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2026 Indiana Doula Conference
The 2025 Indiana Doula Conference filled critical gaps by providing continuing education, peer support, and visibility for doulas in a state with rising needs but limited infrastructure. It kick-started a movement, elevating the doula profession and better supporting perinatal care in Indiana. This year, we're scaling that impact even further—anticipating over 100 doulas, nearly 50 community organizations, and several key sponsors coming together statewide. Through deeper programming, more collaborative opportunities, and broader stakeholder engagement, this year’s conference will up-level the vital role doulas play in equity-driven maternal health.
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In-Person Event
Cost: $125.00
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Meets Saturday May 16 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
This training event meets once for 8 hours.
University of Indianapolis
1400 E Hanna Ave , Indianapolis, IN 46227 IN 46227
Collaborative Doula Collective
The Collaborative Doula Conference:
This event is designed to empower doulas who support individuals and families during life’s most profound transitions. Whether you’re a birth doula, postpartum doula, fertility doula, abortion doula, loss doula, menopause doula, end-of-life doula, death doula or supporting people somewhere in between, this conference will inspire and equip you with tools to deepen your practice.
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In-Person Event
Cost: $400.00 CAD
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This training event meets from May 25 to May 27.
Meets Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
This training event meets 3 times for a total of 24 hours.
Watson Porter Pavilion
1424 Clarke Road, London ON N5V5B9
Supporting Families Through Perinatal Loss: Practical Guidance for Community Providers
Perinatal loss often leaves families needing continued support in the weeks and months that follow. Community-based providers, including doulas, therapists, social workers, home visitors, and lactation professionals, are often the ones supporting families during this time. This webinar offers practical guidance for out-of-hospital providers caring for individuals and families experiencing miscarriage, stillbirth, termination for medical reasons, or infant death. Participants will explore trauma-informed language, scope of practice considerations, lactation after loss, referral pathways, and strategies for sustaining compassionate, coordinated support in community settings.
Cost: $35.00
Instructor(s): Christina Winterbourne, CD, PMH-C
This is a live, virtual training event.
Meets Friday June 5 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Pacific Standard Time
This training event meets once for 1 hours.
BirthPro Advanced Doula Training
BirthPro Full-Spectrum Doula Training (Birth + Postpartum)
BirthPro's Full-Spectrum Doula Training is an inclusive, evidence-based program designed to prepare doulas for real-world birth and postpartum support with confidence and skill. Ideal for new doulas and experienced birth workers expanding into full-spectrum care, the training covers labor support, postpartum care, trauma-informed practice, communication and advocacy, hospital-based birth, induction and cesarean support, professional boundaries, and business foundations. The program includes 90 total training hours: 3 live training days, weekly ongoing mentoring, and self-paced offline modules. Curriculum reflects competencies recognized in multiple Medicaid doula pathway states, including Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, Arizona, Minnesota, and Washington, and completion documentation is provided for credentialing review. Participants leave with practical tools and inclusive care frameworks. Visit our site for full details. Payment plans and limited scholarship spots available.
Cost: $850.00
Instructor(s): Lorie Michaels, PMH-C, LCCE, CD(DONA), CLC, EBB Instructor
This is a live, virtual training event.
This training event meets from June 27 to July 11.
Meets Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
This training event meets 3 times for a total of 21 hours.
Fetal Death Certificates Explained
Jill Wieber Lens is the Dorothy M. Willie Professor in Excellence at Iowa Law and a leading legal expert in reproductive justice and rights, with a particular focus on the legal treatment of stillbirth and pregnancy loss. Her research is personally informed by the stillbirth of her son Caleb in 2017. Her book Stillbirth & the Law (UC Press) examines how federal and state laws shape the stillbirth rate, the experiences of bereaved parents, and broader cultural understandings of pregnancy loss. Her work has appeared in the Michigan Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, the New York Times, and Time, among others.
Cost: $35.00
Instructor(s): Jill Wieber Lens, J.D.
This is a live, virtual training event.
Meets Friday August 7 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Pacific Standard Time
This training event meets once for 1 hours.
Community-based Perinatal Support and Childbirth Education
This course will train you to serve families throughout the perinatal journey - conduct prenatal childbirth education and resource navigation (connect people to housing, transportation, and food), provide physical support and comfort measures during birth that not only alleviates pain but also support progression of labor, visit the home postpartum and provide newborn parenting education, breastfeeding education, and postpartum recovery support. This is a hybrid course. There is online prework that must be completed before the LIVE Applied Intensive. The online prework open July 1, 2026 and includes about 50 hours of training through recorded video lectures, quizzes, and field projects. Then, we meet for 4 days, for 30 hours, LIVE on Zoom, to practice everything we've learned through scenarios, demonstrations, and discussions. The course has a total of 80 hours.
Cost: $1250.00
Instructor(s): Inga Goodwin
This is a live, virtual training event.
This training event meets from August 10 to August 13.
Meets Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
This training event meets 4 times for a total of 30 hours.
Competent and Compassionate Care in Pregnancy and Infant Loss
Pregnancy and infant loss, including miscarriage, stillbirth, and neonatal death, affects patients across every specialty and practice setting. Yet many clinicians receive limited formal training in how to navigate the clinical complexities and profound emotional impact of these experiences. This session integrates current clinical guidance with lived experience to provide practical, evidence-informed approaches to caring for patients and families facing perinatal loss. Participants will explore communication strategies, trauma-informed principles, bereavement support considerations, and systems-level practices that promote compassionate, equitable care. The goal is to equip all clinicians in primary care and women’s health with the tools and confidence to respond with both clinical competence and deep humanity during some of the most difficult moments in patient care.
Cost: $35.00
Instructor(s): Alex Kaysin, MD, MPH
This is a live, virtual training event.
Meets Friday September 4 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Pacific Standard Time
This training event meets once for 1 hours.
When Every Word Matters: Language, Story and Healing in NICU Bereavement Care
Family-centered care in the NICU goes beyond the physical. Providers communicate with family members multiple times each day, and the words they use during these updates and conversations have a large impact on the family's experience, wellness, and post-NICU healing. This webinar will address the ways that the words providers use are important, and will provide guidance on how those caring for NICU families can provide the most supportive language possible. Additionally, it will explore the ways a family's story about their time in the NICU is a powerful tool. Presented by two perinatal mental health therapists and a NICU nurse, doula, and educator, this session will provide a comprehensive perspective of ways to engage with families.
Cost: $35.00
Instructor(s): Mahaley Patel, Mary Farrelly, and Emily Souder
This is a live, virtual training event.
Meets Friday October 2 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Pacific Standard Time
This training event meets once for 1 hours.
2026 Summit - Call for Conference Speaker Proposals
The 2026 DONA International Summit, is an opportunity to provide relevant and important continuing education for birth and postpartum professionals across the world. We invite proposals for sessions to be offered in an online format at our 2026 virtual conference to be aired October 26-27, 2026. Some proposals will be selected for live-presentations and others will be submitted ahead of time pre-recorded.
Cost: $0.00
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This is a live, virtual training event.
This training event meets from October 26 to October 27.
Meets Monday and Tuesday from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Pacific Standard Time
This training event meets 2 times for a total of 16 hours.
Navigating Therapeutic Clinical Choice Points for Bereaved Parents
Working with parents after the death of a baby can present clinicians with some of the most delicate and high-stakes moments in therapy. In these encounters, small clinical decisions often become meaningful therapeutic choice points that can either deepen safety and connection or unintentionally shut down grief. This one-hour learning module explores the nuanced moments that arise when supporting bereaved parents after miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss. Participants will examine common clinical crossroads such as when to prioritize emotion versus information, how to respond when grief expressions differ between partners or family members, and how to balance validation with gentle therapeutic direction. The module emphasizes practical, moment-to-moment interventions that help clinicians remain present with profound grief while maintaining therapeutic structure.
Cost: $35.00
Instructor(s): Elyse Springer
This is a live, virtual training event.
Meets Friday November 6 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Pacific Standard Time
This training event meets once for 1 hours.
Provider Trauma after Perinatal Loss: Science, Impact, and Recovery
Perinatal loss providers are routinely exposed to traumatic grief which often leads to moral distress and vicarious trauma, yet the neurobiological impact of this work is often overlooked. This session explores how vicarious trauma affects the brain and nervous system, impacting long-term professional sustainability. With an emphasis on debriefing, participants will learn practical, evidenced-informed strategies to promote integration, collective resilience and sustainable recovery.
Cost: $35.00
Instructor(s): Jill Kottmeier
This is a live, virtual training event.
Meets Friday December 4 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Pacific Standard Time
This training event meets once for 1 hours.
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