Salon Series: Cultivating Birth Community Spiritual & Emotional Wisdom
Join Gena McCarthy for this month’s Salon Series. The evening will include a presentation, discussion, practices and tools to cultivate your own and your community’s spiritual and emotional confidence, strength and skill set for supporting women in the rites of passage of birth, abortions and miscarriages including healing trauma.
Cultivating Birth Community Spiritual Emotional Wisdom
Date: Tuesday, November 11
Time: 7:00 – 9:00PM
Location: 5648 Oak Grove Ave., Oakland, CA 94618.
Very close to Rockridge BART!
Location: 5648 Oak Grove Ave., Oakland, CA 94618.
Very close to Rockridge BART!
As always, light food and beverages will be served.
Cost: Free ($5-$15 suggested donation for BADP, no one will be turned away for lack of funds).
Accessibility: The space is wheelchair accessible (but the restroom does not have grab bars). Babes in arms are welcome. Please email salon_fund [at] bayareadoulaproject [dot] org or send us a note on facebook if you have any questions about accessibility.
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Speaker Bio: Gena McCarthy
Gena McCarthy RN, MFT is a perinatal psychotherapist, a certified EMDR (PTSD treatment), provider and a community organizer trained in Shamanic, Buddhist and Cherokee Peacekeeper teachings and cross-cultural ways of healing.
She specializes in supporting Birth Professionals, women and couple’s spiritual and emotional growth, empowerment and enjoyment on the journey of birth and parenthood, including healing any birth trauma.
Gena has been privileged to study and practice with a diverse range of communities and teachers in the fields of perinatal psychology, healing and spirituality.
She is a certified therapist in the Feeding Your Demons Practice developed by Lama Tsultrim Allione.
Over the last 30 years Gena has cultivated a non-judgmental nourishing and effective process to reclaim and heal birth stories for mothers, birth professionals and anyone who wants to heal their own birth story of coming into this world. This process brings participants greater ease in their lives, relationships, work and creativity.
Gena is an educator, a CE provider, a consultant and a community organizer for Perinatal Professionals throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
She co-founded the Contra Costa Perinatal Depression to Wellness Network and the Mt. Diablo Family Resource Network and was a co-developer of the Contra Costa Health Services Integrative Health Program.
Currently she offers Birth Professionals the following ongoing services:
- Prevent/Heal Trauma – Reclaim Miracles Birth Workshops
- Birth Professional Renewal and Healing Continuing Education Circle Series
- Birth Professional Certification Program to offer: Healing Birth & Mother Renewal Workshops
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