Anna Maranta
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Religion |
| Occupation | Student Rabbi |
| Location | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | Anna Maranta enjoys guiding and supporting people along their life journeys using different modalities including counselling, education, life coaching, and spiritual direction. Using an integral approach, Anna works with clients to develop a life practice that addresses all areas of life - Heart, Mind, Body and Soul. Based on Anna’s previous experience as a midwife, 1981 – 2006, Anna continues to focus on issues related to the childbearing year, including adaptation to pregnancy, pregnancy loss, birth trauma and postpartum adjustment as well as with mothers, mothering with a disability and mothering children with special needs. Anna works with children and young adults with learning disabilites including verbal apraxia, dyslexia, ADD/HD, and PDD, Autism and Asperger Syndrome. She also enjoys working with LGBTQQ clientele providing a safe atmosphere in which youth and young adults can explore related issues. Anna is a post-denominational rabbinical student focusing her studies on Gender and Sexuality in Judaism. She is also keenly interested in interfaith studies and work, and has offered educational programs to different faith communities. |
| Interests | Anna’s diverse interests have been expressed through both her paid and volunteer work experiences. Anna is a retired midwife with more than 25 years of experience in women’s health as a midwife, doula, childbirth educator, women’s health educator, and advocate. She enjoyed helping to create and support the growth of women and their families in many communities in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia, as well as El Paso/Cuidad Juarez, Afghanistan and Nunavik. She worked with women with special needs including women with mental health issues. From 2004 to 2006, Anna worked on the Multidisciplinary Collaborative Primary Maternity Care Project (MCP2); and in 2006-07, she worked on the development of an emergency obstetrical skills curriculum for low resource communities. Anna enjoys developing, implementing and evaluating curriculum. Some of her other interests, in no particular order, include: the impact of poverty, HIV/AIDS, race, religion, culture, sexuality and sexual orientation, violence and other factors on the health and wellbeing of women and their children; mothering; the impact of childbearing experiences on mothering; mothering disabled children; mothering with a disability; professionalisation; historical and cultural perspectives on midwifery; woman’s ways of knowing; feminist organisational development; feminist and other anti-oppression pedagogies; sexuality and gender; Judaism; feminist spirituality, thealogy, and liturgy; non-violent communication; Compassionate Listening; Integral Theory and its various applications; and vegan/vegetarian/raw food preparation and nutrition. |