Foundations of Birthing from Within: Heart of Mentoring
This offering is also available for groups and in-person.
This self-guided online course gives you the building blocks of the Birthing from Within philosophy, and teaches you how to share some of our most foundational and heart-opening processes with parents in your community. One year of Birthing from Within membership is included with this course.
$200
Be sure to read the full Refund & Cancellation Policy in the Terms of Service when you register.
This is just the beginning...
Heart of Mentoring explores the core concepts and skills that set Birthing from Within practitioners apart from all other birth workers, preparing you to lead parents in activities and conversations that allow for a compassionate, heart-centered approach to the birthing experience.
After completing this course, you are eligible to become a member of Birthing from Within, and join a community of birth workers who hold reverence for the inner journey of birth and are committed to ongoing exploration of its connections with science, identity, culture, and social justice. Your first year of membership is included in the price of the Heart of Mentoring course.
Your introductory self-guided course includes:
The Heroic Journey of Birth
How to use the archetypal heroic journey as a way to understand the arc of the birth experience.
How to use the labyrinth as a map - and a coping tool - for the emotional and psychological experience of labor, birth, and postpartum.
Why these metaphorical understandings are useful in our work with parents.
Pain Coping: Scaling, Baseline and Breath Awareness
Learn BfW’s unique approach to preparing parents for the intensity of birth by assessing their beliefs, assumptions, and expectations.
Experience and gain insight into pain-coping practices to share with parents.
Mentoring and Solution-Focused Dialogue
Shifting from a framework of teaching to mentoring, and why it will enrich your work.
Solution Focused Dialogue: a way of working with clients in collaboration, with acknowledgement that they have the answers and resources inside of them, and can be guided to those by skillful listening and thoughtful questions. An efficient, effective way of collaborating with our clients, using thoughtful questioning and skillful listening to help them locate the many answers and resources that they already carry within.
Archetypes of Birth
How to identify and recognize common archetypes that we may encounter when working with clients as a way to truly meet each parent where they are and offer personalized mentorship that addresses their unique needs.
How to bring this to parents in your community right away
Get tips for finding people to work with and how to market your events.
Receive outlines for the processes you’ll learn so you have the confidence to offer them to your clients.
At the completion of this course you are eligible for 6.5 MEAC CEU's and a year of Birthing from Within membership!
