WEBINAR: Crafty Reflections - BYOC Birth Worker Collage Workshop
Learning Objectives
How the fourth trimester is supported can have a profound impact on a birthing person’s healing journey and the health and well-being of the parent-child (ren) relationship.
- Are you looking for tools to better support your trans and gender expansive clients in their fourth trimester?
- Are you curious about what questions to ask to gain a deeper understanding of their needs?
- Do you want to learn supportive, practical mental health tools that can be integrated into your care?
Then this webinar is for you!
Workshop Description
Join Nat Turnbull, Full-Spectrum Doula, Health Educator and Artist for a reflective & meditative craft session for birth-workers and doulas.
We will gather virtually for a craft session focused on what we need as care providers, how we can care for ourselves in order to care better for our families, where we have come from and where we are headed as community members.
The medium of choice Nat will be demonstrating is collage but people are welcome to come with their own craft of choice and just vibe with us/reflect in the space. Doulas & birthworkers are invited to spend the time leading up to the workshop gathering preferred materials for their collages. Nat will explain and demonstrate a variety of collage techniques and lead folks through reflections while we all create.
Suggested supplies:
- Old books, papers or magazines, fliers, pamphlets or really any paper media you feel comfy ripping or cutting, you can even use old receipts (photocopy that doula book you love!)
- Any paper for us to work onto, it could be blank, lined paper, any old book sheet, scrap paper, other media gathered, it doesn’t have to be blank just able to be used for creating on
- Drawing/colouring tools (whatever you feel called to)
- Scissors
- Tape (whatever kind you prefer, i like transparent tapes)
- Glue (again any but i prefer glue sticks for their quick dry ability)
- Stickers
- Anything you want to collage really
Note: We will be collaging on a timeline so I highly suggest tape and/or glue sticks for speed and ease of use rather than a liquid glue! I use both often in my collages.
For example and inspiration:
- Check your neighborhoods for a free library on the side of the road, they often will contain a great picture/photography book, or national geographic.
- Interesting images may become a background or be folded to make a booklet
- An old Dictionary may provide you with all the words needed for a poem
- Images are glued on to create a collage.
The sky is the limit.
The world is your oyster
See you there!
This peer learning for doulas webinar is free to members and alumni of Doula School, Discover Birth, and The Nesting Place and is $35 for external participants. Participants will receive a certificate of attendance that can be used as 1 CEU (continuing education units) at Doula School.
About Host: Nat Turnbull
Nat Turnbull, they/them, is a Black Queer full-spectrum doula, health educator and multi-disciplinary artist. They have supported families and people moving through many life events, starting with fertility, pregnancy/birth, gender transition all the way to end of life care.
Nat specializes in textiles including sewing and crochet, they are passionate about creating art for art sake, art as activism, and art expression as a way of supporting community health and moving through complex emotions. Community care work is ingrained in their culture, and they have practiced it since childhood. They truly believe that access to community care has healing powers.
Nat is passionate about helping clients feel informed, heard and supported through life’s challenging events. They understand the impact that holistic support offers and how nonjudgemental witnessing can have a positive effect on moving through challenging moments and the emotions that arise when navigating new life circumstances, helping clients step into feeling confident facing life’s challenges.
Born and raised on the shared traditional territory of the Anishnaabe and Haudenosaunee Peoples. This land is part of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum, and is under the Haldimand Treaty of 1784, colonial known as Kitchener-Waterloo to a white settler and Jamaican migrant, Nat is now a settler on Treaty 13 territory, colonially known as Toronto.