Doula Conference 2025

Doula Conference 2025

Saturday

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9:30am

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

10:30am - Morning Tea

11:00am

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

11:45pm

Catherine McInerney
'Pregnancy Massage and its Multifaceted Benefits'

12:30pm - Lunch

1:30pm

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

3:00pm - Afternoon Tea

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'

Free Time

6:00pm

Dinner @ Roccella

Sunday

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9:15am

Jane Palmer
'Supporting clients to achieve a  positive birth'

10:00am

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

10:45am - Morning Tea

11:15am

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

12:00pm

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

12:45 - Lunch

1:45pm

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

3:15pm - Afternoon Tea

3:45pm

Anna Watts
Embracing the Shakti of Birth

4:30pm

Closing Ceremony

Conference MC

​Bethany Meakin

Opening ceremony

Misty Barth

Saturday

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9:30am

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

Morning Tea

11:00am

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

11:45pm

Catherine McInerney
'Pregnancy Massage and its Multifaceted Benefits'

Lunch

1:30pm

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

Afternoon Tea

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'

Free Time

6:00pm

Dinner @ Roccella

Sunday

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9:15am

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

10:00am

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

Morning Tea

11:15am

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

12:00pm

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

Lunch

1:45pm

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

Afternoon Tea

3:45pm

Anna Watts
Embracing the Shakti of Birth

4:30pm

Closing Ceremony

Conference MC

​Bethany Meakin

Opening ceremony

Misty Barth

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