Pre- and Perinatal Scope of Practice

with Graham Kennedy

Within the pre- and perinatal field, practitioners of many disciplines share a set of powerful, and sometimes controversial, ideas about how early experience shapes a life.

This series of four classes invites us to hold those ideas with both openness and discernment. Rather than asking whether pre- and perinatal concepts are simply "true" or "false," we will explore how to work with them responsibly within our own scope of practice.

The Practitioner in the Mirror

By virtue of their modality, reputation and way of working, practitioners tend to attract a particular kind of client: a Craniosacral therapist's waiting room looks different from a psychotherapist's, which looks different from a birth-trauma specialist's and each can easily mistake their own sample for the whole population.

This means the "evidence" accumulating in our practices is drawn from a pre-existing selection and we are primed to notice what our training has taught us to look for.

This session explores how these selection effects can quietly manufacture one-sided generalisations and how that risk connects directly to scope of practice: our particular vantage point shapes both who comes to us and what we perceive. We will look at practitioners in different disciplines to see how the same (imagined) client can be seen through completely different lenses.

During four sessions, we will learn about the process of transformation through conversations, practical applications, and embodied experiences. As we deepen into our capacity to “sense” we become more in touch with the Essential Body, as who we really are.

Session 2: As we open and experience the potential for growth, what often arises with the opening is resistance. An exercise with repeated questions allow us to explore and welcome the nature of resistance and its role in the process of providing the grit that allows the growth of presence.

Bundle offer

Pre- and Perinatal Scope of Practice Series

A series of four mentorship classes with Graham Kennedy

Class dates:
Monday, 14 September
Thursday, 22 October
Thursday, 19 November
Thursday, 10 December

Courses included:

Intermediate
Presentation
Group Discussion
90 minute class
life time access to recording

Learning outcomes

Deepen your insight into the concepts underlying pre- and perinatal practices
Increase your discernment around scope of practice within the pre- and perinatal field

who can this benefit

Practitioners working with pre- and perinatal principles
Anyone interested in the pre- and perinatal field and its approaches

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Meet Our Presenter

Patrick Jones - Course author