* Program may be changed without previous notice

Friday, June 11

8:00 – 9:30 Registration

10:00 – 11:00 Opening ceremony
Doña Hermila Diego

11:30 – 12:00 Welcoming Message
Cristina Alonso

12:00 – 12:30 MANA US President’s Address
Geradine Simkins

12:30 – 13:30 Midwifery and Maternal Health in Mexico

Lisa DeMaria, MA (Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública)

14:00 – 15:30 Lunch

15:30 – 18:00 Afternoon Workshop Sessions

Management of obstetrical complications: Methodology based on the experience of the Centro de Iniciación a la Partería en Oaxaca, LUNA LLENA
Araceli Gil Archundia & Cristina Galante

Humanized Birth in Water Attended by Family Members: Experiences of the Humanized Water Birth Center at the Hospital Jose Maria Benitez de La Victoria in Aragua, Venezuela
Dra. Haydee Pacheco & Lcda. Sumire Vivas

Attending Breech Births at Home
Angelina Martinez Miranda

Out of Hospital Management of Women with Gestational Diabetes
Cristina Triviño

The Fourth Trimester: Holistically Accompanying Women during the PostPartum Period
Christina Zingrich Gazdag

Practical Teaching Tools for the Community Midwife
Judy Gabriel

20:00 Film Screening: Guerrilla Midwife

Saturday, June 12

(8:00 – 9:00 Nia with Anessa Maize)

10:00-11:00 Trust in Birth: A Vision
Makeda Kamara

11:30 – 14:00 Morning Workshop Sessions

Healing After a Difficult Birth – A Workshop for Midwives
Yeshi Neumann

Quantum Midwifery  and the Undisturbed Paradigm
Whapio Diane Bartlett

Alternative and Natural Treatments for Vaginal Infections and Human Papilloma Virus
Alison Bastien

Our Bodies, Our Sexuality and Our Vital Processes
Maite Gomez

Traditions and Rituals, Uses and Customs from the Highlands of Chiapas
Traditional Midwives from Tenejapa

14:00 – 15:30 Lunch

15:30 – 18:00 Afternoon Workshop Sessions

Using Jungle Essences of Costa Rica in Women’s Health
Christina Zingrich Gazdag

Offering Midwifery Services for Women Who Have Suffered Violence
Hogar Comunitario Yach’il Antzetic

Sobar para Sanar: Traditional Mayan Massage
Jacqueline McGrath & Doña Carmen Duran

Indigenous Birthwork: Including Humanized Birth in the Social Justice Movement in the United States
Michelle Peixinho

La Doula Nace… O Se Hace.
Elizabeth Cholow

Birth in Rural Guatemala: Mayan Midwifery
Traditional Midwives from the Highlands of Guatemala

18:30 MANA Mexico Meeting

21:00 PARTY!! at La Perfidia, Real de Guadelupe #66

Sunday, June 13

(8:00 – 9:00 Nia with Anessa Maize)

10:00-12:30 Morning Workshop Sessions

Water in Birth and More…
Guadelupe Trueba

Put yourself in their shoes: Accompanying from the Heart
Luzía Titan

Birth Returns Home: Birth & Midwives among the Inuit of Nunavut, Canada

Anessa Maize

What Really Matters: Memoirs of Remarkable Midwives
Geradine Simkins

Medicinal Plants of Oaxaca and Their Uses in Traditional Midwifery
Doña Hermila Diego

Brain Wave Patterns and the Holistic Stages of Labor
Whapio Diane Bartlett

12:30-13:30 Break

13:30-14:30 Closing Keynote Address: A Midwife for Every Woman
Yeshi Neumann

14:30-15:30 Closing Ceremony