Touchstone: Childbirth Educator Training - Novmeber, 2023 cohort

October cohort dates: November 11, 2023 - Februrary 24, 2024
Live Zoom meetings Saturdays from 10am - 12pm PST

Learn the art and skill of trauma informed collaborative facilitation in this radical reimagining of childbirth educator training. Touchstone 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 masterclasses that include lectures, readings, journal prompts, community building, and training resources designed to meet the needs of many learning styles.
Step by step guidance on building your own childbirth education curriculum tailored for YOUR community.


Touchstone 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, decolonizing education, patient rights, birth preferences, interventions, testing and procedures, postpartum planning, teaching lactation, marketing & branding, Disability Justice, accessibility, and mutual aid. No other CBE training comes close to the depth of this content!
Gain access to our live, drop-in group mentorship sessions, access to our private Facebook group, and a listing on our birthworker directory.



Novmeber cohort training dates:

November 11, 2023 - February 24, 2024

Live Zoom meetings, Saturdays from 10am - 12pm PST

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Touchstone's curriculum

  Welcome to our November, 2023 cohort of Touchstone!
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  Creating your curriculum
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  Week One: What is a Cornerstone CBE Facilitator?
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  Week Two: Non hierarchical facilitation with Anna Balagtas (@pocketdoula)
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  Week Three: Trauma informed facilitation skills
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  Week Four and Five: Creating an engaging online course with Jade Hillery (@jade_thedoula)
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  Week Six: The pregnant body, anatomy & physiology of labor & birth
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  Week Seven: Body Positivity in CBE with Asiyah Abdul-Mu'min
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  Week Eight and Nine: Decolonizing CBE spaces and facilitation and Inclusive and Affirming CBE for all families with king yaa (@queerbirthworker)
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  Week Ten: Patient rights and birth preferences
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  Week Eleven: Teaching birth interventions
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  Week Twelve: Prenatal testing and warning signs
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  Week thirteen: Teaching lactation with Ajira Darch (@ajira)
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  Week Fourteen: Branding and marketing - Your personal & political with Ajira Darch (@ajira)
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  Week Fifteen: Disability Justice
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  Week Sixteen: Closing celebration
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  Bonus modules
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“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