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The Beautiful Work Challenge
On Birth
The Beautiful Work Challenge addresses the work we do from law to medicine, engineering to agriculture, policing to politicking. How did we get here? What’s the endeavor’s essence? Is transformation worthwhile? TBWC are visionary voices who combine to assess their vocations. The premier is on birth.
The Essence tracks pre-conception to attachment, bonding & post-partum with Debra Pascali-Bonaro (Orgasmic Birth), Phyllis Klaus (The Doula Book), Ina May Gaskin (Birth Matters), Thomas Verny (The Secret Life of the Unborn Child) and David Chamberlain (Babies Remember Birth).
The Currency is the roots of disempowerment, media, and inquisition presented by Robbie Davis-Floyd (Birth as an American Rite of Passage), Penny Simkin (Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn), Betty-Ann Daviss (Birth Models That Work) and Michael Klein (Dissident Doctor).
The Transformational is policy, practice, crisis, and education through the experience of Ibu Robin Lim (Bumi Sehat), Angie Truesdale (Centering Health Care), Vicki Penwell (Mercy in Action), Karen Guilliland (New Zealand College of Midwives) and Ashley Hill (Birthmark Doula Collective).
THE ESSENCE
A trimtab is a small rudder on a huge rudder that directs the course of a ginormous vessel. Trimtabs: On Birth are visionaries with suggestions for conversation starters, short-term activities and long-term projects to transform the field of birth.
Debra Pascali-Bonaro, The International MotherBaby Childbirth Organization
Dana Walrath, Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College, Dublin
Heather Clarke, Frontier School of Nursing University,
Karen Melton, Somatic Practitioner in pre and perinatal psychology and health
Nese Karabekir, Birth With No Regret
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VIDEOS
THE ESSENCE
THE CURRENCY
THE TRANSFORMATIONAL
- Bumi Sehat
- Centering® The One Thing That Brings Me Joy
- Heather Clarke
- Rivka Cymbalist - Montreal doula headed to Greece to help Syrian refugee mothers
- Karen Guilliland - Virtual International Day of the Midwife 2018 Keynote
- International MotherBaby Childbirth Introductory Webinar
- An Interview with Hakan Coker and Nese Karabekir
- Mercy in Action
- Dana Walrath
- Kate White - Somatic Tools for PPN Educators: Understanding the Birth Sequence
WEBSITES
THE ESSENCE
THE CURRENCY
THE TRANSFORMATIONAL
- 10 Steps to Optimal MotherBaby Maternity Services
- Belvedere Integrated Healing Arts: Relief, Recovery, Resilience
- Birth Psychology Classwomb
- Birth With No Regret
- Birthmark Doula Collective
- Bumi Sehat Foundation
- Caffe della Pace
- Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs
- Centering Healthcare Institute
- Heather Clarke, certified nurse-midwife, professor, Frontier School of Nursing University
- Hakan Coker
- Childbirth Connection
- Rivka Cymbalist
- International Childbirth Initiative
- Nese Karabekir
- Robin Lim
- Listening to Mothers in California (National Partnership for Women and Children)
- The MAMMI Study - Maternal Health and Maternal Morbidity in Ireland
- Maternity Care (National Partnership for Women and Children)
- Mercy in Action
- Patrick Moran
- New Zealand College of Midwives
- Pain to Power - Positively Prepared for Birth
- Vicki Penwell
- Carol Sakala
- Transforming Maternity Care - A blog featuring Carol Sakala
- Dana Walrath, Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College, Dublin
BOOKS
THE ESSENCE
- Windows to the Womb: Revealing the Conscious Baby from Conception to Birth, David Chamberlain
- Orgasmic Birth: Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying, and Pleasurable Birth Experience, Elizabeth Davis and Debra Pascali-Bonaro
- Ways of Knowing about Birth: Mothers, Midwives, Medicine, and Birth Activism, Robbie Davis-Floyd
- Ina May Gaskin, Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta
- Tibetan Art of Parenting: From Before Conception Through Early Childhood, Anne Hubbell and Edie Farwell
- Bonding: Building the Foundations of Secure Attachment and Independence, Marshall Klaus, John Kennel, Phyllis Klaus
- The Doula Book, Marshall H. Klaus, MD, John H. Kennell, MD, Phyllis H. Klaus, MFT, LMSW
- Collected Poems: 1942 to 1985 by Judith Wright, Judith Wright
- The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, Thomas Verny
THE CURRENCY
- Birth Models That Work, Robbie Davis-Floyd (editor), Ricardo Herbert Jones, Betty-Anne Daviss (contributors)
- Saharasia: The 4000 BCE Origins of Child Abuse, Sex-Repression, Warfare and Social Violence, In the Deserts of the Old World, James DeMeo
- Dissident Doctor: My Life Catching Babies and Challenging the Medical Status Quo, Michael Klein
- Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn: The Complete Guide, Pennny Simkin
- Midwifery, Childbirth and the Media, Ann Luce, Vanora Hundley, Edwin Van Teijlingen
THE TRANSFORMATIONAL
- Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing
- International MotherBaby Childbirth Organization, Debra Pascali-Bonaro
- le 100 Soruda Dogal Dogum, Dr. Hakan Coker
- Birth Conspiracy: Natural Birth, Hospitals & Doulas--a Guide, Rivka Cymbalist
- New Zealand College of Midwives, Karen Guilliland
- Bumi Sehat Foundation, Ibu Robin Lim
- Placenta - The Forgotten Chakra, Ibu Robin Lim
- Like Water on Stone, Dana Walrath