Crossing the Threshold is Birthing from Within’s signature retreat, designed to inspire, nourish, and refresh your birth practice. It can serve as a stand-alone workshop, and is also a key part of Birthing from Within childbirth educator and doula training and certification.

Over the course of the retreat, you will experience storytelling, art, ritual, dialogue, and embodied processes to: 

• Explore your foundational beliefs about birth and the connections they have to your present work. 

• Consider what parents really need to know in order to give birth.

• Consider what birth workers really need to know to be of service.

• Expand possibilities of how to work with parents in ways that value coping, resilience, and inner knowing while helping parents detach their sense of self-worth from their birth outcomes.

• Explore ways to cultivate inspiring, nourishing practices that reduce and heal birth worker burnout.