Larissa Duncan, the Elizabeth C. Davies Chair in Child & Family Well-Being and Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the School of Human Ecology and the Center for Healthy Minds, co-leads a mindfulness-based childbirth and parenting (MBCP) education program designed to teach expectant parents the life skill of mindfulness for addressing the stress, pain and fear that are often a normal part of the journey through pregnancy and childbirth. 

The workshop is co-led with Nancy Bardacke, CNM, MA, Midwife, mindfulness teacher and founder of the MBCP program. She is the former Director of the MBCP Program at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCSF School of Nursing.