Mind Your Birth Practitioner

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Course Description

Mind Your Birth classes are based on the simple belief that birth is natural and normal, and that the female body is designed to conceive, nurture and give birth.

Become a MIND YOUR BIRTH Practitioner and enjoy the rewards of having helped a baby be born gently and naturally.

Many images, stories, movies and the media form deep beliefs in us from a very young age on. In the training you will learn visualization, breathing and relaxation techniques and how to DE-HYPNOTIZE expecting parents from the fears and misconceptions about birth that are hindering them from having a calm, natural and satisfying birth.

Course Objectives

How to assist, rather than resist your natural birthing instincts
What the fear-tension-pain cycle is, and how it affects the uterus
How the mind, thoughts, and emotions influences the body’s functions
Several breathing techniques including Birth Breathing which allows a woman to gently breath her baby into the world without the strain and stress of directed pushing
The importance of pre-birth bonding with your baby and ideas of how to do so
Proper nutrition and toning exercises
Building trust with your birth partner, ways for your birth partner to support you in labor, and how they play an integral part in your birthing journey
Understanding the stages of labor and the anatomy of birth
Self-hypnosis techniques for relaxation
Massage technique that release endorphins
Different Labor and birthing positions that can be beneficial and more comfortable for mom
Knowing how to respond if intervention is needed so you stay in full control of the situation
and much more

Course Content (Day 1):

Introduction to ‘Mind Your Birth’
The mindset
- What is hypnosis?
- De-hypnotizing misconceptions
- Explaining Fear-Tension-Pain cycle
- Mind-Body connection – examples and videos
- Understanding the physiology behind birthing
- Re-programming the subconscious
- The language for empowered birthing
- The Power of Affirmations
Breathing techniques
- Relaxation exercises
- Relaxation Breathing – a skill for life
- Surge Breathing – the best tool ever!
- Birth Breathing
Bonding
- Preparing your mind and body
- Bonding exercises
Self-hypnosis tracks
Birth music
Conditioning
Hypnotic anchors and triggers
Self-hypnosis, meditation and deep relaxation techniques & scripts
The power of visualization – incl scripts

Course Content (Day 2):

Preparing the body
- Working WITH not against the body
- Visualizations for an opening cervix
- Pelvic floor exercises
- Perineal massage
- Birth Preferences
- Hospital tour and Home birth preparation
- Signs when baby is nearly ready to arrive
- Handling Due date
- Staying active
- Maintaining a healthy diet
- Birth imagery and visualization
Circumstances that may require medical attention
- Symptoms that are not to be ignored
Avoiding artificial induction – Natural ways to start labour
Hypnosis Emotion Release session—Letting go of limiting thoughts, fears and negative messages – incl script
Breech presentation: hypnosis session to help the baby turn – incl script
The role of the birth companion
- What to do
- What NOT to do
- Techniques for comfort
- Light touch massage

Methodology:

The Workshop is highly interactive and includes Group Discussions, Presentations, Video Clips, Brainstorming Sessions, Practical Hands On Sessions,
Demonstrations, Role Play, Games and Activities, NLP Tools, Group and Individual Exercises

Delegates:

If you are a Hypnotherapist, Doctor, Doula, Midwive, Nurse, Physician or Physician’s Assistant, Healthcare Provider, Childbirth Educator, Yoga Instructor, Massage Therapist and are looking to expand your professional area of expertise this is for you
1 day Hypnosis basics is required prior to the course for non-Hypnotherapists.

Course Duration:

2 days.

Upon satisfactory completion of the course, you will receive:

Certificate from MYP Academy + lifetime support

About your Instructor

With a background in natural Psychology, Mona has always believed in the power of the mind, and the ability of self- healing.

She holds certifications in Hypnotherapy, NLP, Kinesiology, EFT, Pranic Healing, Emotional Intelligence, Pain Management, Transactional Analysis, HypnoBirthing, HypnoFertility, and Hypno-Coaching, and is the founder of the international program “Hypno-Parenting”

Since 2005, she is a certified and accredited instructor for Hypnotherapy through the NGH (National Guild of Hypnotists), and for NLP through the NFNLP (National Federation of Neuro-Linguistic Psychology)

In 2015, she founded the Lebanese Syndicate of Hypnotherapists, a milestone for the profession in Lebanon.

She also conducts various trainings such as Train the Trainer, Customer Service, Leadership, Presentation and Communication Skills at a wide variety of large and small organizations.

Mona has a keen sense to identify the factors that hinder the positive development of groups and individuals alike, and does so with creative techniques, along with a contagious passion, compassion, diplomacy and motivation. All of these have led to significant positive changes to the groups and individuals she has addressed and coached.

Mona appears regularly in TV interviews, and has inspired audiences speaking at industry events in Boston, Las Vegas, Zurich, Berlin and London, and corporate events in the UAE, Bahrain and Lebanon.

She has received the award for “Connecting Worlds” at the Hypnose-Kongress in Berlin.

Coming from an Arabic-European background, having lived in several countries and continents, and being fluent in 4 languages, Mona epitomizes the flexibility and understanding needed to adapt her training style to cultural, unique and individual needs.