MASTERCLASS
Meeting of the Minds
Advanced Clinical Decision Forum in Perinatal Care
A six-month advanced clinical forum for healthcare professionals navigating the complexities of perinatal mental health and prescribing decisions.
This is where we examine the cases that keep us thinking long after the door closes.
Where research meets reality.
Where uncertainty becomes a shared threshold rather than a solitary burden.
In this high level peer to peer masterclass where we sharpen, challenge and refine how we practice by exploring:
ď‚· Complex clinical cases,
ď‚· Psychopharmacology in pregnancy,
ď‚· Difficult treatment decisions,
ď‚· Ethical dilemmas,
ď‚· Emerging evidence,
ď‚· And the realities of modern perinatal care.
True confidence lives in the space where evidence and experience meet.
Only 20 seats at a time.
Because meaningful dialogue needs room to breathe.
Join the waitlist today!
Let’s think deeply, together.
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Get started today before this once in a lifetime opportunity expires.
Perinatal Care Is Clinically Complex
Healthcare professionals are increasingly required to make significant decisions in areas where:
ď‚· Evidence may be incomplete,
ď‚· Guidelines may conflict,
ď‚· Patients are frightened,
ď‚· And the consequences of action, or inaction, can feel profound.
Many clinicians are left navigating these decisions largely alone.
Meeting of the Minds was created to provide a rigorous, collaborative space for clinicians to think more deeply, discuss openly, and strengthen clinical judgment in the face of uncertainty.
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Max 20 Members
Intimate group for exclusive peer learning
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6 Months
Monthly live sessions with expert guidance
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The Details
- Online sessions dates: 26 Aug, 30 Sept, 28 Oct, 25 Nov, 9 Dec 2026
Time: 19:00-20:15 SAST - Journal club: Dates: Every second Tuesday Sept - Dec 2026
Time: 13:00-14:00 SAST - Investment: R3990
- Platform: E- learning Platform
- Recordings: Available of 6 months
What's Included:
5 x 75 min session live online sessions:
- Case-based discussions
- Decision frameworks (ARC)
- Evidence interpretation
- Shared reasoning
- Real-world ambiguity
Live Online Journal Club
Access to Mindful Maternal Healthcare for Professionals (ARC foundations) on demand learning course with 8 CPD's
Private Professional Community
Participants will have access to a private Kajabi discussion space for:
Who is this for?
This is for clinicians involved in complex treatment and prescribing decisions in perinatal care, including:
ď‚· Psychiatrists
ď‚· General practitioners
ď‚· Obstetricians
ď‚· Maternal-fetal medicine specialists
ď‚· Advanced clinicians working in perinatal mental health
The forum welcomes diverse clinical perspectives while maintaining a strong focus on advanced decision-making in real-world practice.
Join a professional forum for clinicians committed to thoughtful, rigorous and confident
decision-making in perinatal care.
Limited to 20 participants.
What my clients have to say!

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The workshop was extremely beneficial and has improved my prescribing knowledge and inspired me to do more reading on maternal mental health topics and women's mental health in general.
-Pharmacology Attendee

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This has been a topic I’ve been longing for in a workshop as it’s a special interest area of mine, and providing evidence-based treatment in this part of a woman’s life is so important and so poorly understood by most doctors.
-Pharmacology Attendee

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I found the content was expertly curated, highly informative & addressed the complexities of medication management during pregnancy and the postpartum. I especially appreciated the balance between evidence-based guidance and practical case examples which made the material both accessible and clinically relevant. I feel more confident in supporting my patients and families during this critical time.
-Pharmacology Attendee
What you will learn?
2026 Clinical Forum Themes
- August - Reading Between the Lines: Interpreting Risk When Data Is Imperfect
Using neonatal adaptation syndromes and medication safety discussions to explore critical appraisal, bias, risk interpretation and clinical communication - September - When Things Go Wrong: Risk, Blame and Clinical Responsibility
Exploring teratogenicity concerns, adverse outcomes, medico-legal anxiety and the realities of high-stakes clinical decision-making. - October - The Perinatal Relationship Landscape: Attachment, Intimacy & Relational Change Understanding the psychological and relational shifts that occur across pregnancy and early parenthood, including couple dynamics, attachment patterns and relational vulnerability.
- November - The Dark Side of the Womb: Severe Perinatal Psychiatric Presentations A clinically grounded exploration of postpartum psychosis, suicidality, pregnancy loss, traumatic presentation and the realities clinicians may encounter but rarely discuss openly.
- December - Women at Work: Motherhood, Medicine, Identity, and the Systems Around Care Exploring maternity leave, reintegration into the workplace, professional identity, gendered expectations, clinician bias, unpaid labour and the broader systems shaping maternal and professional wellbeing.
Led by Dr. Elsa du Toit
25 years in medicine
15 years focused on perinatal psychiatry
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Dr. du Toit brings a unique combination of deep clinical expertise and holistic thinking about maternal and family health.
But what really sets this masterclass apart is the focus on how decisions get made in complex clinical systems, not just what the guidelines say, but how to navigate the human, organisational and ethical realities that make perinatal care so challenging.
This is high-level clinical mastery for practitioners who are ready to lead, consult, and make confident decisions in the most complex situations.
