The 2025 ​Saturday Program

Subject to possible change

8:45am

Welcome & Opening Ceremony

9:00am

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

10:00am

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

10:45am

Morning Tea

11:15am

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

12:00pm

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

12:45pm

Lunch

1:45pm

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

2:30pm

Catherine McInerney
'Pregnancy Massage and its Multifaceted Benefits'

3:15pm

Afternoon Tea

3:45pm

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

4:30pm

Misty Barth
'​The Ancient Art of Bellydance'

with Anna Watts

Break Out Sessions

Warm Water Wisdom

 and Rebecca Czapnik

5:15pm

Sessions finish