Upcoming Events for Birth Workers
Type
- BfW Skills Workshop
- Birth Art
- Cesarean Birth
- Continuing Education
- Continuing Education (CEUs available)
- Coping Mindset
- Crossing the Threshold
- Crossing the Threshold virtual
- CtT In Person
- Enriching Your Prenatals
- Free
- Free classes and events
- In-Person
- Info Session
- Intro to Birth Art
- Labyrinth for Birth
- Mindful Postpartum Planning
- Navigating Inductions
- Pittsburgh
- Retreat
- Riverside
- SYWBAD
- Taming Fear
- Taste of BFW
- Virtual
- doula from within
- in person
- in person heart of mentoring
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- December 2022
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- October 2022
Mindful Postpartum Planning: Awakening Your Client’s Inner Parent
Two virtual sessions: Sundays, December 7 & 14, 10-12 pm Pacific Time
As with birth, parents cannot fully plan for all of the unknowns of postpartum, but there are things they can do to prepare for the experience. This two-session course offers birth workers skills and processes to support pregnant parents in preparing for the postpartum journey ahead.
Live calls will be recorded.
Cesarean Birth: A Compassionate Approach for Birth Workers
This class considers ways to introduce and discuss cesarean birth with all kinds of clients, from those who are actively planning cesarean births to those who are resistant to even thinking about it.
One virtual session, three hours
Live calls will be recorded.
Taming Fear: Supporting Parents in Pregnancy and Birth
Our first instinct is often to try to convince a parent to be less fearful, to somehow argue them out of their anxiety. But we all know that doesn’t really work. This course will lead you to methods and approaches that do.
Intro to the Labyrinth for Birth (free info session)
A free introductory session that offers an embodied taste of Birthing from Within's processes and philosophies.
Intro to Birth Art (free workshop!)
Birthing From Within's unique Birth Art Process has been helping expectant parents and birth professionals for over 30 years. Join this free intro to learn what it’s all about!
Exploring the Labyrinth for Birth
The labyrinth can be understood as a universal map for any rite of passage or initiatory ordeal, regardless of its specific events and outcomes.
So You Want to Be a Doula?
Are you birth-work-curious? Feeling a nudge to support people and families in the transformative childbearing season? Wondering about taking the first step? Join us!
Navigating Inductions: A Birth Workers Guide
Saturday, February 21, 2026, 10 am - 1 pm Pacifc Time (time zone converter)
This virtual comprehensive course is designed for birth workers aiming to deepen their understanding and enhance their skills in supporting parents through the induction of labor process, a common medical intervention, that can present unique challenges and emotional dynamics for both parents and birth workers alike.
Live calls will be recorded.
Birth Art Training
You will learn the power of focusing on process over product, and how to help parents use birth art as a key piece of their preparation for birth and parenting.
Crossing the Threshold: An Embodied Learning Retreat weekend retreat (Online)
Weekend immersion, March 14 & 15, 2026 (virtual)
An unforgettable personal retreat that will inspire your practice as you nourish yourself with ceremony connection, and self-inquiry.
Building a Coping Mindset: Advanced Techniques for Teaching Coping in Labor and Birth
Learn and experience Birthing from Within's foundational pain coping practices, including ways to engage parents in using vocalization for the intensity of birth.
Mindful Postpartum Planning: Awakening Your Client’s Inner Parent
Two virtual sessions: Sundays, April 11 & 18, 10am-12pm Pacific Time
As with birth, parents cannot fully plan for all of the unknowns of postpartum, but there are things they can do to prepare for the experience. This two-session course offers birth workers skills and processes to support pregnant parents in preparing for the postpartum journey ahead.
Live calls will be recorded.
Cesarean Birth: A Compassionate Approach for Birth Workers
This class considers ways to introduce and discuss cesarean birth with all kinds of clients, from those who are actively planning cesarean births to those who are resistant to even thinking about it.
One virtual session, three hours
Live calls will be recorded.
Doula from Within: in person training, Minneapolis, MN.
Bring heart and soul into childbirth preparation and support in this 5-day in-person doula training, hosted at Blooma and facilitated by Birthing From Within. This training combines a unique embodied retreat with dynamic hands-on and interactive learning to bring you a workshop experience like no other.
Doula from Within: in person training, Duluth, MN.
Bring heart and soul into childbirth preparation and support in this 5-day in-person doula training, hosted at Blooma and facilitated by Birthing From Within. This training combines a unique embodied retreat with dynamic hands-on and interactive learning to bring you a workshop experience like no other.
Exploring the Labyrinth for Birth
The labyrinth can be understood as a universal map for any rite of passage or initiatory ordeal, regardless of its specific events and outcomes.
Taming Fear: Supporting Parents in Pregnancy and Birth
Our first instinct is often to try to convince a parent to be less fearful, to somehow argue them out of their anxiety. But we all know that doesn’t really work. This course will lead you to methods and approaches that do.
Navigating Inductions: A Birth Workers Guide
Saturday, June 20, 2026, 10 am - 1 pm Pacifc Time (time zone converter)
This virtual comprehensive course is designed for birth workers aiming to deepen their understanding and enhance their skills in supporting parents through the induction of labor process, a common medical intervention, that can present unique challenges and emotional dynamics for both parents and birth workers alike.
Live calls will be recorded.
Birth Art Training
You will learn the power of focusing on process over product, and how to help parents use birth art as a key piece of their preparation for birth and parenting.
Building a Coping Mindset: Advanced Techniques for Teaching Coping in Labor and Birth
Learn and experience Birthing from Within's foundational pain coping practices, including ways to engage parents in using vocalization for the intensity of birth.
Enriching Your Prenatals: Practical Tools for Meaningful Sessions
It can be challenging to fit all the things we want to do prenatally with clients into the little time we have with them before their birth.
Learn how to get insight into what your clients already know, gain clarity on the most important elements of preparing for birth, create engaging material, and set the foundation for a coping mindset.
Two live session, two and a half hours each.
5 hrs BfW CEUs
$150
Taste of Birthing from Within
A free introductory session that offers an embodied taste of Birthing from Within's processes and philosophies.
Crossing the Threshold: An Embodied Learning Retreat weekly retreat (Online)
Four weekly meetings on 11/2, 9, 16, & 23, 1-4 pm
An unforgettable personal retreat that will inspire your practice as you nourish yourself with ceremony connection, and self-inquiry.
So You Want to Be a Doula?
Are you birth-work-curious? Feeling a nudge to support people and families in the transformative childbearing season? Wondering about taking the first step? Join us!
Intro to Birth Art (free workshop!)
Birthing From Within's unique Birth Art Process has been helping expectant parents and birth professionals for over 30 years. Join this free intro to learn what it’s all about!
Exploring the Labyrinth for Birth
The labyrinth can be understood as a universal map for any rite of passage or initiatory ordeal, regardless of its specific events and outcomes.
Crossing the Threshold: An Embodied Learning Retreat PITTSBURGH, PA
An unforgettable personal retreat that will inspire your practice as you nourish yourself with ceremony connection, and self-inquiry.
Taming Fear: Supporting Parents in Pregnancy and Birth
Our first instinct is often to try to convince a parent to be less fearful, to somehow argue them out of their anxiety. But we all know that doesn’t really work. This course will lead you to methods and approaches that do.
Taste of Birthing from Within
A free introductory session that offers an embodied taste of Birthing from Within's processes and philosophies.
So You Want to Be a Doula?
Are you birth-work-curious? Feeling a nudge to support people and families in the transformative childbearing season? Wondering about taking the first step? Join us!
Enriching Your Prenatals: Practical Tools for Meaningful Sessions
It can be challenging to fit all the things we want to do prenatally with clients into the little time we have with them before their birth.
Learn how to get insight into what your clients already know, gain clarity on the most important elements of preparing for birth, create engaging material, and set the foundation for a coping mindset.
Two live session, two and a half hours each.
5 hrs BfW CEUs
$150
Mindful Postpartum Planning: Awakening Your Client’s Inner Parent
Two virtual sessions: Saturdays, August 17 & 24, 1-3 pm Pacific Time
As with birth, parents cannot fully plan for all of the unknowns of postpartum, but there are things they can do to prepare for the experience. This two-session course offers birth workers skills and processes to support pregnant parents in preparing for the postpartum journey ahead.
Live calls will be recorded.
Intro Birthing from Within Workshop & Birth Worker Social
Join us for a free evening of connection, reflection, and shared wisdom at The Midwife Center in Pittsburgh.
Whether you're new to the path or deep in your birth work, this gathering is a chance to nourish your spirit, meet fellow doulas and educators, and explore what it means to hold space—from the inside out.
Come as you are; all are welcome. Register below!
Birth Art Training
You will learn the power of focusing on process over product, and how to help parents use birth art as a key piece of their preparation for birth and parenting.
Taste of Birthing from Within
A free introductory session that offers an embodied taste of Birthing from Within's processes and philosophies.
Intro to Birth Art (free workshop!)
Birthing From Within's unique Birth Art Process has been helping expectant parents and birth professionals for over 30 years. Join this free intro to learn what it’s all about!
Navigating Inductions: A Birth Workers Guide
Saturday, July 19, 2025, 10-1pm Pacifc Time (time zone converter)
This virtual comprehensive course is designed for birth workers aiming to deepen their understanding and enhance their skills in supporting parents through the induction of labor process, a common medical intervention, that can present unique challenges and emotional dynamics for both parents and birth workers alike.
Live calls will be recorded.
Crossing the Threshold: An Embodied Learning Retreat weekend retreat (Online)
An unforgettable personal retreat that will inspire your practice as you nourish yourself with ceremony connection, and self-inquiry.
So You Want to Be a Doula?
Are you birth-work-curious? Feeling a nudge to support people and families in the transformative childbearing season? Wondering about taking the first step?
Building a Coping Mindset: Advanced Techniques for Teaching Coping in Labor and Birth
Learn and experience Birthing from Within's foundational pain coping practices, including ways to engage parents in using vocalization for the intensity of birth.
Enriching Your Prenatals: Practical Tools for Meaningful Sessions
It can be challenging to fit all the things we want to do prenatally with clients into the little time we have with them before their birth.
Learn how to get insight into what your clients already know, gain clarity on the most important elements of preparing for birth, create engaging material, and set the foundation for a coping mindset.
Two live session, two and a half hours each.
5 hrs BfW CEUs
$150
Taste of Birthing from Within
A free introductory session that offers an embodied taste of Birthing from Within's processes and philosophies.
Mindful Postpartum Planning: Awakening Your Client’s Inner Parent
Two virtual sessions: Fridays, May 9 & 16, 4-6 pm Pacific Time
As with birth, parents cannot fully plan for all of the unknowns of postpartum, but there are things they can do to prepare for the experience. This two-session course offers birth workers skills and processes to support pregnant parents in preparing for the postpartum journey ahead.
Live calls will be recorded.
Exploring the Labyrinth for Birth
The labyrinth can be understood as a universal map for any rite of passage or initiatory ordeal, regardless of its specific events and outcomes.
Navigating Inductions: A Birth Workers Guide
Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 4-7pm Pacifc Time (time zone converter)
This virtual comprehensive course is designed for birth workers aiming to deepen their understanding and enhance their skills in supporting parents through the induction of labor process, a common medical intervention, that can present unique challenges and emotional dynamics for both parents and birth workers alike.
Live calls will be recorded.
So You Want to Be a Doula?
Are you birth-work-curious? Feeling a nudge to support people and families in the transformative childbearing season? Wondering about taking the first step?
Birth Art Training
You will learn the power of focusing on process over product, and how to help parents use birth art as a key piece of their preparation for birth and parenting.
Doula from Within: in person training San Francisco, CA
Bring heart and soul into childbirth preparation and support in our 5-day in-person doula training, which combines a unique embodied retreat with dynamic hands-on and interactive learning to bring you a workshop experience like no other.
We honor the knowledge and lived experience of the mentor and the parent, and we challenge trainees to shift their lens towards self-compassion, flexibility, and resilience.
This training runs five days, March 27-31st (four full days and one half day) with pre and post self paced digital learning.