Doula Trainings To Check Out Right Now
As a doula we should never feel comfortable that we have “arrived”. We should be in a constant state of taking in new information, learning, and growing in order to better serve birthing people and families. Below you will find a list of doula trainings sure to bring your skill set, knowledge, and services to a whole new level.
Founded and led by the incredible Sabia Wade, this doula training company offers everything from a full doula training course to very much needed continuing education type courses.
Their mission statement:
Birthing Advocacy Doula Training’s courses are socially conscious, culturally appropriate, diverse, and action-oriented. We not only train our students to serve their clients using the best practices available, we also provide them with a wide perspective of disparities, inequalities, policies and rights, and prepare them to be active partners in the movement to change birth and reproductive health culture locally, nationally and globally.
Their Course Offerings:
Full Spectrum Doula Training, Childbirth Educator Training, Racism & Privilege in Birthwork Part I, Racism & Privilege in Birthwork Part II, Doula Business Essentials, Birth and Disability, Abortion Doula, Crisis Response for Birthworkers.
Offered by Erika Davis, the training offered through Whole Body Pregnancy, LLC are on the very top of my own personal list of absolute must do list. This website is worded so beautifully my own description cannot possibly do anything but take away from the power of their own words, so I will leave you with just that.
”Whole Body Pregnancy Childbirth Educator Training is rooted in the idea that every pregnant person deserves care that is affirming, loving and honest. It's about the honor and recognition of the mental and spiritual aspects of pregnancy, labor, birth, and the fourth trimester. It's about creating ritual to honor the transition to parenthood and looking to what we know in our bones about how to nourish and heal in the postpartum. It’s about how we prepare and help non-gestational parents and siblings for this shift in identity.
Whole Body Pregnancy aims to bridge the gap between thinking of pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum as separate experiences, and instead views the entire pregnancy spectrum, including fertility, miscarriage, abortion, and pregnancy loss, as on. Whole Body Pregnancy is about examining who we are as birth workers to help better inform who we are for the families we work with.
This is spiritual work.
This is physical work.
This is Whole Body Pregnancy.”
https://cornerstonedoulatrainings.teachable.com/
This incredible organization not only offers your standard doula trainings such as labor and birth doula and postpartum doula trainings, but also offers a course specific to home births, full spectrum doula training, and childbirth education training. Going even further in to specialized trainings, you can find course offerings specific to working with working with sexual assault survivors and ending the stigma against people who use drugs.
These trainings are definitely worth consideration as you look in to deepening your knowledge and services as a doula.
Designed specifically for BIPOC (white people, this training and space is NOT for you) Raeanne Madison, a Crane Clan citizen of the Ojibwe nation, has created an incredible postpartum training full of ancestral wisdom. You can expect to learn:
Cultural teachings about birth as ceremony and postpartum as rite of passage.
How to ethically integrate traditional teachings into your birthwork practice.
What’s REALLY going on in the body, mind, and spirit after birth.
How to prepare healing meals and teas for postpartum health (recipes and instructions included).
How to prepare a pain-relieving postpartum herbal bath.
How to restore blood loss and support abundant lactation.
Cultural teachings for the newborn – including cradleboard, mossbag, and placenta/umbilical care.
How to serve families who have experienced pregnancy and infant loss.
AND MORE
If you are a BIPOC person looking to learn or improve postpartum services, this is a training you won’t want to miss.
https://www.ancientsongdoulaservices.com/training
You will find something for ANY schedule among Ancient Songs doula training offerings. All of their trainings are Full Spectrum. In their own words “Our training is focused on the "whole" and not just its parts and seeing birth as a human right incorporating an intersectional lens that encompasses reproductive and birth justice framework into our trainings centered on communities of color and pregnant and parenting individuals. Radical in thinking on how we shape our thoughts around birth tackling the hard issues like sexual trauma, domestic violence, discrimination, advocacy, cultural compentence and more...Our focus is women of color, low income areas, undocumented persons, and those families who want the best quality care by advocating and making informed decisions about their care.”
https://kingyaa.thinkific.com/courses/mar-2021-birthing-beyond-the-binary
If you have not checked out king yaa of Birthing Beyond the Binary, I cannot recommend enough that you follow him on Instagram RIGHT NOW and put his course on the top of your to-do list.
In his own words “This course expands on Sister Song’s definition of reproductive justice* to include queer, trans and non-binary folx. By the end, you will have a greater understanding of modern day birthing people, kinships and how to support them throughout their reproductive lifespan. You will learn about special considerations and how to create a truly decolonized, intersectional and liberatory space for queer, trans & non-binary folx.”
This course is for ANYONE who touches birthing people’s bodies, enters their birth space, or who has professional contact with LGBTQIA+ people at any part of their journey from trying to conceive through postpartum.
https://www.mossthedoula.com/trainings
Offering gender affirming birth work coaching and training services ranging from Gender Affirming 101/201 Workshops to Solidarity in Birthing: Addressing Anti-Blackness and Transphobia in Birth Work in collaboration with Joyell Arvella this is another invaluable source of doula trainings passionately designed to teach birth workers how to provide gender affirming support.
https://www.kaydenxcoleman.com/book-online
Currently being taught through Zoom, I cannot say enough good things about these workshops hosted by seahorse dad Kayden Coleman. I learned so much both through hearing his lived experience and through his factual information regarding trans fertility, issues trans dads face, and tips on how to be a good ally.
If you are a birth worker who claims to be trans friendly / open to supporting trans births, this workshop is an absolute must for you.
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