Presentations

Lecture Series

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 We offer Lecture Series / Presentations online and in person

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All presentations can be tailored for your organisation’s needs

All presentations can be the foundation for a workshop

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Pregnancy, Mental Health & Well-being.

Transition from a woman without a child to a mother.

Four tasks in which pregnant women engage:

  • Seeking safe passage

  • Ensuring acceptance of the child

  • Binding-in to her unborn child

  • Learning to give of herself

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Primary Language of the Infant

The importance of recognising infant states and infant cues. Understanding infant behaviour,state modulation, sleep and feeding

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Infant - Parent Dyadic Relationship

Bonding, Attachment & Attunement

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Advancing First Relationships

Introduction to the fundamentals of pēpi / infant - whānau interventions

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Maternal, Perinatal & Infant Mental Health

Mental Health issues can have a detrimental effect not only on the mother/mama but also her baby/pēpi, family/whānau and the wider community. This can result in delayed social & emotional development and mulitple regulation problems for the infant that may endure across the lifespan.

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“We know so much about infant development and the importance of relationship: why is it then we struggle to bring the research out of the labatory and into our daily work?”

Learning Objectives:

1. Review of research about infant development

2. Understand the importance of relationship to optimal development

3.  Understand implications of the research

4. Exploration of obstacles to implementing knowledge

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Hidden trauma: how emotional neglect & environmental chaos affect us all

Learning Objectives:

1. Better understand the nuances of neglect and environmental chaos

 2. Examine the capacity of the brain to develop in a use-dependent fashion, growing, organising and functioning in response to neglect and environmental chaos 

3.  Explore the clinical implications of neglect and environmental chaos

4. Discuss how to make a difference for people who have experienced neglect & environmental chaos

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The people we serve are experts by experience

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