Speaking Services
Cynthia Good Mojab, MS clinical psychology, IBCLC, RLC, CATSM, is a nationally recognized speaker on
breastfeeding, culture, parenting, and psychology. She is a member of the professional speaker bureaus of
LactSpeak, the International Lactation Consultant Association, and the National Center for Crisis
Management. She combines her multidisciplinary education and experience to create unique presentations
addressing issues that are often complex, challenging, and controversial. As one of a small group of mental
health care providers in the world who are also IBCLCs, Cynthia has a strong interest in lactational
psychology. She is unusually able to address psychological aspects of pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding,
mothering, and lactation consulting. Trained in the tools of adult education, her professional and image-rich
presentations are well-organized, responsive to diverse learning styles, thoroughly referenced, and
applicable to “real life.” She has consistently received high ratings on evaluations of her presentations. She
has experience speaking to both large and small groups. Please contact Cynthia to discuss availability and
fees.
breastfeeding, culture, parenting, and psychology. She is a member of the professional speaker bureaus of
LactSpeak, the International Lactation Consultant Association, and the National Center for Crisis
Management. She combines her multidisciplinary education and experience to create unique presentations
addressing issues that are often complex, challenging, and controversial. As one of a small group of mental
health care providers in the world who are also IBCLCs, Cynthia has a strong interest in lactational
psychology. She is unusually able to address psychological aspects of pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding,
mothering, and lactation consulting. Trained in the tools of adult education, her professional and image-rich
presentations are well-organized, responsive to diverse learning styles, thoroughly referenced, and
applicable to “real life.” She has consistently received high ratings on evaluations of her presentations. She
has experience speaking to both large and small groups. Please contact Cynthia to discuss availability and
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| Copyright 2005-2006 Cynthia Good Mojab All rights reserved |
Workshop, Presentation, and Seminar Topics
The Hot Topic of Infant Feeding Rhetoric: Risks or Benefits?
90-120 minutes, CERP
An exploration of the multidisciplinary evidence base that provides guidance on identifying and using
effective and ethical language when communicating about infant feeding.
Postpartum Depression: The Most Common Complication of Birth
90-120 minutes, CERP
An overview of postpartum depression, how breastfeeding and postpartum depression interact, and how
and why to screen and refer breastfeeding mothers for treatment.
Breastfeeding Compatible Mental Health Care for Postpartum Depression
90-120 minutes, CERP
An introduction to the physical and psychological risks for mothers and their children of mental health care
that undermines breastfeeding during postpartum depression and to a variety of breastfeeding compatible
treatment options for postpartum depression in nursing mothers.
Mutually Inclusive: Breastfeeding Support and Mental Health Care
90-120 minutes, CERP
An invitation to multidisciplinary collaboration in the treatment of mother-nursling dyads coping with
common postpartum mental health issues, as well as a dialogue about what lactation consultants and
mental health practitioners can contribute so that breastfeeding and mental health are both supported.
It Wasn't Supposed to be Like This: Traumatic Birth, Traumatic Stress, and Breastfeeding
90-120 minutes, CERP
A sensitive discussion of how traumatic birth experiences affect maternal mental health, mothering,
breastfeeding, and lactation consulting. Includes the importance of recognizing the difference between
postpartum depression and postpartum stress disorders in new mothers.
Managing Acute Maternal Traumatic Stress in Birth
90 minutes to 3 hours, CERP
An overview of the ten steps of Comprehensive Acute Traumatic Stress Management as adapted and
applied to the context of traumatic childbirth.
Mother's Milk, Empty Arms
90-120 minutes, CERP
A guide to the compassionate management of lactation and breastfeeding in the aftermath of pregnancy
loss and infant death. Addresses suppression of lactation, breastfeeding a surviving sibling, donation of
expressed milk to a human milk bank, and the emerging psychological needs of bereaved mothers.
Stillborn: Surviving Grief and Traumatic Stress as a Health Care Provider
90-120 minutes, CERP
A step-by-step guide to understanding and coping with your own traumatic stress reactions after having
witnessed the birth of a stillborn baby while serving as a health care provider, such as in the role of a
midwife, nurse, doctor, or doula.
Loss, Grief, and Breastfeeding Counseling
90-120 minutes, CERP
An exploration of the role of loss and grief in the breastfeeding experience, including the loss and grief
inherent in the acquisition of the maternal role, grief due to congenital disorders, pregnancy loss, and infant
death, grief due to the loss of breastfeeding, and guilt as a symptom of grief.
Helping Mothers Create Breastfeeding Allies
90 minutes, CERP
An exploration of effective, non-manipulative persuasion techniques that can help women gain meaningful
breastfeeding support in their families, workplaces, and communities. Includes discussion of the process
of change, how to work with that process, and conflict resolution across cultures.
Brief Breastfeeding Encounters: Effective Counseling Techniques when Time is Limited
90-120 minutes, CERP
An introduction to key counseling concepts and techniques from solution focused brief therapy and their
application to lactation consulting. Includes practical tools that any health care provider can routinely use to
work more effectively with women when time is limited.
Empathic Listening and Beyond: Essential Counseling Techniques for Lactation Consulting
90-120 minutes, CERP
A discussion of fundamental, as well as more advanced, counseling concepts and approaches necessary
for anyone working with pregnant or breastfeeding mothers.
Shades of Gray: Ethics, Culture and Breastfeeding
90-120 minutes, CERP
An overview of the process of ethical decision making in cross-cultural settings. Includes a discussion of
how ethical issues in breastfeeding counseling are impacted by non-universal culturally based values and
beliefs and how to respond to ethical issues of breastfeeding in a multicultural world.
From Barriers to Bridges: Culture and Breastfeeding
90-120 minutes, CERP
An introduction to concepts and tools that are useful when working with members of any culture. Includes a
discussion of cultural dimensions, how culture impacts breastfeeding, how lactation consultants and others
can work with parents from many cultures to promote positive breastfeeding experiences, and how to work
toward the development of cultural competence.
Sunlight Deficiency, Vitamin D, and the Breastfed Baby: Helping Mothers Make Informed Decisions
90-120 minutes, CERP
An overview of the complex research base of information essential for facilitating informed decision making
on vitamin D supplementation of the breastfed infant. Addresses risk factors for vitamin D deficiency and
options for preventing vitamin D deficiency.
The Women behind the Breasts: The Context of Infant Feeding Issues
90-120 minutes, CERP
A review of several models of context and their application to infant feeding issues and decisions. Provides
lactation consultants and other health care providers with understanding and tools to work more
compassionately and effectively with mothers from all backgrounds.
Breastfeeding at a Glance
90-120 minutes, CERP or non-CERP
A fascinating tour of facts about breastfeeding, from the origins of breastfeeding to modern myths and facts
about breastfeeding, from the legal status of breastfeeding to how breastfeeding rates vary with geography,
from contraindications to breastfeeding to the risks of formula feeding, and much more!
Breastfeeding Basics: Becoming a Breastfeeding Family
150 minutes to 3 hours, non-CERP
An introduction to information and skills needed by first-time breastfeeding mothers and their partners.
Includes how to make enough milk, how to breastfeed comfortably, and how to find solutions to common
breastfeeding challenges.
Pioneer Mothering
90 minute or keynote, non-CERP
An inspiring exploration of the challenges that many contemporary women courageously face as they
mother in a markedly different way than has been done in recent generations, for example by being the first
mother for generations in their family to breastfeed.
The Hot Topic of Infant Feeding Rhetoric: Risks or Benefits?
90-120 minutes, CERP
An exploration of the multidisciplinary evidence base that provides guidance on identifying and using
effective and ethical language when communicating about infant feeding.
Postpartum Depression: The Most Common Complication of Birth
90-120 minutes, CERP
An overview of postpartum depression, how breastfeeding and postpartum depression interact, and how
and why to screen and refer breastfeeding mothers for treatment.
Breastfeeding Compatible Mental Health Care for Postpartum Depression
90-120 minutes, CERP
An introduction to the physical and psychological risks for mothers and their children of mental health care
that undermines breastfeeding during postpartum depression and to a variety of breastfeeding compatible
treatment options for postpartum depression in nursing mothers.
Mutually Inclusive: Breastfeeding Support and Mental Health Care
90-120 minutes, CERP
An invitation to multidisciplinary collaboration in the treatment of mother-nursling dyads coping with
common postpartum mental health issues, as well as a dialogue about what lactation consultants and
mental health practitioners can contribute so that breastfeeding and mental health are both supported.
It Wasn't Supposed to be Like This: Traumatic Birth, Traumatic Stress, and Breastfeeding
90-120 minutes, CERP
A sensitive discussion of how traumatic birth experiences affect maternal mental health, mothering,
breastfeeding, and lactation consulting. Includes the importance of recognizing the difference between
postpartum depression and postpartum stress disorders in new mothers.
Managing Acute Maternal Traumatic Stress in Birth
90 minutes to 3 hours, CERP
An overview of the ten steps of Comprehensive Acute Traumatic Stress Management as adapted and
applied to the context of traumatic childbirth.
Mother's Milk, Empty Arms
90-120 minutes, CERP
A guide to the compassionate management of lactation and breastfeeding in the aftermath of pregnancy
loss and infant death. Addresses suppression of lactation, breastfeeding a surviving sibling, donation of
expressed milk to a human milk bank, and the emerging psychological needs of bereaved mothers.
Stillborn: Surviving Grief and Traumatic Stress as a Health Care Provider
90-120 minutes, CERP
A step-by-step guide to understanding and coping with your own traumatic stress reactions after having
witnessed the birth of a stillborn baby while serving as a health care provider, such as in the role of a
midwife, nurse, doctor, or doula.
Loss, Grief, and Breastfeeding Counseling
90-120 minutes, CERP
An exploration of the role of loss and grief in the breastfeeding experience, including the loss and grief
inherent in the acquisition of the maternal role, grief due to congenital disorders, pregnancy loss, and infant
death, grief due to the loss of breastfeeding, and guilt as a symptom of grief.
Helping Mothers Create Breastfeeding Allies
90 minutes, CERP
An exploration of effective, non-manipulative persuasion techniques that can help women gain meaningful
breastfeeding support in their families, workplaces, and communities. Includes discussion of the process
of change, how to work with that process, and conflict resolution across cultures.
Brief Breastfeeding Encounters: Effective Counseling Techniques when Time is Limited
90-120 minutes, CERP
An introduction to key counseling concepts and techniques from solution focused brief therapy and their
application to lactation consulting. Includes practical tools that any health care provider can routinely use to
work more effectively with women when time is limited.
Empathic Listening and Beyond: Essential Counseling Techniques for Lactation Consulting
90-120 minutes, CERP
A discussion of fundamental, as well as more advanced, counseling concepts and approaches necessary
for anyone working with pregnant or breastfeeding mothers.
Shades of Gray: Ethics, Culture and Breastfeeding
90-120 minutes, CERP
An overview of the process of ethical decision making in cross-cultural settings. Includes a discussion of
how ethical issues in breastfeeding counseling are impacted by non-universal culturally based values and
beliefs and how to respond to ethical issues of breastfeeding in a multicultural world.
From Barriers to Bridges: Culture and Breastfeeding
90-120 minutes, CERP
An introduction to concepts and tools that are useful when working with members of any culture. Includes a
discussion of cultural dimensions, how culture impacts breastfeeding, how lactation consultants and others
can work with parents from many cultures to promote positive breastfeeding experiences, and how to work
toward the development of cultural competence.
Sunlight Deficiency, Vitamin D, and the Breastfed Baby: Helping Mothers Make Informed Decisions
90-120 minutes, CERP
An overview of the complex research base of information essential for facilitating informed decision making
on vitamin D supplementation of the breastfed infant. Addresses risk factors for vitamin D deficiency and
options for preventing vitamin D deficiency.
The Women behind the Breasts: The Context of Infant Feeding Issues
90-120 minutes, CERP
A review of several models of context and their application to infant feeding issues and decisions. Provides
lactation consultants and other health care providers with understanding and tools to work more
compassionately and effectively with mothers from all backgrounds.
Breastfeeding at a Glance
90-120 minutes, CERP or non-CERP
A fascinating tour of facts about breastfeeding, from the origins of breastfeeding to modern myths and facts
about breastfeeding, from the legal status of breastfeeding to how breastfeeding rates vary with geography,
from contraindications to breastfeeding to the risks of formula feeding, and much more!
Breastfeeding Basics: Becoming a Breastfeeding Family
150 minutes to 3 hours, non-CERP
An introduction to information and skills needed by first-time breastfeeding mothers and their partners.
Includes how to make enough milk, how to breastfeed comfortably, and how to find solutions to common
breastfeeding challenges.
Pioneer Mothering
90 minute or keynote, non-CERP
An inspiring exploration of the challenges that many contemporary women courageously face as they
mother in a markedly different way than has been done in recent generations, for example by being the first
mother for generations in their family to breastfeed.
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