Midwifery Wisdom
Online International
Conference 2026!
Midwifery Wisdom Collective is thrilled to announce our Annual Conference — completely online!
Join us for inspiring sessions with international speakers, including Dr. Hazel Keedle, Dr. Sophia Johnson, and Dr. Gauri Abbi Lowe, Christie Davis and many more!
We’re thrilled to once again bring you the ultimate midwifery event of the year—Our Annual Midwifery Wisdom Conference (Online)!
When is it?
January 17-19, 2026
Join us for three inspiring days of learning and connection. All sessions will be available on-demand for two weeks after the final release, giving you plenty of time to watch at your own pace and balance your participation with client and birth commitments.
Where?
Online — wherever you are!
The Conference will be fully virtual! No travel, no missed births, no rearranging your schedule. Learn, connect, and grow from the comfort of your own home, clinic, or on the go.
What's included?
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Learn from 10+ expert speakers from around the world sharing insights on midwifery, business, leadership, and self-care
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Access to all session recordings for two weeks after the final recordings are released
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Opportunities to earn up to 15 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for your professional development
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A flexible, inspiring learning experience designed to fit seamlessly into your busy midwifery life
Come as you are, midwife, and be renewed.
In community, in knowledge, and in the quiet knowing that your work matters.
Meet Our International Presenters!
Dr. Anna Byrom is a midwife, educator, and researcher with over 20 years of experience in midwifery practice, education, and leadership across the UK. She completed her PhD at the University of Central Lancashire, exploring the impact of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative on midwives and service users. A 2019 National Teaching Fellow, Anna is passionate about authentic, relational midwifery education. She is CEO and founding director of All4Maternity.com and publisher of The Practising Midwife and The Student Midwife journals.
🇬🇧 Anna Byrom
PhD FHEA NTFS Midwife
TOPIC
TBD
Augustine Colebrook is a midwife, mentor, and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience supporting midwives and birth professionals worldwide. Dedicated to improving maternity care through education, advocacy, and system change, she mentors the next generation to build sustainable, fulfilling practices. Having seen the dysfunction, scarcity, and isolation that burden the profession, Augustine works to replace them with connection, wisdom, and practical tools that empower midwives to lead with confidence and purpose.
🇺🇸 Augustine Colebrook
MA-MCHS
TOPIC
Post-COVID Midwifery: Lessons in Adaptation, Innovation, and Integrity
Inspired by the births of her daughters, Catrice Harris has supported families through labor, birth, postpartum, and lactation since 1992. Trained in lactation at the University of Texas Health Science Center and City of Houston WIC, she later became a certified birth and postpartum doula. In 2012, she left Corporate America to pursue midwifery full-time. Now a solo home birth midwife and staff midwife at a Houston birth center, Catrice also mentors doulas, focusing on underserved areas. She serves as Treasurer on the NACPM board, dedicated to advancing midwifery and honoring the value CPMs bring to their communities.
🇺🇸 Catrice Harris
LM, CPM
TOPIC
Bridging Birth Equity: Midwifery Without Borders in Urban Communities of Color
Chetana Kulkarni is a Certified International Midwife, Lactation Educator Counselor, La Leche League Leader, Lamaze-trained Childbirth Educator, Birth Centre Consultant, and entrepreneur. Her work focuses on transforming community-based birth in Bangalore and across India. She believes that accessible, high-quality, and inclusive reproductive care—from adolescence to menopause—is vital for a just society. A strong advocate for modern midwifery, Chetana combines compassion and skill to help address India’s maternity care crisis and bring safer, more joyful births to families.
🇮🇳 Chetana Kulkarni
Certified International Midwife
TOPIC
TBD
Christie is a Certified Professional Midwife with over 25 years attending births. She specializes in working with people who have experienced traumatic birth. She recently rerouted her practice to work with birth trauma full time. In doing so she has been able to expand her trauma practice to include support for health care providers. Christie specializes in Somatic work and the Polyvagal Theory. Her work is based on helping her clients get to know their nervous system and why it does what it does. Christie is currently working on her Master’s in Social Work and hopes use that to continue to expand her work with trauma.
🇺🇸 Christie Davis
CPM, RM
TOPIC
Burnout in Birth Work
Dr. Gauri Lowe is an integrative medical doctor and women’s health guide whose work bridges clinical gynaecology with the wisdom of traditional healing. Her approach honours both modern evidence-based medicine and the sacred, cyclical nature of a woman’s life. Through her talks, writings, and mentorship, she offers grounded, compassionate insights into pregnancy, birth, and womanhood — supporting women to reconnect with their inherent wisdom and vitality. She brings in her experience working with women and especially around homebirths with women in both India and South Africa.
🇿🇦 Dr. Gauri Lowe
MBChB
TOPIC
Bridging Traditional Rituals and Wisdoms with Clinical Gynaecology — Pregnancy and Postpartum
Dr Hazel Keedle is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Academic Programs (Midwifery) at Western Sydney University. With over two decades of clinical and academic experience in midwifery and nursing, she is internationally recognised for her research on VBAC, birth trauma, and respectful maternity care. Author of Birth After Caesarean (2022) and The Clinician’s Guide to Better Birth After Caesarean (2025), she continues to champion evidence-based, woman-centred care through her research, teaching, and advocacy.
🇦🇺 Dr. Hazel Keedle
RN RM MN(Hons) PhD
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Supporting Women to have a Better Birth after Caesarean
Robin Lim (aka Ibu Robin) is a midwife, author, and founder of Yayasan Bumi Sehat, a network of community health and birthing centers in Indonesia and the Philippines. Since 2003, she and her team have provided free prenatal, birthing, and emergency care to thousands, reducing maternal and infant mortality and promoting gentle, culturally respectful birth. Awarded CNN Hero of the Year (2011), Robin continues her hands-on work at Bumi Sehat Bali, mentoring midwives and advocating for compassionate, accessible maternity care worldwide.
🇵🇭 🇺🇸 🇮🇩 Robin Lim
Midwife
TOPIC
TBD
Dr Sophia K. Johnson studied human medicine at the University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany, with study visits to Tanzania, Russia, the USA, Scotland, Austria and Italy. During her studies, she expanded her training and took part in the university curriculum for Chinese medicine and anthroposophic medicine. Since 2014, she has been working as a researcher and completed her doctorate at the Placenta Laboratory at Jena University Hospital. She lives with her family in Weimar, Germany and works there in a practice specializing in integrative women's medicine.
🇩🇪 Dr. Sophia Johnson
Physician specializing in integrative medicine, scientist, and author.
TOPIC
Plazenta Power - Basic Research and Integrative Use of Placenta Remedies Postpartum
Zaire Sabb is a traditional midwife, clinical herbalist, and scholar bridging ancestral healing with modern practice. With over 20 years as an initiated Ifá/Orisa practitioner, she brings a culturally rooted and spiritually informed approach to her work. Trained under Grand Midwife Dr. S. Ndaeyo Opio, Zaire holds advanced certifications in herbalism, women’s health, and midwifery, and is completing a doctorate in Natural Medicine. Founder of Mystic Momma Herbals and Sankofa Birthkeepers Journey, she empowers birthworkers through decolonized, holistic education.
🇺🇸 Zaire Sabb
FMRN, TM , Herbalist, Author
TOPIC
Hands that Remember: Reclaiming Midwifery Wisdom Across Continents
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