The Wombs of the World
Summit - Berlin

Recap & Reflection

In October 2025 we gathered in Berlin for something that felt both ancient and entirely new. More than 130 birth workers came together from over 20 countries. We walked into the room carrying our lineages, our training, our teachers, our ancestors, our questions, our fears and our hope for mothers everywhere.

None of us knew exactly what the next three days would hold. What unfolded was beyond anything we could have imagined.

It felt like a homecoming.

It felt like a remembering.

It felt like a collective exhale we did not realize we were holding.

A Gathering That Should Have Never Been Possible

And Yet There We Were

Looking out at a beautiful crowd, microphone in hand to open the Summit, I said what came to my heart. That our foremothers would have never been allowed to gather like this. That if we were living in a different century or a different country, a gathering like this could have been illegal.

Women sharing knowledge. Women sharing power. Women crossing lineages and learning from one another.

For generations this has been forbidden.

So to sit in a room with midwives, doulas, mothers, educators, healers and birth keepers from all corners of the world felt historic. The collective of ancestors in that room felt real. The convergence of lineages felt like the repairing of something that had been broken for far too long.

We came together because we share one belief.
Mothers deserve more.
And we are ready to be part of the change.

Summit Schedule

What We Remembered Together

A thread ran through every circle, every conversation, every workshop.

Decolonization as a return to relationship.
Revolution as a return to community.

We talked about how disconnected modern life has become. Disconnected from land. From food. From our bodies. From each other. From the wisdom that lives in our elders. From the rhythm that births us.

Birth work brings us back into relation.
It asks us to choose community over isolation.
It asks us to choose slowness over speed.
It asks us to choose compassion over control.

And when 130 of us stepped into that intention together, the power of that choice was undeniable.

Bringing Global Birthkeepers Together

Meet Our Wisdom Keepers

The summit brought together an extraordinary collective of Indigenous midwives, traditional birthworkers and birth keepers from diverse cultures around the world. Our guest speakers represent a wide range of traditions and practices, offering a unique opportunity to learn directly from the holders of this ancient wisdom.

A Vision for the Future

Someone asked me during the summit:

“If every mother had a birthworker and every birth was supported with dignity and care, what would the world look like?”

It was such a beautiful invitation to let my imagination stretch.

What I see is a world where birth is cherished.
Where postpartum is pampered and protected.
Where community is the default, not the exception.
Where women are supported emotionally, spiritually and physically.
Where secure attachment becomes the norm.
Where our systems actually hold families.

And the truth is, this vision is not complicated.
We already have the tools.
We already have the knowledge.

We just need more midwives, more doulas, more educators, more advocates, more people willing to tend to these seeds.

That is the revolution.

The Magic of Connection

One of the most beautiful parts of the summit was simply watching everyone connect.

Birthworkers from Japan and Romania exchanging practices. Doulas from Mozambique, Germany and India sitting in circle and sharing their stories. Midwives teaching midwives. Healers teaching healers. Students stepping into their calling.

We witnessed a level of diversity that many of us have never experienced.

We witnessed lineages meeting for the first time.
We witnessed the very thing colonization tried to suppress.
We witnessed global sisterhood.

And in the heart of it all was our team.

Doulas from our Tanzania team, Ecuado team, the US, and Mexico working together with so much grace, competence, humility and joy. A dozen women who have never been in the same room before operated as if they had been training together for years.

Watching them was one of the greatest honors of my life.

This Work is Powerful

Birth work is not a trend.

It is not a niche.
It is not a luxury.

It is a remembering of what has always kept humanity alive.
It is a returning to the circle.
It is a radical act of love inside a world that often feels overwhelmed by violence, greed, climate grief and fear.

When we care for mothers, we care for the entire ecosystem.
And when we gather like this, we remind each other that another world is possible. Not by force, but by gentleness. By ceremony. By conversation. By joy. By imagination.

Planting Seeds for the Next Generation

One of the stories I shared was from our elder in Ecuador, Taitai Oscar. How his community hid their seeds of knowledge for generations so colonizers could not destroy them. And how now the best way to protect those seeds is to share them with those who will tend to them.

That is what this summit was.
A passing of seeds.
A global tending.
A collective remembering.
And now we carry those seeds home.

This revolution does not belong to me.

You are the revolution.

Every person who came.
Every person who will come next time.
Every person who will carry this forward into their communities.

Save the Date

Wombs of the World Summit 2027

We are already dreaming into the next gathering.
We are giving ourselves the time and the spaciousness to build something just as intentional, just as transformative, just as global.

Mark your calendars for March 2027.
Location to be determined.
More details coming soon.

If 2025 was the spark, 2027 will be the flame.

We cannot wait to gather again.
We cannot wait to welcome new faces.
We cannot wait to keep tending these seeds with you.