Seeds of Life
What is it?
Graines de Vie is an association created by a small group of women involved in perinatal care and interested in making the first steps towards a social transition based on the theme of the family in its broadest sense. Our professional and personal experiences have brought us together around a common dream and a need that we all felt when we became mothers: to be much better accompanied, supported and informed in the field of parenthood.
Graines de Vie is an association created by a small group of women involved in perinatal care and interested in making the first steps towards a social transition based on the theme of the family in its broadest sense. Our professional and personal experiences have brought us together around a common dream and a need that we all felt when we became mothers: to be much better accompanied, supported and informed in the field of parenthood. Our vision is to sow the seeds for families to blossom and flourish in a world of sharing, listening, support, empathy and cooperation. We want to work with and for all those who are part of our family, or who will become part of it, in order to help create the new human being and generations that are conscious, free and creative. The collaboration established with the Luna birthing center enabled us to begin this project. Our aim is to create spaces where we can meet, listen, support, inform, discover, learn, practice and support each other, through regular or occasional courses, workshops, conferences, therapies, consultations, etc., in line with our different values.
Aims of the association
- Support families through meetings and activities
- Promoting and encouraging physiology in the field of mothering
- Organize meetings, courses, workshops, conferences and other events
- Network and collaborate with various players in the field of family support
- Promoting a local, circular economy
- Raising awareness of sustainable and responsible consumption and respect for living things
- Developing a family café project
Our values
Respect for conscious parenthood
You’re not born a parent, you become one, and we promote activities that foster caring parenthood. These extend to the phases of becoming parents, being parents, being grandparents and so on.
Respect for physiological, proximal, natural mothering
We promote and encourage physiology in areas related to motherhood: birth, breastfeeding, post-partum, babywearing, co-sleeping, etc.
Respect for difficult times
We support families during difficult periods in their lives: separation, death, bereavement, post-partum depression, the arrival of a baby, breastfeeding, illness, etc.
Respect for people
Each being is unique and has its place within the community. We encourage the development of the self and its potential in the sense of this uniqueness, while respecting the rhythm of each individual.
Respect for nature
The earth bears us and nourishes us abundantly. We promote responsible, sustainable, organic and local consumption, as close as possible to zero waste.
Respect for the circular economy
We support a local economy, promote networking and bring together social/professional players to share and create collaborative, rather than competitive, synergies.
Co-creators
Agnès Leonetti
doula, accompaniment, childcare, rebozo, massage
www.forcesdevies.ch
Born in 1972, I am married and have 3 grown-up children. Of French-Swiss nationality, I have lived in Bienne since 2004.
I work mainly as a
Alexia Binggeli
yoga, massage, accompaniment, gentle rebirth and rebirth care, Life Matrix activator
www.alexiabinggeli.ch
By offering a place to meet, share and grow together, Graines de Vie opens up the possibility of daring to speak out, daring to be, daring to become.
Fabienne Pahud
babywearing, DME, crying and sleeping, sign with baby, dance, rebozo, wrapped bath, Maternae creation and boutique
materna.ch
With the arrival of my first child, I discovered physiological babywearing. It quickly became a passion, and in 2015 I trained to become a babywearing instructor.
Aya Kato Glutz
doula, perinatal interpreter FR-Japanese-AN, rebozo, postpartum cooking and meal delivery
doulaya.ch
In Switzerland since 2007, and passionate about bringing Japanese and Swiss cultures together as mediators, I have worked as a tour guide, interpreter and coordinator.
The committee
The association’s committee is made up of the following members:
Alexia Binggeli
- Co-president
- Head of Administration
- co-responsible for programming
Fabienne Pahud
- Co-President
- co-responsible for programming
- Social networks manager
Marianne Courtehoux
- Finance Manager
- Accounting delegate
Céline Klein
- Communications and marketing manager
Estelle Rütishauer
- Auditor
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- Fundraising delegate
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- Delegate for administration, website and other tasks
Would you like to be a friend of the committee without being a member, and take on smaller tasks? Write to us!
Agnès Leonetti
Born in 1972, I am married and have 3 grown-up children. Of French-Swiss nationality, I have lived in Bienne since 2004.
I work mainly as a doula and in the therapeutic field, and I’ve been active in connecting people and nature for a long time.
I’m passionate aboutinner ecology and parenting.
I’ve been working independently in the coaching field for over 2007, and I’m constantly updating my skills.
So I have many strings to my bow to best support the people I accompany, in French, English and Portuguese.
– doula birth: preparation/pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum, baby-sitting in key moments
– therapeutic massages
– foot analyses
– massages for pregnant women
– relaxation massages
– Rebozo tightening
– emotional support – transformation
– tabletop family constellations (in training)
– animation jeu du Tao
Based on the principle that we must first change ourselves for the world around us to change and evolve, I’m also interested in the way our society works.
So I get involved in projects such as the Graines de Vie association, representing and expressing the values and transformations that motivate and drive my life.
Visit me at www.forcesdevies.ch
Alexia Binggeli
My job as a specialized educator has brought me into close contact with families. At the same time as looking after my children, I started teaching yoga, including pre- and post-natal yoga, as well as baby yoga, and continued to meet aspiring parents and new mothers.
To consider, explore, support and create parenthood and all the facets associated with it is, in my opinion, a necessity, even a gap to be filled. By offering a place to meet, share and grow together, Graines de Vie opens up the possibility of daring to speak out, daring to be, daring to become.
Connecting people is one of the project’s core values. I’d like to develop this aspect and be in even closer contact with families who are questioning their role as parents; to offer them my sympathetic ear, my experience and my knowledge; also that of yoga in what it can bring that is concrete and useful in our daily realities. So the Graines de Vie project corresponds to what I want to see germinate today and blossom tomorrow: creating a new way of being, a new society, more serene, more joyful, closer to itself and to nature, more cooperative, more loving. It’s a vision I’m putting my heart and soul into, because for me it’s a necessity for the future, and it’s a great joy to contribute to it.
Fabienne Pahud
With the arrival of my first child, I discovered physiological babywearing, and it quickly became a passion. So in 2015 I trained to become a babywearing instructor, following which I set up an online store selling babywearing, mothering and baby care accessories. In 2016, I quit my job as a watchmaker to stay 100% at home. I’ve also developed a passion for sewing and create my own clothes and accessories for children and their parents.
With the arrival of my children, I discovered the whole range of proximal mothering (babywearing, co-sleeping, free motor skills, DME, positive parenting). Now it’s my turn to introduce it to other parents. I’m keen to continue training in the field of proximal mothering and positive parenting. My aim is to be able to support, accompany and advise parents, which is why the Graines de Vie project corresponds completely to my desires.
Aya Kato Glutz
In Switzerland since 2007, and passionate about bringing Japanese and Swiss cultures together as mediators, I have worked as a tour guide, interpreter and coordinator.
I’ve experienced personal integration difficulties in Switzerland, and through sharing with others in my situation, as well as my personal experiences, I’ve always wondered how I could help facilitate integration. In addition, my experience of post-partum depression and professional experiences made me realize the difficulties of social isolation as a young foreign mother in Switzerland. I now dedicate my professional activity to accompanying and establishing a relationship of trust with women and their families as they go through the difficult experiences of parenthood.
My involvement in the Graines de Vie collective gives me a link and a special place in Swiss society. I sincerely hope that our approach through this project will serve as an inspiration to create a society where people can be more connected and supportive of each other.