WHAT TO EXPECT
Doulas need community just as much as parents do! Whether you are exploring your calling towards birth work or you are a seasoned professional looking for community, this circle is for you.
This 12-week-long circle is a space to learn, grow, and connect. We believe that we are better together and when doulas support one another we are able to show up for our community with our full potential.
Learn From Some of The Best in The Field
HEAR FROM INSPIRING GUEST SPEAKERS
This Mentorship & Training Explores:
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Building your business as a doula
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Caring for yourself to prevent burnout
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A framework for understanding physiological birth
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Information on possible interventions
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Supporting your clients nutritionally during pregnancy and postpartum
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Tools for supporting clients through labor at home or in the hospital
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Supporting your clients' breastfeeding journey
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Supporting your client through a harmonious postpartum
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Honoring the divine feminine, the innate wisdom of the body, and your clients' sovereignty
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FOUR AREAS OF focus
Each module is designed to guide you through the essential knowledge, practical skills, and personal growth needed to support clients with confidence and heart.
1 Foundations of Birth
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Unpacking personal and cultural ideas around birth
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Understanding physiological birth
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Exploring your why
2 Supporting the Birth Experience
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Helping your client build a birth “plan”
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Supporting clients at home and in the hospital
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Learning about possible interventions/informed consent, and how to navigate the hospital setting
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Building a toolbox of comfort measures and medical pain management options
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Unpacking our perception and relationship to pain
3 Caring Beyond Birth
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Supporting breastfeeding and postpartum care
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Establishing the four pillars of harmonious postpartum
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Understanding safe co-sleeping
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Inspiring innate parenting
4 Launching & Sustaining Your Practice
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Building and structuring your business
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Finding your niche
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How to prioritize self-care and prevent burnout
"This work is not for someone who wants to be told a linear set of steps to follow to achieve a prescribed outcome.
This is work for those who want to embrace the power of our own souls to walk as part of Divine Creation. To bathe our hearts in love until they glow and light our way. To come from a space of unlimited compassion for everyone we are in contact with, and most of all with ourselves. To make dear friends with resistance and obstacles - in fact, to get excited when they show up."
M.M.
Meet Your Mentor
Carson Meyer
Carson Meyer is a birth doula, author, and nutrition consultant who has supported hundreds of women on their journey to parenthood. She hosts educational circles for women all over the country to help them access community and information on healthy pregnancy, birth, and postpartum practices.
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In addition to her birth work, Carson is the founder of C & The Moon, an environmentally conscious line of skincare products based out of her hometown of Malibu, CA.
She graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2016 and lives in western North Carolina with her husband, Johnathan, and their daughter, Lou.
"The circle felt like a dream compared to the standard doula certification classes that get you in-and-out in two days. The circle was more comprehensive, empathetic, and holistically informative — exploring birth, lactation, cultural traditions, self-care, nutrition, postpartum care and so much more. I walked away with a deeper connection to myself and an even greater passion for birth work. Carson is a brilliant, gentle, intentional, and strong mentor — no question went unexplored. As soon as the class ended, I was like… can I sign up again?"
Kate
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes this training unique?
This training is just as much about supporting YOURSELF as it is supporting your clients. I want you to succeed and for your work to be sustainable for your unique energetics and life situations. I will teach you how to regulate your nervous system, and offer tools for a thriving business. This training will teach you how to assist mothers in pregnancy and birth in hospitals, home, and birth centers. I share resources for nutrition, pelvic alignment, and the organic transitions of the mother's energetic, emotional, and spiritual evolution. You will be in a community that recognizes how birth is the initiation from maiden to mother, and how each pregnancy is designed to transform and evolve all aspects of the mother's world. I want you to feel confident about offering tongue-tie and body support referrals, and teach you practices to hold space and clear energy. I have designed this program for a community with varying levels of experience for comprehensive topics, with plenty of time for you to attend births and accrue questions so that I can help you navigate them. Western medicine teaches practitioners fear-based tools, how to sleep, how to eat, how to be in control. Whereas, a mother is being invited into the mystery, where all her power is held. Her ability to resource her wisdom as birth invites her into the realm of motherhood is one of the greatest portals of life. You will be in a community that normalizes the profound power that innately resides in pregnancy and birth.
Will I be a certified doula after taking this training?
Over the years, doula certifying agencies have emerged and gained popularity. However, it is our personal belief that a certified doula is an oxymoron. Doula's have always existed outside the system. Our job is to serve mothers; not a governing agency. During the pandemic, many doulas were forbidden from supporting their clients in hospitals without "certification," which wrongfully left many skilled doulas out of work and mothers without support. A doula can be a sister, mother, friend or hired professional. It is not a role that requires certification. Having a foundation of knowledge about physiological birth and committing to always being a student of this work is imperative - which is why we are offering a training and mentorship, and not a certification. You will leave this training feeling confident in building your practice and attending births.
Is it for birth or postpartum doulas?
Both! There is something for everyone in this mentorship and we will be exploring it all. We believe that pregnancy, birth and postpartum support are all connected. Although you may plan to only offer one or the other, having the necessary skills and information will benefit your work regardless.
I have never attended a birth. Can I join?
Absolutely! I love working with new doulas and the enthusiasm and passion they bring to the group. This is not your average "Doula 101" training. We are going deep on important topics that are often left out of doula trainings, like processing your own birth (being born), how to regulate your nervous system to show up in your highest self, honoring the divine feminine. and so much more. Doulas of all levels of experience will benefit and gain a loving community on their path.
Are payment plans available?
Yes! Payment plans can be accommodated prior to the start date. Please email me for more information.
*Due to the limited number of spots available in this mentorship, refunds will not be accepted.
Testimonials
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Having very little exposure to birth, I can now say I feel ready to step into this new career path and really be able to hold space for my future clients!
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Mackenzie
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Each session was packed with information. Everything from pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, postpartum care, to business building, and more. Initially, I was hesitant to make the investment and commit to the program, but I’m so glad I did. It’s been an amazing experience that I will carry with me when attending births and helping postpartum mamas in the future.
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Pam
The camaraderie among fellow doulas in the group was a beautiful bonus, making this not just a training but a heartfelt community experience. I wholeheartedly recommend this doula training to anyone eager to provide the best support for their clients.
Tatiane
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