Birth Doula Training for Groups

This offering is also available for individuals.

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 to your team.

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.

Five day training (four full days and one half day) with pre and post self paced digital learning.

35 hrs BfW Contact Hours

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This training includes:

  • 35 hour in-person workshop including our signature Crossing the Threshold retreat

  • Pre- and post-course online learning modules

  • 1 year of membership (listing in our Parent Directory, monthly continuing education calls, use of the Birthing from Within name and logo, and more!)

  • Business Essentials for Birthworkers Workbook by Sabia Wade

  • Certification packet and quarterly certification support calls

  • -Stages of labor: physiology and support for

    -Function of hormones in birth

    -Fetal development

    -Prenatal Nutrition

    -Medical support tools & interventions

    -Pain medication options

    -Cesarean birth

    -Physiology of postpartum

    -Coping with the challenges of the postpartum period

    -Infant feeding

    -PMAD (Postpartum Mood & Anxiety Disorders) prevention, screening, support, & resources

    -Planning prenatal and postpartum sessions

    -Making medical decisions

    -Informed consent

  • -Six dynamic pain coping practices

    -Tools for embodiment & self reflection

    -Birth trauma reduction tools

    -Working with fear & uncertainty

    -The Labyrinth of birth: using metaphor to prepare to cope with internal and external complexities of the birth experience

    -Celebration and ritual for postpartum

    -Ritual for birth workers

    -Mentoring vs teaching: offering authentic, practical, individualized support

    -Solution focused dialogue

    -Using storytelling and the framework of the heroic journey as tools for preparation and healing

    -Archetypes for understanding and addressing clients’ needs

  • -Support for stages of labor

    -Labor positions and hands-on support

    -Pain Coping practices for labor and birth

    -Support of cesarean birth

    -Postpartum support (visits, transition plan, expectations)

  • -History of birth and midwifery in US

    -Anti-racism & anti-oppression concepts and frameworks

    -Identity and inclusivity

    -Racism and inequity in the healthcare system

    -Implicit bias and privilege

    -Birth and disability justice

  • -Collaborating with medical teams

    -Best practices for trauma informed care

    -Creating a resource list for clients

    -Self care for birth workers

    -Active listening skills

    -Interviewing

    -Managing commitments & contracts

    -Advocacy

    -Confidentiality

    -Being on call & doula lifestyle

    -Planning prenatal and postpartum sessions

    -Getting your business up and running

    -Business Essentials for Birthworkers, a workbook by Sabia Wade

Birth Doula Training for groups

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