based Care
Cindy Unger, CHt, LCCE, HBCE

Is HypnoBirthing® just a method, or are we really involved in the promotion of better care practices?  Birthing has taken several key steps to join with the wider birthing community in promoting evidence-based, mother- and baby-friendly care.  Learn how HypnoBirthing is joining forces with other birthing leaders.  Discover how crucial your involvement is as a private educator and the way you can be a part of promoting  the advocacy of better maternal care.  General Audience

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A. #2911 Magical Birth--Unbelievable Post Partum
Anita Butler, CD IBCLC, HBCE

You help the parents you work with to  prepare  for a gentle, magical birth, and maybe you even help support them through the birth with your calming presence. But what happens after they get home? What about the many families who don’t have the good fortune to prepare with HypnoBirthing, or those who endure some kind of birth trauma. What happens to them?  Offering new parents in-home support as a postpartum companion may at first seem mundane, but what happens is the process is indeed magical.  Come and find out why. You’ll be surprised. General Audience

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B. #2912 Awakening the Life Force within--Experience the Magic of Chi King (Qigong)
Joan Koval, CNM, HBCE, CHt

“The healer has to be experiencing healing and wholeness in order to extend it out.”

Many Eastern cultures recognized, thousands of years ago, that there is an energy flow that runs through every living thing.  This energy is called Chi (Qi). When this energy is flowing smoothly through the meridians of the body, we feel

healthy, happy, and a connection to our place in the Universe.  When the Chi is not flowing smoothly, there is stagnation or blockages in the energy flow which can lead to a lack of balance and  dis-ease. Lets experience the free flow of Qi while doing the Ba Duan Jin (Eight Precious Movements) gentle Chi Kung exercises. General Audience

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C. #2913 If Seeing is believing--The Effects of Emotions on Water and The Body
Mickey Mongan, M. Ed, M.Hy, HBCE

TBA

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A. #2931 The Magic of Endorphin Production for Comfortable Birth
Diana Durocher, CD, HBCE

A workshop on endorphins is both timely and beneficial to practitioners and couples alike. The main premise that is forwarded in HypnoBirthing classes is that we  help our couples stay out of the fight/flight/freeze response, and , at the same time, promote endorphin production. This class will give information and demonstration on how to do this. General Audience

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B. #2932 "Marketing" The Magical Spell of Breastfeeding
Janice Daigle, Doula, HBCE

Join in this seminar and be introduced to a fascinating “marketing concept” that successfully “sells” breastfeeding.  Janice Daigle will share with you the story of her success with using strategies and techniques used in the marketing field to convince women of the importance of breastfeeding.  Using breastfeeding as a product analogy, she “sells” women on the concept that they absolutely need the product, Naturella Milk, their own natural breast milk. You will be amused and amazed, and will be able to carry these ideas back to your community.
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C. #2933 Preparing for the Rain--Successfully Manifesting Abundance into Your Practice
Heather Hilton, LM, HBCE, HBPLC
Liz Vazquez, CCH, LMT, HBCE

“Two farmers prayed for rain.  One of them sat in his house and prayed and listened for the thunder.  The other farmer went out and worked his field to prepare for the rain.  Which one do you think got the rain?”

Liz and Heather are two of the most successful HypnoBirthing practitioners in our organization who attract phenomenal numbers of parents to their classes. In this seminar, they will share their secrets with you and help you find the joy and success that they have found. This class is perfect for the seasoned practitioner who wants to become more active or for the newly certified practitioner who is just starting out and who feels timid about making the initial investment of time and effort needed to draw parents to them.  This session will change the way you look at your business and the way you look at your life.  Are you sitting around, listening for thunder or are you preparing for the rain? General Audience

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