Childbirth Educator Training - Spring, 2025 cohort
February 1, 2025 - May 10, 2025
Live Zoom meetings Saturdays from 10am - 12:30pm PST
Learn the art and skill of trauma informed collaborative facilitation in this radical reimagining of childbirth educator training. This course will provide you with the knowledge and tools to craft a childbirth education curriculum to meet the needs of YOUR community. Built upon the frameworks of reproductive justice and trauma informed care, Cornerstone childbirth education is rooted in interconnectedness, resiliency, joy, and mutual aid.
What's included in the course fee:
15 in-depth online hybrid (pre-recorded learning + live zoom meetings) training modules + 3 bonus pre-recorded skills workshops that include lectures, readings, journal prompts, community building, and training resources designed to meet the needs of many learning styles.
Our CBE training offers step by step guidance on building your own childbirth education curriculum tailored for YOUR community.
Our childbirth educator training learning modules delve deep into all aspects of childbirth education with an intersectional lens and anti-oppression analysis. Learn how to craft non-hierarchical, trauma informed, inclusive, justice centered childbirth education courses.
Topics include facilitation skills, curriculum building, harm reduction, resource building and sharing, crafting engaging online courses, anatomy and physiology, coping strategies, body positivity, patient rights, birth preferences, interventions, testing and procedures, postpartum planning, teaching lactation, marketing & branding, Disability Justice, queering CBE, accessibility, and mutual aid. No other CBE training comes close to the depth of this content!
Includes access to our live, drop-in group mentorship sessions, membership in our private Facebook group, and a listing on our international birthworker directory.
Fall/Winter, 2024 cohort training dates:
November 2, 2024 - February 8, 2025
Live Zoom meetings, Saturdays from 10am - 12:30pm PST
Replays available for folks who cannot make it to the live sessions.
We use the green bottle sliding scale framework to price our courses equitably. We give thanks to Alexis J. Cunningfolk for developing the green bottle method. "For a sliding scale to work it relies on the principles of truthfulness, respect for complexity, and accountability. I do not ask for income verification. I trust my students and clients to be honest. Community thrives when accountability is a central value, because that is where trust grows and depth work can be done. Teachers deserve to get paid and students deserve classes which recognize the multiple realities of economic access and privilege that exist." - AJC
Childbirth Educator Training Curriculum
“Juli and Nickie’s CBE facilitators course is so, so much more than just learning the facts and physiology of prenatal care, labor and birth, and the postpartum periods. They teach you how to use such skills as trauma informed care, inclusivity, body positivity, and harm reduction frameworks to be able to give and inform your own clients of the full spectrum of birth - so they can go into their own birthing experience knowing all of their rights, to fully prepare them for the journey ahead, and creating better birthing outcomes. I cannot even begin to explain how important this training is for birth workers and for the movement of reproductive justice. BIG things happening here!”
-Courtney Yung, Cornerstone Birthworker
@yungcoco1er
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