Registered Charity No. 1128355
Mothering Heights
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Workshops
1. Natural Fertility Dr. Anne Carus / Ira Winter |
7. Food for life - nutrition Elisa Beynon |
| 2. Dress to impress - the importance of self pampering (and how to do it!) Imogen Elwick |
8. Wisdom, fun...and giving them back - the gift Nuala Scarisbrick, Elaine Hall |
| 3. Home v. Work - can you have it all?
Dr. Anne Langslow, Home Renaissance Foundation, Jennifer Liston-Smith, Managing Maternity |
9. Full time motherhood Marguerite Holliday |
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4. Keeping Marriage Alive Liz Percival - EXPLORE |
10. Breast Feeding Holly Bedford (LIFE), Jayne Joyce |
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5. Parenting teenagers and beyond Suzanne Bullimore |
11. Relationships with adult children Clare Calnan |
| 6. Off to a flying start - the toddler years
Lynette Burrows, Sophie Bale |
12. Special children, special needs
Anne Churchill-Stone |
| 13. Successful Single Parenting
(Leader to be announced) |
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Workshop Outlines
| 4. Liz Percival - Keeping Marriage Alive What helps a marriage to flourish? How do we communicate our love to each other? How can we avoid behaviours that damage our relationship? Where can we go to find out more and continue to nurture this precious relationship? Come along and pick up some simple tips and encouragement to help you build a strong and healthy marriage. |
| 5. Suzanne Bullimore – Parenting Teenagers and Beyond This workshop explores the joys, practicalities and difficulties involved in bringing up teenagers. How to accompany them lovingly on their way to emotional, financial and physical independence - and into adulthood. |
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12. Anne Churchill-Stone – Special children, special needs |
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Prize Draw
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Conference Fee
| The basic fee for the conference is £10. This is heavily subsidised, as we wish as many people as possible to be able to come, but please feel free to make an extra donation towards the cost of the conference, and in support of LIFE's work, if you would like. |
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How To Find Us
| St Gregory the Great School Cricket Road Cowley Oxford OX4 3DR Parking available on site Nearest Rail Station - Oxford Rail Station 1. From Rail Station take bus towards Blackbird Leys/Pegasus Court - Number 5 Oxford Bus Company or Number 1 Stagecoach 2. Come off at Cowley Road opposite Shelley Road (in map above) 3. Walk to Cricket Road |
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Speakers
 Tanith Cary A former Features Editor, and Woman's Editor of the Daily Mirror, Tanith decided to change her life and leave her job as Executive Editor on a celebrity magazine in New York the night she ended up working until 8 hours before the birth of her second child. Since then she has written four books, and writes regularly on parenting and health for the Daily Mail, The independent and the Daily Mirror, as well as on more general female issue for a wide range of national magazines and newspaper. Her books include How to Be An Amazing Mum, When You Just Don't Have the Time, and The Ultimate Handbook for Hassled Mothers. Her fourth book, a humorous look at the golden age of Agony Aunt Advice, will be published by Boxtree in November 2009. |
 Joan Raphael-Leff Joan Raphael-Leff is both a Psychoanalyst and a Social Psychologist. Over the past 35 years both in clinical practice and academic work she has focused on emotional issues relating to Human Reproduction and Fertility, with over 90 single-author publications and 9 books in this field. Previously she was Professor of Psychoanalysis at the University of Essex , and now leads the University College London Academic Faculty for Psychoanalytic Research at the Anna Freud Centre, where she also heads a Government sponsored training programme for practitioners who work with teenage parents. In 1998 she founded COWAP, the International Psychoanalytic Association’s committee on Women & Psychoanalysis. She acts as consultant to perinatal and women’s projects in many different countries, including South Africa where she is visiting Professor at Stellenbosch University. |
 Dr Anne Langslow Dr Anne Langslow is married with four children and lives in Manchester. She holds a doctorate in social anthropology from the University of Oxford and is the author, under her pen name Anna Melchior, of Mothering: A Spiritual and Practical Approach (London: St Pauls, 2007) and The Role of a Christian Mother (London: CTS, 2008). She is a regular speaker on the work of mothering and on the family. Anne is representing the Home Renaissance Foundation at this conference. The Home Renaissance Foundation is dedicated to developing greater recognition of the importance of the work required to create a home which meets the fundamental needs of individual and family as well as promoting greater recognition of the crucial role of the home in creating a more humane society. Anna Melchior’s book Mothering: A Spiritual and Practical Approach will be available to purchase at the conference with all profits from sales going to LIFE. |
 Marguerite Holliday Marguerite Holliday is married with three children of school age and lives in Swindon, Wiltshire. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters in Clinical Psychology, both from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She has worked within the National Health Service, for the charity LIFE, and in private practice – and is nearly always involved in some kind of voluntary project within her local community. However, her main job, since starting a family 16 years ago, is that of mothering! She is on the steering committee for the Mothering Heights conference. |
 Liz Percival Liz Percival and her husband David’s lives were transformed when they attended a Marriage Encounter weekend over 25 years ago. They went on to found 2-in-2-1, the marriage web site to support couples and those working with them. Liz set up the local branch of Explore in Berkshire ten years ago, which enables young people to talk face to face with married couples and discover what it’s really like to make a marriage work. |
 Elisa Beynon Elisa Beynon married a Vicar in 1993, and having been a girl who counted Fruit Pastilles as part of her five-a -day, gradually found herself propelled towards the stove. For a start, take aways were too expensive for all the passing guests, and secondly, Elisa fell in love with ingredients. Over time, her little kitchen messes became triumphs and friends urged her to write her own cook book. This finally happened in 2007, when Elisa won the Waitrose Food Illustrated food writing competition. A plea was put out by Nigel Slater for the next Elizabeth David. To Elisa's shock, she won, and was gifted a £20,000 book deal. Elisa is now working on book 2, and, with an eye on the purse strings, is passionate about getting us all cooking tasty, straightforward food without breaking the bank. |
 Imogen Elwick Imogen Elwick is a young mother of two boys, aged 3 years and 10 months, who has taken the decision to be a stay at home mother. To supplement the family income, she has set up her own business as an independent beauty consultant with Mary Kay Cosmetics (UK) Ltd and thoroughly enjoys meeting new ladies, helping them to find what makes them feel and look great, and giving them the confidence to face the challenges of daily life. |
 Suzanne Bullimore Suzanne Bullimore is a mother, wife, teacher and grandmother. She has lived in her community for 30 years and is an enthusiastic supporter of local initiatives, especially where they enhance the lives of children and their families. |
 Sophie Bale Sophie trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Stage Management and Technical Theatre and worked in several theatres in both England and Germany. Whilst still a student she started a Theatre company with her now husband called the ‘Ragged Staff’, where they produced plays for summer rep. After graduating she moved to the Birmingham Repertory Theatre to work in the Stage Management team on many wonderful productions. Shortly after getting married she moved to Oxford where her husband, Ashley, is Head of Lighting and Sound at the Oxford Playhouse. When her children arrived, she gave up work in the Theatre and has been immersed in family life ever since. She now has five lovely children; a boy and four little girls, ranging in age from 10 years old to 1. For the past four years she has been involved in the planning of several community events including the Headington Festival in Oxford. She helps run a weekly toddler group, and has recently become a Governor of St Joseph’s School, where last year she was also co- Chairman of the school PTA. |
 Lynette Burrows Lynette Burrows is a writer and broadcaster - and the mother of Sophie Bale! She is a graduate in English & Law and worked as a lecturer in London before her marriage. She gave up her job in favour of being a full-time mother - eventually to six children. Since then, all her work has been home centred, and she now boards students and runs a small language school. She first wrote 'Good Children' when her children were all young and the Financial Times described it as 'so old fashioned it is positively radical'. In plain language, this means it is a common-sense approach to child rearing! It has been up-dated as her children got older and has been re-published three times. 'The Fight for The Family' was published in 2002 and is an account of the attacks mounted by the government on the autonomy of the family. Both books will be available at the symposium. |
 Jennifer Liston-Smith For 20 years following her Oxford Law degree and Masters in Psychology, Jennifer has consulted and coached in well-known public and private sector organisations such as KPMG, the Penguin Group, and the Lord Chancellor’s Department. She is also involved in training and supervising other coaches. In 2005, with children then nearly 5 and 2, she co-founded one of the UK’s first maternity coaching consultancies, to partner with employers who are committed to supporting staff, their managers, leaders and HR / Diversity officers through the transition to motherhood and eventual return to work. As a pioneer of maternity coaching, Jennifer is a frequent contributor to the media and to academic literature. She is also actively engaged with public policy debates on Additional Paternity Leave and Flexible Working as ways of further enabling family life. By controlling her own flexible working hours, Jennifer spends a lot of time with her two sons, and is passionately engaged in her role as mother. |
 Anne Churchill-Stone Anne, a LIFE supporter, has 5 children, the eldest Matthew is 7yrs old and has Downs Syndrome. Through Matthew, Anne has met many parents of children with various disabilities and has been an active member of Downs Syndrome Oxford for some years. Anne's husband Andrew had several years of experience as a young man working with the Red Cross, running respite holidays for disabled youngsters. Matthew attends the village primary school where he is very happy. A statistician turned management accountant, Anne is now a full time mother, a role she has looked forward to since the age of 17! Anne's own mother was a LIFE mother and the family home was also home to 4 young mothers and their babies over the years. |
 Holly Bedford I have been an Education Officer for LIFE for almost a year, covering the Yorkshire region. I visit schools and talk to young people between the ages of 4 and 19 about LIFE issues, abortion, relationships and making postive choices. I live in Sheffield with my husband and four young children, 2 boys and 2 girls aged 5, 4, 20 months and 6 months! I began my working life in the school holidays at the age of 14 in the family business which designs and manufactures equipment for children with disabilities and special needs. At 18 I began my midwifery training although it took me almost 5 years to complete owing to frequent maternity leave breaks! I have now been qualfied for nearly two years and employed as a midwife by the NHS where I work 2 days a week, mainly looking after the women and babies on the postnatal ward. I am currently writing a dissertation on how education can be utilised to reduce the teenage pregnancy rate. In my spare time I enjoy scrapbooking, cooking and the odd glass of wine! |
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