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Become a doula. Practice with integrity.
A complete developmental pathway – from first curiosity to sustainable, justice-centred practice.
You might already know you want to become a doula. But you want to do it properly.
Not quickly. Not superficially. Not divorced from history, culture, or responsibility.
This pathway prepares you – and then supports you – to practise with depth, integrity, and sustainability.
This is a developmental journey.
Birthwork is not a single course. It is formation.
Our pathway moves through five stages:
Exploration → Preparation → Ethical Grounding → Sustainability → Leadership
Each stage builds on the last.
Answering The Call
You’re curious. You’re pulled toward this work. But you need clarity before commitment.
When Birth Work Calls (£47)
A powerful audio exploration of what birthwork truly asks of you – emotionally, politically, practically.
This is not hype.
It is orientation.
Becoming a doula
This is where you learn your craft.
Birth Doula Course
A doula preparation course is just what it says… a course that prepares you to become a doula. Once you have completed the Abuela Doula Preparation course, you will be able to begin to work as a doula. However, this is just the beginning as we emphasise the importance of extended study after the course.
Postnatal Sankofa
The postnatal course is about going deeper into the cultural practices and traditions of different people groups and family set ups. It is about nurturing and nourishing the new parent.
You will have the opportunity to look back into your own cultural heritage and how bringing ancestral wisdom forward aids your work as a postnatal doula.
Rooting yourself in justice
Birthwork sits inside power structures. Neutrality is not an option.
Cultivating Liberation
Cultivating Liberation is a six-week live, intimate container where awareness becomes embodied anti-racist practice.
This is not introductory training. It is a practice space.
The focus is on self-awareness, relational accountability, and community practice so that anti-racism becomes something you live, not something you understand.
Building work that lasts
Passion alone does not sustain a birthworker.
Business for Birthworkers
It’s time to change the narrative of business as a birthworker and to that end we are going to spend eight weeks looking at all things business. This starts with your mindset and your relationship with your business. We then move towards strategy and obstacles. By the end of the eight weeks at least one area of your business will be transformed.
Stepping into Leadership
This is where the integration happens.
Branches of Legacy
Anti-racism isn’t a destination – it’s a practice. Branches of Legacy is for birthworkers ready to go deeper, weaving anti-racism into every layer of their work. This is intimate, high-touch, transformational work.
Six months of high-touch 1:1 work embedding everything you’ve learned into your systems, relationships, and leadership.
The Legacy Collective
Legacy Collective is the membership for people who have completed any of my courses and want ongoing practice, ongoing perspective, and ongoing accountability. Not more information for the sake of it. Not more “content” to consume. A place to stay honest, keep integrating, and keep moving in a way that matches your values.
Build your practice properly from the ground up.
Rooted: The Vault
If you know you want to move through the full pathway intentionally, The Vault gives you everything:
Structured. Supported. Sustainable.
This is a developmental journey.
We do not produce large volumes of doulas. We cultivate birthworkers who:
Understand the political context of their work
Practise with cultural humility
Build sustainable income
Lead with integrity
If you are ready for that – begin at the stage that meets you.
For more information about Abuela Doulas or our courses please get in touch via email!
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Abuela Doulas recognises that as well as doing the work, they need to support the work of others. With that in mind, here are some links to support not only us, but other organisations that we are involved in.