New 2008 Schedule Coming In Late October Community Seminars Keynotes and Presentations Seminars, Workshops, and CEUs

One of my goals is to find avenues to teach the core essence, the guiding principles, and specific ways to incorporate the incredible benefits from the field of prenatal and perinatal psychology, energy psychology, and integrated early development. Specifically to help various professionals groups, organizations, practitioners, and interested persons to incorporate these benefits and information into their unique profession and life.

The material is so profound, so relevant, and offers new hope of how we can prevent early traumas and constrictive life patterns and how we can support wholeness and self-actualizing patterns from the very beginning of life. It holds a beautiful message that speaks to new avenues to meet our deepest needs to be seen, heard, respected, loved, safe, and included from the beginning of life.

Whether we are working with adults or with children and young families, PPN gives a new lens to view our patterns, challenges, and health issues. Energy psychology is helping to give us more elegant and self-empowering tools to shift our constricted patterns into more life-enhancing ones. - Wendy Anne McCarty

5/12/08 Most of my focus during 2007-2008 as been as faculty member at SBGI, www.sbgi.edu, and as the Director of Natural Family Living~Right From the Start Program in Santa Barbara, CA, www.naturalfamilylivingsb.org

Optimizing Pregnancy, Birth, Baby’s First Year… and Beyond
A Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Summer Series With Leading Experts

A Santa Barbara community series of one-day workshops and a film event for professionals and parents to explore best practices for raising healthy, resilient children, supporting loving relationships, and healing at any age. We now understand that our earliest experiences set in motion our core life patterns. In this series, learn and experience key principles and skills to heal stress patterns and to optimize potential.

Friday August 1
Film Night with Leading Edge Experts: Try It On Everything

Watch the newly released film, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT): A Universal Healing Aid, as 10 people work with master EFT professionals to heal a wide variety of emotional and physical issues. Learn from a panel of experts how to use EFT for yourself to relieve stress, achieve greater health, and more of what you want in your life. This technique is particularly appropriate for young families.

Panel includes:
Wendy Anne McCarty, PhD, RN, D.CEP
Gloria Arenson, MFT, D.CEP, Past President of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, author of Five Simple Steps to Emotional Healing, and psychotherapist in Santa Barbara.

TIME: 7-9:30  (6:30 pm registration) $15/per person
Limited Reserved Seating – registration required

Saturday August 2
Optimize, De-Stress & Heal during Pregnancy & for Birth
Utilizing Energy Psychology Tools: EFT, TAT, HeartMath

With Wendy Anne McCarty, PhD

Parents and professionals will explore new principles and learn effective leading-edge energy psychology techniques to optimize pregnancy, birth and bonding for the whole family! Learn how to include your baby and strengthen prenatal bonding in the process. Observe demonstrations and learn to work with your key issues from past, to present, and planning for the future!

9 am – 5 pm, 6 CE units for Nurses, MFT, LCSW
Held at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute
Santa Barbara, CA

Register by May 31, 2008: $115
Register after May 31, 2008: $145
$25 CE certificate
For more information about the entire series and to register:
Contact Alice Richardson at SBGI: 963-6896, #107

The following two dynamic seminars are already approved for 12 contact hours continuing education. The seminars are crucibles of many years of clinical experience as well as the latest research presented in a user-friendly format. A brief description of the seminars follows below. If you’d like to bring one of these dynamic, informative, inspiring and life changing seminars to your area, email Dr. McCarty to set the date:
Nurses: Provider #CEP13505 approved by CA Board of Registered Nursing, Wondrous Beginnings
MFTs & LCSW’s: These courses meets the qualifications for an approved school to provide CE as set forth in Sec. 1887.6a and is provided by Santa Barbara Graduate Institute
Doulas: Approved under CA Nursing Providership
Midwives & Nurse-Midwives: Approved by ACNM

Being with Babies: What Babies Are Teaching Us
Supporting Babies’ Integrated Wholeness from the Beginning of Life

One weekend 12-hour course specifically designed for everyone involved with babies from preconception through infancy: Health professionals, midwives, nurses, doulas, psychotherapists, lactation consultants, childbirth and parent educators, social workers, early childhood specialists, and other healing arts practitioners who support families having their babies.

The field of prenatal and perinatal psychology has been mapping our life in the womb, birth, and early infancy from the baby’s point of view. New understandings demonstrate babies are conscious, aware, learning intensely, and communicating meaningfully from the beginning of life. Therapeutic work with babies reveals new ways to support wholeness and to understand and help babies’ stress patterns.

This dynamic and interactive seminar provides a new lens, a way of perceiving babies that can be effectively added to all interactions and interventions with babies and children.

We stand at the threshold of a new era of understanding how to best help babies in the womb and at birth create an optimal blueprint for life. During the 20th century, we gained an immense understanding of infant development and optimal early conditions as technologies enabled avenues of investigation such as the contribution of brain imagining to understanding the critical relationship of social-emotional experience to brain development; and, ultrasound imaging’s contribution to understanding babies meaningful behavior in the womb. The vital importance of our earliest experiences in the womb and at birth for lifelong health and well-being is increasing supported.

Now the next level of understanding and knowledge of babies is emerging from the field of prenatal and perinatal psychology. Documented clinical experience with babies has revealed babies’ capabilities to be conscious, aware, and communicative (even in early prenatal life) far beyond what has been recognized until recently.

During the 20th century, we focused on the ‘biologically based’ infant development. Our understanding of babies in the 21st century now grows to appreciate that CONSCIOUSNESS is central to understanding and supporting babies to flourish and grow in our evolving world. Larry Dossey, M.D., in his book, Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing, leads us to comprehend the value of medicine that reorients us to include CONSCIOUSNESS. Now we begin to reorient our perceptions, conceptions, and ways of being with babies towards the greater connection between mind-body-spirit from the beginning of human life. New possibilities of optimizing human potential even in the womb are emerging when we bring consciousness into our model and our ways of being with babies.

During this course, participants will:
-Experience subjective changes in state of being associated with moving into slower, more coherent state during centering exercise.
-Gain familiarity with the field of prenatal and perinatal psychology (PPN) by being introduced to the field’s history, key principles, and clinical examples.
-Learn to differentiate models of early development and be introduced to:
A new model of development and its key principles that integrate mind-body-spirit and PPN research and clinical findings,
Theoretical and clinical frameworks that hold integrated model.
-Gain appreciation of the importance of self-reflection of practitioner beliefs about babies and early development and of working with own implicit life-patterns associated with own early experience.
-Gain familiarity with the clinical research and theoretical framework of our sentient nature from the beginning of life.
-Learn key early imprinting experiences that can lead to life enhancing or trauma based development.
-Learn identifiable impacts of prenatal and birth experiences and interventions on imprinted physiology and infant behavior that directly affect bonding, ability to self-regulate, and nurse successfully.
-Learn key elements of PPN oriented history prior to pregnancy, during pregnancy, and during postpartum for baby, mother and father.
-Learn key principles for Being with Babies that incorporate PPN clinical findings and research.
-Watch video footage of therapeutic interactions with babies and experience PPN and Being with Babies principles directly.
-Experience and learn specific new recommendations for interacting with babies to support resolution of early trauma, successful bonding and nursing, and optimal growth and communication.
-Have the opportunity to discuss issues in incorporating this course’s material into their professional practice with young families.

Access Blueprints for Change: Healing Adult Patterns
Rooted in Prenatal and Perinatal Experience
Compelling Implications form Prenatal and Perinatal Clinical Experience and Research

This dynamic and interactive seminar provides a “PRIMER” in prenatal and perinatal psychology. New research indicates womb/birth/bonding experiences profoundly shape our subconscious, brain, emotional, physical and relationship orientation. Growing evidence relates many adult dysfunctional/trauma patterns to our earliest experiences. Participants learn to identify key potential early imprints and later identifiable life patterns.

Our prenatal and birth experience and ensuing blueprint form our subconscious programming, which functions as automatically as our heart and breath. This core infrastructure determines our very perceptions, conceptions, and beliefs we have about our world, our relationships, and ourselves.

How we are conceived, carried, and birthed matters greatly. As we learn to identify and understand key early blueprints, a whole new realm of understanding of current patterns emerges. We become more empowered to heal the limiting patterns. By recognizing, acknowledging, and healing constrictive core early imprinting, we become freer to discover more of who we are and help others become more of who they are.

Attention is given to how this new lens of prenatal and perinatal psychology can strengthen and expand assessment and intervention in a wide variety of healing art practices. Practitioners are encouraged to examine their own early experience and current beliefs and patterns.

During this course, participants will:
-Gain familiarity with the field of prenatal and perinatal psychology (PPN) by being introduced to the field’s history, key principles, and clinical examples.
-Learn to differentiate models of early development and be introduced to
A new model of development and its key principles that integrate mind-body-spirit and PPN research and clinical findings,
Theoretical and clinical frameworks that hold integrated model.
-Gain appreciation of the importance of self-reflection of practitioner beliefs about early development and of working with own implicit life-patterns associated with own early experience.
-Gain familiarity with the clinical research and theoretical framework of our sentient nature from the beginning of life and implications over the lifespan.
-Learn key prenatal and perinatal imprinting experiences that can lead to life enhancing or trauma based development.
-Learn key elements of PPN oriented adult history and assessment. 
-Learn identifiable patterns seen in adulthood that are associated with early PPN experience.
-Gain awareness of the importance of addressing adult patterns as becoming parents.
-Watch video footage of therapeutic interactions with babies and experience principles directly.
-Learn, experience, and practice utilizing one energy psychology tool (EFT) for working with PPN patterns.
-Have the opportunity to discuss issues in incorporating this course’s material into own professional practice.

A third course is available and can be modified as a third day to the weekend seminars, or as a separate workshop. It can be given as a one-day as described below. The weekend seminars offer more extensive theoretical understanding and video therapeutic vignettes for more in-depth study of the impact of prenatal and perinatal period and ways of being with babies. This workshop is to learn an energy psychology healing modality to work with current issues utilizing a prenatal and perinatal perspective.

This 6-hour workshop provides practitioners with basic assessment and specific repatterning tools to identify and release life-diminishing/dysfunctional patterns anchored in our earliest imprinted prenatal and perinatal experiences. Participants will have the opportunity to examine and practice energy psychology tools with their own prenatal and perinatal material.

Participants in this one-day seminar receive:
-Brief introduction to prenatal and perinatal psychology and key principles
-Learn key nodal key early imprinting experiences that lead to life-enhancing or diminishing patterns
-Receive prenatal and perinatal assessment/history form
-Introduction to the field of energy psychology
-Introduction to the specific healing tool, EFT
-Observe Dr. McCarty utilize EFT to work with prenatal and perinatal issues
-Utilize EFT in practice sessions with own early imprinting
-Integration-mapping and addressing life themes and patterns with EFT
-Discussion of application in participant’s practices and personal use

How we are conceived, carried, and birthed matters greatly. Research spanning multiple disciplines and avenues of clinical practice dramatically illuminates the incredible opportunity during each stage of prenatal and perinatal experience to set in motion life enhancing or life diminishing core patterns.

Our prenatal and birth experience and ensuing blueprint form our subconscious programming, which functions as automatically as our heart and breath. This core infrastructure determines our very perceptions, conceptions, and beliefs we have about our world, our relationships, and ourselves. Most people have stress/trauma imprints from this early period that anchor many life-diminishing patterns, such as fears, phobias, eating disorders, unresolved grief, relationship problems, self-esteem issues, career blockages, and issues of isolation and Divine homesickness. 

As we learn to identify and understand key early blueprints, a whole new realm of understanding of current patterns emerges. We become more empowered to heal the limiting patterns. By recognizing, acknowledging, and healing constrictive core early imprinting, we become freer to discover more of who we are and help others become more of who they are.

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is a very powerful effective and easy tool to learn and incorporate in one’s personal life and into any healing/supporting practice. EFT is a unique emotional form of acupuncture. While the person tunes into the problem, they tap a series of acupressure points. This system addresses the structure of how the problem is held in the person’s energy system. It ‘unlocks’ the problematic patterns and helps to restore the innate growth-oriented flow of energy. People then naturally move towards more life-enhancing thoughts, feelings, choices, and actions. 

TAT (Tapas Accupressure Technique) www.tat-intl.com

Heart Intelligence Tools (HeartMath) www.heartmath.org

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