The Hive Collective
A Private Member Association
The Hive Collective is a group of women and men who have come together in a private association to reclaim their sovereignty over their bodies, births, babies, families, finances, and futures.
Our Mission
Our mission is to create safer and healthier alternatives for pregnancy and birth care so that more babies can arrive safely and gently from healthy, empowered, non-traumatised mothers thereby strengthening our families and our communities through knowledge, connection, and love.
Our Vision
We envision an end to the one-size-fits-all of modern maternity services with their global tsunami of birth trauma, postpartum PTSD, escalating interventions, and increasingly poorer outcomes due to the over medicalisation of normal birth by creating a community of caring women and men who come together to share wisdom, knowledge, and skills that build wellness, foster healthy relationships, and welcome our babies in love and safety.
Our Purpose
To build a community of people who protect each others' health information and freedom to choose holistic health care for themselves and their children ensuring that not another generation passes with the scourge of obstetric violence and birth trauma.
Our Approach
The Hive Collective is a private membership association that evolved from its origins as The Harrigan Hive. The Hive was an open, friendly, and supportive community where all were welcome to join, share, ask and answer, and connect with a traditional birth companion for their childbirth journey. From there, we created the private Hive Community which serves as the central hub for our Collective's connection and communication. In this private community, we still share, ask and answer, and connect with traditional birth companions.
Our focus is on reclaiming our sovereignty over our bodies, births, babies, families, finances and futures through mutual education and support. We believe that true wellness starts in the womb. We are growing in our knowledge and skills regarding healthy pregnancies and safer births, while also guarding each other's health information and right to choose the health care that best takes care of themselves and their families.
As we continue to grow, we look forward to connecting with more men and women who are specialists in their respective fields who will share their knowledge and wisdom so that we can embrace those strategies that increase our wellness, heal our families, and flourish as interconnected sovereign people who are creating the future we need.