Mentoring for Doula Trainers
The DTD Faculty Mentoring Program
Dr. Amy Gilliland has created a one -of-a-kind faculty training program for doulas and birth educators who want to nurture the next generation of birth workers. With this certification program, professional doulas have the opportunity to become Doulaing The Doula Training Faculty, opening their client base from expecting parents to aspiring doulas looking for guidance and training.
About the Doula Training & Certification Faculty Mentoring Program
Becoming a Certified Doula Trainer, Birth Educator, and Coach with Doulaing The Doula
Program Benefits:
- Add new revenue streams
- Enhance legitimacy of your practice
- Multiply your client roster
- Guide a new generation of culturally competent doulas
- Find new ways to support expecting and postnatal parents
- Become a Certified Doulaing The Doula Trainer
- Join the DTD team
Program Details:
Small groups of two to four people meet ten times for two hours, covering the four parts of the program.
- Part One: Who Are You? Who Are We Together?
- Part Two: Setting Up The Educational Relationship
- Part Three: Classroom Management
- Part Four: Circling Back Around, Putting It All Together
Why Join DTD:
- We are actively decolonizing and transparent with a social justice emphasis.
- We prepare you to be an educator, with the tools to write your own curriculum.
- Work with others who share your values and have a compatible mission.
- Become a Coach in your first month and start earning money!
A Word From
Dr. Amy Gilliland
“I’ve had an amazing career as birth doula trainer. I’ve had the privilege of facilitating over 160 trainings since 1997. This has been a great joy in my life, and I’m thrilled to have developed a program to make this accessible to other people.”
Creating New Opportunities for Professional Doulas with DTD
Experience True Professional Transformation
Dr. Gilliland’s Training and Certification Faculty Mentoring Program through her world-renowned doula education platform, Doulaing The Doula, is uniquely designed to provide professional doulas with new opportunities to build their career and enhance their reach.
What Is The Transformation We Are Seeking?
- To stimulate doula trainers to think like educators.
- To encourage a belief in themselves as agents of transformation, starting with their role as a doula trainer.
- To build a philosophy of teaching and learning that consistently guides doula trainer behavior in their classrooms.
- To help doula trainers feel confident in their first experiences managing the complex journey of a doula training.
Learning Objectives for the Course
- Confidently design your own curriculum and lesson plans using evidence-based educational guidelines.
- Evaluate and critique existing curriculum, lesson plans and educational events.
- Develop your own pedagogy statement.
- Use your physical body creatively to further participant learning.
- Increase your capacity to be an edutaining facilitator.
- Move forward on the path from novice to expert educator.
- Anticipate and plan for the learner’s experience.
- Seamlessly revise lesson plans and educational priorities at the last minute.
- Forecast difficult or challenging situations and develop effective strategies.
- Have a toolbox of techniques for “difficult” participants.
- Incorporate formative assessment tools into learning experiences.
- Evaluate one’s own SE skill progress using a before and after assessment tool.
Are You Ready to Enhance Your Doula Career
Get Started Today for a Better, More Meaningful Tomorrow
If you are interested in a career as a Doulaing The Doula Trainer, please fill out an interest form, and make sure to check out the www.doulaworkshop.com website for details about Doulaing The Doula.
