Speaker Profile Naomi Stadlen
Inspired by Sheila Kitzinger, Naomi Stadlen became a breastfeeding counsellor both for the Active Birth Centre and La Leche League during the 1980s.
At the suggestion of Janet Balaskas, she started Mothers Talking, weekly discussion groups for mothers, at the Active Birth Centre in 1991. She runs a second group at Born, Stoke Newington. Her article on the importance of discussion groups for mothers was published in Juno Magazine in April 2009.
Her book, What Mothers Do – Especially When It Looks Like Nothing was published by Piatkus Books in 2004. It has been translated into Spanish, Greek, and adapted for the US. It is a pioneering book for mothers in that it contains no advice. It was difficult to get it published, as publishers assured Naomi that, without advice, no mother would buy it.
Naomi is an existential psychotherapist, specialising in working with mothers or parents of young children. She has pioneered courses on the history of mothering, and family relationships at Birkbeck College, the College of North East London, and the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling in London.
In November 2008, she gave the keynote address at the conference, The Meaning of Motherhood, in Auckland, New Zealand.
She also teaches Tai Chi (Wu Style) for mothers and toddlers, which may be the only class of its kind in the world.
She has three children and one grandchild. She lives in north London with her husband.
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Making space for her babySaturday 10.00 – 11.15 am
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