'Reducing the potential for birth trauma through your embodied presence'

Saturday 11:30

Turning the tide in relation to birth trauma as birth keepers can feel like an overwhelming challenge when we speak of changing systems and institutional policies. 
However, all parts make up the whole. 
Applying a Polyvagal or neuro -physiological lens, I will discuss the ways in which I see doulas holding enormous power to minimise the potential for trauma at the micro level during pregnancy, birth and the postpartum. 
The topics will include:
• Neuroception: detecting safety versus danger at a primal level 
• The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and protective survival states.
• The insidious nature of the Freeze and Appease (Fawn) responses.
• The quality of your presence: Embodiment. Co-regulation. Emotional attunement. Joining versus Merging. Be-ing versus Do-ing. 
• Facilitating ANS regulation. 
• Promoting boundaries: No. Maybe. Yes.
• Informed decision-making.
• Communication in the birth room. 
• Feeling safe, seen & soothed in birth - opportunities for attachment repair.
• ANS settling and normalisation versus ‘birth debriefing.’
• Whole-family approach to perinatal support and reducing the prevalence of birth trauma.

​About Nisha Gill

Nisha Gill of Feminine Instincts practises as a somatic trauma therapist and counsellor using a range of bodymind approaches with her clients. Her special focus is on the resolution of birth, developmental, sexual, pre- & peri-natal and medical traumas.
Nisha’s practice is informed by her experiences as birth & postnatal doula, birth educator, integrative bodyworker and female embodiment teacher. She is guided in her work by the profound intelligence of our mammalian bodies, and her mission is to promote perinatal experiences for families to the blueprint of birth. Nisha delivers trauma education to birth professionals, body-centred practitioners, sexuality coaches and families.
Applying a neuro-physiological lens to trauma, Nisha supports birth workers to value their therapeutic presence with the families they serve in minimising trauma and promoting resilience.
For further information about Nisha’s offerings, visit: feminineinstincts.com.au
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