What about me makes me a great online learning investment?
I
spent thirty years teaching adults.
Students sponsored me for teaching awards.
I took my first class in how to teach online in 2011!
I love learning and sharing.
I love breaking down complex thoughts and ideas so they can be useful to people.
I'm entertaining, charismatic, authentic, and inspiring. Or so I'm told by my students!
My purpose on the planet is to take all the reading I've done, connect these ideas and create useful knowledge. That's what my Research Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Human Ecology is all about.
Who your instructor is
and what attitudes they bring to a course matters a lot. Every instructor brings the whole of themselves - their opinions, values, and background. My goal is to be accepting of all people's identities and not assume ability. I address people in all power levels in a system and all different professional roles. Every course includes a section on Implicit Bias that's useful in your unique role with families.
Social change comes about through knowledge.
Human healing comes about through authentic connection between two brains.
So whether your goals are big or small, I'm the
educator for you.
If you want the deep description of my accomplishments, here you are:
Amy L. Gilliland, Ph.D.,
AdvCD/BDT(DONA), CSES (AASECT) is a Research Associate at University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of the first DONA International birth doula trainers, an adult sexuality educator supervisor, and an infant mental health expert with specialized training in attachment. Dr. Gilliland has published in multiple peer reviewed journals on birth doula support and women’s experiences of female ejaculation. They serve as expert faculty on perinatal sexuality; fathers, birth and paternal mental health; and
pornography and the brain. Her current interests include interpersonal neurobiology and the potential for oxytocin processes to heal trauma.
“I am a white antiracist, working alongside local and regional Black and Latinx
colleagues to address racial inequities in perinatal care. My commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion is personal, professional, financial and all encompassing.”
Dr. Gilliland is approved by the State of California Board of Nursing and the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists as a continuing education provider. Dr. Gilliland’s
research has been published in JOGNN, Midwifery, Journal of Perinatal Education, Sexuality and Culture, and the Wisconsin Medical Journal. She is considered to be a thought leader and visionary on birth issues through her numerous conference appearances, influential blog and birth doula training and certification organization, Doulaing The Doula. She is the author of The Heart of the Doula: Essentials for Practice and Life, as well as chapters in
numerous anthologies.
Service work includes Sexuality Educator Certification Reviewer, DEI AASECT Certification Review Group, She the MDCPH Fetal Infant Mortality Review Preview Committee, and the WI DHS Maternal
Mortality Review Group.
If you want even more about me, I've got a whole web site with a NINE page Curriculum Vitae to download!
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