Storykeeping for Doulas: Cultivating Radical Listening Presence
Storykeeping for Doulas: Cultivating Radical Listening Presence is a class that uses chaplain, midwife, and doula skills to teach active listening, container building, and narrative stewardship techniques. It introduces participants to the transformative power of eliciting and caring for our clients’ personal narratives, and it teaches the deep listening and curious inquiry skills that make space for and support the sharing of fertility, pregnancy, birth, loss, and postpartum stories in client encounters.
Abby Hall Luca
MA, CPM
Rev. Abby Hall Luca, MA, CPM is a life-long post-secondary educator and administrator in the fields of Writing, Literature, Midwifery, and Chaplaincy; she has served birthing families in Alabama, Maine, New Hampshire, and India as a midwife, doula, placental encapsulationist, and childbirth educator; and she is an ordained interfaith chaplain whose private practice The Hearth Chaplain supports the strictly secular, the devoutly religious, and everything in between in the search for spiritual meaning, purpose, and wellness. Abby and her steadfast partner Stephen, her magical daughter Ruby, and her moody cat Banksy live in a rambling old farmhouse at the foothills of what are now called the White Mountains, on Abenaki land known to its current occupants as Maine.