Cultivating Presence: A Two-Session Intensive
with Hilary Jacobson
For IBCLCs, lactation specialists, and postpartum caregivers
Sunday, June 29, 2025
11:30–3:00 pm PST (with short break)
This three-hour intensive offers a focused immersion into core practices that renew and support the inner life of caregivers.
Drawing on mindfulness-based hypnotherapy and grounded in therapeutic models of neuroplasticity and emotional-somatic integration, this session offers a mix of guided experiences and practical tools you can bring into your work with mothers—and to your life as a practitioner.
You will learn and practice:
Techniques for emotional regulation and rapid state change
A trauma-rewind method you can teach mothers
Somatic and imaginative tools for inner re-connection
A therapeutic “process” (inspired by Stutz) that supports clarity, renewal and resilience
You can expect real takeaways and potentially transformational shifts.
A Note from Hilary
“Even a single session of this work can shift the nervous system toward calm, clarity, and connection. This class is designed to give you exactly that—a reset, a reconnection, and a set of practices to use immediately with the mothers you support.”
$78.00 –
Anyone who works with mothers should enroll in Hilary’s courses; her books are library essentials. After the first online session, I had a different approach in my interactions with moms. When beginning a lactation conversation, first taking time to practice relaxation as a professional – and then leading the mother to calm—provided a deeper understanding of the situation at hand. Embracing the importance of touch for moms and babies together, I now mindfully approach mothers in the hospital or group setting to encourage connection at the heart. Nurturing ourselves and our babies is so important, and Hilary gently demonstrates how to help a mom in need transform her experiences to healing places. Such important work.
Kristi Davis, MSN, RN, IBCLC