Birth as Initiation: Reclaiming the Power of the Sacred Feminine with Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.
Presented by the Association for Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & Health
$25
Monday, November 9, 2026
9:00 am – 10:00 am Pacific (12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Eastern)
In this experiential evening, author, counselor, and teacher Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. invites participants to reclaim birth as an empowered, conscious, and transformative rite of passage. Drawing from her book, The New Return to the Great Mother: Birth, Initiation, and the Sacred Feminine, she helps participants re-connect to the natural intelligence that guides the birth process. Participants will explore how to consciously invite the presence of the Great Mother into every stage of the birth process and how to create a supportive energetic field that nurtures safety, empowerment, and trust. This class is also helpful for partners, caregivers, and birth professionals interested in connecting with this life-affirming energy enabling the entire birth team to work in harmony with the sacred intelligence of birth itself.
About Isa Gucciardi
Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. is a renowned teacher and practitioner whose work bridges ancient wisdom traditions and contemporary therapeutic practice. She is the creator of Depth Hypnosis™, an integrative healing model that weaves together shamanism, Buddhism, energy medicine, hypnosis, and transpersonal psychology to address the roots of suffering and support lasting transformation. With advanced degrees in cultural and linguistic anthropology, comparative religion, and transpersonal psychology, Isa has devoted more than three decades to the study and practice of spiritual, meditative, and healing traditions from around the world. A pioneer in bringing shamanic and Buddhist principles into clinical settings, she also developed Coming to Peace™, an innovative conflict resolution process inspired in part by Indigenous peacemaking practices from Hawai‘i, Africa, and North America. Her interest in birth and women’s health began in the early 1980s, leading her to write and lecture extensively on the subject. The author of three books, Isa speaks six languages and teaches nationally and internationally. She lives in San Francisco with her partner and is the mother of two children.
About the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health
The Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health’s mission is to support and promote human potential from the very beginning of life by providing global education to professionals and families about emerging evidence in prenatal and perinatal science and birth psychology that babies are conscious and aware and have their own thoughts, feelings, and experiences before, during, and after birth.
What People Are Saying
“Flourishing societies and a thriving planet require the honoring of mothers and mothering. Isa Gucciardi brings us the stories and insights of a journeyed practice, millions of years old, and guides us into new-ancient ways of understanding ourselves as persons, women, mothers, and daughters.”
– Darcia Narvaez (Professor of Psychology, University of Notre Dame; Host of evolvednest.org)
“In this complex world, Isa Gucciardi’s book, The New Return to the Great Mother, is the gift we need to find our way back to ourselves, our strengths, and our connection.”
– Sue Baelin (Homebirth Midwife)
“I highly recommend isa’s book, The New Return to the Great Mother. It is a valuable guide and life-enhancing prescription for self-healing and transformation that empowers women to gain sovereignty over their physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.”
– Bruce Lipton, Ph.D. (Best-selling Author of The Biology of Belief)
Registration
Registration available at zeffy.com.