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Birth as a Heroic Journey
Doula Training & Certification
Module 1:
Building Foundations
Welcome!
Progress Checklist
Meet Your Course Facilitators
Welcome Video
Live Call Info
Reading List
Membership in Birthing from Within
Mindful Engagement
Birthing from Within’s Values and Philosophy
What is Mentoring?
How is Birth Like a Heroic Journey
The Phases of the Heroic Journey
Solution Focused Dialogue: 5 Words for Mindfully Engaging
Solution Focused Dialogue for Mentors
Archetypes of Birth
Home Practice: Heroic Journey in Movies
What is a Doula?
ACOG Statement About the Benefits of Doula Support
Doulas and Advocacy
Doulas and Cultural Competence
Birthing from Within and Trauma Informed Care
Doulas & Community
Finding Parents to Practice With
Confidentiality and the Internet
Ritual & Self Care for Birth Workers
Journal Prompts: Welcome
Home Practice: Introductory Video
Module 2:
Unconscious Preparation
Welcome to Module 2
Progress Checklist
Inanna Audio
Teaching Video: Unconscious Preparation
Reading Assignment
Birth Justice Inquiry
Mentoring Skills: Speaking, Listening, Learning Modalities
Doula Skills: Your Doula Elevator Pitch
Home Practice: Interview Project
Next Step
First Birth Story
Birth Art: Guidelines for Leading Birth Art
Birth Art: Learning From Birth Art Inquiry Prompts
Birth Art: Visualizations
The Labyrinth of Birth
Journal Prompts
Assessment
Module 3:
The Call
Welcome to Module 3
Progress Checklist
Inanna Audio
Teaching videos
Reading Assignment
Birth Justice Inquiry
Mentoring Skills: Scaffolding and Building a Module
Doula Skills: Doula Life
Resource: Getting Started with Pain Coping
Process Map: Assessing Parents Expectations - Scaling
Process Map: Assessing Parents Response - Baseline with Ice
Process Map: Pain-Coping-Breath Awareness
Demonstration: Pain-Coping: Scaling, Baseline, & Breath Awareness
Home Practice: Scaling, Baseline, & Breath Awareness
Seeing Myself as a Parent: Birth Art Map & Home Practice
Personal Reflections Journal Prompts
Assessment
Module 4:
The Call - Part 2
Welcome to Module 4
Progress Checklist
Inanna Audio
Reading Assignment
Birth Justice Inquiry
Teaching Videos
Mentoring Skills: SFD
My Doula Assessment
Process Map: NFA
Demo & Resources: NFA
Home Practice: NFA
Resource Document: Interviewing with Clients
Process Map: Heart’s Question
Home Practice: Heart’s Question
Resources: Heart’s Question
Tasks of Preparation
Home Practice: Tasks of Preparation
Birth Art Map: Landscape of Labor
Demo: Landscape of Labor
Home Practice: Landscape of Labor
Journal Prompts
Home Practice: Mid-Course Recordings
Assessment
Module 5:
The Ordeal
Welcome to Module 5
Progress Checklist
Inanna Audio
Teaching Videos
Reading Assignment
Birth Justice Inquiry
Mentoring Skills: Avoiding Avoiding
Doula Skills: Collaborating with Medical Teams
Resource Document: Prenatal Visits
Resource Document: What to Pack?
Demo: Finding the Center
Pain Coping Map: Finding the Center
Home Practice: Finding the Center
Supporting Parents through Fear & Uncertainty
Resources: Making Decisions & Informed Consent
Map: Making Decisions & Informed Consent
Map: Wise & Compassionate Use of Drugs
Map: Mindful Cesarean
Demo: Cesarean in Awareness
Resource Document: Cesarean Birth Support
Home Practice: Choose a Map
Birth Art Map: Seeing Yourself Strong
Demo: Seeing Yourself Strong
Home Practice: Seeing Yourself Strong
Resource Document: Birth Pie
Journal Prompts
Assessment
Module 6:
The Underworld
Welcome to Module 6
Progress Checklist
Inanna Audio
Reading Assignment
Teaching Videos
Birth Justice Inquiry
Mentoring Skills: Mentor Bundles
Doula Skills: Getting Your Business Up & Running
Resources: Vocalization in Labor
Demo: Vocalization in Labor
Pain Coping Map: Coyote Circle
Home Practice: Vocalization in Labor
Resource Document: Supporting Parents’ Choices
Process Map: Courageous & Compassionate Excavation of Fears
Home Practice: Courageous & Compassionate Excavation of Fears
Supporting Parents through Loss
Resource: Birth Trauma Tangible Tools
Birth Art Map: Opening with a Frame
Demo: Opening with a Frame
Home Practice: Opening with a Frame
Journal Prompts
Assessment
Module 7:
The Return
Welcome to Module 7
Progress Checklist
Inanna Audio
Teaching Videos
Reading Assignment
Birth Justice Inquiry
Mentoring Skills: Mentoring Parents through their Birth Stories
Doula Skills: Postpartum Visits
Demo: Pain Coping- Circular Breathing
Map: Pain Coping- Circular Breathing
Home Practice: Circular Breathing
Map: Postpartum Scaling
Map: Postpartum Intentions
Map: Postpartum Expectations
Resources: Postpartum
Home Practice: Choose a Map
Map: Good Enough Parent
Map: Footbath & Massage Ritual
Map: Birth Bundles
Home Practice: Choose a Map
Resource Document: Birth Gates
Home Practice: Rituals of the Return
Birth Art Map: Welcoming Baby
Home Practice: Welcoming Baby
Journal Prompts
Assessment
Fact Gathering
Basket
Progress Checklist
Welcome to the FGB
Reading List
Birth Justice Inquiry
Resource List for Clients
Research Project: Mindfulness
Resource Document: Prenatal Nutrition
Research Project: Nutrition
Home Practice: Food Diary
Baby’s Development: Week by Week
Video: The Timeless Way
Birth Statistics
Modern Knowing: Stages of Labor & Mechanics of Birth
Resource Document: Early Labor Support
Resource Document: Active Labor Support
Resource: How to Time Contractions
Resource Document: Pushing Support
The Hormonal Physiology of Childbirth
Home Practice: Create a Module on the Physiology of Birth
Modern Knowing: Optimal Fetal Positioning
Resources: Optimal Fetal Positioning
Research Project: Fetal Positioning
Modern Knowing: Positions for Labor
Resources: Hands On Support
Resource Document: Back Labor Support
Research Project: Positions for Labor
Home Practice: Create a Module on OFP
Resource Document: Pain Management Medication
Modern Knowing: Medical Tools & Support
Research Project: Pharmaceuticals, Induction, or Cesarean
Resource Document: Supporting Inductions
Resource Document: Supporting Long & Short Labors
Home Practice: Create a Module- Induction, Epidural, or Cesarean Birth
Modern Knowing: Immediate Postpartum
Resource Document: Third Stage of Labor & Immediate Postpartum
Modern Knowing: Infant Feeding
Resources: Hands on Support for Labor
Research Project: Immediate Postpartum, Newborn Choices, or Infant Feeding
Home Practice: Create a Module on Immediate Postpartum or Infant Feeding
Resource Document: Postpartum & 4th Trimester Overview
Resource: Assessing Postpartum Mood & Anxiety Disorders
Home Practice: Create a Module on Postpartum Planning & Mood Disorders
Certification
Certification Requirements
Assignment Checklist
Code of Conduct
Certification Packet
Birth Summary Call Guidelines
Virtual Birth Support
Client Confidentiality Release Form
Client & Care Provider Evaluation Forms
Prenatal, Birth, & Postpartum Visit Documentation Forms
Personal Reflections Journal
Celebration!
Gratitude and next steps
Business Essentials for Birth Workers & Online Community
Business Essentials for Birth Workers
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Live Call Calendar
Building Foundations
The Call, part one
Unconscious Preparation
The Ordeal
The Return
The Call, part two
The Ordeal