Inclusive Doula Care: A LIVE Training for Birthworkers

🌈 Why this training matters — now more than ever:

Anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric is rising. Queer and trans families are navigating perinatal care systems that often erase them, misunderstand them, or leave them out entirely.

Your role as a doula isn’t just about birth. It’s about belonging.
And your clients feel the difference when their care team shows up with cultural humility, inclusive language, and real commitment to their joy and safety.

This is your invitation to rise.
To stretch.
To lead in your community with compassion and clarity.
To become a trusted advocate for all families.

✨ What we’ll cover:

This 2-hour live training includes key lessons from my signature course Empowering Doula Care for LGBTQIA+ Families — along with new, expanded tools pulled from my Allyship Toolkit and live consulting work.

Here’s what to expect:

🔍 Opening Reflection: Your WHY

We begin by slowing down. You'll be invited to explore:

• What called you to this class?
• What do you want to unlearn or expand?
• What fears or gaps are holding you back from showing up more fully for LGBTQIA+ clients?

We’ll co-create a space of honesty, curiosity, and shared purpose.

📊 Training Topics:

🏳️‍🌈 Inclusive Language & Pronoun Practice

• Affirming care through everyday language
• Navigating name/pronoun shifts with confidence and care
• What to say when you make a mistake (because you will — and it’s okay!)

🍼 Queer Family Structures & TTC Realities

• Supporting bio and non-bio parents
• How fertility journeys impact labor/postpartum experiences
• Common paths to parenthood and what they don’t teach in doula training

🧠 Internalized Bias & Cultural Humility

• Understanding where unconscious bias shows up
• Dismantling gendered assumptions around birth, bodies, and family roles
• Practicing allyship beyond rainbow stickers

📋 Doula Practice Audit

• Spot-checking your website, intake forms, contracts, and client comms
• What does your business signal to LGBTQIA+ families?
• Are you doing what you say you're about?

🤝 Real-World Allyship

• Doula-specific scripts and scenarios
• Navigating misgendering in medical spaces
• Being a strong team player in hospital and homebirth settings

🧠 Closing Reflection: Your Impact

At the end of class, we’ll pause to integrate:

• What did you learn today?
• What felt surprising or challenging?
• What will you change starting tomorrow in your practice, your language, or your client care?

You’ll leave with a clearer path forward — grounded in integrity, purpose, and deep care.

💌 You’ll Receive:

• 🖥 Live 2-hour Zoom training (no replay — come live!)
• 🛠 Inclusive Language + Allyship PDF Tools
• 🧰 Excerpts from my full course + Allyship Toolkit
• 🧾 Certificate of Attendance (2 CE hours)
• 🫶 A chance to ask questions live and connect with a powerful community of peers
• ❤️ Clarity and confidence to support all families, especially queer and trans birthing people

👩‍🍼 This is for you if:

• You’re a doula, midwife, or perinatal professional seeking to better support queer families
• You’re not afraid to reflect, get honest, and grow
• You want tools that are immediately applicable in real-life births and client convos
• You’re ready to move from well-meaning to well-practiced

Whether you’re brand new to inclusive care or you’ve been showing up for years — this class will challenge, affirm, and energize you.

🗓 Event Details:

📅 Date: Wednesday June 11th
🕙 Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 PM PT
🌐 Location: Zoom (link sent upon registration)
🎟️ Spots Available: 25 (intimate group size to allow for live discussion)

✊ Final word:

Allyship is not a checkbox. It’s a daily practice.
When queer and trans families feel safe with their doula — they birth differently.
They rest differently.
They become differently.

This class is a chance to become a better version of the doula you already are.
Because the world needs you.
And we need you — now more than ever.

Hear what this Postpartum Doula said after taking my course:

"I finished your mini course, and just wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed it and absolutely was able to see that you put your whole heart into it. Thank you so much for that! I loved the interviews and listening to Jen’s and Kristi & Sarah’s stories, very honored to be let in to such a vulnerable time in their lives. I also really appreciated the resources around postpartum challenges and terminology. I have updated all of my materials (website, contract, intake form, resource guide) to reflect inclusive language. Also working on building my resource list for LGBTQ+ families in the Seattle area."