About the workshops
Yewande 103 presents a series of 4 x free 2-hour workshops using movement & creative writing to have supportive conversations and connect with other bereaved parents.
Each session will start with a gentle ‘check-in’ and close with a guided check-out. We will also ensure time after each scheduled workshop for a break-out space for more informal connections between participants/opportunities and also space for optional sharing.
This will be a relaxed workshop environment, with tea, snacks and regular breaks.
The workshops are supported by South East London Local Maternity and Neonatal Services and will take place in South East London in Autumn 2023
There will be no time limit on when the bereavement took place. Loss can have happened at any point in a person's lifetime.
This offering is informed by the Yewande 103 team’s lived experience of baby loss & the wider social context around inequities within maternal health and parental loss.
About the Signing up
To register your interest, please complete this ‘start the conversation’ form:
https://forms.gle/F8R2dtdLs1Nm1DXp6
What to expect
The sessions will gently and collaboratively navigate themes of repair within loss, honouring self within the impact of loss, connecting to inner voice, exploring how voices have been received and held within current maternal care frameworks.
Each workshop will follow this loose structure:
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Welcome and group check-in
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Arrival warm-up
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Gentle movement practice
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Creative writing practice
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Group discussion and check
About the facilitators
The workshops will be facilitated by Yewande 103 and swole - a doula support company.
Swole offer emotional, physical, and spiritual support throughout the full spectrum of pregnancy, abortion/pregnancy release, loss, birth, and postpartum - walking alongside families during these precious, confusing, beautiful, messy, tender times. lilli is in lifelong learning to provide trauma-informed, anti-oppressive and gender-expansive care for all birthing people, partner(s), solo parents and families. lilli co-founded Kinhood - an LGBTQIA+ birth collective and co-facilitates a local journaling group and milk and musings - Peckham-based baby and feeding support group.