Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs

04/11/2025

Join us for the Hall of Honor Ceremony, https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdf6Y3mZL2wgTOwGkxjiBbMNbKCs4eNTONXAWqqFr2HjclRww/viewform

November 12, 9 am Eastern time, 7 am Mountain time, 6 am Pacific time in the US. This wonderful ceremony honors those who have made significant contributions in prenatal and perinatal psychology and somatics. We have some well known people in this list, cherished in our US PPN Culture: Phyllis Klaus, Cherionna Menzam-Sills. The other people in this esteemed list are also known to our community and are amazing. Come and listen!

Thomas Verny will open the ceremony. It is 1.5 hours. Click th elink and register!

23/10/2025

As a parent and therapist who works with estranged adult children, it is evident to me that all parents (including myself!) make mistakes. What all parents do not do is work to repair and make amends for those mistakes.

Adult children didn’t want perfection; they want accountability.

23/10/2025

Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) is pleased to release the Indigenous Knowledge Focus Group Advancing Indigenous Knowledge from Theory to Practice Report. The focus group brought together Indigenous Knowledge Holders, ICC leadership and staff from across Inuit Nunaat (Alaska, Canada, Greenland) for three days in Anchorage, Alaska, with a goal of moving Indigenous Knowledge from theory to practice. The discussions highlighted three overarching themes: Inuit self-determination in research and monitoring, Indigenous data sovereignty, and co-production of knowledge.

You can read the report on our website athttps://iccalaska.org/wp-icc/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ICC-25-Knowledge_Focus_Group_Report-R2_V8-1021-JB-Digital_Pages.pdf

iccalaska.org/our-work

23/10/2025

20/10/2025

Hall of Honor, Honoring Marti Glenn, IPPD News, And MORE - https://mailchi.mp/ppncenter/october-2025

14/10/2025

Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics Updates - https://mailchi.mp/360643f782aa/ippd-updates

10/09/2025

Womb Surrounds, In-Person Sessions, Fall Schedule - https://mailchi.mp/ppncenter/september-newsletter

04/09/2025

https://youtu.be/jnBLxFTH3QU?si=uWRxWnD8HxwILgsE

Join us to unlock the transformative approaches for mending earliest wounds, realizing the consciousness of babies and how early experience shape us, understand family dynamics, and foster a nurturing and supportive home environment that allows every member to thrive.

Thursdays in October
October 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30
10 am - 11:30 am Pacific Time

https://prenatal-and-perinatal-healing-online-learning.teachable.com/l/pdp/family-healing-summit

Join us to unlock the transformative approaches for mending earliest wounds, realizing the consciousness of babies and how early experience shape us, underst...

03/09/2025

Arizona IPPD Graduates, Family Healing Summit, Womb Surrounds, Honoring and Welcoming! - https://mailchi.mp/ppncenter/september-2025

22/08/2025

Honoring Michel Odent
I met Michel Odent (July 7, 1930 - August 19, 2025) through my work as the Director of Education at the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health. I was able to interview him for the Journal , and remember feeling transformed as I relistened to our talk as I drove home. He is someone who has transformed so many. He has written so many books, and helped establish a revolution in the care for birthing people, through awareness and practice. He was an obstetrician and a surgeon. I remember Mary Jackson saying she went to spend time with him in his clinic where had birth pools and gentle birth practice. I remember his saying that optimal conditions for birthing people were to have the person labor in a dark, cave-like room with a midwife in the corner, knitting. He helped establish the Primal Health Research Center in London, and designed a database, the Primal Health Research Database. His books include:
Birth Reborn (1984, Pantheon, NY)
Primal Health (1986. Century Hutchinson. London)
Water and sexuality (1990, Penguin Books)
The Farmer and the Obstetrician (Free Association Books)
The Caesarean (Free Association Books )
The Scientification of Love (Free Association Books)
The Functions of the Or***ms: The Highways to Transcendence (2009, Pinter & Martin Ltd.)
Childbirth in the Age of Plastics (2011, Pinter & Martin Ltd.)
Childbirth and the Future of Homo sapiens (2013, Pinter & Martin Ltd.), reissued as Childbirth and the Evolution of Homo sapiens in 2014
Do we need Midwives? (2015, Pinter & Martin Ltd.)
The Birth of Homo, the Marine Chimpanzee (2017, Pinter & Martin Ltd.)
The Future of Homo (2019, World Scientific Publishing Co. Ltd.)
Planet Ocean (2021. Clairview Books).
Can Humanity survive Socialised birth? (2023. Pinter & Martin).
He was a gamechanger of a person for our world. He lived long, and left a legacy. Thank you so much Michel Odent.

12/08/2025

https://prenatal-and-perinatal-healing-online-learning.teachable.com/p/family-healing-summit
Join us to unlock the transformative approaches for mending earliest wounds, realizing the consciousness of babies and how early experience shape us, understand family dynamics, and foster a nurturing and supportive home environment that allows every member to thrive.
Thursdays in October
October 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30
10 am - 11:30 pm Pacific Time

Dive into the transformative journey of mending family bonds with our engaging interactive series designed for anyone yearning to foster deeper connections and heal wounds that come from prenatal and perinatal challenges. Explore the core subjects of healing from birth trauma, understanding the baby...