Expanding Our Paradigm of Empowered Birth
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Ideas for Promoting Empowered Birth Awareness Week
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You may use the artwork above for the promotion of all events relating to Empowered Birth Awareness Week.
Have a demonstration or free talk at a local library.
Make your own artwork like the one above to publicize this event-
use photoshop, crayons, paint or craft!
Display your artwork in the windows of your car, on your desk at
work, in the windows of your house - anywhere you can!
Make and publish a youtube video.
Have a video contest.
Blog about it. Ask your readership to com up with ideas for
promoting, or ask your readers to *do* something for this week.
Create a poster or a lawn sign to put out for this week.
FACEBOOK
- Post one of the pieces of artwork above as your facebook
profile picture for the week. Ask your friends if they would
be willing to do the same!
- Ask your readers to talk about empowered birth and share
their stories, photos and videos.
Plan a celebration or picnic with your local groups or ( midwives
and doulas) invite your past clients.
Join with birthworkers in your area create an event at a local park.
- Use the local community news, facebook, etc., to publicize
your event.
- Write a press release and e-mail, call, fax it to your local
newspapers. (click here for a WikiHow guide to writing a
press release.)
- Invite mothers to tell their empowered birth stories.
- Have a question and answer period for the public.
- Promote your own free class!
- Gather to tell and share empowered birth stories.
Tell everyone, and talk about this event. Use your networks to
promote as much as possible.
Put this news and our invitation to , " Make it your own," into
your newsletters, discussion groups, facebook pages, etc.
Make a youtube video describing what empowered birth means
to you OR make a video with those photos of YOUR empowered
Week.
Put an invitation to this event on your e-mail tag.
Create your own artwork like the one above to publicize this
event- use photoshop, crayons, paint or craft!
- Scan it and offer it to others to print and/or post.
- Make a sign in your language for others to use, e-mail it
to me and I will post it!
FACEBOOK
- Starting in August, choose any week and post one of the
pieces of artwork above as your facebook profile picture.
Ask your friends if they would be willing to do the same!
- Make a Facebook Event group for your local area. Ask
others to join. Create an event together and make it
happen! (example; Empowered Birth Awarness Week,
Northern NJ)
- Post the link to our Empowered Birth Awareness Week
Facebook group and ask everyone you know to do the
same.
Do you have an idea to share? Please e-mail me!
Please innovate, play and share! Encourage others to do the same by sharing with them the possibility of empowered birth becoming part of, "mainstream consciousness."
We will be continually updating this page. If you have an idea to add (or artwork to share) please e-mail me.
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What you can do now...
What you can do the week of September 5th to 12th.
To save the artwork
to your
computer:Right click
on the artwork and
Let's share what we know about empowered birth!
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"Dear Activist Friends, I love what Barbara is doing - her vision and her smarts about how she's going about it. We need to think strategically delighted to be a part of this. If you also want to know about THE TIME IS NOW - which Barbara is a Roundtable Participant in ( at my invitation ) email me: suzannebirthing@gmail.com and tell me you want info that the project. -Suzanne Arms, Birthing the Future
"I love your passion, I love your vision, I love your commitment and you know what? I SEE it and when I see it, I know that it IS the future. I am right there with you Mama and am already imagining what I can do for this week here in LA and online." - Stephanie Dawn, Sacred Birth Work
"You ROCK Barbara! Magic of Motherhood, and Pre and Perinatal Psychology Professionals are on board with you!! " -Jill Diana Chasse
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