Hosting Spinning Babies Workshops
I offer Spinning Babies© Workshops in areas where I am traveling already, perhaps to see family. Its not often I can say yes to requests, but here is what you would want to know if you were to host a Spinning Babies, Belly Mapping©, or Resolving Shoulder Dystocia© Workshop.
- How long is your workshop? Varies w workshop, 3-6 hour range.
- Will you have CEU's available? For some of them: MEAC CEUs.
- How much does it cost normally? Varies w location, workshop.
- What do we need to supply for you? Explained below.
- Will you be bringing your workbook for purchase or does it come with the course? Spinning Babies includes the workbook.
- What is the smallest number you will do a class for at one time? 16
- What is the largest number who can attend the class at one time? 24
- What size room do you need? Large, see more below.
- Do I need to fill anything out? We can get you a contract.
- Does taking your class mean that I will be certified? No, it means you attended the class. Certification is not yet available and will be a longer process.
Usually, I'll set up more than one workshop in an area and they can be hosted by the same or multiple hosts.
Spinning Babies© approaches the topic of Optimal Fetal
Positioning with attention to a mother’s tone and pelvic symmetry through the 3
Principles of Balance, Gravity and Movement. At the Spinning Babies Workshop, we
look at the effects of posterior position on pregnancy and labor, and practice
activities for pregnancy comfort, optimal fetal positioning, cesarean avoidance
and labor progress.
Belly Mapping© how-to’s are included in the day-long
Spinning Babies Workshop. A Belly Mapping and painting presentation for parents
may be offered as a public presentation the night of, or before, the Spinning
Babies Workshop. Conditions apply. All Spinning Babies participants can attend this
without another fee.
Gail Tully, CPM, developed Spinning Babies and Belly Mapping to empower both the parent and the birth professional. Spinning Babies workshop is for the provider.
Gail requests about 2 hours to set up for any workshop.
Seating shall be prearranged in a semi-circle. She also needs 2 hours to clean up. Help is very appreciated and necessary by the hostess!
Spinning Babies Workshop 9-4:30 with a 90-min. lunch break from 12-1:30.
16 participants minimum and 24 maximum. Spinning Babies is for those attending births or working closely with birthing women. It’s a packed day: The Three Principles, anatomy, causes of malpositions, effects of the posterior presentation, preventing malpostion through pregnancy activities, labor patterns, including whether it is CPD or not via labor pattern, and labor progress techniques. Belly Mapping is included from 10:15 to 11 am without the belly painting portion. Our pregnant model helps in Belly Mapping and pregnancy techniques from 10-12. Gail will send notes about picking this pregnant volunteer.
Belly Mapping (2 hours) includes Belly Painting for the first 6
pregnant women. How to Belly Map for parents and providers. This is a fun
session for all!
Gail also offers Midwifery level workshops:
Resolving Shoulder Dystocia© (RSD) (3 hours, 3 MEAC CEUs, OR 5 hours, 5 CEUs) lecture, video clips, and practice with a doll and manikin (local), or doll and pelvic box (traveling). From Gaskin to FlipFLOP, McRoberts and PAC Pull, find how to pick the right technique for each type of shoulder dystocia. Dress comfortably because we practice on the floor. (For Midwives, Physicians, L & D nurses and advanced students/apprentices only.)
Resolving Shoulder Dystocia can be given in a 3-hr evening or a 5-hour day.
"Very good workshop.. My mind is pretty much blown. I really want my co-workers to attend this workshop." - A. Young, former L and D nurse, California
The 3-hr RSD can be booked for 6:30 pm of the same date or
the 5-hr RSD can be booked for the following day (not previous) and must be in the same location of the
Spinning Babies Workshop if held on the next day. Hosting can be by the same or another sponsor. You can also have Gail come and do the RSD workshop without having the Spinning Babies, but midwives will understand RSD much much better after Spinning Babies! Fetal positioning and shoulder dystocia are related more than has been explained by other sources, so the concepts lead one to the next nicely. RSD is for birth attendants and their students,
sorry, no doulas or parents at RSD. Maximum 24.
Contact hours provided.
Gail
provides MEAC CEUs (continuing education units). Gail will send the required
documentation when other CEUs/CMEs are desired and obtained by the sponsor.
Cost of Workshops
There
are two ways to have a workshop; as a sponsor or as a hostess. Some duties are
the same: Books the room, communicates frequently through email with Gail
and the participants to help fill the class and meet participants’ needs. Set up refreshments, seating, and help with AV equipment. The hostess receives
2 places in exchange for her help and has no financial responsibilities. The
sponsor keeps any profit over the cost of Gail’s fee in exchange for paying the
cost of the flight and hotel room.
Pre-registration with Sponsor
When
the sponsor arranges registration, the sponsor sets the registration fee. The individual sponsor is responsible
to pay the honoraria for Gail’s workshops and arrange ground transportation to
workshop(s) from the airport and lodging. One night hotel stay for each full
day; or a private room in a non-smoking home very near the workshop is paid/arranged
by the sponsor. Airfare is paid for by sponsor, unless Gail is local. Payment
is due the day of the workshop. The sponsor keeps any profit from this
arrangement or pays any difference. For more details, ask Gail for a pdf. with these descriptions in more detail.
Pre-registration with Gail, hostess option
When
Gail does the registrations, the hostess doesn’t pay an honorarium, but does
arrange room and ground transportation and fulfills the hosting duties of the
sponsor, such as lodging and refreshments. The hostess gets 1-2 free
registration for the sponsor and another person. Gail sets the registration and
if the class isn’t 2/3 full within 3-4 weeks prior Gail will cancel and refund
the participants, minus the small online reservation charges. Gail may ask a helper to take
registrations at the door when there is room.
Honoraria
This
is what the sponsor who takes registrations is responsible to pay Gail:
Spinning
Babies 6 hr workshop or two shorter workshops in one day: $1,500-1900 US depending on whether airfare is paid separately or not.
When Spinning Babies is done during the day and RSD
or Breech Update is done that evening there may be a separate sponsor, but in the
same location. The evening workshop costs $500 if in the same room or $700
elsewhere.
A second day (2 full days of workshops, not including eve) can be added for a reduced honorarium.
A pre or Post-Spinning Babies Belly Mapping Session for the
public (parents and others) can be added for $20 per participating pregnant
woman/couple. The book is included in the fee. A professional photographer is
highly recommended.
The hotel room must be in the same
hotel as the workshop when held in a hotel, or nearby if not. Nonsmoking,
please. An iron will be needed if you don’t want to see me in wrinkles. Conference
organizers, please contact Gail to discuss your plans for the arrangements.
Size of Workshop
Plan
a workshop with 24 registrants. The room must be
large enough to accommodate a
semi-circle (2-3 rows are ok) and space to try out the movements on the
floor near the seating. Semi-circle seating is very important. Ask for the room map.
If
Gail is giving a lecture without hands-on practice time other seating
arrangements will be fine. A
lecture can have as many people as comfortably cared for.
Audio-Visual Needs
For
all workshops we need an easel and large pad of paper and table at the front of
the room. Except Belly Mapping, others need, either a large screen tv with
computer plug in, DVD player, or a projector that can be hooked-up to my
laptop.
I
have adapters for a mac to a pin-cable… if that makes sense. Or I can use the slideshow on a stick and the movies on a DVD player.
Before Booking a Location
Please let me know about the location before booking it. I’ll want to know that the room is large, clean (not a storage area, for instance), carpeted, private and we have good AV. A waiting room of a birth center is seldom ideal…
Things to consider about location to make your workshop a success:
Include the full address with zip on all emails, notices, and flyers so people can "GPS" or "google" the location.
Is this a place where doulas and midwives currently meet?
Is this place in the neighborhood where birth alternatives are supported and are "the norm"?
Is the place available to set up the night before? Or by 7 am in the morning of the day-long workshop? Til 5-6 pm?
Is the location free, available for trading a registration, or low cost?
Is the location within a 20-minute drive of a favorite hospital, favorite doula or midwife meeting location, and/or urban center? (Consider booking a hospital conference room if it is large, private, carpeted, clean, centrally located, and free.)
Is the actual site easy to access with off-street parking?
Please contact Gail with any questions or suggestions for making your workshop experience fun, useful and bonding for your group or program.
Gail Tully, CPM
10545 Humboldt Ave So
Bloomington, MN 55431-3118
612-817-3144 c
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