Category: Portland Community

Attn Portland Doulas: Doula Meet and Greet at Nurture

September 4, 2009 | Filed under: Nurture, Portland Community, Portland Doula | Tagged | Comments (3)

Nurture will be hosting an open doula meet and greet…

On October 3, 2009 from 4-6pm, Nurture will be hosting a Doula Meet & Greet which will be open to the public. All local antepartum, birth, and postpartum doulas are welcome to attend. This is an opportunity for potential clients to meet local doulas face to face to get a general sense of compatibility. This event will be mix-and-mingle style, with light refreshments provided.

To attend this event, we request $10/doula. Doula collectives are welcome to have more than one representative, also at $10/doula. There will be no charge for the families to attend. Proceeds from this event will be used to help develop Nurture’s non-profit status and programs.

If you are a doula, please come prepared with business cards and brochures to be carried by you. There will not be table space for advertisements during the event.

To register, please send a logo, sized 129 x 75 pixels, in .jpeg format; your website address; & the names of each doula attending to info@nurturepdx. com. You may pay by credit card (go to www,nurturepdx/ doulameetandgree t.html) or check. Please make checks out to Mychelle Moritz and send them to Nurture, c/o Mychelle Moritz, 1614 NE Alberta St., Portland, OR 97211

We will be advertising this event at our Green Sprouts booth as well as various other locations.

We look forward to seeing you on October 3rd!

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Mothergarden at Nurture

August 14, 2009 | Filed under: Nurture, Parenting, Portland Community | Comments (0)

Mothergarden
A free drop-in group for moms & babies
Come meet other moms, laugh, cry, tell our stories, and most of all, support each other.

Mondays 10:30-noon, starting September 7
Nurture, Center for Growing Families
1614 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR  97211

Hosted by Welcome with Love Family Care, and Nurture, Center for Growing Families.

What is Mothergarden? Mothergarden is a space to relax and share your experience of being a mother, meet other moms, trade stories and suggestions, find the support you need, and simply enjoy the company of other moms & babies.

How did Mothergarden come to be? Mothergarden has been birthed from a lovely partnership between Nurture and Sarah Nuxoll of Welcome with Love Family Care. Sarah’s vision of helping women as they grow into their roles as mothers is perfectly complemented by Nurture’s mission to provide a warm and welcoming space for growing families to find the support they need. Our intention is to bring together moms & babies to help bring forth the collective wisdom, humor, and compassion that sustain and nourish us as mothers.

Who is invited? Although we created Mothergarden to help new mothers find support and companionship, we also welcome expectant mothers, dads & partners, grandparents, friends, and others who are interested in creating a parenting community to support each other.

For more information, visit Nurture, or contact Sarah at welcomewithlove@gmail.com.

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More Great Workshops at Nurture

August 13, 2009 | Filed under: Nurture, Parenting, Portland Community, Workshops | Tagged | Comments (0)
As part of the continuing parenting workshop series at Nurture, a Center for Growing Families in NE Portland, below are details for two innovative workshops coming up. The description was written by Sarah Nuxoll.
This month, on August 22nd, Nurture will present “Parents are People too: Reclaiming our Personal Expression as Parents.” This will be a fun workshop about the importance of honoring our own creative expression, and how to find new ways to do so in the midst of parenting.
Next month, on September 12th & 19th, due to continued interest, Nurture is again offering their two-part birth workshop: “Moving Beyond a Difficult Birth: Embracing Healing and Connecting with your Baby.” This is a powerful, transformative workshop for any mother who has experienced trauma around her birth experience, to help her with tools for healing and heartfelt exercises for reconnecting with her baby.
Please consider passing along this information to clients, colleagues, friends, family, or anyone who might enjoy or be helped by these workshops. If you would like to receive a hard copy (or several) of the flyer, please let me know.
Parents are People Too: Reclaiming Our Personal Expression as Parents
August 22, 2pm-4pm    $30

As a parent, it is so easy to get caught up in the flow of daily obligations, leaving little time or energy for expressing who we are and what captures our imagination. Yet this creative exploration is essential to feeling fulfilled in our lives, which in turn translates into feeling more relaxed and happy in our role as parents. In this workshop, we will explore fun ways for re-igniting our creativity, loosening up preconceptions around what it means to be creative, and finding new means of personal expression that work in our daily lives as parents.

Moving Beyond a Difficult Birth:
Embracing Healing and Connecting with your Baby

September 12 & 19, 2pm-4pm $45

The experience of birth doesn’t always happen the way we imagine. Intense emotions from a challenging pregnancy or birth can make it feel difficult to be fully present with our baby. These emotions need and deserve to be expressed and acknowledged, before we can allow ourselves to release them and begin true emotional healing. Then we can relax more deeply into a heartfelt, intuitive connection with our child.

Part One: Birth Healing through Story and Art

Telling our story in a safe, supportive circle of women can be a profoundly powerful experience. In Part One of this workshop, we will share our birth stories together, while exploring artistic and body-mind tools for expressing and releasing difficult emotions and inviting emotional healing.

Part Two: Connecting Deeply with your Baby

What babies most need from us, is heartfelt connection. In Part Two of this workshop, we will explore creative exercises for healing our emotional connection with our baby after a difficult birth, helping us bring forth our intuitive wisdom as mothers for welcoming our babies fully and lovingly into our lives.

Both workshops held at Nurture, Center for Growing Families, 1614 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR  97211. Sliding scale is available. For more information or to register, contact Sarah at 503.285.4906 or welcomewithlove@gmail.com.

About the presenters
Sarah Nuxoll
After several years of feeling frustrated as a parent, I began working toward deeper body-mind clarity and emotional and spiritual healing. Now I feel excited about helping myself and others to engage life, move with our creativity, and allow ourselves to feel happy as parents. In these workshops, I share insights from my experience as a mother of two, as a spiritual practitioner, and as a former apprentice homebirth midwife. I look forward to meeting you! (www.welcomewithlovefamilycare.com)
Mychelle Moritz
Having experienced the beautiful yet challenging transition to parenthood, I have developed a passion for helping women and their growing families. I am an artist, an art therapist, and a licensed professional counselor, as well as the co-founder of Nurture. My two active young children keep me very busy and I enjoy watching their creative antics. (www.nurturepdx.com)

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Options for Childbirth – Free Discussion

August 13, 2009 | Filed under: Childbirth Education, Portland Community | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Angie Gunter, a childbirth educator and owner of Confident Birthing, is hosting a free discussion on “options for childbirth” this Sunday, August 16, from 2-4 at Mamas n Papas on Burnside.  Participants will receive 10% discount in the retail store the day of the discussion.  Pre-registration is required by Saturday – so go ahead and contact Angie directly at confidentbirth@gmail.com.

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