Friday and Saturday Nights

Friday Evening Concurrent Sessions

7:00-8:30 pm Birth and Health: Bobbi Jo Lyman, Prenatal experiences and optimal well being; Morty Lefkoe, New techniques for changing beliefs; Robert Newman on "Calm Birth."

8:30-10:00 pm Healing With Water: David Sawyer, Rima Star, Ann Brook, Trudi Story, and Marina Alzugaray.

7:00-8:30 pm Therapeutic Interventions: Thomas Portney, Janet de Holl, Mary Owens, and Karlton Terry.

8:30-10:00 pm Body-Based Therapy: Marjorie Rand, Judyth Weaver, Christine Caldwell.

7:00-8:30 pm Abortion: Barbara Findeisen, Vicki Thorn, Jeannine Parvati Baker.

8:30-10:00 pm Adoption Stories: Susan Love, Marcy Axness, Leslie Pate MacKinnon, Laura Suciu, Terri Ann Lambert.

7:00-8:30 pm Restoring Soul to Birth: Benig Mauger, Marcella Lively, Elliott Isenberg.

8:30-10:00 pm Spiritual Practices and Birth: Ruth Carter, G. S. Kelkar and Kumuda Reedy.

7:00-8:30 pm Parenting: Preparing Body, Mind and Spirit: Carista Luminare-Rosen, Diana Lynn Barnes.

8:30-10:00 pm Empowering Parents: Bob Mandel, Aletha Solter, Win and Bill Sweet.

7:00-8:30 pm Resolving Birth Trauma: Existential Issues and Incomplete Early Developmental Stages: Diane Zimberoff, David Hartman.

8:30-10:00 pm Rebirthing & Processing Birth Trauma: An experiential group session led by Rhonda Levand.

7:00-8:30 pm Optimal Health With Music and Sound: Giselle Whitwell

8:30-10:00 pm Wise Women From Ancient Times: Learn to create mutual support for personal, professional, and political action: Sally Clark, Linda Jean Crammer, Catherine Henderson, Gina McCarty.

7:00-10:00 pm The Right of the Child to Genital Integrity: Marilyn Milos, Jeannine Parvati Baker, Steve Scott, Leo Sorger, Mary Conant, Miriam Pollack, Charles Bonner, and Rio Cruz.

Saturday Night

7:30-8:30
The David Cheek Memorial Lecture on Psychosomatic Obstetrics David Chamberlain, Moderator. Lecture by Leo Sorger, M.D.

8:30-10:00
Education Fair, Book Signings, and New Film Showings Films Shown:

Michael Trout's "Breaking Peaces: Babies Have Their Say About Domestic Violence" Barbara Findeisen's "The Psychology of Birth" Debbie Takikawa's "Birth: Invitation to Intimacy" Sheila Ganz's "The Heart of Adoption"