KMC Healing Hearts is bringing stillbirthday learning and healing to the Kaiserslautern area of Germany!
Sternenkinder mothers are welcome. These two, day-long events will help bridge gaps between civilian and local bereaved mothers, as well as offer advanced skills, methods and practices among both military and local healthcare professionals in responding to perinatal demise and the grieving family. The speaker is American but there will be help in navigating the language barrier.
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Registration
Here’s the pricing information ~ but scroll down for all of the details about the events!
This is going to be such a wonderful time!
Love Wildly
Saturday, March 28 ~ a healing event for all bereaved mothers {& spouses if you’ll like}
$40.
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Healthcare Professionals
Sunday, March 29 plus free full online SBD training session (with 30 nursing contact hours possible)
$75.
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Healthcare Professionals plus Textbook
{and a sponsorship of a M0M keepsake bag for Love Wildly}
If you’ll like to have a tangible part in giving to your local community, you can select this option and we’ll share at Love Wildly how you sponsored a gift bag for one of the attendees to receive. To thank you, you’ll also receive the text “Supporting Birth and Bereavement as a Doula.”
Sunday, March 29 plus free full online SBD training session
$100.
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I want to attend both days!
If you recognize room for healing in your own life, as well as a desire to gain more knowledge about supporting others, you may be interested in attending both days, and that’s so fantastic! We’ll love for you to be part of both!
$125.
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SBD Doula Healthcare Professionals
A discount for Sunday for already credentialed SBD Doulas.
$50
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Event Details
Learning Workshop:
Perinatal & Allied Healthcare & interested individuals
Doula für Geburts- und Trauerbegleitung {Birth & Bereavement Doula®}
Professionals and other individuals who support families during pregnancy, birth and/or postpartum are all invited to attend this workshop and learning presentation hosted by KMC Healing Hearts and presented by stillbirthday founder, Heidi Faith.
Individuals with no prior training, who simply desire to learn more about offering compassionate, educated support are also invited to attend.
We’ll spend the morning exploring the deeper meaning of perinatal and postpartum bereavement, pregnancy and infant loss cross-culturally, the barriers to comprehensive support for families meeting with both birth and bereavement, and through our exploration we’ll identify how our own beliefs about birth and bereavement may impact the families we serve.
Into the afternoon we’ll identify foundational principles that become the core of supporting families giving birth in any trimester and in any outcome, as well as begin to strengthen our skills in applying these principles into relevant situations.
Every workshop attendee also receives a complimentary enrollment into the full, comprehensive doula certification program, at a session determined by the attendee (we’ll talk about session selection at the workshop. The earliest certification session begins Monday, April 5, 2015, which compliments our time together quite nicely!).
What are the event details?
Venue
- The venue is the absolutely gorgeous Hotel Restaurant Barbarossahoff.
Times
- The times for both days are the same. They are:10:00am – meet and greet, get settled in
12:30-12:45 – small break
1500 (3pm) – closing, informal chatting if desired
Hotel-Restaurant Barbarossahof
Eselsfürth 10
67657 Kaiserslautern
Germany
Click here for a map
Hotel Barbarossahof on facebook
Date & Time
- Sunday, March 29, 2015 (Love Wildly for moms is the day before)
- late morning through early evening {10am – 3pm}
Bring
- Dress casually/comfortably
- Notebook and pen for notes
- Your own bottled water/money for food
Receive
- You will receive practical information and tangible support in your role as a birth professional coming alongside families meeting with both birth and bereavement.
- You will receive a complimentary handbook “Supporting Birth & Bereavement as a Doula” when you choose the Sponsorship payment option.
- You will receive access into our full online doula training and certification program for a session of your choosing (the earliest session begins on April 5, which compliments our time together nicely!). If you have already completed this training, you can gift your seating into the training to further develop your area support resources.
- Upon successfully completing the {free!} online portion of the training, you can obtain 30 nursing contact hours!
Giveaway Opportunity
One person attending on Sunday will be randomly selected to receive a copy of Ghost Belly, written by Elizabeth Heineman.
Elizabeth is mother of one stillborn and two surviving children. Her personal essays on her stillbirth have appeared in salon.com, Hip Mama, The Examined Life Journal and New Millennium Writings.
In her book Ghost Belly, Elizabeth offers valuable insight and comparison of her experience of giving birth in Germany to giving birth in the US under midwifery care.
Lisa is a professor in the Department of History and the Department of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. There, she teaches classes on Germany, Europe, gender and sexuality, and the history of Human Rights.
Printable Flyer for Event:
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Let’s ensure material items arrive on time for the events! Register before March 1 to be sure!
Event Details
Love Wildly for healing mothers and spouses
What is Love Wildly?
Stillbirthday created Love Wildly as an opportunity for mothers to find a refuge on the journey of grief, as a way to reprieve and reflect, as well as to harvest new skills and gather new tools for the journey ahead.
If you are a mother who has experienced pregnancy, infant or young child death, you are invited to Love Wildly.
If your partner would like to attend as well, we will have a healing activity for him and he can be involved in the story sharing time as well!
Who is Hosting and Presenting this event?
Host
- The KMC Love Wildly is hosted by KMC Healing Hearts, which is a community program offering doula services to KMC families giving birth in any trimester and in any outcome, including full term joyful birth, miscarriage, stillbirth, emergency births, NICU transfers, and what many mothers call “rainbow” births – a joyful, live birth when the mother has previously endured pregnancy and infant loss. KMC Healing Hearts provides this support to any mother within the Ramstein area including KMC enlisted or spouses, as well as native local mothers.
Presenter
- stillbirthday founder Heidi Faith is visiting from the US to guide us during this enriching time of healing
What are the event details?
Venue
- The venue is the absolutely gorgeous Hotel Restaurant Barbarossahoff.
Hotel-Restaurant Barbarossahof
Eselsfürth 10
67657 Kaiserslautern
Germany
Date & Time
- Saturday, March 28, 2015
- late morning through early evening {10am – 3pm}
Bring
- Dress casually/comfortably
- If you’ll like, please bring a photo of an item that is a keepsake for your beloved baby/ies (a photo of the item rather than the item itself is simply suggested because our items may be fragile or large and are certainly precious).
- Your own bottled water/money for food
Receive
- You will receive access to a private online group where only Love Wildly mothers are gathered, to continue to share, heal and grow together.
- You will receive special items to take home, valued over $150/ 122 Euro
Keepsake Gifts
- Gems of the Soil ~ Womb Wrap
- Living Lockets ~ Living Love Locket from Kelly Pickering, SBD
- Love Wildly exclusively commissioned keepsake journal
Giveaway Opportunity
One person attending on Saturday will be randomly selected to receive a copy of Ghost Belly, written by Elizabeth Heineman.
Elizabeth is mother of one stillborn and two surviving children. Her personal essays on her stillbirth have appeared in salon.com, Hip Mama, The Examined Life Journal and New Millennium Writings.
In her book Ghost Belly, Elizabeth offers valuable insight and comparison of her experience of giving birth in Germany to giving birth in the US under midwifery care.
Lisa is a professor in the Department of History and the Department of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. There, she teaches classes on Germany, Europe, gender and sexuality, and the history of Human Rights.
Love Wildly is an extraordinary opportunity to dare to speak truth to your own healing heart.
Please arrange childcare as this event is a quiet time for healing mothers.
Click to print:
Please register now!
Let’s ensure material items arrive on time for the events! Register before March 1 to be sure!
