Live Training Opportunities
You don’t want to waste time or money on another dry, prerecorded class. We learn much more when actively engaged in the give-and-take of personal interaction between student and teacher.
Imagine having private, one-on-one training via Zoom at YOUR convenience. No worries about missing a session due to a conflict, or passing up clients to get the skills you need to serve them. I can work around your schedule and your learning needs and desires. During our class time, we can take the topic in any direction you choose and focus on the areas that you want to learn most. Imagine having all of your questions answered as they arise, and the ability to get information that best aligns with your doula practice and style. Learn in conversation not lecture.
Choose a topic from the list below or let me know what you want to learn about. I have spent many years teaching adults, and I promise so much more than the hundreds of monotone presenters reading from a script you find in most online classes.
Postpartum Support After Loss
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When a client who has contracted with you for postpartum care loses their baby, your first reaction might be to offer them a refund.
This training will challenge that mindset and dare you to examine how they need you even more. We will discuss the needs of loss families immediately postpartum and rededicate ourselves to mothering the mother. We will also talk about how to engage the client in understanding the benefit of support, and how we feel about monetizing it.
This will be a private two-hour interactive training, scheduled at your convenience.
Creating Connection and Memories at a Stillbirth.
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The time parents have with their deceased newborn is fleeting. It is a time that can never be reclaimed, but that parents usually experience in a state of trauma.
It’s not just about knowing what to offer your clients during this time, it’s about leading them into a space of comfort, curiosity, and engagement. This is the time with the most potential – for trauma and regret or comfort and love, and you can help shape that.
In this session, we will learn to slow down that time and engage the family in mindful moments of sacred parenting. We will come up with ideas and resources for creating positive memories for the family to carry forward after they have said goodbye to their baby.
This will be a private two-hour interactive training, scheduled at your convenience.
Best Practice for Labor and Birth Support After Previous Loss
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An interactive private Zoom training discussing the possible effects of previous loss on labor and birth, and offering skills to prepare for and tackle obstacles.
This will be a two-hour interactive conversation to help you learn and plan for supporting birthing families with a history of loss. Class will be scheduled at your convenience.
Mothering the Mother with Previous Loss
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A private Zoom training examining possible effects of previous loss on bonding, parenting, and mental health; and ways to prepare for and tackle obstacles.
This will be a private two-hour interactive training, scheduled at your convenience.
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Postpartum Support After Loss
When a client who has contracted with you for postpartum care loses their baby, your first reaction might be to offer them a refund.
This workshop will challenge that mindset and dare you to examine how they need you even more. We will discuss the needs of loss families immediately postpartum and rededicate ourselves to mothering the mother. We will also talk about how to engage the client in understanding the benefit of support, and how we feel about monetizing it.
This will be a two-hour interactive workshop with group processing and brainstorming. The more you engage in the process the more you will get out of it. The workshop will be recorded and registrants will have the opportunity to watch the recording if they are unable to attend. If fewer than five registrants, the workshop may be canceled and fees refunded.
The Isolation of Mourning Perinatal Loss in Modern Society
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A private Zoom training that covers the unique experiences of grieving during a life stage that is supposed to be the happiest, in a society that devalues perinatal loss. Will include the grief of Infertility after loss.
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Postpartum Support After Loss
When a client who has contracted with you for postpartum care loses their baby, your first reaction might be to offer them a refund.
This workshop will challenge that mindset and dare you to examine how they need you even more. We will discuss the needs of loss families immediately postpartum and rededicate ourselves to mothering the mother. We will also talk about how to engage the client in understanding the benefit of support, and how we feel about monetizing it.
This will be a two-hour interactive workshop with group processing and brainstorming. The more you engage in the process the more you will get out of it. The workshop will be recorded and registrants will have the opportunity to watch the recording if they are unable to attend. If fewer than five registrants, the workshop may be canceled and fees refunded.
Loss Support Self Support
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An Interactive Zoom training that will provide tools to help keep you present in your work and avoid compassion fatigue.
This will be a private two-hour interactive training, scheduled at your convenience.
Creating and Nurturing a Perinatal Loss Support Group
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An interactive Zoom training that will show you how to create and maintain active and successful support group options for families experiencing perinatal loss, pregnancy after loss, or infertility.
This will be a private two-hour interactive training, scheduled at your convenience.
Supporting Families in Birth Planning for Expected Loss
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A private Zoom training that will cover the things you can do to help clients prepare for an informed and empowering experience with expected loss.
How Companioning Theory Can Erase the Anxiety of Providing Loss Support.
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When I ask doulas, midwives, and nurses what they struggle with the most about working with loss, the universal response is “I don’t know what to say”. I’ll admit I struggled with this at first myself.
I have the amount and depth of experience that you can only get managing loss support for a busy labor and delivery unit. I have had countless hard conversations and awkward silences. I know that a firm grasp of companioning theory is the best way to increase your confidence and effectiveness.
During the class, I will introduce you to Companioning Theory; an approach to loss support that releases the fear of “not doing it right”. It is heart-centered care that recognizes the permanent life and identity-altering effects of loss.
We will spend two hours interacting together,. courses.
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Labor Support for Expected Loss
A baby who has died before birth, or is not expected to survive, changes the entire landscape of labor.
I have attended many many mothers laboring with an expected loss. These labors are distinctly different in so many aspects, as are the ways we can best support them.
In this workshop we will learn what we can expect to be the same and what will likely be different in this type of labor. Then we will collectively problem-solve to come up with creative ideas for enhancing the labor experience for these families.
This will be a two-hour interactive workshop with group processing and brainstorming. The more you engage in the process the more you will get out of it. The workshop will be recorded and registrants will have the opportunity to watch the recording if they are unable to attend. If fewer than five registrants, the workshop may be canceled and fees refunded.