The 2024 ​Program

Subject to possible change

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

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Doula Conference 2024 is a national conference for doulas and people who have an interest in pregnancy, birth and postnatal care.
​This event will take place around World Doula Week in Geelong (Djilang) on the lands of the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation
~ Wednesday dinner to Friday Lunch ~
20th - 22nd March, 2024
(​all times are in AEST)

Program

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Wednesday ~ 20th March

5:00pm

Dr Hazel Keedle / PHd (Keynote)
'Doulas in the BeST'

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5:00pm

Warm Water Wisdom Info Session

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6:30pm

Included Gourmet Buffet Dinner
Limeburners Room & Terrace
(drinks extra)

Conference MC
Bethany Meakin

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Holder of Ceremony
Misty Barth

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Thursday Warm Water Wisdom Break Out sessions

Thursday
21st March

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7:30 - 8:45am

Buffet breakfast for those utilising the venue accommodation

8:45am

Welcome and Opening Ceremony

9:00am

Dr Kirsten Small (Keynote)
'Innate Fetal Wisdom: How the fetus deals with low oxygen levels and why that means CTGs can't possibly work’

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10:00am

Janinne Gliddon
'Aboriginal Doulas for Aboriginal women;'

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10:45am

Morning Tea

11:15am

Warm Water Wisdom Breakout Session #1
with Anna Watts and Rebecca Czapnik

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11:15am

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

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12:00pm

Di Diddle
​​'Holding the Birth Space for Instinctive Breastfeeding'

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12:45pm

Lunch

1:45pm

Warm Water Wisdom Breakout Session #2
with Anna Watts and Rebecca Czapnik

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1:45pm

Nisha Gill
'Soft & Fierce: Facilitating Instinctual Boundaries For Birth & Motherhood'

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2:30pm

Catherine McInerney
'Pregnancy Massage and Its Multifaceted Benefits'

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3:15pm

Afternoon Tea

3:45pm

Warm Water Wisdom Breakout Session #3
with Anna Watts and Rebecca Czapnik

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3:45pm

Misty Barth
'​The Ancient Art of Bellydance'

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5:15pm

Free Time

6:30pm

Included Doula Gala Dinner
​and Celebration
(drinks extra)

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Thursday Warm Water Wisdom Break Out sessions

Friday
22nd March

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7:30 - 8:45am

Buffet breakfast for those utilising the venue accommodation

8:45am

Friday Welcome

9:00am

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

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10:15am

Catherine Bell
'Birth Cartography: Communication and Sensemaking in Maternity'

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10:15am

Kerryn O'Rourke, Sarah Khaw & Red Dearnley
'How doulas tune into and adapt to client need and care context, to complement and enhance care in the Victorian public maternity care system'

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11:00am

Morning Tea

11:30am

Rhea Dempsey
'When the Archetypes Stir'​

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1:00pm

Closing Ceremony

1:30pm

Closing Thank You Lunch

2:30pm

End of conference

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