2025 ​Program

Subject to possible change

Retracing, rekindling and reclaiming inner knowing for more attuned birthing in our modern times​

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Saturday

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8:00am

Registration Opens

9:00am

Welcome to Country & ​Opening

9:30am

Dr Kirsten Small
(Keynote)
'CTG's for planned VBAC?’

11:00am

Dr Catina Adams
​& Dr Abbey Love
'Neuro-affirming practice for doulas'

11:45pm

Catherine McInerney
'Pregnancy Massage and its Multifaceted Benefits'

1:30pm

Nisha Gill
(Mini workshop)
'Soft & Fierce: Facilitating Instinctual Boundaries For Birth & Motherhood'

3:30pm

Jane Gould-Dowen
​‘The empowerment of freebirth: why society needs to go backward to go forward’

4:15pm

Misty Barth
'​The Ancient Art of Bellydance'

6:00pm

Included in full ticket

Bonus Session Recording

Dr Hazel Keedle | PhD
'Doulas in the Birth Experience Survey' 

Sunday

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8:00am

Registration ​Opens

9:00am

Sunday Welcome & Opening

9:15am

Jane Palmer
'Supporting our clients to achieve a  positive birth'

10:00am

Kerryn O'Rourke
​‘Tuning into and adapting to client need and care context’

11:15am

Dr Paul Chamberlain​
​'Infant Examination Essentials for the Birth Worker'

12:00pm

Di Diddle
​​'Innate breastfeeding in the immediate hours after birth'

1:45pm

Rhea Dempsey
(Mini workshop)
'When the Archetypes Stir'​

3:45pm

Anna Watts
Embracing the Shakti of Birth

4:30pm

Closing Ceremony

Conference MC

​Bethany Meakin

Holder of Ceremony

Misty Barth

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Proud 2025 Sponsors

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