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Training and Workshops

Ellen enjoys sharing the breadth of her 25+ years of experience through teaching and mentoring other lactation professionals. Please see the Mentorship page if you are interested in shadowing at the clinic or other one-on-one professional development opportunities.

 

If you would like to book Ellen for an in-person training event, please fill out the contact form. A full-day workshop consists of half a day of instruction followed by two lactation consult sessions.

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Upcoming Workshops

In this workshop, we will be integrating our knowledge of how the breast works with assessment and treatment skills for mastitis and blocked ducts. There has been a lot of movement in the field recently - the most recent evidence for treatment of mastitis and blocked ducts does not support some of the techniques that have been used in the field of lactation for decades!

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But knowing what not to do is different from being able to assess and treat from an entirely different framework. We will review the evidence and new information we have about the anatomy and function of the breast.

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The most important part of this workshop will be the practice of hands-on treatment skills with volunteer parents, with supervision, and time to process what we saw and felt afterwards.

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Registration is limited! 

Workshop Registration

Hands-on Workshop: Natural Lymphatic Treatment for Mastitis / Blocked Ducts

Wednesday, December 4th - 5:30 - 8 pm​, $175 

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Two-part Virtual Workshop: Advanced Clinical Skills for Rethinking Lactation Support

February 2025 - $175*

Two-part workshop - 4 L-CERP hours approved by IBCLE - New videos and resources added!

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Part 1: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 from 12:30 - 2:30 pm EST

Part 2: Wednesday, January 29th, 2025 from 12:30 - 2:30 pm EST

Participants will have access to the recordings of Parts 1 and 2 until February 15th.

Use code EARLY2025 for 20% off registration fee through January 15th!

*Students enrolled in lactation programs are eligible for 50% off registration fee. Contact Annalee to enroll.

This workshop is usually offered twice a year.

NOTE: The recording of the January 2023 workshop is available as a self-paced online course ($80)

Workshop objectives:

  1. Describe how our intuition and experience can be used to provide support to nursing couplets. 

  2. Describe how the underlying musculature and bony structures of the face, head, and body can affect the way a baby approaches nursing. 

  3. Demonstrate how infants recruit muscles from all over their bodies to manage their breastfeeding environment, and how to read infant faces to understand what mechanisms they are using both on the breast and off, and to read a body at rest and in action for areas of tension and muscle overuse.

  4. Explain how to address our findings through a unique set of clinical techniques specific to addressing compensatory muscle use  to move babies from dysfunction to function.

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