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Quick Facts Location:Cathedral Hill Hotel San Francisco, CA Tel: 415-776-8200, 800-622-0855 Pre-Congress Workshops: December 3-4, 2003 Congress Dates: December 4-7, 2003 Post-Congress Workshops: December 7-8, 2003 Exhibit Dates: December 4-7, 2003 Early Registration Deadline: Must be received by May 15, 2003 Last Day for Hotel Discount: November 2, 2003 based on availability Last Day to Register by Mail: Must be received by November 14, 2003 For More Information: apppah@aol.com 707-887-2838 (Pacific Time) |
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20th Anniversary, 11th International Congress
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Jeannine Parvati Baker is the author of PRENATAL YOGA & Natural Childbirth, HYGIEIA: A Woman's Herbal and CONSCIOUS CONCEPTION: Elemental Journey Through the Labyrinth of Sexuality. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at Georgetown University in 2002 at the Symposium on Human Rights in Modern Society. Co-Founder of Six Directions, a Non-Profit, Tax Exempt, Educational Corporation (Devoted to Personal, Family & Planetary Health) and the Director of Hygieia College, Mystery School in Womancraft & Lay Midwifery. Jeannine has spoken at every APPPAH Congress in the USA since its beginning as Midwife, Intactivist, Keynote, Grandmother, and a World Emissary for the Possible Family. Christine Caldwell, Ph. D ADTR, LPC, is the founder and director of the Somatic Psychology Department at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where she currently teaches coursework in somatic theory and skills, and in birth and death imprinting. Her work began twenty years ago with studies in anthropology, dance therapy, bodywork and Gestalt therapy, and has developed into innovations in the field of body-centered psychotherapy. She calls her work the Moving Cycle. This system goes beyond the limitations of therapy and emphasizes lifelong personal and social evolution through trusting and following body energy and wisdom. The Moving Cycle work spotlights natural play, early physical imprinting, the transformational effect of fully sequenced movement processes, the practice of dying, the opportunities in addiction, and a trust in personal essence. She has taught at the University of Maryland and George Washington University, and trains, teaches and lectures internationally. Her books include Getting Our Bodies Back, and Getting In Touch. Sir Richard Bowlby, qualified in medical and scientific photography in 1968, spent his career illustrating medical research. He produced photographs and academic videotapes to help communicate the findings of researchers with whom he worked. He retired in 1999, to spend his time studying the work of his father, John Bowlby, on the early attachment relationship between parents and their young children. He is promoting a wider understanding of the rapidly growing body of attachment research. He is in touch with many attachment workers and their organizations and is producing and freely distributing a training video on attachment. He gives introductory talks on attachment and draws on personal insights into how his father assembled the research information in developing Attachment theory.
David B. Chamberlain Ph.D., David's curiosity about the capacity of prenates and newborns was stimulated by clients having vivid early recall during hypnotherapy beginning in 1975. This inspired a continuing clinical and scholarly effort leading to fifty publications including the popular book, The Mind of Your Newborn Baby (3rd edition, 1998), currently available in eight languages. Currently he also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, and is Founding Editor of birthpsychology.com, the APPPAH gateway on the Internet. Don Creevy, MD Ob/Gyn, came to Palo Alto, CA from Minnesota in 1962 to become a resident in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford. Since completing the residency in 1966, he has been a member of the clinical faculty of the Stanford University School of Medicine and also has been in private practice. He was an active volunteer and board member at Santa Clara County Planned Parenthood from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. He was a founding board member of Planetree in San Francisco, and was a member of the medical advisory committee of the Nursing Mother’s Counsel for many years. He was a founding board member and medical director of The Birth Place in Menlo Park, CA from 1975 to 1994. He was president of the board of directors of The Peninsula Birth Connection, the predecessor of Blossom Birth Services. He attended his last birth in June 2001 and misses obstetrics very much. He also misses working with midwives, which he did actively from 1968 to the late 1990s. He continues to practice gynecology in Portola Valley where his main medical interest is menopause. . Robbie Davis-Floyd Ph.D., a Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University of Texas Austin, is an internationally known cultural anthropologist specializing in medical, ritual, and gender studies and the anthropology of reproduction. She is author of numerous articles and of Birth as an American Rite of Passage (1992); coauthor of From Doctor to Healer: The Transformative Journey, and The Power of Ritual (forthcoming), and coeditor of eight collections, including Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1997); Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots (1998); Reconceiving Midwifery: The New Canadian Model of Care (2002); and Midwives in Mexico: Continuity, Controversy, and Change (2002). Funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, she has recently completed a major research project on the development of direct-entry midwifery in the U.S., the results of which will appear in Mainstreaming Midwives: The Politics of Change. Her research on midwives in Mexico and on global trends and transformations in midwifery is ongoing. Patrice Ellequain, Psychosociologist, founded, in 1982 'Victoire sur le Tabac' (Victory over Tobacco), France's most successful quitting smoking program. Since 1990 he has lead rebirthing seminars and professional rebirther training in Europe, South Africa and the USA. Since 1997 Patrice has taught communication and pre- and perinatal psychology at Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle University. He is president of the French Rebirthing Association (O.S.E.R.) and an international advisor to APPPAH for France. William R. Emerson, Ph.D. is a teacher, writer, lecturer, and pioneer in the field of pre- and perinatal psychology. Dr. Emerson's involvement in pre- and perinatal psychology includes the recovery and transformation of problems stemming from prenatal and birth traumas. He is a pioneer of treatment methods for infants and children, a renowned expert in treatment methods for adults, and is recognized world-wide for his contributions. He conducts treatment and training seminars throughout the U.S. and Europe. He has published dozens of articles and 7 videos in the field of psychology and birth. Among his professional affiliations and presentations Dr. Emerson is a frequent key note speaker at psychology conferences, a radio and television personality, a member of and keynote speaker for ATTACH, (an organization of professionals who treat bonding and attachment disorders). He is a member in long standing of the American Psychological Association, a member of the board of directors for both the Association of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH) and the International Primal Association (IPA), and he has been named an honorary fellow for the National Institute of Mental Health for his scholarly excellence and his contributions to the field of Psychology.
Kelduyn R. Garland, LCSW, LMT is a body/mind therapist, consultant and trainer specializing in reproductive, pre- and perinatal attachment issues. She is co-founder of ATTACH, co-author of 'The Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care,' and an active member of APPPAH.
Eva Gundberg, MD Ob/Gyn born in Sweden, trained in Switzerland and Venezuela, lives in Venezuela where she has a private practice, pioneered and promotes Vertical Birth, and trains specialists in natural childbirth. She is president of ANEP de Venezuela (The National Association of Pre-Natal Education). She is a long-standing member and international advisor to APPPAH and received the Dr. David Cheek Memorial Award. She is the author of 'The Pleasure of Birth.' Barbara Harper, R.N., is an author, midwife, childbirth advocate and the founder of Global Maternal/Child Health Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to education and research about natural childbirth, including the use of water to ease labor and birth. She lectures internationally on maternity care reform.
Carolyn Kenny, Ph.D., is the Academic Dean for Santa Barbara Graduate Institute and also a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research at the University of California Santa Barbara. She continues to conduct a small private practice in music therapy. She returned to Santa Barbara, after resigning from her position as a tenured professor in Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. Previously, she served as a Core Faculty member in the Master of Arts in Psychology program at Antioch University in Santa Barbara. Dr. Kenny has published several books and many articles in music and the creative arts therapies and indigenous studies. She has taught short courses at several universities in Canada, the United States and Europe and she often presents at International conferences. Dr. Kenny is a certified music therapist and research psychologist. She expresses her Native American ancestry in her work by combining Western psychology with Indigenous healing. Phyllis Klaus, CSW, MFT, A psychotherapist in private practice, Ms. Klaus is also an educator and a pioneer in bonding and attachment and doula training. She is co-author of Bonding: Building the Foundations of Secure Attachment and Independence; Mothering the Mother: and Your Amazing Newborn.
Susan L. Love, M.A., MFT has been providing post adoption counseling and therapy, attachment treatment and consultation in Berkeley since 1993. She's on the Post Adoption Center for Education and Research (PACER) board of directors and is committed to supporting families and individuals for whom adoption is part of their lives.
Robert Newman Robert Oliver, M.D., Ph.D., is a retired private practice obstetrician who is dedicated to the promotion of childbirth from the mother/baby centered perspective and lectures widely promoting safer birth. He serves on the Board of the Association of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health. Peggy O'Mara is the publisher of Mothering magazine. Eileen Paris, Ph.D., author 'I'll Never Do to My Kids What My Parents Did to Me: A Guide to Conscious Parenting;' Faculty, SBGI.
Heidi Rinehart, MD is a physician at the Northern New Mexico Women’s Health and Birth Center in Taos, New Mexico. She is a staunch advocate for non-interventive birth and respectful treatment of newborns. She gave birth to one of her children at The Farm and the other one at home.
She is proud to have been the President of a non-profit agency that was one of the first in the nation to administer and run a grant funded, community based doula project. For a number of years, Ms. Salt also conducted Cross Cultural Health seminars for hospitals, boards, non-profits, and maternal and child health professionals. A former Co-Chair of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS), Ms. Salt is actively involved in assembling research on the immense benefits-physical, mental, and spiritual-of doulas, and the positive healing energy of birth.. She is the author of three books on pregnancy, birth, and parenting, including the recently released, A Holistic Guide to Embracing Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood: Wisdom and Advice from a Doula (Perseus Publishing). A former faculty member teaching sociology, gender, and women’s health, Ms. Salt considers herself privileged and honored to work in a field that offers a glimpse of the power of women, and the beauty of babies.
Aletha Solter, Ph.D., is a Swiss/American development psychologist, international speaker, workshop leader, consultant, author of The Aware Baby, Helping Young Children Flourish, and Tears and Tantrums, and founder of the Aware Parenting Institute. She studied with Dr. Jean Piaget at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where she obtained a Master’s degree in human biology. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California. Her books have been translated into several languages. She lives in Goleta, CA and is the mother of two grown children. Karen Strange CPM, trained at Maternidad La Luz, a busy birth center and midwifery program in El Paso, Texas. She worked there as staff midwife and the as Clinical Director. Karen worked as a home-based midwife in Dallas, Texas. She has also been a neonatal resuscitation instructor since 1992 and the founder of The Midwifery Management of Neonatal Resuscitation. Karen is on the Texas Department of Health Midwifery Board. She lectures and teaches throughout the United States. Win and Bill Sweet are the authors of Living Joyfully with Children. The Sweets home schooled their own children for five years, beginning in 1968 and now have the privilege of home schooling their grandchildren. They conduct Joyful Parenting seminars around the country. People often ask the Sweets, "Why are you doing this?" The answer is simple: They are convinced that families who live joyfully are vital to the health of our society. "Joyful living sets us free from the toxic level of stress that is engulfing and weakening most families today. Living joyfully with a child honors and protects the true nature of that child." Stan Tatkin, Psy.D., has been a practicing psychotherapist for over 18 years. Through a developmental object relations approach he has maintained a special interest in the treatment of adolescents and adults with personality disorders. His interests have widened over the years to include study of the psychobiology of attachment. This has led to a natural desire to promulgate the need for early intervention of personality disorders. In addition to his private practice, he teaches and supervises 1st year Family Medicine residents at Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills. Dr. Tatkin is a past president of the Ventura County Chapter of the California Association of marriage and Family Therapists. He is an assistant professor at UCLA in the Family Medicine Department and is currently on faculty at Antioch University, Santa Barbara Graduate Institute and California Lutheran University. Dr. Tatkin is currently engaged in infant brain development studies under Dr. Allan Schore in Northridge Vicki Thorn, a pioneer in understanding and treating the aftermath of abortion is Executive Director of the National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation & Healing. She is an author and international speaker. Her passion for helping women birth better, lead her to develop a model for mentoring pregnant women and to teach young women the biochemistry of sex and reproduction. She has been involved in panels dealing with abortion at the last three APPPAH congresses Michael Trout, MA, Director, The Infant-Parent Institute, Editor APPPAH newsletter. Gail Tully, B.S. CPM, CD (DONA), has attended births first as a doula and then as a homebirth midwife assistant since 1979. In 2000, she was NARM CPM certified for home birth midwifery. She is a DONA-approved doula trainer, adjunct faculty for the College of St. Catherineis doula course and a practicing certified professional midwife. Jon RG (formerly John-Richard) Turner, , is a pioneer in prebirth memory recovery, co-founder and co-director of Whole-Self Discovery and Development Institute, co-editor of JISPPM and published in JOPPPAH, member of APPPAH, executive board member ISPPM, life and honorary member of ANEP: Italia, Russia APPM, and member of the Scientific and Medical Network.
F. Rene Van de Carr, MD is coauthor of While You're Expecting: Creating Your Own Prenatal Classroom. Thomas Verny, M.D., D. Psych., is a psychiatrist in private practice. He lectures around the world and has published many articles in both the lay press and academic journals. He co-authored several books including the most recent, Tomorrow¹s Baby as well as The Secret Life of the Unborn Child and Nurturing the Unborn Child. Dr. Verny also edited the first textbook in the English language on pre- and perinatal psychology entitled Pre-and Perinatal Psychology: An Introduction. He organized the First International Congress on Pre- and Perinatal Psychology in Toronto in July l983, was founding editor of the Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Journal, president of the Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Association of North America from 1983 to 1991 and presently serves on the Association's Board of Directors.
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