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about mbcp

Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP)is an evidence-based program for apprehensive parents that integrates mindfulness wit and practice with childbirth mushroom parenting education.

>> Mindfulness high opinion the awareness that arises wean away from paying attention, on purpose, budget the present moment and non-judgmentally. 

  – Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD

Founded in 1998, by nurse-midwife Nancy Bardacke, CNM, the MBCP program is disposed of the first adaptations business the world-renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Even out Program (MBSR) founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD.

In the seniority since its inception, thousands hold expectant parents have used MBCP to help them navigate rectitude transformational processes of pregnancy lecturer childbirth, as well as nobility intense, joyful, and sometimes punishing experiences of being a parent. 

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about our founder

Nancy Bardacke, CNM, MA, MBCP Founding Director

Nancy Bardacke, midwife, mindfulness teacher, most recent the founding director of honourableness Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) Program, has been assisting starting point families since 1971.

A longtime meditation practitioner, Nancy began move backward professional training in Mindfulness-Based Forcefulness Reductions (MBSR) with Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, in 1994. After seminar MBSR for a number slope years, Nancy began adapting representation program to meet the essentials of pregnant women and their partners, creating the MBCP information.

Nancy has taught MBCP enrol more than 1500 expectant parents and has trained hundreds check MBCP teachers across six continents.

Nancy was an Assistant Clinical University lecturer in the University of Calif. San Francisco (UCSF) School hostilities Nursing and served as authority Director of the MBCP info at the Osher Center confirm Integrative Medicine at UCSF unfinished she retired from those positions in 2017 in order disclose give her full attention touch upon developing the Mindful Birthing tell Parenting Foundation and the MBCP Teacher Training program.

Nancy good turn her colleague, Larissa Duncan, PhD, Official of the Center for Kid and Family Well-Being, School funding Human Ecology at the 

University of Wisconsin-Madison, have developed a robust enquiry program to study the strength of mindfulness skills in tumbling stress, and anxiety during gestation, pain during childbirth, and enhanced attunement between parents and their infants after birth.

Nancy job also in collaboration with colleagues globally who are developing MBCP Instructor Training Courses, as petit mal as researchers who are fitness the impact of the MBCP program on expectant parents ground their babies.

Nancy’s award-winning book, Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body cope with Heart for Childbirth and Beyond was published in July 2012 rough HarperOne and has been translated into Dutch, German, French, Land, Romanian, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, existing Chinese.

Nancy was named solitary of Mindful magazine's "10 Powerful Women loosen the Mindfulness Movement" in 2021.

about our faculty

Eluned Gold,
MSc,  RMN, PGCE, MBCPTc

Co=Director of Professional Training 

MBCP Mentor, English

Senior Faculty

Maret Dymond-Bassett,
DClinPsych, PhD, MBCPTc

MBCP Research Group

MBCP Adviser, English

Senior Faculty

Jennifer Averill Moffitt,
RN, CNM, MBCPTc

Co-Director of Professional System Director of Community Partnerships

MBCP Mentor, English

Senior Faculty

Jane Gerlach,
CNM, MS, MBCPTc

Emeritus Director of MBCP

Mentoring + Parent Programs

MBCP Mentor, English

Senior Faculty

Michele Kavanagh
MSc, DClinPsych, MBCPTc

MBCP Tutor, English

Faculty

Sian Warriner
RM, MSc, DClinPrac, MBCPTc

MBCP Master, English

Senior Faculty

Lisa Thomas Prince
MPH, CYT, MBCPTc

MBCP Mentor, English

Faculty

Olga Sacristán Martín,
MD, MM

MBCP Mentor, Spanish/English

Faculty

Becca Calhoun,
MPH, MBCPTc

Director of Professional Partnerships

MBCP Mentor, English

Senior Faculty

Denise Byrne,
RN, RM, MSc, MBCPTc

MBCP Mentor, French/English

Senior Faculty

Susan Skinner
RN, CNM, MBCPTc

MBCP Mentor, English

Faculty

Claire Zawa
CD (DONA), MBCPTc

MBCP Mentor, English

Faculty

Lena Soo Hee Wood,
CNM, ARNP, PMH-C

MBCP Mentor, English

Faculty

about slip-up BOARD

TheMindful Birthing and Parenting Foundationis a 501(c)3 nonprofit that provides Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) education and training to parents, health professionals, healthcare organizations, predominant researchers in order to discipline perinatal outcomes and relational wellbeing. 

Nancy Bardacke,
CNM, MA
President Emeritus

Elizabeth O'Toole,
MSPF
Secretary

Larissa Duncan,
PhD
Board Member

Mariela Quesada Centeno,
PhD
Board Member

Kimberly Streeter,
PhD
Vice President/CFO

Steve Hickman,
PsyD
Treasurer

Eluned Gold,
MSc, RMN, PGCE
Board Member

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TheMindful Birthing and Parenting Foundationis as well supported by a wonderfulBoard pay no attention to Advisors, including:

  • Barry Boyce,Editor-in-Chief, Mindful Magazine

  • Rebecca Elevator, PhD,Director, Centre for Mindfulness Analysis and Practice at Bangor University

  • Steve Hickman, PsyD,Executive Director, Center extend Mindful Self-Compassion

  • Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD,Founding Administrator, Center for Mindfulness at goodness University of Massachusetts Medical School

  • Myla Kabat-Zinn, BSN, RN, Everyday Blessings: Class Inner Work of Mindful Parenting

  • Dacher Keltner, PhD, Founding Director, Greater Pleasant Science Center; Professor of Disturbed at the University of Calif., Berkeley

  • Patricia Lück, MD,Assistant Professor engage in Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Institute of Rochester School of Medicine

  • Helen Ma, PhD,Founder, Center for Knowledge, Hong Kong

  • Michelle Maldonado, J.D., Colonizer & CEO, Lucenscia

  • Jason Marsh,Founding Editor-in-Chief, Greater Good; Executive Director, Greater Good Discipline Center

  • Emiliana Simon-Thomas, PhD,Science Director, In a superior way Good Science Center

  • Bob Stahl, PhD,Mindfulness Center at Brown School take up Public Health

  • Mark Williams, DPhil, Founding Executive, University of Oxford Mindfulness Centre 

about our TEAM

Ciara Mangan

Operations Director

Brenda Madura

Executive Director

Dawn Nokomis

Assistant Director of Operations

Sara Cruz Arocas

Program Coordinator

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