A Mentorship Program About Indigenous Parenting Wisdom from Before Conception Through Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond.
Created and Facilitated by Dr Antonella Sansone, Integrative Clinical & Health Psychologist, MA, PhD, Author
1 Credit
US$250
Four meetings of two hours each; please reach out to Antonella to set up the meetings across different time zones.
To receive the link and for payment contact:
WhatsApp: +61 413792897
If you attended the ‘Mother of Medicine’ Summit you will receive 15% early bird discount.
Overview
Delve into a comprehensive learning journey that intertwines indigenous wisdom with contemporary science. Through her journey with her husband and two young daughters into the world of a remote African tribe, Dr Sansone offers a view that is completely different from what is usually portrayed as the human condition. Journaling, observations, interviews with Himba women, and stunning photos by her professional photographer husband portray stories of integrated, shared motherhood and childcare and offer insights into the quest of how connected in our society we are to Motherhood and Femininity. You will be inspired by an extraordinary experience with one of the very few indigenous cultures still living like in the pre-colonial time, uncontaminated by the Western influences of colonialism. This unique mentorship program will provide you with a profound understanding of the wisdom that has guided mothers and humanity for millennia sustaining health and education and forming a strong female lineage. It offers insights to apply in healthcare - therapy, counselling, and maternal and infant health support, and everyday life, to recreate the ecovillage and an interconnected world. It highlights the need for honoring and introducing this ancestral heritage in the training of healthcare providers for the wellbeing of mothers, babies, families, and communities. Here is a call for a more feminine-mammalian-oriented approach to maternal healthcare beginning from before conception and creating a continuum into postnatal life.
What You Will Learn
· Nature/Nurtured-Based Practices: Indigenous pre and perinatal nurturing practices have sustained individuals and community’s health, resilience, and stability for 99% of our history, fostering emotional regulation, human capacities and values, and behaviors - a state of cooperative, selfless, compassionate gracefulness which sow health and wellbeing.
· Cultural and Ecological Stability: These human capacities are cultivated in early life and passed on undisturbed through generations, thus ancestral wisdom is maintained, and cultural and ecological stability are secured.
· Implicit Memories and the Functions and Language of the Body: Understand the fascinating connection between early pre and perinatal experiences and the gracefulness and fluidity of indigenous bodies and gestures, especially while handling babies, sustaining emotional and physiological co-regulation and health. Discover the body and posture as carrying the story of our childhood nervous system, including the prenatal period.
· A Mindfulness Compassion-Based Approach to Healthcare: Explore ways of knowing and being that we can learn from indigenous wisdom practices to develop attunement, empathy and compassion, emotional regulation and interconnectedness, fundamental for mothers and children to thrive and for mothers to be the leaders of supportive communities.
· Rethinking Attachment and a Systemic View: towards relational embodiment and wholeness prior to birth and multiple attachments fostered by the elders and entire community as a source of health and wellbeing. Understand the prenatal foundations of attachment, the mindbody/somatic narratives, and relational richness of multi-layered connections with the community and Nature. Explore what it means to embrace the full web of relationships embedding an unborn and newborn baby’s life and transform isolation into a mindful community.
· Protective Factors: Expand our understanding of the protective function of early maternal mindfulness, interoception and mother-baby nurturing relationship, allowing the child to develop a sense of safety, trust, and resilience to thrive. Learn how indigenous collective wisdom, their sense of belonging to a place, to every element of Nature, to their people and to themselves have sustained conception, uncomplicated pregnancy, birth, motherhood and secure attachment for millennia
· Energy Field and Sensory Communication System: Understand the roots of mother-baby attunement and cohesive communities, essential to pick up babies’ bodily cues and meet their basic needs, as babies are sensitive to energy fields. Learn how this sensitivity to relational energy fields is preserved throughout life in indigenous cultures thanks to the consistent transmission of pre and perinatal nurturing practices from one generation to next.
· Trauma As a Relationship Crisis: Analyze how some of the most pressing challenges we face today, the health and flourishing of life on Earth, are the result of a relationship crisis, disconnection from ourselves, the community, and the Earth.
· The Continuum in Human Development and Health: Acquiring an expanded view of human development and health which begins before conception and moves through early childhood in an unbroken continuum in care. Learn how pregnancy, birth, and developmental trauma, a product of our society, can undermine babies’ wholeness and parent-baby relationship and their development prior and post-partum, and suggests ways for prevention and healing.
· Towards a Pre and Perinatal Mindfulness Relationship-Based (PMRB) Program/ Approach: Learn practical applications of the PMRB program/approach piloted in Dr Sansone’s PhD, which integrates ancestral lineage wisdom with pre and perinatal psychology and re-affirming scientific findings, enabling participants to adapt the principles to their theoretical orientation and practice.
· Systemic View/Approach: Learn how to advocate for community and systemic support that incorporates ancestral indigenous wisdom as a model of life sustainability on our planet to integrate with modern sensibility.
Dr Antonella Sansone Antonella received her Honors Degree in Clinical Psychology in Italy, master’s degree in the UK, and PhD in pre and perinatal mental health and mindfulness in Australia and undertook indigenous field-studies in Africa. She is a certified mindfulness teacher, an established author and international speaker. She married David Southwood, who was born and grew up in Africa and has worked as a safari guide and wildlife professional photographer. This has offered her and their children the unique opportunity to access remote tribes and witness their lifeways. She has received several academic awards for her international exceptional achievements in her field and contribution to Australia’s society by driving innovation. She has lived in Australia for seven years with a curiosity for Aboriginal culture. These rich culturally diverse experiences fostered her cultural sensitivity and respect, shaping a trauma-informed and compassion-based approach to pre and perinatal healthcare. She has published three books in the same interdisciplinary field and several articles in scientific journals as well as magazines. Two new books are being finalised, including the one on her experience with the Himba. Antonella is the creator of the Pre and Perinatal Mindfulness Relationship-Based (PMRB) program piloted in her PhD. You can find further information about Antonella, her healthcare service, courses, publications, photos of her experience with the Himba, and the PMRB program on www.antonellsansone.com (under re-construction).