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.

Pre-Speech Memory versus Reconstruction in Hindsight

Much of our work rests on the idea that pre-verbal and even prenatal experience can be "remembered" and can surface in the present. A client tells you, in vivid detail, what it felt like to be born. How much of that story did the client bring, and how much did we help build through a leading question, a guided image, or simply by adhering to our own model.

In this class, we will explore the important distinction between personal narrative truth and biographical truth; how a reconstruction can be genuinely meaningful and even healing without being literally accurate; and the responsibility this places on us not to inadvertently install or confirm memories that were never there.

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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Patrick Jones - Course author