Birth Doula Training Workshops
Are you inspired to support women and their families to have the most positive birth experiences?
What is a Birth Doula?
Birth doulas support the mother through pregnancy, labor and birth. They also help during the time just after the baby is born. BirthWorks Birth Doulas bring both a human-values approach and evidence-based best practices to enhance birth experiences for mothers and babies. BirthWorks offers the best way to help women build confidence and decrease fear in birth! Through integration of the mind, body and spirit women gain ways to access their primal brain, which already knows how to give birth!
The BirthWorks Experience!
Be empowered to offer fantastic doula support at birth!
This experiential workshop is a fun, empowering way to discover ways to be most effective in supporting new mothers! Come learn a holistic way to help women in labor to access their primal brain that already knows how to give birth. Our hand-picked BirthWorks Trainers inspire you in an interactive and engaging way – you will embody the knowledge that how to give birth is born within every woman. The workshop also helps attract clients to build your business and opens an opportunity for personal growth. It is offered either – Virtually over four days or In-Person for three full days. Aspiring or current birth and medical professionals, birth partners and mothers too are welcome.
What You Will Learn
- Optimal Pelvic Positioning making space for baby to navigate through the pelvis
- Learn how we “speak our hormones” to anticipate emotions in birth
- Work with energy through entrainment
- Value of silence
- Sensory integration
- About your immune building microbiome
- Effective interviewing techniques
- How to write a birth plan and chose a birth team
- Practicing human values to build confidence in birth
- Risks and benefits of medical procedures
- Importance of positive thinking and reframing
- Conflict resolution with role plays
- How to build and market your services
- Integration of the mind, body, and spirit when giving birth and into parenting
- Physiology of birth
- Pelvic bodywork & effective positions in labor
- Comfort measures for birth
- Relationships with mothers
- Primal Health and the importance of mother/baby skin-to-skin contact
- Grieving and healing
- Mother/infant massage
- Breastfeeding significance and success
- Energy of compassion and love
- Singing and experiential exercises
- Common Sense Nutrition
- Managing difficult births
Birthing Parents and Certified Educators and Doulas at our workshops say they have…
Developed
- Confidence in the birth process and in decision-making skills
- An awareness of birthing options
- Greater trust in birth as an instinctive process
- Effective and creative communication skills
Explored
- Physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of giving birth
- Influence of individual beliefs and attitudes on the birth process
- Influence of mother-daughter relationships on birth
- Ways to practice human values in labor and in life
Learned
- Importance of positive thinking
- Comfort measures for labor and birth
- Effects of pelvic positioning on the progress of labor
- How to decrease neocortical stimu- lation during labor
Testimonials
“I loved the pelvic bodywork; being able to experience the room and space of the pelvic outlet. This wasn’t a picture or pelvic model; it was my body.”
“The experiences I had while attending the BirthWorks Birth Doula Workshop far exceeded my expectations. It wasn’t big flip charts and diagrams and lots of notetaking. What we experienced that weekend went so much deeper. It not only fed our minds, it went beyond to touch our spirits.”
-WI
“Personally, I walked away with peace and confidence in my ability to help women through their birth journey. Thank you BirthWorks!”
-TX
"BirthWorks teaches about choices you have during delivery - not "how to deliver".
-MA
“The morning of day three of the workshop was unbelievable. Personally, it has made a major difference in my life and attitude towards my family.”
-OK
“I was convinced through experiencing exercises in the workshop that women can learn to let themselves give birth without being taught a lot about specific birthing behaviors.”
-NJ
Consider this Situation
- A new mom-to-be does not know what to expect and has fears about labor and giving birth. She is getting overwhelmed.
- She also feels alone. Maybe she has no family nearby or her partner is unsure of how to best help. Maybe intuitively she knows her medical providers are not giving her all she needs.
- She wants support regarding her birth choices, how to make a birth plan, where to birth.
- Ideally, she would like to know what to expect, be prepared and know someone will be there to advocate for her emotionally and physically.
- You can become her birth doula and provide reassurance and love, plus emotional support to help her feel calm so she can relax and care for herself during pregnancy, make the most informed choices that are closest to her heart, and give her ways that help with more easeful labor and positive birth outcomes.
- She will be grateful and remember you the rest of her life.
Want to become a Certified Birth Doula?
BirthWorks interactive online training and personal mentoring empowers you as an exceptional birth doula! Holistic and evidence-based, our human-values approach to training and services are transformational. We invite you to learn how speaking from the heart brings more love and care to your clients and connects them to the knowledge that how to give birth is born within every woman. This choice positively impacts your birth work — and your life!
Upcoming Events
- Birth Doula Training
Online
Holistic & Evidence-Based
Trainer: Cathy Daub, BirthWorks Founder
Are you inspired to give the best support to help families have the most positive birth experiences? In this comprehensive, high-quality training, you learn to guide mothers to confidence and decrease fear in birth. As a birth doula, your continuous presence during labor helps labor to progress, creating safety with fewer interventions. Know how to apply best practices and our human-values approach for mind-body-spirit integration to ensure optimal health and wellness at childbirth.
This unique workshop is open to anyone wanting to learn.
If you decide to certify with us, this is one major requirement to earn the BirthWorks International Certified Birth Doula~CBD(BWI) professional credential. Read more specific requirements, then pay the certification fee separately (whenever is best for you)—to connect to your Mentor and begin at-home study and work in your community.
This is a four-day workshop, 24-25 & 27-28 July (NO meeting Sat. 26 July) from 9:30am-3:30pm the first three days (Thursday, Friday, and Sunday) and 9am-12 pm the last day (Monday). Scheduled times are in ET (Eastern Time). Use World Time Buddy to easily find your timezone schedule. This experiential training is offered interactively online via Zoom. We do NOT record trainings. By attending all hours, you earn BWI-Inspired status (including a social media badge and professional directory listing) and a Certificate of Attendance (for 20 continuing education hours).
Pricing is $525-625US. Register one month ahead to get $100US off early discount. If you have questions, please call +1-609-953-9380 or email us. Workshop fees are NON-REFUNDABLE.
