Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss

Description

This March, join Amy Wright Glenn for a new, revised, online, and
live presentation of the 15-hour Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss training.

Saturdays
March 4, 11, 25 & April 1 & 8
2-4pm EST

**There is a 5-hour version of this course that is also available taught by Institute teachers.
Learn more here

The February 2019 self-guided training has been viewed by birth workers, doulas, midwives, chaplains, and bereaved parents. It has helped shift the paradigm of our collective understanding of grief, pregnancy loss, and ritual. Yet, it is 4-years-old.

Now it is time to update the training.

The forthcoming 15-hour March 2023 training will be newly revised with regard to updated research relating to pregnancy loss, grief work, and it will more intentionally center the stories of BIPOC and LGBTQ bereaved parents. This training consists of five 2-hour modules of study. Reading, writing, and personal reflection are central to preparing for each of the five modules. All modules will be recorded for participants.

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. 

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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