Continuum Doula
🌀 Course Details:
Join us to explore the Continuum Doula method.
🤱 The Continuum model offers continuity of care for parents and provides deep satisfaction for the doula.
📚 Evidence-Based Approach – Our model differs from the traditional Doula set up and is rooted in research showing that continuity of care leads to better maternity outcomes.
🖐️ 5-Day Immersive Course – Includes a full DUK core curriculum with hands-on, in-person workshops every afternoon alongside other birth professionals.
👩🏫 Expert Support All Week – With 8–10 experienced teachers on-site throughout the week, you’ll feel comfortable, nurtured, and fully supported.
🥗 Delicious Catered Lunch – Enjoy a wholesome, catered lunch each day – so you can focus on learning without the stress of meal prep.
👐 Our course is hands-on, tactile, and disability-friendly, designed to feel radically different from traditional education. We offer a supportive, sensory learning environment where you can engage fully through group discussion, small group work, walking and talking, peer learning, shared reflection, and practical activities.
We are:
• ♿ Inclusive & Accessible – We welcome disabled and neurodivergent doulas, with adaptive spaces including break-out rooms and quiet areas to support diverse needs.
• 🏳️🌈 Celebrating All Identities – Queer, Black, Brown, and all doulas from diverse backgrounds are invited to show up fully and be seen, heard, and valued.
• 🙌 Open to Everyone – No previous experience or qualifications needed – just come as you are, ready to learn, unlearn, and grow.
• 🔄 Committed to Evolving – We actively listen and adapt based on your feedback, ensuring our training remains inclusive, relevant, and supportive for all.
📘 Throughout the course, Continuum Doulas will:
• 🧭 Understand the Doula’s Role – Learn how the Continuum Doula model differs and its unique approach.
• 💖 Embed Person-Centered Care – Integrate person-centred care into your doula practice.
• 🧠 Explore Personal Triggers – Reflect on your experiences to identify and manage potential triggers.
• 👂 Enhance Listening Skills – Develop active listening skills to support clients effectively.
• 🩹 Be Trauma-Informed – Understand the importance of trauma awareness in your practice.
• 🌍 Foster Inclusivity – Discuss topics such as neurodiversity, multiple births, birth after loss, racism, and supporting Black and Brown parents, LGBTQIA+ families, sole parents, and more.
• 💬 Gain Confidence in Client Meetings – Feel empowered in interviews, antenatal, and postnatal sessions.
• 🤝 Involve Birth Partners – Explore how to include the birth partner and family members in the process.
• 📿 Create a Beaded Birth Line – Experience creating and using a Beaded Birth Line with the original creator.
• 🤰 Understand Birth Physiology – Learn the stages, hormones, and physiology of various birth experiences.
• 👶 Support Postnatal Clients – Provide seamless support during the postnatal period.
• 🦠 Explore the Microbiome – Begin to understand the microbiome’s role in birth and infant feeding.
• 🧠 Recognise Mental Health Issues – Identify, support, and signpost perinatal and paternal mental health concerns.
• 👶🏽 Support Postnatal Parents – Discuss baby brain development, bonding, family dynamics, returning to work, and topics like baby-wearing.
• 🤱 Gain Confidence in Infant Feeding – Build confidence with breastfeeding and other infant feeding methods in a session with a qualified Breastfeeding Counsellor and an IBCLC.
Our afternoon workshops can include:
• ✍️ A Maternal Journal Session – A creative, reflective workshop using journaling to explore the emotional journey of parenthood.
• 🤲 Co-Creating Care – Explore intersectionality and systemic issues while deepening understanding and reflection.
• 🌸 Exploring Everything Placentas – A hands-on experience with a real placenta, covering its many aspects and uses.
• 🚨 Birth Emergencies with an Independent Midwife – Learn how to be the calm in the room during unexpected situations.
• 🎒 What’s in Your Doula Bag? – A reflective and practical session exploring the tools doulas bring to their work.
• 📸 How to Take a Great Birth Pic – A practical session with a professional photographer on respectful and ethical birth photography.
• 📢 Getting Political! – Explore birth rights, consent, and advocacy with an experienced doula and MVP rep.
• 🤱 Infant Feeding for Doulas – A deep-dive session led by a Breastfeeding Counsellor and IBCLC.
• 🥣 The Closing Salt Bowl Ceremony – A ritual to honour your journey and set heartfelt intentions as a new doula.
🌙 We sometimes have evening workshops too, including:
• 🥬 Exploring nutrient-dense food for postnatal clients – fermenting and cheong making
• 💃 A nipple tassel making fundraiser
• 📿 Exploring the Beaded Birth Line in more depth
• ❄️ Cold swimming at our nearby quarry
• 🧘♀️ Yoga Nidras
• 🎁 Learning to use Birth Prep in a Box
💌 We look forward to hearing from you. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Do not let finances be a barrier to this important work. The world needs you!
✨ Join us for a truly unique and affirming learning experience!
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