FOR DOULAS
Advance your existing doula skills
Begin your career with a deeply enriched curriculum
Learn how to convey the transformative nature of birth and motherhood to your clients and community
Learn cutting edge tools and dynamic information about pregnancy, birth, motherhood, infancy, and parenthood from an evidence based, somatic, embodied, and psychospiritual lens.
Go beyond the basics of most doula training courses with knowledge that will deepen your connection to your clients, and expand their relationship to themselves, their bodies, and their babies.
Be in service of birth, of motherhood.
Whether you are a brand new doula or have been in birthwork for decades, join me in exploring the deeper layers of the perinatal period. We will explore the personal, the historical, the cultural, the scientific, and the spiritual in order to create connections, deepen our knowledge of the body, increase intuition, and help our clients cross the threshold with deeper trust and confidence.
Many birthworkers struggle to hold the deeper, darker, scary, or Animal parts of the process, just as the mothers we work with do. Our culture represses the human animality of birth and motherhood, but it's much easier to sit with it, in all its raw, beautiful difficulty (and, sometimes, ease), when we have permission to be who we truly are. Permission for this ultimate acceptance of self (and all our strengths and flaws) comes with knowledge of the body, from both an external scientific lens, and an internal sense of being.
Through my beginning and advanced courses, you will learn what it really means, from a nervous system (polyvagal) lens, to "hold space," and you will receive the latest tools to help clients understand themselves, how their bodies and nervous systems work, how past traumas and belief systems influence birth and motherhood, and how the medical system contributes to the difficulty many women experience in birth and after.
Join me on a thought-provoking journey--
Beginning & Advanced Courses
Beginning certification courses are offered through Embodied Birth Institute, and include certification. Advanced courses are offered through me personally for a short time, and then through EBI, and you will receive a certificate of completion.
Beginning Course for Birth Doulas
Dive into the work of supporting families during pregnancy and childbirth. Learn how to prepare your clients for the process, as well as how to aid in advocacy, comfort, and coping. Business skills also included. This is a two day, 16 hour course. Guidebook included.
Beginning Course for Postpartum Doulas
Begin your journey supporting new families in-home. Learn hands on ways to help new mothers heal, as well as how to help new parents care for their newborns. Lactation support included, as well as business skills. This is a two day, 16 hour course. Guidebook included.
Advanced Course: Somatics for Doulas
Deepen your understanding of birth and new motherhood from a somatic, scientific, and psychospiritual lens. Explore the culture of birth/motherhood in America and how it influences experiences and outcomes. Develop new strategies for working with clients and navigating systemic barriers to patient centered care. Understand how the nervous system impacts birth, new parenthood, and infancy. Gain body-based strategies for nervous system regulation that your clients can begin using right away. Handouts included. This is a two day, 8 hour course.
Three Month One-on-One Mentorship
Birth and postpartum doulas, as well as CBEs are welcome to join me for private mentorship. This package includes copies of my books or journals as needed, discounted rates on additional copies, access to my hand outs and client materials, one to two 90 minute mentor sessions per month, virtual support (especially handy when you are at work and have questions!), and business skill building.
Fees, Dates, & Location
Advanced Course: Somatics for Doulas
January 18-19
9am-2pm each day (1 hour lunch)
Location: Private residence in East Memphis
Cost: $400
February 15-16
9am-2pm each day (1 hour lunch)
Location: Virtual
Cost: $400
Beginning Course: Birth
December 7-8
9am-6pm each day (1 hour lunch)
Location: Private residence in East Memphis
Cost: $800 (includes lifetime cert)
Not offering a Postpartum Course at this time.