Spring and Early Summer Greetings!
Clinic News
This summer, Dummerston Healing Arts will be offering the usual schedule of sessions available Monday through Saturday. I see as many as 5 clients on Saturdays so don't hesitate to call and make an appointment. I will be starting to work late on Tuesdays.
Mon, Wed, Thur, Friday: Varies
Tuesday: 4 pm, 5:30 pm and 7 pm
Saturdays: 9 am, 10:30 am, 12 noon, 2 pm, 3:30 pm.
New Services
Clients have been asking for private sessions for play with their children, and for private Conscious Pregnancy sessions.
I now offer these opportunities:
Family Play Sessions: For families with small children, these sessions offer opportunities to learn about early patterns and how to shift them, if need be.
Private Conscious Pregnancy Sessions: For pregnant couples, the sessions last an hour and a half, and offer opportunities to:
- Engage with your own story;
- Learn about the prenatal period through the lens of pre and perinatal psychology;
- Practice simple meditation techniques;
- Learn healthy patterns associated with embryological development;
- Create expressive art to explore your feelings about becoming or expanding your family.
All sessions cost $60 until September 1, 2007, when the clinical rates change.
Serving Families
Dummerston Healing Arts wants to serve families in a better way. If you have ideas about what that might look like, please let me know. My work is based pre and perinatal discoveries from neuroscience, discoveries now being published in many materials available for the lay reader. My colleagues and teachers have started clinics and formed non-profits so that many families can access services like those I provide. One such clinic is BEBA: Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment: A Center for Family Healing in Santa Barbara, CA.
Spotlight: "BEBA families work with trained facilitators who utilize approaches that respect the innate wisdom of the child and seek to understand the child's perspective and experience. This model brings together the best of body oriented therapies and pre and perinatal psychology, including craniosacral therapy, playing, modeling, movement facilitation, role-playing and focusing on pacing, tempo and establishing harmonic resonance." For more information, see http://www.beba.org
This is the direction I am going, although it may be some time before I can establish a not-for-profit center. Lois Trezise and I are forming a partnership through the Conscious Pregnancy, Conscious Birthing work we do. Upcoming Opportunities with us are:
- A Four Week Conscious Birth Class Starting Mid August - For Couples Due in Early Fall.
- An Eight Week Conscious Pregnancy, Conscious Birthing Series Starting the end of September
For more information, contact me at 802-254-8080, or kate@dummerstonarts.com
Other News
Dummerston Healing Arts is offering the preschool program, Makin' Tracks, as a summer intensive June 25-29. More information available.
The Research on Children in Nature, a powerpoint presentation is now available at http://www.dummerstonarts.com/resources.php, and I am available for in-service training of preschool and child care professionals. I will once again be traveling to Washington, D.C. this summer and next spring to train teachers and give presentations on working with children in nature.
Stay tuned for a new fall schedule: More appointment times will be available Wed, Thurs, and Friday. Babytime and Toddler-time classes will be offered Mondays, and Makin' Tracks will be offered Tuesdays.
Rate Change as of September 1, 2007: Session fees: One hour: $65, an hour and a half: $90.
Thanks again for your patronage. Let me know how I can serve you better! ~ Kate
Makin Tracks Summer Camp
Makin' Tracks : A Nature-Based Program
for Preschool Children
Summer Camp!
Makin' Tracks offers a special nature-based curriculum that is based on different elements in nature. Each class has a theme, with play in the nature schoolroom, circle time, storytelling, snack, craft, and lengthy play and exploration outside. For children age 3-5 (2 year olds can come with caregiver.) Space is limited.
Weeklong Summer Camp
June 25-29, 20079 am Ð 12 noon
Fee: $100
Free class and meet the Instructors
June 21, 2007, 9 am - noon
Call to register 802-254-8080
About the instructors:
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Kate White created the curriculum for Makin' Tracks in 2002. Her credentials include BA and MA in communication with a focus on non-formal education and indigenous knowledge. She is a certified massage therapist, and craniosacral therapist, and has focused on pre and perinatal psychology, child development, early childhood programs, and the neuroscience of human relationships over the last 8 years. With over 17 years as a health professional, she has developed numerous classes for families and children, and her work has informed nature-based programs for small children in many locations.
Cara Benedetto was an Apprentice at the Vermont Wilderness School for 2 years and went on to found We Belong to the Earth, a beginning naturalist program.
