September 2025
Dear Members and Interested Parties,
We hope you had a restful summer and were able to experience sufficient sunshine, moments of rest, and relaxation.
Finally, the time has come: After a long preparation period, the new ISPPM website has gone online. Some pages still need to be redesigned, including the therapist directory and the extended board page. For the latter, a structure appropriate to the changes of recent years is being created.
Preparations for the annual conference continue: The early bird discount applies—as announced in the last newsletter—until September 30! If you wish to have meals at the youth hostel, please inform us by September 30 when registering. After that, meal bookings will only be possible directly with the youth hostel—without guarantee.
Room reservations through ISPPM were only possible until September 15; this can now also be requested directly at the Euregional Youth Guesthouse (aachen@jugendherberge.de, 0241.71101–0).
ISPPM Conference November 7–9, 2025 : “Traumatic Births – Traumatized Society – The Significance of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology – Interdisciplinary”.
If you have questions regarding registration, please contact the secretariat: info@isppm.ngo The early bird discount applies until September 30.
Our attractive program includes the film “Sheltered in the Motherland” by filmmakers Uscha Madeisky and Dagmar Margotsdotter, both of whom have been researching matriarchal cultures for decades. We will hear a lecture on the birth culture of the Kogi, an indigenous people who have lived peacefully in the mountains of Colombia for over 700 years. We look forward to the consistently valuable and enriching lectures by Sven Hildebrandt and Lutz Janus. On Saturday, we will explore the conference theme in depth with our respective professional groups and experts, see link to the program
To open our gala evening, we were able to engage actress Johanna Marx and director Lisa Meyer. They have brought to life the results of interviews with mothers, midwives, doulas, and physicians about pregnancy and birth in an impressive theater piece titled “heraus.” The premiere took place in Celle at the end of August. Here is the flyer front/back.
Newsletter March 2026
Dear Members, dear Readers,
We have already enjoyed the first days of spring, and just as this season marks a new beginning in nature, powerful activities are taking place in the pre- and perinatal field.
First, we would like to give you an overview of the network meetings up to the summer holidays:
24. März 2026, 7.00 pm CET, networking session: Exchange between the Executive Board and members on ISPPM activities; a themed evening during which members of the Executive Board will report on current activities and projects and invite all members and interested parties to an open discussion. Questions are very welcome, and we are keen to hear from participants about their work and areas of focus. We look forward to taking suggestions from this evening back to the extended Executive Board meeting on 25 and 26 April 2026. Translation with subtitles is available. Register here
April 2, 2026, 7:00 PM CET, network lecture with Olga Gouni: “Prenatal Sciences in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities” (“Prenatal sciences in the 21st century: challenges and opportunities”); in English, translation with subtitles is possible. Please register here
April 23, 2026, 7:30 PM CET, network lecture with Matthew Appleton “Every Baby has a Story to tell. An Introduction to Integrative Baby Therapy work”; English, translation with subtitles is possible; the setting will be shown at the beginning. Please register here
May 17, 2026, Katharina Desery, Nihan Sager, Kola B. Brönner “Activities of the helpline” The importance of the helpline within postnatal support services; German – translation with subtitles is possible
May 20, 2026, 6:30 PM CET, symposium during the International Week of Respectful Birth: Prof. Dr. Sven Hildebrandt, Esther Göbel, D. Ludwig Janus and other speakers on “The importance of the hormone “oxytocin” between the opportunity to promote bonding and misuse as a birth intervention; German, translation with subtitles is possible
04 June 2026, 7:00–9:00 p.m. CET, networking lecture with Franz Renggli “Our Earliest Wounds”: How early childhood emotional injuries influence and can impair our intimate relationships and our way of relating to our own children – and how it is possible to break out of negative cycles and achieve fulfilling relationships with partners and/or children. In German; translation with subtitles possible.
July 2, 2026, 6:30 PM, network meeting with Prof. Dr. Sven Hildebrandt: “Care during the birth period”: a challenge of patience and competence. German, translation with subtitles is possible
July 16, 2026, 7:00 PM CET, network meeting with Regina Bücher “The first days of an embryo and the Somatic Blueprint” This is about the connection between imprinting and health, beginning in the first days of an embryo. At the same time, this offers a brief insight into the foundation of the “integration of pre- and perinatal experiences” in the tradition of Ray Castellino. German, translation with subtitles is possible
September 3, 2026, 7:00 PM CET, Ursula Gehre ISPPM Switzerland, “Craniosacral therapy and integrative baby therapy in work with families on the birth experience”, case examples. German, translation with subtitles is possible
And very current:
March 20–22, 2026 The Prenatal Wellness Global Summit of the Prenatal Alliance is coming up very soon.
This 3‑day online conference is free of charge and open to everyone!
until the end of March: Month of Birth Psychology APPPAH, further online lectures
September 2025
Dear members and interested parties,
We are back in our activities, in the organization of our German ISPPM Conference present in Aachen.
The time has finally come: after a long period of preparation, the new ISPPM website is now online.
And we are busy with the last steps towards the first ISPPM online Journal.
ISPPM Conference from November 7–9, 2025: “Traumatic Births – Traumatized Society – The Importance of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology – Interdisciplinary.” Please register now at the secretariat: info@isppm.ngo The early bird discount is valid until September 30. (present in German)
We are pleased to present an attractive program, see here
On February 1st 2026 we will present the international ISPPM conference online.