Doula School Canada: Empowering Your Birthwork Journey
DO YOU LEARN BETTER IN PERSON?
Your Journey Begins Here
So you’re interested in an IN-PERSON course? We LOVE in-person courses. It’s not that we don’t love virtual and self-directed BUT getting to hang out with other like-minded individuals, learn with several FULL DAYS of HANDS ON FUN is just plain awesomeness.
Includes:
• Hands-on workshops and lectures, some additional online course content to do at your own pace and tons of online resources.
• Immediate on-demand access to pre-course and post-course doula content modules.
• Client documents and handouts to get you started.
Recommended For:
• Aspiring doulas looking for a new career path in birth work.
• Individuals on their own pregnancy or fertility journey seeking deeper knowledge.
• Healthcare professionals, educators, social workers and yoga teachers who want to integrate birth support into their offerings.
Mentorship:
• Access to experienced mentors who offer tailored feedback and support throughout the training and beyond.
• Dedicated mentorship with your trainer and the mentor team providing personalized support and guidance in course completion and career development.
Birth Doula Curriculum
- Learn about conception and the pregnancy journey
- Learn about normal pregnancy changes and how we can help people experiencing challenges and discomforts
- Learn about the hormones of pregnancy, birth, and early postpartum
- Review the history of birth and understand our current context
- Learn about the history of labour support
- Explore various issues affecting under-resourced families and how you can help
- Learn about working with families from different cultures, religions, backgrounds and how you can level-up your support
- Explore your own biases and knowledge gaps
- Get a deep dive on the BEST ways to support families prenatally
- Explore a variety of activities to use in your prenatal visits with families
- Learn the MOST effective way to do a consultation with a client to get hired
- Review communication tools and strategies to make the most of your interactions with families and care providers
- Learn about the signs of labour and stages of labour.
- Explore the role of the doula and how we support people through the journey.
- Delve into the 5 elements of care: emotional, physical, informational, partner support, advocacy.
- Practice hands-on skills to use in birth to help increase comfort and decrease pain.
- Learn about the various medications families will have access to in labour and birth, their benefits and trade-offs
- Learn about the most common challenging situations and how to handle them as a doula
- Explore the reasons for cesareans and how to support families through these experiences
- Learn about normal newborn characteristics
- Learn about newborn feeding and how to support families
- Learn about perinatal health disorders
- Discuss how to get your first clients
- Learn how to get started in your practice
- Review the various options for how you can work as a doula
Upcoming IN-PERSON Training Dates & Locations
Select from the dates shown below to sign up for your in-person course. Choose from our many dates and locations.
