DOULA TRAININGS + CONTINUING EDUCATION
DEAR BIRTH WORKERS,
Supporting a family during the childbearing year is intense and rewarding. Our workshops will help you thrive. We strive to create a better experience for parents and professionals by ending birth worker burn out!
You are invited you to join our mission to make the next evolution of birth better than in any other time in history.
- AMITY, THRESHOLDS FOUNDER
OUR TEAM + YOU = AMAZING WORKSHOPS.
CURRENT OFFERINGS
Free Birth Community Workshops
Come join other birth workers to share in community, learning, food, and rest. Free for anyone who works with or aspires to work with new families.
10am-12pm/ free/all are welcome
November 14th, 2019 | Birth in Our Culture, Art process and conversation, with Amity Kramer
December 5th, 2019 | Pelvic Floor Health, Conception and Beyond, with Allison Feldt, DPT, PT.
**No January Session**
February 13th, 2020 | Birth worker meet + greet
Future sessions may include:
-Body Mechanics for Birth Workers, with Darshana Naik, DPT, MS, WCS, OCS, Cert MDT
-Healing Through Music
-Coping Practices for Birth Workers
-Skill Sharing Circle
-Birth Worker Constellation Circle, with Karen Stocker
-Yoga for Birth Professionals
-Birth Art Process
enCircle Birth Doula Trainings
You will emerge confident and supported after this doula training where you will be mentored each step of the way.
Consent for Birth Workers
With Katie Spataro, Full Spectrum Doula, Somatic Sex Educator.
Hands-on tools for your practice. This experiential workshop introduces the complexities of consent in the birth room and offers trauma-sensitive tools for supporting your clients in accessing greater embodied awareness and choice throughout pregnancy and birth.
December 12, 2019 or February, 6th 2020
12-4p/ $100/ Scholarships available
Navigating Infant Sleep
With Macall Gordon, Infant Sleep Specialist
Help your clients have realistic sleep expectations that are based on the best research available. Macall Gordon and Amity Kramer will help simplify this monster of a topic. Click on the purple button to learn more and register.
November 6th or February 27, 2020
12-2pm/ $50/ Scholarships available
Holding Power in the Birth Space
With Meg Heather Ford
The hours before, during, and after a birth are powerful! This workshop will provide additional colors in the diverse tapestry of POWER in the birth space. Come ready to explore and connect to your own power. You will learn creative ways to use it to enhance the experience of birth for yourself and those you serve.
January 30th, 2020
or
March 12, 2020
12-3pm/ $75/ Scholarships available
First Latch + First Days
Come learn all you need to know to support your clients in the early nursing sessions. Catherine Fenner, IBCLC will lead a workshop that will help you nurture a new family in the first hours and days after birth.
Coming in 2020
Supporting Families in Grief
This is a special opportunity to prepare ourselves and all involved when the dreams of a new baby turn to heartbreak.
Trauma Informed Care for Birth Professionals
Learn the basics of trauma informed care to help you be a supportive in the most unexpected circumstances.