Advanced full spectrum birthwork training - Fall, 2025 cohort

Dates: September 14 - December 28, 2025. Live zoom meetings Sundays from 12-2:30pm PST. Replays available.

This course is only available twice per year.


A Radical Birthwork Training for Advocates and Activists.

This isn’t your standard doula training—it’s an advanced, transformative journey into birthwork activism, open to people of all backgrounds and experience levels who are ready to make an impact.

Whether you’re new to birthwork or looking to deepen an existing practice, this live virtual training invites a global community of birthworkers, advocates, and activists to explore the full spectrum of reproductive experiences and co-create a movement for collective liberation.

In this unique course, we’ll go beyond traditional doula education to focus on Reproductive Justice, systems of care, diverse communities, activism, and the advanced carework skills needed to support all reproductive transitions. If you’re ready to connect, skill-share, and build a future where birthwork is radical, inclusive, and deeply impactful—this is where your journey begins.

This course is closed captioned and replays will be available for those who cannot make it to the live sessions.

Now more than ever, we need each other. This is a moment for us to come together as a birthwork community—to weave webs of care and solidarity, to demand justice, and to ensure no one is left behind.

If you’re ready to rise to this call, this training is for you.

This is not a foundational birth or postpartum doula training—those are offered separately through our Labor & Birth and Postpartum Doula Training programs. The Advanced Full-Spectrum Birthwork Training is something different: a radical, justice-rooted experience for those ready to deepen their practice and engage in birthwork as a form of activism and community transformation.

Over 15 weeks, we gather live every Sunday from 12–2:30pm PST (replays available), building collective knowledge through interactive lectures, real-time dialogue, and collaboration with our incredible community partners. Together, we move beyond conventional doula education to explore the full spectrum of reproductive transitions—through the lenses of Reproductive Justice, harm reduction, mutual aid, and systems navigation.

Topics covered include:

  • Abortion Support
  • Collective Birthwork
  • Rural Birthwork
  • Harm Reduction and Supporting People Who Use Drugs
  • Dismantling Fatphobia in Reproductive Healthcare
  • Supporting Sex Workers
  • Food Justice
  • Gender-Affirming Surgery and Transition Support
  • Death and Grief Support
  • Supporting Families Engaged with CPS and Family Regulation Systems
  • Supporting Incarcerated Birthing People
  • Disability Justice
  • Community Building
  • Systems Navigation

Additional Course Benefits:

  • Access to live, drop-in group mentorship sessions
  • Membership in our private Facebook group
  • A listing on our international birthworker directory

Join us to gain the skills, connections, and insights to expand your impact and engage in birthwork activism for collective liberation.


We use the Green Bottle sliding scale model to price our courses equitably, ensuring access while honoring the value of our work. With gratitude to Alexis J. Cunningfolk for developing this model, we embrace a pricing approach rooted in trust, accountability, and economic justice—recognizing the multiple realities of access and privilege that shape educational opportunities.


Choose the price that fits your need -- No questions asked.

Fall, 2025 cohort dates:

September 14 - December 28, 2025

Live zoom classes Sundays, 12-2:30pm PST

In case you can't make it to the live sessions, replays are available.

Advanced Full Spectrum Birthwork Training Curriculum

  Course Introduction
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  Week 1: Historical context, what is full spectrum, and tracing your path to this work.
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  Week 2: Harm reduction and supporting people who use drugs with Ria Tsinas and Christy Hall @perinatalharmreduction @christyhallshow
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  Week 3: Disability Justice and abortion with Stefanie from Project LETS @projectlets
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  Week 4: Birthwork collectives with Ajira Darch @ajira
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  Week 5: Rural birthwork with Michela Hernandez @sacred.bridges
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  Weeks 6 & 7: (Trans)ition doula support with Luar Wolf @_moonandwolf
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  Week 8: Dismantling fatphobia in reproductive healthcare with Brooke Patmor @thedykedoula
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  Weeks 9 & 10: Abortion support with Catherine Braxton
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  Week 11: Carceral Systems and abolition with Cassandra Chase @brownsistabasics @rootsoflaborbc
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  Week 12: Family regulation systems with Amirah Bashir @yosoyamirah
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  Week 13: Supporting sex workers with Celestina Meow @celestina_meow
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  Week 14: Food Justice with Kayla Bitten @thesouthernmidwife
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  Week 15: Death and grief support with Luar Wolf @_moonandwolf_
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  Week 16: Closing
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“I can’t mention enough how incredible it feels to learn from folks who truly care and show they care about the activism that goes behind birthwork and beyond. I’ve learned, unlearned, and relearned from you, and to be in community with you is a blessing. Thank you. I feel that I’m able to be the birthworker I have always aspired myself to be in part because of the support and the guidance I’ve received not only from this training, but from the Cornerstone community, as well.”
- Anna Balagtas (she/her) @pocketdoula


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All photos by Natalie Broders