2025 ​Program

Subject to possible change

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

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Friday

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3:00pm

For those utilising the venue accommodation
Arrive and Check~in
Novotel Geelong
10-14 Eastern Beach Road
​Geelong Victoria

4:30pm

Djilang Welcome to Country
​Steam Packets Reserve

5:00pm

Janinne Gliddon (Keynote)
Katitjin Mindamarra ~ Aboriginal Perinatal Navigators for Aboriginal women

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6:00pm

Warm Water Wisdom Information Session

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6:30pm

Welcome Dinner

Conference MC

​Bethany Meakin

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Holder of Ceremony

Misty Barth

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Warm Water Wisdom Break Out sessions

Saturday

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7:30 - 8:30am

Buffet breakfast for those utilising the venue accommodation

8:30am

Welcome and Opening Ceremony

9:00am

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

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10:00am

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

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

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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

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

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4:30pm

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)

Warm Water Wisdom Break Out sessions

Sunday

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7:30 - 8:30am

Buffet breakfast for those utilising the venue accommodation

8:30am

Friday Welcome

9:00am

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

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10:00am

Kerryn O'Rourke & Red Dearnley
'How doulas adapt to client needs and complement care in the Victorian public maternity care system'

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10:45am

Morning Tea

11:15am

Rhea Dempsey
'When the Archetypes Stir'​

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12:45pm

Closing Ceremony

1:00pm

Closing Thank You Lunch

2:00pm

End of Conference

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