A welcoming conversation for women to share birth experiences, explore birth options, and connect through community, care, and healing.About this Event
Your Story Matters.
Voices of Birth: A Community Conversation for Women is an intimate community gathering created for women across generations to speak openly about pregnancy, birth, healthcare, and the experiences that shape how we understand maternal care.
Too many women have walked away from pregnancy and birth experiences feeling unheard, dismissed, unsupported, or unsure of the choices available to them.
This gathering creates space for those stories.
Together, we will talk about what it means to feel heard and supported throughout pregnancy and birth, explore different birth options, and share knowledge across generations in a welcoming and affirming environment.
Whether you have given birth, are preparing for pregnancy or birth, support women and families, or simply want to learn more, you are welcome here.
The event is designed to help community members better understand birth options—including hospital birth, birth center care, and home birth—and provide clear, accessible information to support informed decision-making.
Special Short Film Screening: Birth Rights
As part of the gathering, guests will view the short film Birth Rights, followed by guided reflection and community conversation.
The screening will serve as a starting point for deeper discussion about pregnancy, birth experiences, informed choice, maternal care, advocacy, and what it means for women to feel heard and supported within the healthcare system.
What to Expect
This is not a lecture.
It is a conversation.
Guests will have an opportunity to listen, reflect, ask questions, share personal experiences, and connect with women from different generations.
The gathering will include conversation around:
- A special screening of the short film Birth Rights
- Guided conversation and reflection following the film
- Shared wisdom, reflection, and healing
- Pregnancy and birth experiences
- Navigating the healthcare system
- Feeling heard, respected, and supported
- Hospital, birth center, and home birth options
- Midwifery and community-centered care
- Intergenerational wisdom and shared experiences
- Refreshments, tea, and community connection
The event will also include refreshments, tea, a relaxed atmosphere, and opportunities for community connection. The program materials also include plans for a hand-massage station and soft jazz ambiance.
Why We're Gathering
Voices of Birth is presented through a collaboration between:
Haven Midwifery Collective
Community, Conversation and Collaboration Inc. (CCC)
NUTRINATAL of Collective Food Works Inc.
Together, the organizations share a commitment to community-centered care, education, maternal wellness, and creating spaces where women's lived experiences are heard and valued.
The gathering also supports Haven Midwifery Collective's work to expand access to midwifery care and its vision for a community-based birth center shaped by the needs, voices, and values of the community.
Facilitated by
Sharmaine Byrd of Community, Conversation and Collaboration Inc. (CCC)
LaToya Meaders of NUTRINATAL of Collective Food Works Inc.
Trinisha Williams of Haven Midwifery Collective
Space Is Limited
To preserve the gathering's intimate, conversational nature, registration is limited to 30 participants.
Advance registration is required.
Come to learn.
Come to share.
Come to be heard.
All are welcome.
Event venue
491 Herkimer St, 491 Herkimer Street, Brooklyn, United States
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