TeamBirth workshops: Shared decision making for respectful maternity care | ZHAW Institute of Midwifery and Reproductive Health IHG

Workshops in February 2025

We invite you to «TeamBirth workshops: Shared decision making for respectful maternity care», led by Amber Weiseth. She has already given the lecture «Process innovation for clinical safety, effective communication, and dignity in childbirth» at ZHAW School of Health Sciences in September 2024. Building on this, we will be offering two one-day workshops in February 2025.

Various people are involved in a birth. In addition to midwives and medical staff, the woman giving birth and other caregivers and professionals are also involved. Get to know the innovative approaches of TeamBirth, which combines structured communication, interprofessional teamwork and joint decision-making to create respectful maternity care.

We particularly welcome the participation of interprofessional teams from hospital maternity departments.

Amber Weiseth

Amber Weiseth is the Director of the Delivery Decisions Initiative at Ariadne Labs and a researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

With TeamBirth, she has developed an internationally recognized model for interprofessional and person-centered obstetrics that promotes teamwork and communication and is used in over 100 hospitals in the USA and Sweden.