Micky Jones, BS, CLD, CD(DONA), HCHI, IBCLC, DFB
Expertise
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Stress & Burnout in professionals
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Work - life balance
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Lactation Management for the Health Care Professional
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Baby Training/Sleep Programs
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Parenting Techniques
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Professional Education for Breastfeeding
About the Speaker
Micky is an energetic, engaging speaker and trainer who uses humor, fresh illustrations and creative activities to tackle difficult and vital topics related to all who work with mothers, babies and those who love them. Her approachable, relaxed style packs loads of information into each session without brain overload. Author of, Keep the Fires Burning: Conquering Stress and Burnout as a Mother-Baby professional, Micky is passionate about encouraging other professionals to understand that who they are is more important than the work they do. Learning to value themselves is a vital part of being able to serve women and babies for years to come. Micky has experience as a breastfeeding mother, LLL Leader, lactation trainer, conference speaker, and IBCLC. Her mother-baby experience includes a degree in child development and family studies, teaching as a Hypnobabies Childbirth Hypnosis Instructor, being a certified birth doula (with two organizations) and DONA Approved Birth Doula Trainer. She also trains for the COPE Program with Commonsense Childbirth based on the JJ Way developed by Jennie Joseph.
Official Bio for Brochure
Micky's career began when she graduated with honors from MTSU with a degree in Consumer and Family Sciences with emphasis in Child Development and Family Studies. She is a Retired La Leche League Leader, Hypnobabies Childbirth Hypnosis Childbirth Instructor, Certified Labor Doula (DONA and CAPPA), Hypnobabies Certified Hypno-Doula, DONA Approved Birth Doula Trainer, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and and perhaps most qualifying, the mother of 3 children.
Presentations
This speaker is pleased to provide presentations on the following topics to professional and parenting conferences. Presentations on other topics may be available upon request and subject to sufficient development lead-time. (For CERP topics, required paperwork will be provided promptly to meet CERP deadlines.)
My Dream is a Reality and Reality Bites
This session may be eligible for R-Cerps. Do you feel called to working with mothers and babies? Was it your dream to be a lactation consultant or doula but now the realities of balancing family, personal and work responsibilities seems overwhelming? Finding ways to make your work a reflection of your authentic life will make you better at what you do and able to serve mothers and babies for years to come. Very interactive and practical session including suggestions participants can implement immediately.
This presentation can be altered to fit the group of mother-baby professionals or volunteers. It can also be given as a short session of 1 hour be an entire weekend workshop. The longer sessions are more interactive and exploratory.
Developing a Personal Self-Care Plan
Using the principles in her book, Keep the Fires Burning: Conquering Stress and Burnout in Mother-Baby Professionals, Micky will lead you in developing a self-care plan that will help you live authentically while reaching your goals. You are WORTHY now! Enjoy your life and your work by developing a purposeful plan for work and play!
This is an interactive and fun session. Ideally, each participant would have a copy of the book to work through during the presentation but it is not necessary. Session could also be broken into several sessions or be presented as a pre or post conference half day session.
Why we treat babies like dogs and other curiosities
*CERPs could be applied for. Today's popular baby manuals and guides contain pages of instruction on how to get baby to follow a schedule, regulating your infant's metabolism and all sorts of other curiosities. Learn where these ideas began and what the parents you work with are learning from best-selling parenting books. Get ideas on how to communicate with parents who may have very different ideas on baby behavior, sleep and nutrition than what current evidence supports.
COPE (Community Outreach Perinatal Educator Training)
The purpose of the Community Outreach Perinatal Educator (COPE) program is to improve and promote healthier outcomes for women and babies, and to reduce disparities in perinatal health. At the end of this educational program,participants will have become proficient and competent, with the knowledge and skills necessary to provide:
comprehensive community based perinatal education
support for pregnant women and families during early and late pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period
breastfeeding education and support, as well as early recognition and intervention of breastfeeding problems and barriers barriers
Based on the tenants of the JJ Way and Commonsense Childbirth founded by Jennie Joseph, the training equips women in the community, aspiring midwives, doulas and healthcare workers with the education and skills of a birth doula, childbirth educator and breastfeeding educator.
CEUs are possible.
