Birthing Wisdom

The Holistic Birth Practitioner training
Teaching holistic birth practices for a peaceful world.

The Holistic Birth Practitioner training is an in-depth and very comprehensive course to enable women to provide women and couples with holistic support and education during the very special time of pregnancy, birth and early parenthood.

The Holistic Birth Practitioner training is for women who want to practice as holistic doulas and childbirth educators.

This coming year the training can be undertaken in a modular fashion or as a whole course over 6 sessions of 3 or 4 full days each. There are 7 distance study modules and 17 days of practical training to qualify as a Holistic Childbirth Practitioner. The first module is sent on the 21st of June so you have plenty of time to complete it and get used to the study format before our first session together in September.

There will be varied assignments with each module, sometimes written, sometimes experiential or creative. They will be based on the course work we send you or on books from your reading list.

The training dates are as follows:

The birth doula training (6 days and two modules):
Sept 21-23rd, Nov 2-4th 2012,   
The postnatal doula training(4 days and two modules): Dec 6-9th.(The Birth doula training has to be completed before attending this course).
The Holistic childbirth education training (7days and 3 modules):
Jan 18-20th, 28th of Feb - March 3rd 2013 ((The Birth and postnatal doula trainings have to be completed before attending this course).

We recommend that you do the whole training over the 9 months, which also saves you up to £280, but we are happy to be flexible to accommodate your needs. A payment plan is available.

The training is taking place in a wonderful venue Eden Rise in Devon with beautiful spacious teaching rooms, underfloor heating, sauna, 7 acres of land etc.. Accommodation is available at the reduced rate of £10 per night for students.

Courses are open to all women who feel a calling to support others through the childbearing year. No particular qualifications are required, but a willingness to be and work with whatever comes up on this journey together is necessary.

The Birthing Wisdom training is a personal as well as a professional training since just as ‘we birth as we live’, also ‘we work from where we are in ourselves’.

Since personal development is an important aspect of the training, a commitment to receiving personal support throughout the training and beyond is essential, be it in the form of a counsellor, a ‘buddy’ (fellow trainee) or a mentor (a more experienced birth practitioner), alongside the supervision we offer during and after the training.

You are also required to keep a journal in which to reflect on your dreams and experiences.

There will be several teachers involved in the trainings, each passing on their own field of expertise and their passion. Your personal guide is available on a weekly basis for any queries or general support and can be contacted by telephone, letter or email.

We will start our journey by learning and integrating in ourselves the knowledge and skills we want to share and model in our teaching and work with women and couples. We will also devote some of our time to our own development and healing journey, including healing our own birth and the birth(s) of our children. For more details of the course content see our curriculum.

After completing the training, you will take your work into the world, fully supported by your group as well as the course facilitators.

We will carry on meeting every 3 months for the next year to share the experiences of teaching classes and advance learning as well as have regular one to one supervision. For those who live too far away, an arrangement needs to be made to receive regular supervision.

Birthing Wisdom is committed to offering on-going support, advanced training and supervision for our practitioners.

The Holistic Birth Practitioner training is fully recognised by by Doula UK, the leading organisation for doulas in the UK.

Now that you have had an overview of the course let's start at the beginning: how can a birth practitioner offer support and education during the childbearing year? Click here to find out more.