Educators

Gaby Rodgers

When Gaby's friend asked her to be a support person for her and her husband, for their first child's birth in 1991 her passion was ignited.

Gaby has five beautiful children and because all her births were so different, she feels she can offer a lot to expectant mothers and their partners.

She is a passionate, flexible and patient educator that believes in the importance of educating and guiding women so that they can have the birth they want. When a pregnant mother and her partner are fully informed they can make educated choices regarding the birth of their child, this is essential to Gaby's philosophy to childbirth.

Gaby is a qualified doula childbirth/parenting educator and reiki practitioner, who lives on the northern beaches with her husband and five children. 

Marianne Keevers

Marianne Keevers has a long history working predominantly with women and children in the context of developing and strengthening family relationships.  During her work she completed an Associate Diploma in Child Care studies and later a Graduate Diploma in Social Sciences.  She also completed her studies as a Doula and Child Birth Educator with Birth Central (Australian Doula College).  Marianne's last position was coordinating a youth and family program to build better family relationships to assist in the prevention of youth homelessness and family breakdown.

Marianne works from a framework that identifies people as the owners of their own direction as sees herself as a facilitator in creating experiences guided by the people she has the priviledge to work with.  Marianne has birthed with many women over the years through her work and her passion for working with birth became more focused after working with teen pregnancy.  She is particularly interested in the establishment of bonding and attachment at birth and through parenting.  Her practice has been influenced by feminist philosophy and has worked therapeutically with Solution Focus Brief Therapy and Narrative Therapy approaches.

 Keith Knights

Keith has worked in the area of pregnancy and early childhood since 1995, working with expectant and new fathers in the group educational setting allowing men to share their worries and joys on becoming a father.  Keith is a father of three ranging from 13 years to 4 months.  So has a wide experience base to bring to his teaching as well as the passion that drives him to help men become great fathers. 

Keith is also involved with doula training and sees the relationships within a birth support team as vital in enabling the birthing mother the space she needs to give birth freely. 

Keith offers individual and relationship counselling for those who prefer one on one training, or are facing other challenges around birth or parenting.