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Childbirth Educator Training Spring 2025 cohort
Welcome to our Spring 2025 cohort of Childbirth Educator Training!
How this course works (Important info to get started and stay on track)
Zoom login
Required reading & supplies List
Group Agreements
Creating your curriculum
Step by step
Week One: What is a Cornerstone CBE Facilitator?
Facilitation 101 (41:44)
General Topics for CBE (60:02)
Week Two: Non hierarchical facilitation with Anna Balagtas (@pocketdoula)
No assigned work for this week. Feel free to jump ahead!
Slide Deck from todays presentation
Week Three: Trauma informed facilitation skills with Nickie Tilsner
Trauma Informed Facilitation: Meeting people where they're at, not where you want them to be. (64:39)
Emergent Strategy (Brown) and CBE Facilitation
Harm Reduction (95:33)
Weeks four and five: Creating an engaging online course with Ajira Darch
Creating an engaging online course
Week six: Queering CBE spaces with Anna Balagtas @pocketdoula
No pre work this week.
Week seven: Disability Justice with Stefanie Kaufman @projectlets and Handwaves Birth @handwavesbirth
Recommended reading
Cultural competency and the Deaf community (61:27)
Accessibility guide
Week eight: Stages of labor, anatomy and physiology with Juli Tilsner
The pregnant body (72:51)
Anatomy & physiology (129:58)
Diving deep into the stages and phases (138:29)
Coping skills, positions and contraction practice (134:30)
Week nine: Body Positivity in CBE with Asiyah Abdul-Mu'min @body.positive.baby
Body positivity for childbirth education facilitators
Week Ten: Patient rights and birth preferences with Juli Tilsner
Choosing Birth Location / Provider & Birth Preferences Writing Workshop (47:26)
Camilla's Birth Story #1 (117:46)
Camilla's Birth Story #2
Week Eleven: Teaching birth interventions with Juli Tilsner
Facilitating a conversation about birth interventions (15:26)
Bonus: Birth interventions doula training lecture video (70:16)
Mutual aid and community support
Week Twelve: Prenatal testing and warning signs with Juli Tilsner
Prenatal testing and procedures (125:19)
Whitney's story (49:26)
Week thirteen: Teaching lactation with Ajira Darch (@ajira)
Planning for the Immediate Postpartum (123:47)
Lactation module under construction
Week Fourteen: Branding and marketing - Your personal & political with Ajira Darch (@ajira)
Marketing, branding, the personal & political with China Tolliver (@chinatolliver) (74:58)
Week fifteen: Closing celebration
You made it!
Refer a friend and you both get 20% off a course of your choice.
Bonus modules
Preparing for Multiples with Camilla Rae (@pap3rink) (81:42)
Bonus module on labor induction (61:08)
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Bonus: Birth interventions doula training lecture video
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