Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss
$100.00
Amy Wright Glenn’s self-guided, 15-hour, Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss trainings have strengthened and inspired birth workers, doulas, midwives, chaplains, and bereaved parents.
All are welcome!
Description
All are welcome to join Amy Wright Glenn for a self-guided, pre-recorded
15-hour Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss training.
*There is a 5-hour version of this course that is available and presented live by Institute teachers.
Learn more here
Amy Wright Glenn’s self-guided Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss trainings have strengthened and inspired birth workers, doulas, midwives, chaplains, and bereaved parents. It has helped shift the paradigm of our collective understanding of grief, pregnancy loss, and ritual.
To earn a certificate of completion, participants will: watch five 2-hour modules of study, keep a personal journal, submit a one 300-word reflection, and participate in an hour-long conversation about pregnancy loss.
All participants are required to read select portions of the following three books:
1. Holding Space — On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go by Amy Wright Glenn
2. Ghostbelly by Elizabeth Heineman
3. What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color edited by Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang
Please purchase these books, or have your local public library acquire them for you, prior to the beginning of our course.
There are three components to our study:
1. An introduction to Holding Space and the Companioning Model of Care outlined by Alan Wolfelt, Founder and Director of the Center for Loss & Life Transition.
2. An exploration of best care practices with regard to the various support networks surrounding bereaved parents.
3. A cross-cultural understanding of the healing power of ritual found in both religious and secular settings.
Certificates of Completion issued by the Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death
are offered for all who complete the training/workshop.
Articles on Pregnancy and Infant Loss by Amy Wright Glenn
Holding space for pregnancy loss ~ 3 components for doulas to consider
Poems that honor the postpartum body following loss
When the baby dies: Advice for birth doulas who companion the bereaved
Unconditional Support: A day in the life of an abortion doula
On gratitude and grief: Mother donates 92 gallons of breast milk following pregnancy loss
Miscarriage matters: In honor of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
* Birth Arts International offers 5 CEUs to members who successfully complete both the in-person and online Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss training.
This is the finest continuing education class I have ever taken. I learned so much about the topic, about myself, and my story as the mother of an infant who died at nine-days-old. Amy has a lovely manner of teaching. She is able to gently approach a very tough topic and make it so palatable. I can truly say I think I now know how to hold space in a way that I never knew before. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
~ Linda Reilly Blue, birth doula, Connecticut
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Amy’s training is fantastic, and many of our conference attendees said it was their favorite part of their experience! She approaches these difficult and emotional topics with amazing grace and confidence. Amy’s teaching style is so engaging, and she steadfastly guided us on such a beautiful journey over the short course of time we had with her (and we all wished we had more!).
~Margo Blackstone, Indie Birth Association
“OMG Amy Glenn’s course about loss is a MUST do. Amy did such a masterful job helping us understand grief and provided specific practices to help us be there fully for anyone going through loss.”
~ Jessica Jennings, MS, ERYT, RYPT, the Ma Collective – www.MaYoga.com
