This Comprehensive 9-Week Birth Doula Foundation Training is a collaboration between Carriage House Birth, Woven Bodies, Samantha Huggins and Dorcas Davis Consulting. The training will supply you with the baseline information you need to support families and individuals in the perinatal health space with confidence, compassion, and professionalism.
Your coursework, along with the required pre-and-post-requisite work (see below), will provide you with opportunities to reflect on yourself in the format that meets your learning and creative needs. You will be pushed beyond the edges of yourself and will be asked to question your biases and privileges while simultaneously addressing the racism and inequalities/inequities that affect our clients.
In this training, you will learn from teachers with different lived experiences and professions, including doulas, antiracist activists, educators, mentors and more. You will be lead by instructors: Dorcas Davis, Morgane Richardson, and Lindsey Bliss.
All of this information and vital development of the foundation of your practice will be held over 9-weeks, online via weekly 3 hour live zoom sessions. Note: Each live session will be recorded. If you are unable to attend a live session, you will have access to the recordings for the duration of the nine weeks. (*Please note that recorded sessions may be reviewed for internal CHB purposes and/or training educators.)
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*CHB offers a sliding scale of $799-$1199 for a seat in the Birth Doula Training. For complete details scroll to the bottom of this page.
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Birth Doula Training Topics:
Session 1: Welcome, Overview of Training and Scope of Work
Session 2: Antiracism Workshop with Dorcas Davis Consulting
Session 3: LGBTQIA+ Workshop with Woven Bodies
Session 4: History of American Obstetrics and Midwifery Care
Session 5: Anatomy and Physiology of Birth, High Risk Pregnancy and Interventions
Session 6: Comfort Techniques and Your Doula Bag
Session 7: Building Your Doula Business
Session 8: Supporting The Postpartum Period
Session 9: Closing The Space
Your Instructor
Carriage House Birth proudly collaborates with many experts to bring you the very best in education and support. We co-create, host other's curriculum, and author our own material. Please check the landing page of each class to see who is teaching and creating your material.
Warmly,
The CHB Education Team!
Course Curriculum
Frequently Asked Questions
CHB offers a sliding scale of $799-$1199 for a seat in the Birth Doula Training. Each training has a limited number of sliding scale options and are available on a first come, first serve basis. If the $799 or $999 seats are not available for the trainings listed and you would like to be put on a waitlist please email us who will notify you if a lower priced seat becomes available for purchase.
Please be considerate of your own personal financial situation and privileges when choosing your ticket option. Use the self-assessment below each Choice to assist you.
Choice A: $1199
- Comfortable meeting basic needs such as food, clothing, entertainment, etc
- Find ease in paying rent, mortgages, or other bills
- Currently employed and/or have access to savings and/or family/inherited wealth
- Discretionary disposable income
- 4-month payment plan available
Choice B: $999 - USE PROMO CODE "CHOICE-B"
- Occasional financial stressors while meeting basic needs
- Have housing stability and food security
- Manageable debt
- Moderate discretionary disposable income
Choice C: $799 - USE PROMO CODE "CHOICE-C"
- Frequent stress meeting basic needs
- Live in low-income housing or have housing instability and/or food insecurity
- Unemployed or require government assistance
- Supporting dependents
Payment plans are available.
THIS TRAINING IS NON-REFUNDABLE