Expand your skills set for you and your clients!
Are you a healthcare worker who is also pregnant or whose partner is expecting a baby? This is an especially great childbirth class for you! Among our hundreds of graduates are acupuncturists, childbirth educators, doulas, massage therapists, mental health workers, midwives, nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, yoga teachers, psychologists and social workers—all chose Mindful Birth Philadelphia for their childbirth education when they themselves were birthing. Come join our community—we’d love to have you!
It takes a village to birth a family! All birth workers know that pregnancy, birth and parenting require the work of a team. Communication, respect, care, compassion, patience, trust…these are all important ingredients for a safe, supportive birth and parenting environment.
Mindful Birth & Parenting Philadelphia students include non-pregnant birth workers who take the class as professional development. In taking our mindful birth class, you will learn—along with our pregnant students—how supportive approaching pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and parenting through the lens of mindfulness can be. Best of all, our classes will strengthen any personal mindfulness practice you have—or the one you want to start. Your mindfulness practice will benefit your clients/patients and you as well.
“Taking the Mind in Labor transformed my work as a doula. It gave me clear and pragmatic tools to center mindful awareness, embodied connection, and centering a perspective that allows each birth to unfold in the now. Mindfulness practice is a central touchstone in my practice and I credit Molly and Carol’s loving teaching strategies with giving me the tools I share with so many of my clients. I love working with families who have chosen to take mindfulness childbirth education classes because I know those families will come to me with a strong foundation in the labor support strategies I most firmly and deeply believe in. ”