Deepen your practice and become even more inspired to make a difference in your community with MORE WISE.
Available Topics:
Advanced Comfort Measures – 8 hours
Ramp up your comfort skills in this three part class. We will cover:
- Rebozo-type and Positional Support with a WISE perspective on use
- Water Birth Setup and TENS unit use
- Supporting Long or Challenging Births
Advanced Dialogue Skills – 8 hours
This is a hugely impactful series on learning how to be powerful in your communication as you educate your clients, work with primary health providers and facilitate really important informed choice conversations with your clients.
- Communication Skills Part I – communication basics: how to speak in a way that your clients, providers and colleagues will be open to receiving
- Communications Skills Part II – interactive workshop exploring how our beliefs shape our communication
- Facilitating Informed Choice Conversations – make a huge difference for your clients by expanding your skills in facilitating informed choice conversations with providers
Professionalizing Your Practice – 8 hours (online classes)
Professionalize your practice, gain your clients’ trust, and be more effective as your grow your professional doula business. We will cover:
- Interview Skills
- Leading Effective Prenatal/Postpartum Visits
- Creating Service Agreements
- Partnership Models for sustainable practice.
Cultural Diversity – Inclusivity + Reconciling & Decolonizing Birth (2 hours each)
Discover how to expand access to doula support to a broader range of clients in a way that is respectful to diverse communities. Subject to guest speaker availability.
- Inclusivity for Doulas: Become actively inclusive and respectful of queer and trans folks in your practice
- Reconciling & Decolonizing Birth: expand your understanding of issues indigenous families and birth workers face in childbirth
Home Birth For Doulas (5 hours)
Learn how to discuss home birth as an option in your community, prepare families for home births, how to set up the home for birth, supplies and birth pool set-up, and more.
Miscarriage (&/or Abortion) Support
Miscarriage and abortions are extremely common reproductive experiences, but ones that many folks describe as being isolating and lonely. It doesn’t have to be this way, and doulas are the perfect people to fill a much needed gap in our communities by providing miscarriage support. Explore how to apply your skills as a birth doula to providing miscarriage and abortion support for your communities.
Fertility Literacy
Understand the fertility signs of the body and how to educate your communities on recognizing their fertile signs and windows to either achieve or avoid pregnancy, and what their options are for fertility support. This is the stuff we should have learned in high-school biology but didn’t!
Speaking Engagements
If you would like me to come speak to your organization or community on topics relating to childbirth or doula work, I am available for speaking engagements for both professionals and the public on any of the above topics as well as talks for the public on childbirth options, home birth info, birth preparation and more. Review my Speaking Fees and contact me for more info.
Upcoming Classes:
**Registrations are non-refundable unless *I* need to cancel or reschedule a class. If you miss a class, you will be emailed the class slides and resources to review.
If you are interested in arranging a workshop in your area and don’t see one listed, please feel free to email me.