DISCOUNTS!
WORKSHOPS
Early Bird 1: $45 OFF 3
months advance registration
Early Bird 2: $35 OFF 2
months advance registration
Early Bird 3: $15 OFF 1
months advance registration
Register with a friend and
receive an additional $20 off
each workshop registration
DUAL CERTIFICATION
DISCOUNTS
Doulas certified by other
national organizations receive
20% OFF enrollment fee
15% Discounts for educators
who are currently actively
certified with another national
childbirth organization
Enrollment in second program.
(Educators receive 50% off
Doula program and vice versa.)
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Would you like to help women and their families in your community have more positive birth experiences? Become a Childbirth Educator for BirthWorks and receive our high quality training that includes a unique, experiential approach which integrates the mind, body, and spirit. The innovative design of our classes helps participants to experience personal self-growth and increased confidence, helpful not only in birth but also in their lives. People who have taken BirthWorks |
 Click Here for the modified program for Tuition: $395 includes a 1 year membership to BWI CBE Workshop: $450 **For Tuition & Workshop Assistance Programs, click here. Total Certification: $845 plus cost of books |
- "Birth Reborn" by Michel Odent
- "Ended Beginnings" by Claudia Patmos OR "Survivor Moms" by Sperlich and Seng OR "When Survivors Give Birth" by Penny Simkin
- "Ina May's Guide to Childbirth" by Ina May Gaskin
- "Silent Knife" by Nancy Weaver Cohen
- "Scientification of Love" by Michel Cohen
- "The Oxytocin Factor" by Kerstin Uvnas Moberg OR
"Rediscovering Birth" by Sheila Kitzinger - "Birthing in the Spirit" by Cathy Daub
- A Book on Breastfeeding ("Womanly Art of Breastfeeding", "Nursing Mother's Companion", "The Latch", any other Jack Newman book, etc.)
- "Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth" by Henci Goer
- "Let Birth Be Born Again" by Jean Sutton
- "Essential Exercises for the Childbirthing Year" by Elizabeth Noble OR
"Active Birth" by Janet Balaskas
Would you like to help women and their families in your community have more positive birth experiences?
Become a Birth Doula for BirthWorks and receive our high quality training that includes a unique, experiential approach which integrates the mind, body, and spirit.
A BirthWorks Doula:
- Provides information to help a pregnant woman and her partner develop a birth plan prior to birth.
- Strives to live up to the ideals of a BW doula.
- Believes that women are born with the knowledge about how to give birth and helps them to have more trust and faith in their own ability to give birth.
- Understands principles of Primal Health, birth physiology and behaviors of hormones that help labor to progress.
- Helps women in labor to feel more self-confidence through encouraging words, comfort measures, and the value of privacy.
- Applies principles of pelvic positioning and bodywork to facilitate movement of a baby through the pelvis.
- Visits a woman after her birth to help process the birth experience, ensure positive birth memories and to offer assistance with breastfeeding and postpartum adjustments.
The BirthWorks Doula Certification Program
is a 4-Step Process
Click Here for the modified program for Tuition: $125 includes a 1 year BWI membership, the Doulas of Love book, and if registered and paid for a BW Doula Workshop, the Doula Journal Workbook Doula Certification Workshop: $395 Total Cert.: $520 plus cost of books |
A prerequisite for becoming a Certified Childbirth Educator for Birth Works requires attendance at our three-day dynamic and experiential workshop held regiontally.
Would you like to become a BirthWorks Trainer and teach
our Childbirth Educator and/or Doula Workshops?
Meet women nationwide who wish to become BirthWorks Childbirth
Educators and/or Doulas in their communities?
BIRTHWORKS TRAINER’S WORKSHOP:
The BirthWorks Trainer’s Workshops are designed to provide hands-on experience in leading various segments of both the BirthWorks Childbirth Education Workshop (CEW) and Doula Educator Worskhops (DEW). Participants find this experience very valuable in increasing their level of confidence in preparation for teaching their own workshops. Ample time is devoted to questions and further explanations of various techniques are given as needed. Much attention is given to the importance of and specific techniques used to increase a feeling of safety in a group setting. After the Trainer’s Workshop, participants will co-teach a BirthWorks Childbirth Education Workshop and/or Doula Education Workshop with an experienced BirthWorks Trainer.