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Lectures and workshops

with Veronika Sophia Robinson

Veronika Robinson, editor & author, is available for lectures, keynotes and workshops throughout the UK and abroad. She speaks on a wide variety of topics in the field of optimal parenting.

If you're looking for a powerful, dynamic and unique speaker for your university/college, conference or gathering, please contact Paul Robinson at The Mother magazine (+44 (0) 1768 897 121) for further information such as availability and fee schedule.

Brief biography

Veronika Robinson founded The Mother magazine in 2002. Read worldwide, it advocates conscious and optimal parenting. She is the author of:

• The drinks are on me
• Cycle to the Moon
• Fields of lavender
• The compassionate years
• And a contributing poet to Howl at The Moon

Veronika has worked as a spiritual celebrant since 1995 and officiates at weddings, namings and Blessingway ceremonies.

Along with her husband Paul, she created the Peaceful Pregnancy CD in 1995 (available here) and co-founded the National Waterbirth Trust in New Zealand. She organised the Holistic Parenting Expo in 2005 and has hosted three family camps for The Mother magazine. Veronika is a holistic breastfeeding counsellor.

Veronika regularly appears in the media as a passionate advocate for parenting naturally.

She lives in the Eden Valley, Cumbria, UK, with her husband Paul and their daughters Bethany and Eliza.

Lecture/workshop topics include:

• Conscious conception: an intimate journey of self-discovery and healing
• Primal paradise: the importance of a harmonious womb life
• Implementing holistic practices into modern maternity care
• The Freebirth Revolution: why women are reclaiming their birthing power with unassisted birth
• The unbonded mother and child ~ root cause or outcome of a dysfunctional society?
• Daycare: the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff
• Attachment parenting ~ redefining the label
• Unstructured play: a necessity of wholesome childhood
• Child-led learning ~ the heart of true education
• Feeding our children whole foods in a fractured world

Breastfeeding

• Milk miles: the devastating costs, environmentally and culturally, of not breastfeeding
• Insurance for a peaceful society
• Child-led weaning ~ following nature's agenda
• Weaning naturally
• Optimal infant nutrition
• Non-nutritive sucking: a key ingredient for all children
• Full-term breastfeeding: chained to our children or feminism in action?
• Prioritising breast milk consumption in NICU and SCBU
• Reclaiming the sacred feminine
• The necessity of two and half years breastfeeding as a precursor to emotional well-being and stability in adulthood
• Breastfeeding ~ a spiritual continuum

Menstruation

• The sacred cycle: reclaiming ancient memories and rites for a modern world
• Menarche: from girl to wombyn