Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss
~ Five hour, Live Trainings ~
both online and in-person
Live in-person or online Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss Trainings are taught by inspiring/skillful Institute teachers and Institute founder Amy Wright Glenn. Institute teachers compassionately and wisely prepare participants to more confidently and clearly hold space for one of life’s most painful and devastating losses.
Note, these offerings are distinct from the 15-hour, self-guided, pre-recorded Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss online course. Learn more about that course here.
Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss
5-hour Online Workshop
$90 USD
*Scholarships available
Participants register individually with the teacher that is teaching their chosen workshop based upon the calendar below. Currently, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the course is taught online only by Institute teachers in accordance to the calendar listed below.
April 2021
April 10th ~ Join Institute teacher Dawn Welburn, for a 5-hour, online Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss training. The five-hour training will be offered in one session. 10am to 3pm CST.
To register, contact Dawn: dawnwelburn@gmail.com
April 20th and 21st ~ Join Institute teacher Joanne Zerdy, for a 5-hour, online Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss training. The five-hour training will be split into two sections. 10am to 12:30pm EST.
To register, contact Joanne: grow@invitingabundance.net
May 2021
May 18th and 25th ~ Join Institute teacher Dawn Welburn, for a 5-hour, online Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss training. The five-hour training will be split into two sections. 7-9:30pm CST.
To register, contact Dawn: dawnwelburn@gmail.com
October 2021
October 9th ~ Join Institute teacher Dawn Welburn, for a 5-hour, online Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss training. The five-hour training will be offered in one session. 10am to 3pm CST.
To register, contact Dawn: dawnwelburn@gmail.com
HOLDING SPACE FOR PREGNANCY LOSS Institute Teachers
Jae Carey trained with New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, and worked as a hospice volunteer and vigil attendant for the imminently dying with Visiting Nurse Service of New York. Interested in social justice, Jae also founded an award-winning doula program for women incarcerated on Rikers Island. She received her full-spectrum doula training with Ancient Song Doula Services, and then went on to become certified with Stillbirthday and The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death, as a Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss Teacher. Jae was adopted and grew up in Oregon. She now lives in Brooklyn with her son. greenwood.doula@gmail.com

Camille Hawkins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice specializing in Reproductive & Perinatal Mental Health. She began her career on the OB floor where she supported families in times of miscarriage, stillbirth, placing for adoption, and infant death. After a personal struggle with infertility and miscarriage, Camille founded the Utah Infertility Resource Center, a nonprofit organization which provides emotional support and education to thousands of families wishing and struggling to grow. In addition to supporting clients through professional counseling, Camille has spent years volunteering for local grief support organizations such as The Sharing Place and Share Parents of Utah. She is actively involved in research, advocacy endeavors, and serves on a number of community boards. Camille enjoys spending time with her husband and two daughters who joined their family through open adoption. She became a teacher for The Institute in honor of her daughter, Everly, who came from a surprise pregnancy after nine years of infertility, and died in utero at 31 weeks gestation. camillehawkinscounseling@gmail.com


Joanne Zerdy, PhD is a former university professor in theatre arts, Joanne brings her experience as an educator, researcher, and grieving parent to her work at Inviting Abundance, co-created by Joanne and her husband Will Daddario (Listen to their Circle of Care webinar HERE). In addition to teaching Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss trainings, Joanne facilitates an online Grief Mapping course, a Grief Pen Pal Project, and Creative Grief Workshops. She also utilizes her communication, writing, editing, and curriculum-design skills as an education consultant. As part of her personal grief work since the death of her baby boy Finlay, Joanne studies permaculture design and herbal medicine; she makes herb-infused honeys and herbal tea blends for Finlay’s Garden. She enjoys exploring the outdoors with Finlay’s younger brothers, Phalen and Ren, and, when time allows, drinking a quiet cup of tea. grow@invitingabundance.net