4:30 – 7:00 pm          Break

7:00 – 10:00 pm       
Cinema Recognition Award (The beautiful South African film Tsotsi)
Presenters: Thomas Verny, MD, & Marcy Axness, PhD and Guests
 

Thursday, February 22, 2007

9:30am - 4:30pm      Click for Photos and Workshop Descriptions 

• Michel Odent, MD (UK) “New Ways to Talk about Birth and Love”
• Robbie Davis-Floyd, PhD  “Anthropology of Reproduction”
• Jennifer Tow, IBCLC & Sharon Vallone, DC, FICCP "Healing Human Potential Through Infant Feeding: The Synergy of Maternal and Infant Physiology, Function and Psychology"
• Thomas Verny, MD (Canada) “Uses and Abuses of Prenatal and Perinatal Material in Psychotherapy”

4:30 pm                      End of Pre-Congress Workshops

Main Conference Schedule

Thursday, February 22, 2007

7:00 – 8:15 pm         
Welcoming Addresses:  Laura Uplinger & Rene Van de Carr, MD,  Thomas Verny, MD, Barbara Findeisen, President

8:15 – 9:15 pm         
The Thomas R. Verny Award
Lecture: Peter Hepper, PhD (Belfast, Ireland) “The Behavior of the Human Fetus”

9:15 – 10:15 pm        Presidential Reception

Friday, February 23, 2007

7:45 – 8:45 am           Breakfast Speaker:
Joel Evans, MD “Sacred Dimensions of Pregnancy”        

8:45 – 9:00 am           Break

Main Auditorium 
9:00 – 10:00 am       
Myriam Szejer, MD, (Paris, France)  “Talking to Babies”

10:00 – 10:15 am      Break

10:15 – 12:30 am      Panel: "Very Early Parenting"
David Chamberlain, PhD, Judith Simon Prager, PhD and Editor Jody McLaughlin 

12:30 – 2:00 pm        Lunch

Main Auditorium 
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Eleanor M. Luzes, MD, MA, (Brazil) 
"The Need to Teach the Science of the Beginning of Life in Schools "  

10:15 – 12:30 am     Panel:
Thomas Verny, MD,  Bethany Hays, MD, Gayle Peterson, PhD, & Robbie Davis-Floyd, PhD  “Post Partum Depression”

12:30 – 2:00 pm        Lunch

Main Auditorium 

2:00 – 3:00 pm         
Robbie Davis-Floyd, PhD interviews Jay & Marjie Hathaway
“Talking to Teens About Love, Sex, Birth and Babies”

3:15 – 4:15 pm          Concurrent Sessions

• Paulo Batistuta, MD, MA, (Brazil),  “Art & Birth”
• Carla Machado,  (Brazil) Certified Reichian Therapist “Bach Flower Remedies & Pregnancy”
• Heloisa Lessa, (Brazil), Nurse Midwife “Home Birth in Rio!”
• Amy Gilliland,  MA, Doula “The Attachment Needs of  Laboring Mothers”
• Dawson Church, PhD “Soul Medicine”
• Stephen Maret, PhD "Frank Lake's Personality Theory"
• Varenka and Oliver Mark, psychoanalyst (France) "The Embryo, Memory of an Innate Biological Knowledge"
  Ghislaine Szpeker, psychoanalyst (France) "Breastfeeding and Ideology"   
• Gowri Motha, MD, (UK), "The Sacredness of Gentle Birth" 

415--4:30pm  Break

4:30 – 5:30 pm          Concurrent Sessions

• Sandra Seagal, PhD & David Horne “Birth & Human Dynamics”
• Sophia Smith, BS, (UK) “Reflexology & Fertility”
• Jon RG and Troya, GN Turner (Holland) "Global Perspectives: Urgent for Prenatal Education"
  Judith O. Weaver, Ph.D. "Teaching Adults to Understand Babies” 
• Rupert Linder, MD, (Germany) President of ISPPM, "Combination of Obstetrics and Psychotherapy: Possibilities to Severely Reduce Premature Births" & Ludwig Janus, MD (Germany) "Prenatal Psychology and Influences on Culture"
• Gladys McGarey, M.D. "Living with Decisions Made in Utero" 
• Myrna Martin M.N., RCC. RCST (Canada) "Creating Conscious Services for the Birthing Family: What Works..." 
  Michele Odent, MD (UK), "The Function of Joy in Pregnancy"
  
  

Main Auditorium 

5:45 – 7:00 pm    APPPAH Meets the World

    Robin Grille presents "The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto"
         A 15-point manifesto based on successful initiatives tried and tested in many countries. From conception onward, in every stage of childhood, the way we treat children is the most important factor shaping the destiny of our societies. With the knowledge we have today about the primacy of early childhood development, it is paramount to devise and implement social policies that foster urgently needed children's reforms.

    Lou Janel Martin presents "Safe Baby Resolution"
         The Safe Baby Resolution, co-written by Star Newland and Lou Janel Martin is now Senate Concurrent Resolution 8 making its way through the Hawaii State Senate and House. The measure asks the Legislature to study the early period of conception through infancy as the foundational time for health, wellness, and harmony as well as the origin of a myriad of social and physical concerns of society. The resolution seeks to make gestation and birth gentle, drug-free, and safe for mothers and babies as well as for medical caregivers and society--all parties working together in partnership. (See full text at: www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/Bills/SCR8_.pdf )
  
    Robbie Davis-Floyd presents "The International MotherBaby Childbirth Initiative: Ten Steps to Optimal Maternity Services."
          The Initiative calls global attention to the importance of the quality of the birth experience; the risks to mother and baby from inappropriate medical interventions; and the scientific evidence showing the benefits of optimal motherbaby care based on the normal physiology of pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding. Its 10 Steps set the gold standard for excellence and superior outcomes in maternity care. 


7:30 – 8:45pm        Banquet  (Make reservations now online!)

8:45 - 10:30pm      An Evening of Dance

Sunday, February 25. 2007

7:45 – 8:45 am          Breakfast Speaker:
Eva Gundberg, MD, PhD, (Venezuela) “Talking to Doctors”

Main Auditorium

9:00 – 10:00 am        Michael Trout, MA  "Searching for Aunt Rosie: Accounting for Benevolent Influences in the Lives of Infants and Toddlers"

10:00 - 10:15            Break

10:15 – 12:30 pm      Panel:
“Conscious Conception, A Quantum Collaboration” Marcy Axness, PhD, Peter Fairfield, L.Ac., Michel Odent, MD,  (UK), Gladys McGeary, M.D.

12:30 – 1:00 pm        Closing Remarks: 
Suzanne Arms and Robin Grille 

1:00 – 2:30 pm         
APPPAH Annual Membership Meeting
2:30-4 Post-Congress Board Meeting

Sunday, February 25, 2007

3:15-7:15pm    Click for Photos and Workshop Descriptions       

• Robert Newman, BA  “New Potential of Childbirth” 
• Julie & François Gerland (France) “Transform Your Life from Soul to Cell - What All Parents Should Do Before Conceiving. It Is Never Too Late To Have A Happy Childhood"
• Marcy Axness, Ph.D  “Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology 101” 
• Antonio Madrid, PhD   "The Mother and Child Reunion"