Birth Week Thursday 28th May

Important!!!
Please email eventcoordinator@birthweek.org.au to confirm availability and avoid disappointment.

Please check each session carefully as some sessions are already booked out.

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9.30am-12pm Revisiting our Menarche

Please note this session is fully booked out

Seeing the connections between our Rite of Passage into womanhood and who we are today. This session will include sharing stories, delving into our inner worlds to uncover beliefs and meet our inner Goddess. The aim is to provide an opportunity for you to come to know yourself more deeply and to understand the importance of the menarche. With contemplation, reflection, recalling, and shamanic journeying, we will have the opportunity to bring deeper understanding to ourselves, and the circumstances of our lives.

IN PREPARATION for this session find out about the details of your own birth, think about/ recall your menarche, and think about/recall your experience of menstruation and the development of your sexual self (from the beginning to over the years to current).

$20 includes morning tea. Women only. No children please*.

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1.30-4.30pm - Healing Previous Childbirth Experiences

Please note this session is fully booked out

This session will involve telling your story and asking ‘How Does This Serve?” You will have the opportunity to locate where in your body you are storing the memory and do a Shamanic Journey with the intention of healing and letting go. This session invites mothers, as well as midwives and birth attendants, to participate to heal their own birth experience, or one they have been present to. Also it is a session appropriate for those having experienced miscarriage or termination of pregnancy.

IN PREPARATION for this session ask yourself if you are ready and willing to let this go. Reflect on your previous childbirth experience and contemplate whether it mirrors an ongoing theme or pattern in your life.

$20 includes morning tea. Women only. No children please*.

*For both these sessions Jane will create the space and facilitate deep healing work for us so it is requested that no children be present in the space except for breast-feeding babies.

Jane Hardwicke Collings is a homebirth Midwife of 25 years, mother, grandmother, and founder of The School of Shamanic Midwifery. Jane facilitates the following workshops regularly: “Moonsong - Reclaiming Feminine Power Through Reconnection With The Women’s Mysteries”, “Pregnancy the Inner Journey”, “Maiden Moonsong - for girls.” She is also author of books on pregnancy and menstruation and her forthcoming book “Birthing With The Goddess” is due for publication this year.

janecollings@bigpond.com
www.moonsong.com.au

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7.30 -10.30pm Fathers Circle

When a child is born, a father is born. This session is an invitation for men to share the gifts and challenges experienced in coming into fatherhood, and the Rite of Passage it represents.

For fathers and fathers to be. Includes supper.

Facilitated by Michael Schoell. Michael is the father of two young children, and facilitates monthly father’s circles, which serve as mutual support and inspiration for men in their experience as fathers and partners in family life.