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Gearing up for 2006

While thinking about Japan, I have also been sorting out my program for next year. It is already starting to fill up, with the Preparing for Birth and Parenthood Conference in Australia (February), the Home birth Conference in Bristol, UK, in March and a training program for the UNFPA in Iran in April. Once again we will be presenting the Preparing for Birth Conference in the UK in July this time. There are also a number of other workshops scattered in and around these events

Meanwhile, I am working on a series of new teaching aids and some fantastic new products we will be launching in early 2006. The next catalogue is taking shape and will be finalised in late December, ready for printing and distribution in January. It is always fun deciding what is out and what is in, especially with so many books, videos, teaching aids and birth equipment on offer.

Next week we being the Effective Prenatal Education program in Sydney. This is a five day intensive workshop that will equip childbirth educators with they skills they need to facilitate parent education programs: working with groups, program planning, managing group dynamics, effective presentations, using teaching aids and a whole lot more.

The people in this group are from all over: New Zealand, Finland (!), Singapore and some from Cairns, Adelaide and Sydney. It will be fascinating to work with these women from such diverse backgrounds and places and I look forward to learning more about what they are doing.

Posted by andrea at November 20, 2005 01:31 PM