Background on Kathleen Grandison
Dr. Kathleen Grandison, a family practitioner and pregnancy/birthing specialist with an interest
in homeopathy, was part of the first class of Kansas University School of Medicine at Wichita (1975) and
completed her residency in family medicine in Fort Worth, Texas. She joined the Sufi community near Unadilla, New York
in the late 1970s and opened her family practice at the Light of Life Health Center there in January 1980. The Abode
of New Life Birthing Room opened above the family practice with Grandison as its director and a goal of providing a
safe alternative to hospital births. Along with other alternative-birth/parenting advocates including Murshida Vera Corda,
Tom and Gail Brewer, and Angela Colclough, Grandison organized and spoke at the 1980 symposium Birth: The Transformation
of Being. Grandison went on to continue her family practice in Western Massachusetts. With a consideration for spiritual
health as well as physical, Grandison is also a certified Raphaelite Work practitioner.
Scope of collection
Includes documentation of Grandison's talks on and practices in pregnancy, birth, parenting, and spiritual health;
lecture slides and class descriptions; publications detailing Grandison's time at Kansas University Wichita; personal
correspondence with Ina May-Gaskin (prominent American midwife, The Farm, Tennessee); documentation of the Abode of
the New Life Birthing Center and Light of life Health Center; an autobiography excerpt; 57 cassette tapes of lectures
from Birth: The Transformation of Being (30 of which are copies).
Inventory
Angela Colclough: Maternity Center Association- What a Child
Bearing Center Can Offer a Pregnant Couple [part 1 and 2, copy 2, tape
#3]
1980
Box 2
(6)
Angela Colclough: Maternity Center Association- What a Child
Bearing Center Can Offer a Pregnant Couple [part 1 and 2, copy 3, tape
#3]
1980
Box 2
(7)
Angela Colclough: Maternity Center Association- What a Child Bearing Center Can Offer a Pregnant Couple [part 1 and 2, copy 4, tape #3]
1980
Box 2
(8)
Angela Colclough- Maternity Center Association- What a Child Bearing Center Can Offer a Pregnant Couple [part 2, copy 5, tape #3A]
1980
Box 2
(9)
Announcements between Brewer Talk and Workshop [tape #8C]
1980
Box 2
(25)
Barbara Heller: Conscious Parenting- Thoughts to Ponder [copy 1, tape #16]
1980
Box 2
(45)
Barbara Heller: Conscious Parenting- Thoughts to Ponder [copy 2, tape #16]
1980
Box 2
(46)
Haqiqah Chalfin: Creation of Birth Atmosphere in Home and Hospital- Birthing Center: Best of Both Worlds [copy 1, tape #4]
1980
Box 2
(10)
Haqiqah Chalfin: Creation of Birth Atmosphere in Home and Hospital- Birthing Center: Best of Both Worlds [copy 2, tape #4]
1980
Box 2
(11)
Haqiqah Chalfin: Workshop-Home Birth Atmosphere and Preparation [copy 1, tape #6C]
1980
Box 2
(18)
Haqiqah Chalfin: Workshop-Home Birth Atmosphere and Preparation [copy 2, tape #6C]
1980
Box 2
(19)
Kathleen Grandison and Suria Less: Abode of the New life Birthing Center Background and Purpose [copy 1, tape #5]
1980
Box 2
(12)
Kathleen Grandison and Suria Less: Abode of the New life Birthing Center Background and Purpose [copy 2, tape #5]
1980
Box 2
(13)
Kathleen Grandison and Suria Less: Abode of the New life Birthing Center Background and Purpose- Q and A [tape #5A]
1980
Box 2
(14)
Kathleen Grandison: Critique of Technological Advances [copy 1, tape #10]
1980
Box 2
(32)
Kathleen Grandison: Critique of Technological Advances [copy 2, tape #10]
1980
Box 2
(33)
Kathleen Grandison: Welcome and Introduction / Suria Less- Sacred Aspects of Birth Beyond the Physical Plane [copy 1, tape #1]
1980
Box 2
(1)
Kathleen Grandison: Welcome and Introduction / Suria Less- Sacred Aspects of Birth Beyond the Physical Plane [copy 2]/ Murshida Vera- Grounding the Infant [part 1, copy 3] [tape #3B]
1980
Box 2
(4)
Lynn Van Doren Luger: Promoting Positive Childbirth Procedures in the Hospital [copy 1, tape #6A]
1980
Box 2
(15)
Lynn Van Doren Luger: Promoting Positive Childbirth Procedures in the Hospital [copy 2, tape #6A]
1980
Box 2
(16)
Murshida Vera: Grounding the Infant [part 1 and 2, copy 1, tape #2]
1980
Box 2
(2)
Murshida Vera: Grounding the Infant [part 1 and 2, copy 2]
1980
Box 2
(3)
Murshida Vera: Grounding the Infant [part 2, copy 3] / Angela Colclough- Maternity Center Association- What a Child Bearing Center Can Offer a Pregnant Couple [part 1 and 2, copy 1][tape #3C]
1980
Box 2
(5)
Murshida Vera: Learning to Become a Parent [part 1, tape #17A]
1980
Box 2
(47)
Murshida Vera: Learning to Become a Parent [part 2, tape #17B]
1980
Box 2
(48)
Murshida Vera: Parents as First Guides [tape #20]
1980
Box 3
(54)
Murshida Vera: Play and Relaxation with the Infant [tape #6B]
1980
Box 2
(17)
Murshida Vera: Workshop 2 [tape #9B]
1980
Box 2
(30)
Murshida Vera: Workshop- Healing Techniques for the Infant [tape #13A]
1980
Box 2
(37)
Panel Discussion: Unspecified [tape #7]
1980
Box 2
(20)
Quan Yin: Preparing Parents for Conscious Childbirth [copy 1, tape #12]
1980
Box 2
(35)
Quan Yin: Preparing Parents for Conscious Childbirth [copy 2, tape #12]
1980
Box 2
(36)
Reza Lynn Bugay and Benita: Massage and Touch Relaxation for the Pregnant Couple [copy 1, tape #13C]
1980
Box 2
(43)
Reza Lynn Bugay and Benita: Massage and Touch Relaxation for the Pregnant Couple [copy 2, tape #13C]
1980
Box 2
(44)
Saphira Linden: Getting in Touch with the Child Within Yourself Through Creative Play [tape #9C]
1980
Box 2
(31)
Suria Less: Descent of the Soul- Q and A (lecture preceding is missing) [tape #11B]
1980
Box 2
(34)
Suria Less, Kathleen Grandison, and Murshida Vera: Panel Discussion- What is Birth? [copy 1, tape #21]
1980
Box 3
(55)
Suria Less, Kathleen Grandison, and Murshida Vera- Panel
Discussion: What is Birth? [copy 2, tape #21]
1980
Box 3
(56)
Suria Less, Kathleen Grandison, and Murshida Vera: Panel Discussion- What is Birth? [copy 3, tape unnumbered]
1980
Box 3
(57)
Tom and Gail Brewer: Nutrition and Prenatal Classes [part 1 and 2, copy 1, tape #13]
1980
Box 2
(38)
Tom and Gail Brewer: Nutrition and Prenatal Classes [part 1, copy 2, tape #13B]
1980
Box 2
(39)
Tom and Gail Brewer: Nutrition and Prenatal Classes [part 1, copy 3, tape #13B]
1980
Box 2
(40)
Tom and Gail Brewer: Nutrition and Prenatal Classes [part 2, copy 2, tape #13B2]
1980
Box 2
(41)
Tom and Gail Brewer: Nutrition and Prenatal Classes [part 2, copy 3, tape #13B2]
1980
Box 2
(42)
Tom and Gail Brewer: Risks and Benefits of Standard Prenatal Care- A Health Model [part 1, copy 1, tape #8A]
1980
Box 2
(21)
Tom and Gail Brewer: Risks and Benefits of Standard Prenatal Care- A Health Model [part 1, copy 2, tape #8A]
1980
Box 2
(22)
Tom and Gail Brewer: Risks and Benefits of Standard Prenatal Care- A Health Model [part 2, copy 1, tape #8B]
1980
Box 2
(23)
Tom and Gail Brewer: Risks and Benefits of Standard Prenatal Care- A Health Model [part 2, copy 2, tape #8B]
1980
Box 2
(24)
Tom and Gail Brewer: Workshop- Special Problems [part 1, copy 1, tape #9A]
1980
Box 2
(26)
Tom and Gail Brewer: Workshop- Special Problems [part 1, copy 2, tape #9A]
1980
Box 2
(27)
Tom and Gail Brewer: Workshop- Special Problems [part 1, copy 3, tape #9A1]
1980
Box 2
(28)
Tom and Gail Brewer: Workshop- Special Problems [part 2, tape #9A2]
1980
Box 2
(29)
Yusuf and Panel: The Father's Viewpoint [part 1, copy 1, tape #19A]
1980
Box 3
(49)
Yusuf and Panel: The Father's Viewpoint [part 1, copy 2, tape #19]
1980
Box 3
(50)
Yusuf and Panel: The Father's Viewpoint [part 2, copy 1, tape #19B]
1980
Box 3
(51)
Yusuf and Panel: The Father's Viewpoint [part 2, copy 2, tape #19B]
1980
Box 3
(52)
Yusuf and Panel: The Father's Viewpoint [part 2, copy 3, tape #19B]
1980
Box 3
(53)
Correspondence: May-Gaskin, Ina
1977-1979
Box 1: 2
Lecture Slides
ca. 2001
Box 1: 3
Classes, Talks
1980-1999
Box 1: 4
Family Practice: Unadilla, Newspaper Clipping
1980, Jan 16
Box 1: 5
Family Practice: Light of Life Health Center Brochure
ca. 1980
Box 1: 6
Raphaelite Work Brochure
ca. 2001
Box 1: 7
Abode of New Life Birthing Center: Birthing Instructions
ca. 1980
Box 1: 8
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- Birthing centers
- Childbirth
- Pregnancy
