Holding Multitudes: Grief care for clinicians in reproductive health
Date: October 5, 2024 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Location: UNM, Domenici Center, Room 2720
(No cost for registration)
For Nurse Midwifery Students, OBGYN & Family Practice Residents, Interns and Fellows
& Birth Companion Volunteers, Doula community interested in Reproductive Justice.
Sponsored by the UNM College of Nursing
Grief is universal, crossing boundaries between the personal and professional. As clinicians, our
grief often becomes cumulative as we bear witness to the loss inherent in working with patients
in the reproductive spectrum. Clinicians are invited to a participatory, immersive exploration of
how to tend to our own grief and offer empathetic care in a sustainable manner to our patients.
Join us for a live poetry reading with Albuquerque Poet Laureate Anna C. Martinez, and small group sharing and learning experience.
In a warm, small group setting, we will read and reflect on selected poems from Wildling and Sprout, a poetry anthology exploring the themes of postpartum, pregnancy loss, and abortion related grief. A booklet with selected poems, journaling prompts and resources are included with registration.
As a community we will expand our understanding and beliefs about grief, and imagine new
approaches to grief care in the clinical setting which center the humanity of the work we do and
positively impact our patient care.
Organized and Facilitated by Birth workers, Nurse Clinicians and Grief experts Roshni Kavate, RN, CHPN, and Rebecca Servoss NC-BC, RNC-NIC of Marigolde.
Key Objectives:
● Expand understanding of grief related to the reproductive spectrum through the elements of art
and storytelling
● Create a much needed facilitated safe space for clinicians to explore their untold grief
● Integrate resiliency rooted practice models for clinicians navigating populations
with complicated grief
Optional: Pre Order your copy of the Poetry Anthology Wildling and Sprout, printed and digital copies available.
26 Inspiring poems that are raw, visceral and honest; a glimpse into deeply personal views of these transformative moments along the reproductive spectrum.
All proceeds will be donated to Indigenous Women Rising, The Afiya Center, National Network of Abortion Funds, & SisterSong
“I think it’s important for us as providers to be honest on how all these experiences affect us emotionally.”
”It was excellent and more people should have the advantage of this workshop.”
”It was highly applicable to clinical practice, Very helpful suggestions to cope with grief”
”So helpful to unravel emotions, The guidance given on grief inclusive and sustainable practice was so helpful”
Speakers and Performers
Roshni Kavate, RN
Roshni Kavate is an Artist, Grief Coach and Educator. Roshni Kavate is the Co-Founder, CEO and Creative Director of Marigolde. She believes grief is a portal to wholeness. Through rituals and storytelling, we can reconnect to our origins and be our wild selves. She sees the path to being whole as a radical art and political practice. The question that guides her is, What is our grief craving? and how can we nourish and feed it?
Rebecca Servoss, NC-BC, RNC-NIC
Rebecca Servoss is the Co-Founder and COO of Marigolde. She is a Nurse, writer, and mother. As a two time NICU parent and neonatal nurse, Rebecca has dedicated her professional career to supporting birthing families and is the author of Navigating the NICU: A Guide to Self Care for NICU Parents. She is currently Co-Chair of the Neonatal Bereavement Team at UNM Hospital.
Rebecca is a Board Certified Holistic Nurse Coach and Certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor and offers clients an intuitive and holistic approach to vitality and resilience while creating structure to safely explore and express their grief.
Anna C. Martinez is an Albuquerque Poet Laureate 2022-2024, civil rights attorney, legislative analyst, poet, mother, and grandmother. She was born in Los Angeles to a closet singer seamstress and an artist activist at the height of the civil rights movement. Martinez was then raised in her parents’ hometown of Española, NM, the lowrider capital of the world, when her family returned to reconnect with their roots. Martinez was first published in 2014 in anthologies La Palabra: the Word is Woman with Albuquerque Poet Laureate Emeritus Jessica Helen Lopez, and Lowriting: Shots, Rides and Stories from the Chicano Soul with artists such as Lalo Alcaraz, and Gustavo Arellano. Her first book of poetry Pura Puta, A Poetic Memoir, was recently published and released nationally by Zachary Hively and Casa Urraca Press.