Motherhood Flyer - Parents Centres New Zealand Inc

Centre for AYachment, Parents Centres NZ, the Families Commission, Great Poten4als and the Paren4ng Council present
THEMEANINGOFMOTHERHOOD
Friday, 28 November 2008
AUT
Conference
Centre
Auckland
Maternal Love, Modern Culture and the
Essence of Family
Motherhood, despite being perhaps the most
founda4onal and influen4al force in our lives, is
an o9en overlooked concept when it comes to
poli4cal discussion, child development, or the
meaning of work. Now, for the first 4me, a
conference is being devoted to this topic.
This conference aims to enliven the
myriad of perspec;ves and feelings
behind the ins;tu;on of motherhood,
while simultaneously connec;ng the
voices of mothers and the dots of policy.
Our keynote speakers, Naomi Stadlen from
London and Anne Manne from Melbourne, will
speak to the themes of ‘Mothers Talking’ and
‘Mothers Ques4oning.’
Anne & Naomi will discuss the material of their
books, as well as the energy that occurs when
mothers can be brought together in discussion ‐
not division ‐ and the subsequent change that
can occur on a societal level when we begin to
ques4on while maintaining that forged
connec4on.
Addi4onal morning plenary ‐ ‘Mothers
Listening’ ‐ with Lauren Porter and a9ernoon
plenary ‐ ‘In Defence of Mothering’ ‐ with
Elisabeth Muir. A9ernoon sessions feature
workshops with Carrie Cornsweet Barber, Vicki
Culling, Irene deHaan, Simone Degiorgio,
Pauline Hopa, Jocelyn Johnstone, Ella Kahu,
David Tipene Leach, Ruth Mar4s, Barbara
Sturmfels & Claire Wright. Par4cipants will get
a choice of two.
We aim to ask the unanswered, explore
the unmen;oned and give meaning to
the experience of motherhood.
The event will be held at the AUT Tech Park
Conference Centre in Auckland. In addi4on to
the main hall, there will be a conference room
with real‐4me video and audio broadcast so
that mothers/caregivers aYending with babies
or small children can par4cipate without worry.
We look forward to an enriching and enlivening
day.

MEANINGMOTHERHOOD 28 November 2008
“It is as if one steps back across a threshold
into a different world with different values, a
different universe. everything that is a
priority in the other, parallel universe is
reversed, turned upside down. The centre of
life in one world ‐ children ‐ is invisible to the
other. There is no shared language. The most
important, meaningful ‘work’ I had ever done
counted for nothing.”
Anne Manne
Programme
8:30 ‐ 9:00 Powhiri & Opening Words
9:00 ‐ 10:00 Naomi Stadlen, “Mothers Talking”
10:00 ‐ 10:30 Morning Tea
10:30 ‐ 11:30 Anne Manne, “Mothers Ques4oning”
11:30 ‐ 12:15 Lauren Porter, “Mothers Listening”
12:15 ‐ 1:15 Lunch
1:15 ‐ 2:45 A9ernoon Workshops *
2:45 ‐ 3:15 A9ernoon Tea
3:15 ‐ 4:00 Elisabeth Muir, “In Defence of Mothering”
4:00 ‐ 4:45 Anne Manne & Naomi Stadlen, ‘What We’ve Learning from Mothering”
Registra4on desk opens at 7:30am.
*A9ernoon workshops will be a choice of two 45‐minute workshops, grouped together in pairs. Workshop choices
will be filled according to the order of registra4ons received.
All plenary sessions taking place in the main room will be simultaneously broadcast (video and audio) in an
adjacent room so that mothers aYending with babies or small children can listen without worry.

MEANINGMOTHERHOOD 28 November 2008
Naomi Stadlen
Psychotherapist,
Counsellor and Author of
What Mothers Do...
Especially when it looks
like nothing
Anne Manne
Journalist, Social
Philosopher and Author
of Motherhood: How
should we care for our
children?
Keynote Speakers
Anne Manne & Naomi Stadlen
Naomi Stadlen
Naomi's life turned out very differently from
the way she thought it would. She thought
she would work very hard and create a
successful career. However, mee4ng her
husband and having three children changed
her values. Family life was wonderful, yet she
o9en felt disrespected as a mother by the
culture in which she lived. When her children
were older, she became a La Leche League
leader. She started Mothers Talking in 1991 ‐
a weekly discussion groups for mothers in
London to explore how it feels to become a
mother. She became an existen4al
psychotherapist, and specialises in working
with individual mothers, or parents. She
teaches courses on family rela4onships. She
also teach Wu Style Tai Chi to mothers.
Eventually, she wrote What Mothers Do –
Especially When It Looks Like Nothing (2004).
It's a study of what she has seen many
mothers do without giving advice on what
any mother ‘ought’ to do. Publishers assured
her that mothers would not buy a book that
gave no advice ‐ but mothers have proved
these publishers wrong. Naomi was moved to
discover how many mothers have felt
supported by reading about other mothers.
She is now a grandmother. She loves listening
to mothers talking because she believes that
there is much more to learn about what
mothers do.
Anne Manne
In so many women’s lives there is a Before
and A9er Motherhood. Anne is no different.
Before having children and caring for them
“If we see ‘nothing’ when we look at a mother
who is quietly being a mother, it is easy for her to
feel as if she is doing nothing too. If she thinks
she is doing nothing, and we think she is doing
nothing, there is only the speechless baby to
experience how much good she is doing.”
Naomi Stadlen
for many years, Anne taught in the Poli4cs
Departments of Melbourne and Latrobe
Universi4es. A9er motherhood, her direc4on
and interests changed. When her youngest
went to school, she began wri4ng full 4me.
Rather than being “the enemy of promise,”
the pram in the hall, while delaying things,
nonetheless proved to be an inspira4on for
reflec4on and crea4ve endeavour. Now a
respected social commentator, she has been
a regular columnist for The Australian and
The Age, while her longer essays on varied
and vexed aspects of contemporary life, can
be found in The Monthly, The Australian
Literary Review and The Age. She has a
special interest in family issues and children,
and is a strong advocate of suppor4ng the
resources and capabili4es of parents. Anne
has long grappled with the ques4on; how can
we give women and mothers in par4cular, a
beYer deal in society without short‐changing
children? Her book Motherhood: How should
we care for our children was a finalist in the
Walkley Award for Best Non‐Fic4on Book of
2006. She is a contributor to Dear Mr Rudd,
to be published March 2008, and is the
author of the March 2008 Quarterly Essay
Love and Money. She is a mother of two adult
daughters.
Family life is being
reshaped by the
new economy.
Although it is
rarely made
explicit, the new
capitalism is
con4ngent on a
trade‐off: higher
produc4vity is
translated not into
more 4me at
home but more
hours worked per
family per year to
service our
consump4on
habit.
Anne Manne

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Afternoon Workshops
Exploring Motherhood*
* Each conference parEcipant will choose two workshops
Workshop 1:
Am I S;ll a Mother? Making Meaning of Motherhood
AIer the Death of a Baby
Vicki Culling & Claire Wright
Pregnancy, as a rite of passage, has a liminal status that
places women between two structural states ‐ that of
before and a9er the arrival of the child. We will discuss
the absence of one group of mothers who remain
suspended between those two states ‐ neither
expec4ng their child nor having them biologically
present. What becomes of these mothers? Do they
have the right to be called mothers if the way we
construct motherhood is based on the presence of
children? What language is available to those mothers
in terms of voicing their experience and claiming
themselves as mothers? Almost all of the literature
that focuses on motherhood goes on to discuss the role
of children in the maintenance of iden4ty, on dominant
motherhood ideologies ('good mother' versus 'bad
mother') and myths of motherhood. Some4mes there
are references to those that fall outside the dominant
model ‐ the teenage mothers, single mothers, lesbian
mothers. Nowhere is there any discussion about the
babyless/childless mother. We want to start such a
discussion. We will draw upon the experiences of
different mothers whose children have died ‐ mothers
who have no living children, mothers whose first born/
children died and now have subsequent living children,
mothers who had living children and whose
subsequent baby/child died.
Workshop 2:
Who Are Teen Mothers? We Know Who We Are!
Ruth MarEs
Teenage pregnancies have become an issue of
increasing concern in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Currently
If an expectant mother walked into a library and asked,
‘How will my baby develop?’ the librarian could show
her some books on infant development. If, however,
she asked, ‘What about me? How will I develop as a
mother?’ the librarian would probably look surprised.
The idea that mothers develop isn’t a common subject
for a book. Almost the opposite. Many people seem
to think that mothers risk stagnating. Especially if a
mother isn’t out at work, people assume she must be
‘stuck’ at home doing boring and repetitive chores with
little to stimulate her.’
Naomi Stadlen
we have the second highest teenage pregnancy rate in
the developed world. Young teenage women who are
pregnant o9en do not seek early antenatal care for a
variety of reasons and are unlikely to breasteed their
babies. They feel isolated and judged in our society. In
the 2002 Maternity Services Consumer Survey, women
aged 15‐19 were less likely than older mothers to have
been sa4sfied with maternity services. Yet, the truth is,
if we would listen to their voices we would discover
what motherhood means to these young women, how
motherhood is constructed via their experiences and
what iden4fied support could assist them in their
journey to motherhood. The presenta4on will cover
some New Zealand sta4s4cs of teenage pregnancies
and explore needs and issues that might surround and
affect teenage mothering through a visual presenta4on
of research on a small sample of teenage mother’s
stories and subsequent thema4c extrac4ons.
Workshop 3:
Journey Home: Adop;ve Mothers and the Meaning of
Motherhood
Jocelyn Johnstone
My Masters thesis described the experiences of
adop4ve mother’s and fathers in ways they sought to
build a paren4ng and aYachment rela4onship with
their adop4ve children from an orphanage in Russia. It
explored factors that facilitated and hindered the
rela4onship from an aYachment developmental
perspec4ve. The research used a phenomenological
approach which aimed to hear mothers’ stories.
Research methods included ques4onnaires, focus
groups and in‐depth interviews. Adop4ve mothers
shared of their transi4ons from that of being a working
mother to a mother at home with their new adop4ve
children. These encompassed the ongoing transi4ons
from the grief of not having their own biological
children, to the decision to adopt, to the prepara4on
process, followed by the subsequent phone call and
trip/s to Russia. The process of becoming a mother
from the first mee4ng of their children in the
orphanage required an enormous commitment,
adapta4on and resilience from these women. Their
stories are inspira4onal and we can all learn from
them. The workshop will focus on the meaning of
motherhood from an adop4ve mother's perspec4ve,
how she makes meaning of this role, her journey to
motherhood and the ongoing mothering rela4onship in
her iden4ty?

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Afternoon Workshops
continued
Workshop 4:
Both Mother and Worker: Conflic;ng Construc;ons in
Government Policy and Women’s Talk
Ella Kahu
Government policy influences lives not just materially,
but also ideologically through the promo4on of certain
discourses. A Ministry of Women’s Affairs policy and
the talk of two focus groups of first 4me mothers were
cri4cally analysed to explore their differing
understandings of what it means to be a mother and a
worker. Deploying an economic ra4onalist discourse,
the policy constructs motherhood as an inevitable but
invisible demand, and paid work as essen4al to wellbeing
and a duty of ci4zenship. The policy, driven by
capitalist goals of economic growth rather than the
needs of women, marginalises motherhood and
posi4ons women as workers first and foremost. In
contrast, the mothers deployed an intensive mother
discourse which privileged their maternal role and
posi4oned them as the natural and best caregivers of
their children. However, the pressure of increasingly
dominant discourses that construct mothering as
worthless and paid work as essen4al manifested in the
women’s talk as guilt and conflict. This tension is
managed in part by the evolving independent mother
discourse which strives to enable a more comfortable
weaving of the iden44es of mother and worker.
Workshop 5:
Becoming a Mother: Doubt, Joy & Other Stops Along
the Way
Carrie Cornsweet Barber & Simone DeGiorgio
The experience of becoming a mother is one of the
most profound transforma4ons in women’s lives, and
it can be a period of crea4vity, fear, renewal, stress, joy,
isola4on, and/or a mixture of all of the above, and
more. A variety of social and individual factors may
influence how women weather this transi4on and how
their view of motherhood ‐ and themselves ‐ is created.
This workshop will start from our experiences as
facilitators and confidants of mothers’ groups and
individual mothers, trying to understand the needs and
struggles of families as they grow. We will also discuss
the findings of an exploratory study of the experiences
of mothers and fathers in Hamilton, New Zealand, and
their views on the kinds of supports and services that
families need.
Workshop 6:
Becoming through Breas\eeding: The Role of
Breas\eeding in Construc;ng Maternal Iden;ty
Barbara Sturmfels
Much has been said ‐ and indeed best prac4se is now
based on ‐ mother’s milk as the best start in life for
baby. What is much less explored is the rela4onal side
of breasteeding and the poten4ally transforma4ve
impact on maternal iden4ty. This workshop will
inves4gate how breasteeding helps a woman form an
iden4ty as mother, influences her rela4onship with her
child, affects a woman’s sense of her body and her
feelings of worth,and how breasteeding can also
create a transforma4on toward healing. By discussing
how breasteeding is experienced and perceived from
the woman’s perspec4ve, this workshop will elucidate
how the process of becoming a mother is deeply linked
to the act of breasteeding.
Workshop 7:
Maoriness and Motherhood: The Wahakura as
Exchange of Knowledge
David Tipene‐Leach & Pauline Hopa
The wahakura is a woven harakeke bassinet designed
as an aid to safe bedsharing. It represents not only a
device for safe shared sleep, but an expression of
4kanga Maori and an exchange of that custom from
one genera4on to the next. It also promotes
breasteeding and bonding. Maori SIDS rates have
fallen tremendously over the past 15 years. It is the
number of deaths that touch the heart and,
gra4fyingly, these have reduced from around 115 to 45.
The present problem is that those figures seem to be
stable with liYle inclina4on to decrease. Presumably,
we have reached the natural end of the decline from
health promo4on efforts. The 4me has now come to
adopt an approach consistent with all the interna4onal
advice around safe sleeping environments ‐an
approach that is at one with 4kanga Maori. The
wahakura has been adopted by Maori mums because
of its ‘Maoriness’ as it reflects 4me honoured custom
around shared sleep between mother and baby and
helps to reflect the goodness of Maori mothering. It
also promises to mi4gate much of the risk of the
shared sleeping environment for the infant of the
mother who smoked during pregnancy, whilst
preserving the valued cosleeping behaviour.
Workshop 8:
A Good Start: Resilience and First‐Time Motherhood
Irene deHaan
Women having a first baby must deal with a completely
new set of physical and emo4onal challenges over
which they have liYle or no control. These challenges
include the discomforts of pregnancy; the birth itself;
and the hormonal upsets, 4redness and self‐doubt
common in the early postnatal period. Although
accepted as ‘normal’, none of this is easy. Nor does
competent infant care necessarily ‘come naturally’.
People close to a new mother, her partner especially,
also face major change: there can be significant effects
on rela4onships. The birth of a first baby, however
welcome, is a significant life change requiring rapid
adapta4on to new and surprisingly difficult
circumstances.
This presenta4on describes the experience of
becoming a mother in the words of women who were
par4cipants in a qualita4ve study of resilience in
families having a first baby. Themes covered in the
presenta4on include preparing for motherhood;
‘mee4ng the baby’, learning new skills; and confron4ng
the reali4es of life with a baby. This laYer theme
includes physical effects and gewng used to ‘the
constantness of it’ as well as experiences of effects on
close rela4onships, including the impact of
motherhood on their sense of iden4ty and role and the
decision making about whether or not to go back to
work.

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Other Speakers &
Invited Guests
Carrie Cornsweet Barber
(Workshop 5:
Becoming a Mother: Doubt, Joy &
Other Stops Along the Way)
Carrie is the mother of two and a
child clinical psychologist who has
specialised in working with women
in the transi4on to motherhood.
Prior to moving to New Zealand she
lead a support group for new
mothers called Finding the Joy, in
addi4on to teaching and
researching. She is currently
teaching at the University of
Waikato Psychology Department
and researching the support and
services available for mothers and
families in New Zealand.
Vicki Culling
(Workshop 1:
Am I S;ll a Mother? Making Meaning
of Motherhood AIer the Death of a
Baby)
Vicki Culling lives in Wellington and
works in the field of perinatal death
support and informa4on. She is the
current Chairperson of Sands New
Zealand and worked as Sands NZ’s
first full 4me worker in 2006 thanks
to a Vodafone NZ World of
Difference award. Vicki’s daughter
Aster died in 1998 at 42 weeks, just
prior to birth. Vicki’s second
daughter, Phoebe, is nine years old.
Simone DeGiorgio
(Workshop 5:
Becoming a Mother: Doubt, Joy &
Other Stops Along the Way)
Simone is a mother of three and
Childbirth Educator with exper4se
in the transi4on from birth to
parenthood. Since becoming a
Childbirth Educator in 2002, Simone
has focused on providing support
and educa4on for new parents.
Simone launched the support
service Maternal Journey in 2007,
offering women and their families
courses, workshops and one‐onone
support through pregnancy,
birth and beyond, with a focus on
feeding, sleeping and
developmental understanding from
birth to five.
www.maternaljourney.co.nz
Irene deHaan
(Workshop 8:
A Good Start: Resilience and First‐Time
Motherhood)
Irene is the mother of three older
children and the Principal
Community Rela4ons Advisor at the
Families Commission. Born in
Glasgow, she immigrated to New
Zealand in 1986 and has worked at
the Women’s Resource Centre in
Warkworth and as Manager of the
Homebuilders Family Support. She
is currently comple4ng a doctorate
on resilience in families with a first
baby.
Pauline Hopa
(Workshop 7:
Maoriness and Motherhood: The
Wahakura as Exchange of Knowledge )
Pauline is the Opera4ons Manager
for Maori SIDS; she is of Nga4
Whatua and Ngapuhi descent.
She currently holds posi4ons on the
New Zealand Breasteeding
Authority, Te Mata4ni – Aotearoa
Tradi4onal Maori Performing Arts
Society, and the Waitangi Cultural
CommiYee.Pauline has a Masters of
Management from the University of
Auckland and a Graduate Diploma
of Business. Her interests are in
Maori performing arts, kapa haka,
and sustainable development and
the empowerment of whanau to
live healthy happy lives is the vision
Pauline is commiYed to working
towards.
We can and do, individually
and collectively, dismiss as
unimportant the links
between experience and
emotion, self and feeling,
between past and present,
young and old, birth and
death, between infant and
adult. One example is the
minimising of the critical
importance for the infant of
his relationship with his
mother. There is an inference
that infants can get as much,
if not more, from professional
caregivers. The word mother
is gradually being replaced by
the word caregiver as if
mother and caregiver are, or
can be, one and the
same,that there is no
difference between them.
Elisabeth Muir
Jocelyn Johnstone
(Workshop 3:
Journey Home: Adop;ve Mothers and
the Meaning of Motherhood )
Jocelyn is Plunket Educator/Advisor
and a counsellor in private prac4ce.
She recently completed her
Masters thesis exploring the
aYachment journey of adop4ve
parents of Russian children. Her
philosophical framework is
aYachment and focuses on the
need for a responsive and secure
rela4onship with a primary
aYachment figure, generally the
mother.
Ella Kahu
(Workshop 4:
Both Mother and Worker: Conflic;ng
Construc;ons in Government Policy
and Women’s Talk )
Ella is the mother of two, a long‐
4me member of HuY Playcentre
Assn and recently completed her
masters thesis in Psychology on the
discursive impact of government
policy on women’s lives and
choices. She teaches psychology at
Massey University i Wellington and
is a member of the SPACE Advisory
Board.

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Other Speakers &
Invited Guests
continued...
David Tipene Leach
(Workshop 7:
Maoriness and Motherhood: The
Wahakura as Exchange of Knowledge)
Well experienced in solo and rural
general prac4ce and qualified in
public health, David is fluent in
Maori custom and language and
ac4ve in Maori health
development. David has a history of
pa4ent care, community service,
academic teaching, public health
service provision and health
research. Those interests have all
been employed in my associa4on
with the Maori SIDS Preven4on
Team from 1993 to 2000 and more
recently with the Wahakura Project.
He is presently working as a General
Prac44oner for Hauora Heretanga,
the primary health care clinic at the
Taiwhenua o Heretaunga in
Has4ngs and also has some public
health contractual work in diabetes
preven4on. The Wahakura Project is
his present passion.
Ruth MarWs
(Workshop 2:
Who Are Teen Mothers? We Know
Who We Are!)
A midwife for over 25 years who has
worked in a variety of sewngs, Ruth
has recently come to live in
Christchurch. She has a passion for
pregnant teenagers and is involved
with teenage antenatal educa4on,
as well as teaching in the midwifery
programme at Christchurch
Polytechnic Ins4tute of Technology.
For the last four years Ruth has
been a regular feature author for
Kiwi Parent on Teen Talk. She also
set up the first teenage antenatal
and postnatal support groups in the
Manawatu called ‘Youth Plus’. In
her spare 4me Ruth enjoys being a
‘bike chick’ riding with her husband.
Elisabeth Muir
(Plenary Address: In Defence
of Mothering)
Elisabeth Muir is an Otago
University trained Child
Psychotherapist who has worked
with children and families for nearly
thirty years in both New Zealand
and Canada. During the past fi9een
years her focus has centred on
working with infants and toddlers
and their families. She has recently
returned from twelve years in
Toronto, Canada. While in Toronto
she worked in the Infant and Family
Programme at the Hincks Centre.
During this 4me she ini4ated and
was co‐principal inves4gator in a
research study comparing two
parent‐infant interven4ons which
included an infant‐led interven4on
called Watch, Wait and Wonder. She
has published interna4onally,
presented her work and done
training workshops in Europe,
Canada, United States, and
Australia. Her primary goal when
intervening with infants and their
families is to foster a confident,
flexible and interac4onally rich
rela4onship between mothers and
their infants, toddlers and young
children. Elisabeth is currently
semi‐re4red and doing clinical
supervision in Christchurch.
Lauren Porter
(Plenary Address: Mothers Listening)
Lauren is the mother of two young
children and the Co‐Director of the
Centre for AYachment. In both her
personal and professional life she
has been struck by the profound
importance of mothering and
simultaneous the absence of
support for motherhood. The
rela4onal model of development
described by aYachment theory
and neuroscience underpin her
professional efforts. She is a regular
speaker at conferences around
Australia and New Zealand and has
wriYen for publica4ons in both
countries, as well as the US.
Barbara Sturmfels
(Workshop 6:
Becoming through Breas\eeding:
What Breas\eeding Means to
Maternal Iden;ty)
Barbara Sturmfels is the Director of
La Leche League New Zealand. She
has been an LLL Leader in Central
Auckland since 1996. She and her
partner Bill have two children aged
17 and 13. Barbara is also a
member of the Na4onal
Breasteeding Advisory CommiYee.
Prior to having children, Barbara
gained degrees in economics and
sta4s4cs and worked in the
banking, educa4on and public
transport sectors. She has been
largely out of the paid workforce for
the last 17 years, during which 4me
she has gained more skills and
knowledge, with more relevance
and benefit to the community, than
would have ever been possible in
her previous corporate
employment.
Claire Wright
((Workshop 1:
Am I S;ll a Mother? Making Meaning
of Motherhood AIer the Death of a
Baby)
Claire Wright lives in Auckland and
is mother to four children ‐ Isabelle,
Phoebe, Daniel and Zoe. Her first
three children are not living, and
Zoe is 22 months old. Claire works
4relessly for Sands, both locally and
na4onally, and is an incredibly
talented and ar4culate parent who
works on behalf of other bereaved
parents in a voluntary (and o9en
thankless) role. Sands NZ and Sands
Auckland Central are lucky to have
her energy and skills.

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Cost
$195 per person, includes morning tea, a9ernoon
tea and lunch. Student and hardship rates
available.
Venue
AUT Tech Park Conference Centre
The conference will be held at the AUT Tech Park
Conference Centre at 585 Great South Road,
Penrose, Auckland.
HOW TO FIND THE CONFERENCE CENTRE FROM THE CITY
! Take the Penrose / Ellerslie Panmure Highway exit from the Southern Motorway
! Follow the road around to the right, taking the turnoff to Penrose
! There will be a Caltex Petrol Station on your left as you meet Great South Road
Parking is available at the venue as well as nearby.
! Keep to the left at large intersection (Effective Fencing is on the corner) go over the railway lines (this is still Great South Road)
! AUT (the old Fletchers complex of buildings) comes up just after the intersection with Penrose Road
! Just past this intersection you will turn right into AUT Technology Park.
Please see map and direc4ons for further
! Parking is available by taking the first driveway on the right past the Penrose Road lights (AUT Technology Park), drive down
the side of the building–follow the arrows to The Conference Centre Car parking on the rooftop.
! If this carpark is full there is carparking available in Holloway Place – directly across the road from the complex entrance or
informa4on.
along Great South Road - turn to the left when leaving the complex
! The Conference Centre is situated on the Ground Floor, Wright Stephenson House, 585 Great South Road, Penrose
(Phone 921 9599)
! From the car park enter Wright Stephenson House where The Conference Centre entrance is. Take the lift to the ground floor.
! Public Transport: Train and bus timetables refer to: www.maxx.co.nz
Additional parking is available in
Holloway Place opposite our
main entrance, or on Great South Road.
Carparking is
located on the
rooftop carpark
and is subject
to availability.
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Displays & Info
A variety of community agencies, programmes
and ar4sts whose work supports motherhood will
have display tables at the venue. This includes
SKIP, Jumping Beans, Infant Mental Health
Associa4on Aotearoa New Zealand, SPACE/
Playcentre and the Wahakura Project.
Questions / Enquiries
All registra4ons, ques4ons and requests should be
directed to Lauren Porter, Conference Convener,
Centre for AYachment at
Lauren@centreforaYachment.com or 021 721
115.
Sponsors
The conference is being jointly sponsored by the
Centre for AYachment, the Families Commission,
Parents Centres NZ, Great Poten4als and the NZ
Paren4ng Council. Without the support of these
wonderful agencies and organisa4ons this
conference would not be possible. Our heartelt
thanks to all.

RegistraWon Form
Meaning of Motherhood Conference: Friday 28 November 2008
8:30 am un4l 5:00 pm
Auckland, AUT Conference Centre
Cost: $195 per person, including morning tea, a9ernoon tea & lunch (Student and Hardship rates available)
Name: ________________________________________________________
Organisa4on: __________________________________________________
Postal Address: _________________________________________________
City: ___________________________ Post Code: ____________________
Contact Phone: ________________________________
Email: ___________________________
Workshop Choices:
Please put a number “1” in the box next to your first choice, a “2” next to your second choice and a “3” next to your
third choice. We will aYempt to give you your top 2 choices, but as workshops will be filled on a first in‐first served
basis, the 3rd choice will be given in the event that one of your top two are no longer available.
Workshop 1 (Vicki Culling/Claire Wright)
Workshop 2 (Ruth Mar4s)
Workshop 3 (Jocelyn Johnstone)
Workshop 4 (Ella Kahu)
Workshop 5 (Carrie Cornsweet Barber & Simone DeGiorgio)
Workshop 6 (Barbara Sturmfels)
Workshop 7 (David Tipene‐Leach & Pauline Hopa)
Workshop 8 (Irene deHaan)
Please remember to print clearly so we can contact you efficiently.
Please indicate method of payment:
I enclose a cheque (made out to Centre for AYachment) for the amount of $_________
Electronic Funds Transfer
(If you select this opEon, bank account details will be sent to you upon receipt of your completed registraEon form.)
Note: fees are refundable, minus a $50 processing fee, prior to 15 October 2008. A]er that Eme, fees are nonrefundable
but are transferrable. Fees must be paid to ensure your space is held ‐ registraEon is not complete
unEl then.
Registra4ons can be returned via fax (07) 859 3162 or mail to Centre for AYachment, Lauren Porter, PO Box 24167,
Hamilton 3253.
For more informaEon, please contact: Lauren Porter (021) 721 115, Lauren@centreforaYachment.com, or at www.centreforaYachment.com