The Association for Research on Mothering and Doula-C.A.R.E. of Ontario invite you to attend:
Body and Soul:
Reintegrating the Spiritual, Emotional, Physical and
Psychological Dimensions of Birth
Harry Crowe Room, 109 Atkinson, York University, Toronto, Ontario
Friday, November 16, 2001
As we continue to birth our children in the western model of predominantly medical care, questions are raised about how to care for the whole health needs of the women and her family. We wonder: Has the alternative childbirth movement stalled? Have we come to believe that evidence-based practice will solve all the problems we are experiencing in birth today? Have we lost sight of the individual's needs? What do you envision as an ideal future? How should we assist birthing women? How could the cultural, spiritual, emotional and psychological dimensions of birthing be better balanced with the bio-mechanical and physical components? What supports, and what hinders, a more holistic balance?
Open to care providers, birthing women and those concerned about their care, the conference will be an opportunity to hear and discuss a selection of papers presented by a truly multidisciplinary group of experts involved with the care of pregnant and birthing women. Questions and comments will be taken from the audience at the end of each panel and in the breakout groups and together we will create a new vision of the future of birth in Canada. The presenters will further develop the vision begun in this public forum in a closed thinktank the following day, working on envisioning a more holistic approach to birthing in Canada, and strategizing the ways to realize it. Presenters are leaders in their fields and include the perspectives of doulas, childbirth educators, midwives, nurses, researchers, physicians, activists, and academics. This will be the first Canadian multidisciplinary conference on childbirth in a long time and it promises to be provocative and rich.
PROGRAM
8:00-9:00am Registration
9:00-9:30am Welcome
9:30-10:45am Session 1 - Beverley Chalmers, Anne Biringer, Bonnie Annis
10:45-11:00am Break
11:00-12:15pm Session 2 - Sarah Cressman, Jennifer Elliott, Joyce Barrett
12:15-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-2:45pm Session 3 - Gail Lindsay & Faith Smith, Shawn Gallagher
2:45-4:00pm Breakout groups
4:00-5:00pm Wrap-up - questions and reporting
5:00-5:30pm Break
5:30-8:00pm Reception, Book launch and journal launch
Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement
140 Holland St. West,
PO 13022
Bradford ON L3Z 2Y5