Peggy O’Mara – The Community of Normal Birth: What does it look like? Where do you find it?
Lecturer, Author and Publisher/Editor of Mothering: The Magazine of Natural Family Living

Ina May Gaskin – Body, Belief and Beyond
Author, activist, innovator and Founder/Director of The Farm Midwifery Center (TN)

Daniel Hughes, PhD – Attachment and Intersubjectivity in Infancy and Beyond
Clinical Psychologist and best-selling author, developer of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy®

Tiffany Field, PhD – Surprising Fetal and Neonatal Learning
Developmental Psychologist, author and founder of the Touch Research Institute,
University of Miami School of Medicine

Drs. Rene and Kristin Van de Carr –
Can New Developments in Prenatal-Postnatal Stimulation Lead to Happier Babies?
Pioneers in prenatal stimulation and education as a way of strengthening the family

Frederick Wirth, MD – How Perinatal Healthcare Professionals Build World Peace
President of the Institute for Perinatal Education, author, developed Wirth Prenatal Parenting Techniques

Sarah J. Buckley, MD – Undisturbed Birth – the Ecstasy and the Evidence
Australian family physician, researcher and writer explores the psychoneuroendocrinology of birth with a compelling argument for not disturbing the natural process.

Wendy Anne McCarty, PhD, RN – Welcoming Consciousness & Being with Babies in the 21st Century: Opportunities and Challenges
Author, Cofounder of BEBA, & Founding Chair and Faculty of the Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Program at SBGI

Brad Sachs, PhD – Entering the No-Mans Land: Mapping the Early Terrain of the Father-Child Bond
Psychologist, author and Founder / Director of The Father Center (PA)

Keynote Panel
(Saturday morning, Nov 19th)

Creating Family in the Face of Technology : Paradox and Possibility

Chair – R. Davis-Floyd, PhD Author, Research Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin