Facilitator – Dr. Rieko Kishi
With Women Initiative
The With Women Bamboo Bridge
initiative seeks to promote the sharing of healing traditions, build
communication, and explore opportunities for collaboration between
nurses and community healers such as doulas and traditional birth
attendants. It supports growing an awareness of the learning methods
and health-related content that can be applied across healthcare
fields, languages and cultures.
Contact Dr. Rieko Kishi – rieko@BambooBridge.org |
|
There
are many ancient healing traditions associated with childbirth. Nurses
have a history of partnering with the wise healing women in communities
who tend women prenatally, during labor, throughout the postpartum
period and transition to motherhood. The focus of the Bamboo Bridge
Community is to support the development of partnerships between nurses
and community healers such as doulas and birth attendants in a spirit
of cultural diplomacy.