The Womb Twin conference 2011 - all arranged!

Yes I know, there was no blog yesterday but I have an excuse..

I spent the day wrestling with web sites,  online payment portals and other such things and  I think I have ironed out most of the glitches in the online registration and payments for the next WombTwin annual conference, to be held in November.

It will be held in St Albans at the Pastoral Centre, which is on the edge of town surrounded by fields and woodland, and is a very peaceful place.

Visit their web site for more details

Who would want to come to a conference of this kind? Well, we have had womb twin survivors, of course, and also therapists who work with womb twin survivors, and  parents of womb twin survivors.  Also there are trainee therapists and counsellor who want  to learn more and some of our loyal supporters.  Some want to listen and learn others prefer  to be active, in workshops. Therefore we have two rooms:

A big room  like this:

And a smaller rom like this:

So we have a twin conference! Alpha and Beta!

How suitable.

We have pared the prices to the bone this year, so that everyone can afford to come:  £50 a head.

Register now!

Tomorrow I will begin a focus for the next 6 days on the healing path for womb twin survivors. 

The APPAH congress - I am to be a speaker!

Yes APPPAH  they have decided that they can't wait to hear about my womb twin survivors research!

This is what they say about the 2010 congress on their web site.

"The 4-day event will be held at the gorgeous Asilomar Conference Grounds on November 11-14, 2010.  Asilomar is northern California’s "Refuge by the Sea" making it an ideal location for attendees, as they come together to be in community with one another.  The theme of the conference this year is, Embracing the Science of Prenatal and Birth Psychology: What We Know and How We Know It.  That is, the congress is emphasizing the importance of research in our leading edge field.
So, why would a Congress theme on research be a good one for you to come to?  Have you ever had the experience of talking with colleagues about the validity of the prenatal and birth periods, only to have them raise a doubting eye?  Beginning your conversation with "Research shows that …" can help. But this Congress also emphasizes going beyond being just consumers of research to creators of it as well.  And learning more about the scientific method helps us in obtaining a greater understanding of our field (and ourselves!), and today’s world, much emphasis is on empiricism.  Thus, staying on top of that wave is important. "

"You will have the opportunity to begin each day with a meditation by the beach while walking on the Monterey Peninsula, communing and getting in touch with your body, mind, and spirit.  For your enjoyment, music will be played and vendors will be open, as you arrive and depart from the Keynote addresses."
 
"Also, this Congress has been planned to be a bit smaller than its predecessors.  It will remain rich in Keynote speakers (8) but have fewer presentations (15) so that the audiences for each one will be larger, enhancing the discussions.  Yet we have made every effort to provide a wide variety of topics and options that will help you optimize your Congress experience, even some scheduled time for you to enjoy the beach."

I will be presenting a rather more sophisticated version of the results I posted here last December.

A Powerpoint presentation, lots of handouts and a lot of books to be signed later!!!

Cant wait.

Press release for London Conference June 2008

I now have a press release.
I would be very grateful if any of you reading this would take a moment to email this link to anyone who may be remotely interested. This will be the first-ever conference on this subject.

The conference will be of interest to:

• people who know they are wombtwin survivors, or who lost their twin at birth
  
• people who wonder if they may possibly be a wombtwin survivor
• parents of a wombtwin survivor
• pregnant women who have seen a "vanishing" twin on the ultrasound
• medical professionals interested in twinning or multiple birth issues
• psychotherapists who have discovered wombtwin survivors in the course of their work
• psychologists and psychiatrists, interested in exploring pre-birth influences on human psychology
• specialists in pre- and perinatal psychotherapy
• counsellors who may have wombtwin survivors among their clients
  
• physical therapists (kinaesiologists, chiropractors etc)
• family constellation workers
• journalists who are interested in the fascinating story of how we remember the womb
  
  and so on!

A June conference: from theory to therapy

Well, it's under way now. I have managed to organise a conference, the first of its kind in the world. It will be held in London on June 21st 2008 and the theme will be "From Theory to Therapy".

Its time to stopped theorising about wombtwin survivors and began to take action. What form the therapy should take is anyone's guess, but the 30-step "healing path" that we have gradually created over the last few years does seem to be very helpful. (Its an e-book now. Get it here if you want it.)

I will give an updated presentation about the lost twin in the womb, that will be like the one on the website, but including some of the latest research results.

Our new non-profit company, Wombtwin.com Ltd, is rapidly collecting members from the UK and Europe, and of course members get a discount on the conference ticket - the usual kind of thing. We also have "Associates" who live outside Europe. (That's free, so people like signing up to that!)

For anyone reading this who wants to know more, here is the brochure to download right now!

So, here we are, back from Ghent, from an international conference. The organisation details here:

The conference venue was Ghent in Belgium: lovely place, here are the details of the conference.

I gave a talk about the results of my research, (delivered with several others under the general title of "controversies in obsterics") which went down like the proverbial lead balloon because I had not subjected my data to Multivariate Analysis of Covariance : silly me. I was told to find someone who would help me write the questionnaire questions and someone to help me create some kind of useful statistical analysis. The inference was that then and only then would anyone take me seriously......

The questionnaire is coming along nicely, it is now in its 6th generation and there are 30 already. As for the statistics, I found a psychologist with the necessary software who just happens to be an expert on vanishing twins and has undertaken the task and has all my research files which I just happened to have with me on my flash drive (hooray!) So watch this space for statistics to astonish the nation!

It makes me very sad that I have to spend so much time and energy convincing people of an obvious (and already statistically proven) fact, and that is that 10% of the population are the sole survivors of a twin or multiple pregnancy and the loss of their twin or multiple(s) DOES leave some kind of impression on the survivor.

I also learned that when you see a twin pair you may (or may not) be looking at a reduced triplet set, and there is no way of proving that either! In the light of this, the whole idea of using twins as research tools for testing genetic inheritance seems rather an uncertain science to me, against which my results are beginning to seem positively robust!