BWI Workshops and Events
- Talks
Do you have the heart, passion, and deep belief that birth can be better? Together, we inspire, educate, empower, and connect to improve childbirth. On the 3rd Monday of each month, join us to learn more:
- Vision and Philosophy of BirthWorks
- Holistic approach to improve the mother-baby experience
- Evidence-based research for optimal mother and infant outcomes
- Brief overview of our parent offerings and professional training
- Opportunity to connect with like-minded changemakers
- Invitation to a movement rooted in compassion, wisdom, and human connection
- Open Q&A and community discussion
We’d love to share more. ✨ We hope to meet you soon!Â
Tickets are FREE, please register to get info and details. Scheduled times are Eastern Time (ET)—use World Time Buddy to find your timezone schedule. If you have questions, please call +1-609-953-9380 or email us.
- 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.
- Talks
Online
Join us to learn more!
Be inspired by our newly updated Ambassador Program! Be empowered to enrich the birthing experiences of people in your community and simultaneously increase your revenue streams! We are building a community and movement of people who want to spread a holistic and evidence-based approach to childbirth to improve birth outcomes—so mothers have better births and babies get the best start in life!
This event is FREE, but it is helpful if you can register ahead. Scheduled times are in EDT (Eastern Daylight Time). Use World Time Buddy to easily find your timezone schedule.
- Childbirth Educator Training
Online
Inspired to fill a deep need that inspires families and saves lives?
Would you like to help birthing parents learn what really matters to have the birth of their dreams? Through BirthWorks, you can help women have more trust and faith in their knowledge that their body already knows how to give birth. This is a unique and innovative approach that through the practice of human values integrates the mind, body, and spirit, helping to increase confidence and decrease fear in birth.
The first 10 people to register before July 24, 2025 get the early discount. This is a 4 day workshop August 21-22 & 28-29, 2025. The schedule is 9am-2:30pm each day.  There will be a 30 minute break daily from 11:30am-12pm.
This comprehensive, high-quality workshop is part of our certification training program to become a certified BirthWorks Childbirth Educator. If you chose to also do your Certification, the additional fee is $650US, including a home-self study program one-to-one personal mentorship through your training!
*Scheduled times are in EDT time (Eastern Daylight Time – USA). Use www.worldtimebuddy.com to easily find your timezone schedule.
This Online Childbirth Educator Training is offered interactively, online via Zoom. Sign-in to www.zoom.us now to set up your FREE Zoom account, so you’re ready. Zoom works much much better from a laptop or desktop computer – if you try to use aniPad or phone you will not see all group participants and may miss interactive elements (like videos) – so please use your computer (or borrow one if possible) for your best experience!
- Kangaroula Training
Online
Dive deeper into the Art of Nurture Science! with internationally-known Trainers, Jill and Dr. Nils Bergman.
A Kangaroula Doula is one who knows skin-to-skin contact is essential to the health and wellness of both the mother and baby, so advocates primarily for the baby. Come to embody the philosophy and practice of Nurture Science. Learn what you don’t know through new research-based, impactful information and be able to do what you do even better!  (This workshop is open to any birth workers from any organization, as well as other medical professionals who work with birthing women.
This is a 4-day workshop, offered interactively, online via Zoom. It runs four days, with a 30-minute break halfway through each day. Times are 9am-1:30pm daily, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)- 5hrs before GMT(BST). Easily find your timezone schedule on: www.worldtimebuddy.com (also a free App).
Early discount by August 9th, registration closes September 5th.
Workshop fees are non-refundable. If you have other questions before registering, please email us.
- Childbirth Educator & Birth Doula Training
Online
ACED (Accelerated Childbirth Educator & Doula) Workshop
Holistic & Evidence-Based
Trainer: Cathy Daub, BirthWorks Founder
Save time and money with this immersion combining BirthWorks’ Childbirth Educator AND Birth Doula training programs! If you are motivated to complete two certifications simultaneously—and like the idea of streamlined requirements—ACED is right for you! It will be easy to build your business when your birth doula clients are sitting in your childbirth classes!
Are you inspired to offer the best childbirth prep and then an excellent birth doula for families? In this comprehensive, high-quality training, you learn to educate and support in ways that decrease fear and build confidence for positive birth experiences. Knowing how to apply evidence-based research and our human-values approach for mind-body-spirit integration ensures optimal health and wellness for childbirth.
This unique combination workshop is only open to those pursuing ACED certification. It is one major requirement to earn both BirthWorks Certified Childbirth Educator~CCE(BWI) and Certified Birth Doula~CBD(BWI) professional credentials. Read more specific ACED requirements, then pay the separate ACED certification fee (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, 10am-8:30pm daily (with two one-hour meal breaks and other short breaks). Scheduled times are Eastern Time (ET). Use World Time Buddy to 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 34 continuing education hours).
Pricing is $700-800US. 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.
- Breastfeeding Training for Professionals
Online
- Community – you have the opportunity pre-workshop to research resources and opportunities in your local area – take time to gather a list of local resources and network with birthworkers and lactation professionals to start to create ways to potentially collaborate. This is a fun way to learn and start to assess and improve your own practice in new, inspiring ways, and to meet the best interests for the families you work with! (what you discover will be discussed during the workshop.)
- Foundations – includes critical thinking about breastfeeding and what we can do to be part of the solution – in a system and culture that often undermines and sadly doesn’t support or empower parents to breastfeed successfully.
- Practicalities – how to confidently and excellently provide real support to families you work with, as well as how to champion for people in the first five days after birth – the most critical period – ensuring optimal health and long-term feeding. You also learn how to teach mothers hand expression, the best ways to work with high-risk families, how birth practices affect breastfeeding, and more. Part of the training is a one-hour observation of birthing families and the Trainer working with them.
- Personal Mentoring – with one-to-one guidance from your Trainer. Following the workshop, you get a one-to-one 15-minute phone mini-mentor session. After that, additional mentoring is available at a fee, for specific application of techniques, enhanced knowledge and context-specific skills, and how to improve your practice/program. (For those within 30 miles of west Cleveland, the opportunity to shadow or be shadowed is possible.)
The first 10 people to register before February 17, 2026 get the early discount. This is a 3-day workshop March 17, 18 & 34, 2026. The schedule is March 17th & 24th 6pm-9pm and March 18th 8:30pm-9:30pm (1 hour Breastfeeding Support Group). Dates are subject to change and times may be adjusted 1-2 hours based on the time zones students are in, and the updated times will be decided about four weeks before the workshop. Please plan accordingly.
*Schedule is in EDT time (Eastern Daylight Time – USA) – it’s easy to use www.worldtimebuddy.com to find your timezone schedule. This Online Breastfeeding Training is offered interactively, online via Zoom. Sign-in to www.zoom.us now to set up a free account. Zoom works best from a laptop or desktop computer – with iPad or a phone you will not see all participants and may miss interactive elements (like videos) – so for your best experience use a computer please!
Workshop fees are non-refundable. If you have other questions before registering, please email us.
