Reflective Practice offers an opportunity to explore the relationship between your personal experience and professional practice. This intentional process helps to bring awareness to your practice, nurtures your wellbeing and fosters healthy workplace culture. As a facilitator, my role is not to provide answers, but to create enough felt sense of safety and space for collaborative sharing and learning. I offer a grounded presence to debrief, explore challenges and reconnect with purpose and each other.

For perinatal care providers, Reflective Practice offers a chance to step back and process the emotional and complex nature of your work. It supports you in making sense of challenging experience, and understanding how your own feelings and values show up in your care. This enables you to be grounded in truth and authenticity and prevents burnout which are all essential to continue compassionate support to the families you work with.

Benefits of Reflective Practice

Often times, what draws people to perinatal work is their own experiences as a mother, daughter, sibling or parent. Sometimes our work can be challenging in terms of the stories we hear, or the experiences we’re exposed to while caring for new mothers and families. Reflective practice provides a space to discuss such challenges, to debrief, reflect and learn. There’s an opportunity to ask questions, to feel heard and validated by peers who understand the work and are there to listen from a non-judgemental perspective. Bringing awareness to our own views, triggers and limitations enables us to practice in a clearer, more intentional way that allows for greater professional capacity.

Individuals and teams access Reflective Practice for a number of reasons, some of which may be to:

• strengthen cohesive practice and collaboration

• mitigate associated risks of workplace related trauma and/or burnout

• enable continuous learning and critical thinking

• invite individual/team challenge, rupture and repair

• acknowledge individual and collective team strengths

• improve care provided to mothers, particularly those experiencing vulnerability

• increase confidence and ability to fulfil your role

My background & experience

I hold tertiary qualifications in Social Science and Education, with further studies in Postpartum Care and Group Reflective Practice. Over the past 20 years I’ve worked across local government, education and the community sector bringing together clinical insight and relational care. In my career, I’ve received clinical supervision and Reflective Practice, both individually and as part of a team.  I know firsthand how valuable this practice can be for professional growth and personal wellbeing.  I since studied to become a Reflective Practice facilitator with the The Bouverie Centre and have been providing 1:1 and team sessions for midwives and doula’s. As a facilitator, my role is to create a calm and comfortable environment for meaningful reflection, connection and learning. As a facilitator and doula, I offer this practice to all specialising in perinatal care.

My Qualifications

• Graduate Diploma of Education / 2010-2011 / La Trobe University

• Bachelor of Social Science / 2000-2002 / Australian Catholic University

• Certificates Group Reflective Practice / 2024 / The Bouverie Centre

• Postpartum Professional / 2022 / Newborn Mothers Collective

• Psychodynamics and Systems / 2016 / Group Relations Australia

• Certificate IV TAE 41011 / 2015 / Plenty Training