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The first Wednesday of each month, our resident licensed trauma counselor, Rhea Dempsey gets together with our Accredited Members and offers group counseling. We recognise that over time as birth workers we can accumulate our own vicarious trauma from attending births.Rheais here to help us work through this, keep birth sacred, birth workers mental health safe, and keeping us mind, body, and soul, healthy. To attend our monthly counseling sessions, you can apply to become accredited by taking the quiz here. Accredited members access your call link via your member dashboard. About Rhea Birth Educator, Doula, Counsellor, Trainer, Author. Rhea’s understanding of birth has been gained over four decades of attending births, counselling and educating on birth issues. She is recognized as an insightful commentator on the difficulties women, who have a yearning for normal physiological birth, face in navigating contemporary birth culture. Her book Birth with Confidence: savvy choices for normal birth, explores the issue of embracing the physiological pain of birth and the importance of experienced support. While Beyond the Birth Plan: getting real about pain and power explores the deeper emotional and psychological dynamics impacting birthing potential Rhea is the mother of three adult daughters, and five home born grandchildren.

IAPBP’s 15th Annual Image Competition entries open on January 13, 2025. Submissions are $25/entry with unlimited entries allowed. Please look out for the release of the rules on the home page or in our menu tab closer to entries open date. In order to submit to the Image Competition, you are required to be a member. To become a member click here: https://birthphotographers.com/join

Each quarter we host a mentorship program with a new mentor. This enables us to cover each geographical location and language. Q1 is based on the USA timezones, however anyone is welcome to attend and take part in it. You do not need to be located in the US. Replays will be available if you are unable to attend live and as we host more programs, they will be available as replays to ALL emerging members, meaning you’ll have access to the archives. The purpose of the mentorship program is to gain a pathway to accreditation. At the end of your mentorship, your mentor will help you create a portfolio for submission should you choose to submit prior to your 12 month emerging membership ends. If you are approved, you’ll receive a discount code for your first year for the difference between your emerging tier price and your accredited tier price. In order to take part in our mentorship program, you’ll need to sign up to our Emerging Program. Still have questions? You can watch the video here. / Become an Emerging Member by clicking here.

Each quarter we host a mentorship program with a new mentor. This enables us to cover each geographical location and language. Q1 is based on the USA timezones, however anyone is welcome to attend and take part in it. You do not need to be located in the US. Replays will be available if you are unable to attend live and as we host more programs, they will be available as replays to ALL emerging members, meaning you’ll have access to the archives. The purpose of the mentorship program is to gain a pathway to accreditation. At the end of your mentorship, your mentor will help you create a portfolio for submission should you choose to submit prior to your 12 month emerging membership ends. If you are approved, you’ll receive a discount code for your first year for the difference between your emerging tier price and your accredited tier price. In order to take part in our mentorship program, you’ll need to sign up to our Emerging Program. Still have questions? You can watch the video here. / Become an Emerging Member by clicking here.

The first Wednesday of each month, our resident licensed trauma counselor, Rhea Dempsey gets together with our Accredited Members and offers group counseling. We recognise that over time as birth workers we can accumulate our own vicarious trauma from attending births.Rheais here to help us work through this, keep birth sacred, birth workers mental health safe, and keeping us mind, body, and soul, healthy. To attend our monthly counseling sessions, you can apply to become accredited by taking the quiz here. Accredited members, access your call via your member dashboard. About Rhea Birth Educator, Doula, Counsellor, Trainer, Author. Rhea’s understanding of birth has been gained over four decades of attending births, counselling and educating on birth issues. She is recognized as an insightful commentator on the difficulties women, who have a yearning for normal physiological birth, face in navigating contemporary birth culture. Her book Birth with Confidence: savvy choices for normal birth, explores the issue of embracing the physiological pain of birth and the importance of experienced support. While Beyond the Birth Plan: getting real about pain and power explores the deeper emotional and psychological dynamics impacting birthing potential Rhea is the mother of three adult daughters, and five home born grandchildren.