Build the confidence to support families during pregnancy and birth.
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The Postpartum Doula Workshop is ideal for anyone who has a passion for working with babies, nurturing families, and building capacity in others.
This postpartum doula training is being held online. The doula workshop will teach the skills necessary to support families during the first three months as they ease into their new roles, and will focus on normal newborn behaviours and cues, postpartum adjustment, and typical questions and concerns that new families may experience. At the completion of the workshop, participants will receive a Postpartum Doula Certificate, and can begin to work with families as soon as they feel confident in doing so.
Our doula instructor, Trena Gallant makes online training fun, engaging and educational.
You receive access to the DONA digital resource manual a few days before your training. The portal is called Sharevault. Your trainer Trena will give you this information via email.
DONA requires you to be present with your camera on for each training day to be eligible to receive your certificate.
Receive one month complimentary of Yoga Mamas On Demand ($20 Value).
Use this for yourself or your client. Workout to 100+ online fitness classes, including prenatal and postnatal options.
Templates and tools to take care of yourself and your clients. Free doula business downloads included in your Kaе̄r Doula Training Course.
Get grounded and hit the ground running after your training. Complimentary digital doula business tools to help organize and build your doula business. Stay organized and focused so you can spend more time doing what you love, supporting families.
Trena Gallant is a Fellow of the Academy of Certified Childbirth educators, a DONA Approved Birth and Postpartum Doula Trainer, Infant Massage Instructor, Certified Sleep Educator, Child passenger safety technician and HypnoBirthing Practitioner. Her passion for birth and babies began at a very young age, when she frequently offered her family pets doula support (much to their dismay), and helped care for the many foster babies who her parents welcomed into their home.
Qualifications & Experience
After graduating with her Bachelor of Arts, she began pursuing her education in birth and postpartum, and has been educating and supporting families in groups and individually for over 17 years. In addition to supporting families, Trena felt drawn to adult education, and went on to become a Birth and Postpartum Doula Trainer, and established one of only 24 Lamaze Educator programs in the world. Despite her many years of formal education, her most influential teachers continue to be her partner and their four amazing children.
Full cancellation and refund available only within 24 hours of booking. No refunds will be provided after the first 24 hrs after booking have passed. Cancellations within one week of course start date will receive an account credit of tuition paid minus a $75 administration fee.
DONA requires your video to be turned on for the entire duration of the course in order to qualify for certification. You may be able to do a make-up assignment to make up for missed time but this must be addressed with your trainer 7 days prior to the start of training.
No experience necessary. The workshop is for many the first step to becoming a Doula! If you would like to start learning before the workshop, you may find it beneficial to read the following prior to workshop attendance:
The position papers and scope of practice papers are available through DONA here.
A membership with DONA is not required to attend the workshop. You may wish to become a member before hand to gain access to DONA resources, trainings, and discounts. Find out more here.
The workshop is one step in the Doula certification process with DONA. You are also not required to become certified in order to work as a doula. You will leave the workshop prepared to begin attending births as a Doula. Find out more about certification here.
Your trainer Trena will email you a few days before the training with the zoom meeting information.
Let Trena know you have not yet received it, email trena@yogamamas.co.
You won’t need access to the manual for the training – so don’t worry. There are lots of great resources for you to review afterwards, but you won’t need the manual to follow along.
Yes – it is recommended that you read something from the required reading list ESPECIALLY if you have no context or background knowledge in birth or postpartum.
You WILL be required to read the books if you choose to complete the certification process.
Yes – DONA requires your video to be turned on for the entire duration of the course in order to qualify for certification.
Yes – you will receive a Birth Doula Training certificate and a Postpartum Doula Training certificate. You must have your video turned on in order to receive the certificates.
Visit DONA’s website for more information:
DONA Birth Doula Certification Overview PDF
Birth Doula Steps to Certify from dona.org
