🌟 Special Offering - Attention Doulas and Birth Workers! 🌟
Are you ready to deepen your practice and expand your skills? Whether you’re an aspiring doula, just starting out, or a seasoned birth worker, this class series is for you!
💡 What to Expect:
Experience a taste of the transformative Birthing from Within style and framework. Walk away with actionable skills you can start using right away in your work.
📅 Join Us for One, Two, or All Three Classes in this Series:
🌀 No prerequisites required – come as you are!
🌀 Affordable pricing:
$45 for a single class
$80 for two classes
$105 for all three
📍 Location: 155 Birch Street, Suite 2, Redwood City, CA 94062
👉 Spaces are limited—sign up now!
🔗 How to Register:
Visit my Calendly page to register, or DM @redwoodmidwifery or @maevesundstrom on IG to secure your spot. Don’t wait—spaces are filling up fast!
Class 1: January 14, 2025 6-8pm
Understanding Birth Stories:
Every birth story is rich with layers of emotion, memory, and meaning. As a doula, learning to listen deeply, hold space, and support clients as their stories evolve over time is an essential skill.
In this class, you’ll explore how to:
✨ Listen to the many layers of birth stories with compassion and clarity.
✨ Track how birth stories change and unfold as clients process and grow.
✨ Support parents in making sense of and integrating their birth experiences for healing and empowerment.
Parents—and birth workers—carry powerful stories that deserve to be heard by skilled and empathetic hearts. Join me for an introduction to Birthing from Within’s Birth Story Gates framework and discover an insightful, transformative approach to understanding and honoring birth stories.
Come learn how to guide your clients on their journey through their stories, offering them the safe, supportive presence they need to find meaning and wholeness. 🌿✨
Space is limited - reserve your spot now!
Class 2: February 11, 2025 6-8pm
The Doula’s Labyrinth
The labyrinth is an ancient and powerful symbol, representing the journey of life, transformation, and discovery. In this class, you’ll learn how to use the labyrinth as a meaningful tool for both your clients’ birth preparation and your own growth and grounding as a birth worker.
Together, we will:
✨ Explore the history and archetypal meaning of the labyrinth and why it resonates so deeply during life-changing experiences like birth.
✨ Learn how to create your own labyrinth and guide parents in making their own as a practice for reflection, preparation, and focus.
✨ Discover how the labyrinth can support you, as a doula, in navigating the emotional and transformative terrain of your work.
The labyrinth offers a path to center, reflect, and move with intention. This class will equip you with the knowledge and skills to incorporate this beautiful tool into your practice, helping parents—and yourself—walk the twists and turns of birth with greater presence, trust, and confidence.
Come journey with us and experience the wisdom of the labyrinth. 🌿
Class 3: March 4, 2025 6-8pm
Birth as a Rite of Passage
Birth is so much more than a medical event or a social milestone—it is a profound rite of passage, carrying parents through the unknown and into a new state of being. Like all rites of passage, birth involves leaving the familiar, stepping into uncharted territory, facing challenges, and redefining one’s sense of self.
As birth workers, we have the unique opportunity to help parents prepare not only for the physical process of birth but also for the deep transformation it brings. In this class, we’ll explore how to honor birth as a rite of passage and provide meaningful support at every stage of the journey.
You’ll learn:
✨ How to situate modern birth within the framework of a rite of passage.
✨ Practical tools and processes to guide parents before, during, and after birth.
✨ Ways to tend to the emotional and spiritual aspects of this profound transformation.
✨ Insights into your own ongoing growth as someone who walks with parents through the landscape of birth.
Join us to deepen your understanding of birth’s transformative power and discover how to help parents mark this life-changing event with care, attention, and commitment. Let’s reimagine birth as the sacred rite of passage it has always been. 🌿✨
✨ Take It Further:
Fall in love with the Birthing from Within approach? You’re invited to join the Doula from Within immersion training:
📍 San Francisco
📅 March 27–31, 2025
👉Doula from Within info & registration here
✨ Let’s grow together. Reserve your spot today and take the next step in your journey as a doula. ✨
birthing from within
I am a certified professional trainer with Birthing from Within. I offer private childbirth education classes for parents in person in the Bay Area, as well as classes for birth professionals online. All of the professional programs can also be brought live to your local community or group.
FOR PARENTS:
Private Childbirth Education classes
Birth Art Sessions
FOR PROFESSIONALS:
Doula from Within live immersion training to begin or deepen your birth support practice
Crossing the Threshold retreat-style workshop for birth professionals
Birth as a Heroic Journey doula and childbirth educator certification course
Birth Art Training for working with parents
Building a Coping Mindset: Advanced Techniques for Teaching Coping in Labor & Birth
Monthly Member Calls for continuing education on a variety of topics
I am also a contributor to the Birthing from Within Blog.
“The [Birth Art] course went beyond my expectations in that I thought I would learn some prompts or exercises to share with clients, what I actually came away with was a deep insight in how to hold space for creative enquiry, how to mentor someone as they move through an inner reflective process, how to drop my ego in my birthwork and how to find the joy in my practice. I’m really grateful for this course & the depth of the teaching provided. I really enjoyed this course & I want to shout out Maeve who just gave so much really valuable insight each session & so much time to individuals whilst maintaining the group, this was so inspiring & how she phrased things each time was just perfect - great learning for me!”
trauma informed care for birth professionals
I have created a three-part course on Trauma Informed Care for Birth Professionals, which I have taught on an invitation basis for local birth organizations. This course covers:
Foundations of Trauma Informed Care;
Applications for Birth Work; and
Secondary Stress & Self-Care for Birth Workers
I am available for speaking, writing & teaching engagements on:
Trauma Informed Care for Birth Professionals
Birth as a Rite of Passage
Initiation, Transformation and The Heroic Journey
Midwifery & Home Birth
Group Midwifery Care & Birth Story Circles
Birth & Sexuality
Integrative Pelvic Health®
Myths, Stories & Archetypes for Learning
and more!
Interested in bringing any of these or related topics to your group or organization? Contact me!