Theme your Pregnancy Talking Circle
Learning through stories is the most powerful way of preparing for the birthing journey.
Do you want to provide meaningful connections to your pregnant clients?
Are you inspired to provide a safe space for mothers-to-be?
Are you a pregnancy yoga teacher or doula? A homebirth group host? (And not limited to these!)
If you’re a pregnancy yoga teacher running weekly classes, you might see how excited expectant mums are to share anxieties, learn from each others’ experiences, socialise and build a network for postnatal life. Are you ready to offer something new through a talking circle?
Or perhaps you’re a doula who tends to see pregnant clients and their birth partner privately. Do you want to bring your clients together to build community and mutual support?
Maybe you’re a homebirth group host and while you have lots of questions arise, would like to take the talking into deeper territory to address advocacy, agency and other foundational principles?
Next training date: 13th June 12.30-2.30 BST
Theme your Pregnancy Talking Circle
In this workshop, have time to explore the most productive themes for encouraging sharing. Often circle facilitators feel stuck about how to come up with a topic and introduce it to the group.
In this Theme your Pregnancy Talking Circle workshop, you will:
Explore five specific themes - how to introduce them, related open questions to encourage the flow of talking
Understand the process of creating your own themes and supporting material
Discuss how to deal with labour anxiety and birth trauma in a group
Reflect on the guidelines for sharing and checking in with new participants
Finishing the circle on a positive
Discuss the pros and cons of online vs in person pregnancy talking circles (both can work very well)
This is a standalone workshop, but works well alongside the Circle Fundamentals 3 hour workshop, which goes into detail about the key components of circle facilitation (welcoming, opening & settling, guidelines, managing group dynamics, integrating & closing).
Important: When you book your place, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link.
Nearer to the training date, an email with joining instructions will be sent so please ensure that you check junk mail if you don’t see the confirmation email and add hello@tessayoga.co.uk to your safe list. If you would like a receipt don’t hesitate to contact me.
Your tutor Tessa
Tessa has been a Pregnancy Yoga teacher since 2007 and a Pregnancy and Postnatal CPD trainer since 2020.
Her women’s circle has run since 2014, and she has also run Pregnancy; New Mum; Mother & Daughter; Perimenopause; and Yoga Teachers circles.
Tessa is a specialist in Yoga for Birth Trauma, working in a trauma-informed way with clients for baby loss, physical and psychological birth trauma, and pregnancy / postnatal anxiety.
She is the co-author of Circle Holding: A Practical Guide to Facilitating Talking Circles, Pearls of Birth Wisdom: An Inner Journey with Insights, Practices and Stories, and The Pregnancy and Birth Colouring Book with Yoga Nidra. See all 9 of Tessa’s books here.
She is the mum of two daughters.
Important: When you book your place, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link.
Nearer to the training date, an email with joining instructions will be sent so please ensure that you check junk mail if you don’t see the confirmation email and add hello@tessayoga.co.uk to your safe list. If you would like a receipt don’t hesitate to contact me.
Circle Holding Podcast
In series 1, listen to interviews with diverse circle facilitators talking on men’s circles, running circles with young people, running funded circles for new mums, enabling participatory democracy and much more. Episodes up to 30 mins long.
And listen to shorter episodes with Julia and Tessa talking about key circle concepts.
Listen through the Circle Holding website or anywhere you like to listen to podcasts like iTunes or Spotify