Online Birth Doula Training
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DONA-approved virtual doula training that can be used towards your birth doula certification with Dona.org.
Trena Gallant is a a birth and postpartum doula trainer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has over 17 years of experience and is conducting the training online.
Your weekend birth doula training with Doula Trainer Trena Gallant will give you the education, tools and confidence to go out and begin working as doula immediately. Anyone who has a willingness to help women through birth can become a birth doula. Though it’s helpful, it’s not necessary to have a background in health or medicine. Keep in mind that a doula is a non-medical professional. This doula training is instructor led live online via zoom from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. People from across Canada and anywhere around the world are welcome to join. |
FRIDAY AUGUST 13TH - SUNDAY AUGUST 15TH
8:30AM - 5:30PM
REGULAR PRICE: $549 +hst
8:30AM - 5:30PM
REGULAR PRICE: $549 +hst
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Free Doula Business Tools
Templates and tools to take care of yourself and your clients. Free doula business downloadables included in your Yoga Mamas Doula Training Course.
Get grounded and hit the ground running after your training. Complimentary digital doula business tools to help organize and build your doula business. Stay organized and focused so you can spend more time doing what you love, supporting families. |
The Online Workshop
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Becoming A Certified Doula
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The Life of a Doula
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HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT OUR TRAININGS?
Interested in our Doula Trainings, and want to learn more?
Book in a FREE 20 minute call - great option if you have specific questions. Join us for a FREE online info sessions - good choice for general information, option to ask specific questions as well.
Book in a FREE 20 minute call - great option if you have specific questions. Join us for a FREE online info sessions - good choice for general information, option to ask specific questions as well.
Meet Your DONA Certified Trainer
Trena Gallant is a Fellow of the Academy of Certified Childbirth educators, a DONA Approved Birth and Postpartum Doula Trainer, Infant Massage Instructor, Certified Sleep Educator, Child passenger safety technician and Hypnobirthing Practitioner. Her passion for birth and babies began at a very young age, when she frequently offered her family pets doula support (much to their dismay), and helped care for the many foster babies who her parents welcomed into their home.
After graduating with her Bachelor of Arts, she began pursuing her education in birth and postpartum, and has been educating and supporting families in groups and individually for over 17 years. In addition to supporting families, Trena felt drawn to adult education, and went on to become a Birth and Postpartum Doula Trainer, and established one of only 24 Lamaze Educator programs in the world. Despite her many years of formal education, her most influential teachers continue to be her partner and their four amazing children.
Qualifications & Experience
- DONA Doula Trainer since 2013
- Practicing Doula since 2004
- Mother of 4
- Childbirth Educator
- HypnoBirthing Practitioner
- Lamaze Educator
- Certified Sleep Educator
Testimonials
"Trena's facilitation style is interactive and her experience level allows participants to learn a diversity of skills. She brings professionalism, a deep knowledge of how to best support families, as well as her welcoming personality to all that she does. It is because of her coaching and mentoring that I was able to develop the confidence to start my practice as a doula." - Ashley Birth and Postpartum Doula
"Trena's classes offer a very interactive learning approach. Her knowledge and passion for parents and birth are very contagious. She makes the students feel very valued and goes above and beyond the class setting to offer her guidance." - Darla, Birth and Postpartum Doula
"Yoga Mamas had such a nice room to have the Doula training in. Their staff were helpful when I needed to nurse my son there during breaks. Snacks, coffee and lemon water were a nice touch everyday." - Emily, Birth Doula
"I recently completed the DONA birth doula training at Yoga Mamas. I was thoroughly impressed with the quality of education I received from the training. The course is condensed with valuable information for anyone who is interested in the miracle of childbirth. I feel confident and inspired to continue my path of supporting women through their birth journeys!"
- Sacha Bryce, Doula and Yoga Instructor
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Interested in Becoming A Postpartum Doula?
The Postpartum Workshop is ideal for those who have a passion for working with babies, nurturing families, and building capacity in others. This workshop will teach the skills necessary to support families during the first three months as they ease into their new roles, and will focus on normal newborn behaviours and cues, postpartum adjustment, and typical questions and concerns that new families may experience. |
Cancellation Policy Please Read:
Full cancellation and refund available only within 24 hours of booking. No refunds will be provided after the first 24 hrs after booking have passed. Cancellations within one week of course start date will receive an account of tuition paid minus a $75 administration fee. No exceptions, thank you for your understanding.
Full cancellation and refund available only within 24 hours of booking. No refunds will be provided after the first 24 hrs after booking have passed. Cancellations within one week of course start date will receive an account of tuition paid minus a $75 administration fee. No exceptions, thank you for your understanding.
Doula Training Frequently Asked Questions
I need to miss a day of the training is that ok?
You are required to be present for the duration of the training in order to receive your certificate.
Small amounts of time may be accommodated by doing a make-up assignment but this needs to be addressed with your trainer prior to.
Large portions of the training cannot be made up with an assignment. This is a requirement from DONA for online trainings that your video is turned on and the trainer is able to see you are present for the duration of the training.
What DONA materials do I get with the Birth or Postpartum training?
You receive access to the DONA digital resource manual a few days before your training. The portal is called Sharevault. Your trainer Trena will give you this information.
When will I receive the zoom meeting link to join?
Your trainer Trena will email you a few days before the training with the zoom meeting information.
My training starts tomorrow and I haven’t received the DONA resource manual - what do I do?
Let Trena know you have not yet received it, email trena@yogamamas.co.
You won’t need access to the manual for the training - so don’t worry. There are lots of great resources for you to review afterwards, but you won’t need the manual to follow along.
I haven’t finished my required reading before the training, is that ok?
Yes - it is recommended that you read something from the required reading list ESPECIALLY if you have no context or background knowledge in birth or postpartum.
If you have some knowledge in this area you don’t need to finish a book.
You WILL be required to read the books if you choose to complete the certification process.
If I do the Combined Training, do I receive two certificates of completion?
Yes - you will receive a Birth Doula Training certificate and a Postpartum Doula Training certificate.
DONA’s FAQ for Certifying
Microsoft Word - Birth Doula Certification FAQ Frequently Asked Questions.docx (dona.org)
Microsoft Word - Postpartum Doula Certification FAQ Frequently Asked Questions.docx (dona.org)
Required Reading Lists
Birth Doula Training - certification-overview-birth-1.9-10.pdf (torontoyogamamas.com)
Postpartum Doula Training - Microsoft Word - DRAFT 10-21-20 Postpartum-Certification-Required-Reading-List.docx (dona.org)
Do I become certified by attending a training workshop?
No - it is one component of the certification process.
DONA Steps for Certification
Birth Doula Steps to Certify - Birth-Doula-Guidelines-to-Complete-Certification-Requirements.pdf (dona.org)
Postpartum Doula Steps to Certify - Certification-Overview-PPD-1-1.pdf (dona.org)
Is there anything I need to know about attending the training online?
Yes - you will need to have your video turned ON at all times with the exception of break times. This is to ensure you are present while attending the training. If you do not have video turned on your trainer is unable to mark you as present.
You are required to be present for the duration of the training in order to receive your certificate.
Small amounts of time may be accommodated by doing a make-up assignment but this needs to be addressed with your trainer prior to.
Large portions of the training cannot be made up with an assignment. This is a requirement from DONA for online trainings that your video is turned on and the trainer is able to see you are present for the duration of the training.
What DONA materials do I get with the Birth or Postpartum training?
You receive access to the DONA digital resource manual a few days before your training. The portal is called Sharevault. Your trainer Trena will give you this information.
When will I receive the zoom meeting link to join?
Your trainer Trena will email you a few days before the training with the zoom meeting information.
My training starts tomorrow and I haven’t received the DONA resource manual - what do I do?
Let Trena know you have not yet received it, email trena@yogamamas.co.
You won’t need access to the manual for the training - so don’t worry. There are lots of great resources for you to review afterwards, but you won’t need the manual to follow along.
I haven’t finished my required reading before the training, is that ok?
Yes - it is recommended that you read something from the required reading list ESPECIALLY if you have no context or background knowledge in birth or postpartum.
If you have some knowledge in this area you don’t need to finish a book.
You WILL be required to read the books if you choose to complete the certification process.
If I do the Combined Training, do I receive two certificates of completion?
Yes - you will receive a Birth Doula Training certificate and a Postpartum Doula Training certificate.
DONA’s FAQ for Certifying
Microsoft Word - Birth Doula Certification FAQ Frequently Asked Questions.docx (dona.org)
Microsoft Word - Postpartum Doula Certification FAQ Frequently Asked Questions.docx (dona.org)
Required Reading Lists
Birth Doula Training - certification-overview-birth-1.9-10.pdf (torontoyogamamas.com)
Postpartum Doula Training - Microsoft Word - DRAFT 10-21-20 Postpartum-Certification-Required-Reading-List.docx (dona.org)
Do I become certified by attending a training workshop?
No - it is one component of the certification process.
DONA Steps for Certification
Birth Doula Steps to Certify - Birth-Doula-Guidelines-to-Complete-Certification-Requirements.pdf (dona.org)
Postpartum Doula Steps to Certify - Certification-Overview-PPD-1-1.pdf (dona.org)
Is there anything I need to know about attending the training online?
Yes - you will need to have your video turned ON at all times with the exception of break times. This is to ensure you are present while attending the training. If you do not have video turned on your trainer is unable to mark you as present.
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