FULL SPECTRUM DOULA PROFESSIONAL PATHWAY
Become the Birthworker You Feel Called to Be
Build the knowledge, practical skills, cultural awareness, mentorship, and business foundation to support families across the full reproductive journey.
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Complete professional pathway ~ More than $6,500 in combined value
A Doula Training Unlike Anything Else in the World
A Full Spectrum Doula Training Rooted in the Whole World
Wombs of the World integrates global midwifery traditions, cultural practices, and modern evidence-based care. You learn to see birth through a lens that honors culture, history, justice, and the realities people face across different systems and communities.
Whether you plan to attend births or want to understand how birth shapes families and societies, this training offers a global perspective that is rarely included in full spectrum doula education.
Birth is sacred. Birth is universal. Birth is political. Birth is cultural. Birth is communal. Birth belongs to us all.
And your work as a birthworker has the power to ripple across generations.
How The Full Spectrum Doula Training Works
Five Complete Online Courses
5 courses plus access to a full library of videos, readings, podcasts, reflective prompts, and case studies. Learn at your own pace with material designed for every learning style.
Over 250 lessons to quench all curiosity.
Mentorship & Community
For a full year, you’re invited to our monthly live gatherings on Zoom (with two different options to accommodate different time zones). This is the live, interactive part of the program. This is where mentorship, questions, community support, and real connection happen.
You’ll also join our private Facebook & WhatsApp group to continue the conversation, ask questions, and grow your global network.
Joining the Global Village
Upon completion, be featured in our global birthworker directory and join a network of people dedicated to improving care for families everywhere.
What's Included | Other Doula Trainings | Wombs of the World's FSDT |
|---|---|---|
Birth doula education | Included | Included |
Postpartum and newborn care | Sometimes separate | Included |
Fertility, loss, and reproductive transitions | Often separate | Included |
Global birth practices and maternal-health systems | Rarely a central focus | Core to the pathway |
Reproductive justice and intersectional care | Varies | Included |
Business, marketing, and outreach plan | Often introductory | Full course included |
Lifetime curriculum access | Varies | Included |
One full year of live mentorship | Rarely | Included |
Global birthworker community | Varies | Included |
Tuition: $1,700 USD
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Enroll anytime. Begin when you’re ready. Move at your own pace.
Your tuition includes full access to the Wombs of the World Full Spectrum Doula Training with no start dates and no deadlines.
✔️ Self-paced online modules
✔️ One full year of twice a month live community building "Office Hours" via Zoom
✔️ Access to our global WhatsApp & Facebook communities
✔️ Ongoing support from the Wombs of the World team
Payment plans available!
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The Five Core Courses
This full spectrum doula training is crafted as a five-course journey, each one building your confidence, deepening your intuition, expanding your global awareness, and strengthening the way you hold space for others. By the end, you won’t just know birthwork. You’ll embody it.
Course One:
Foundations of Global Birthwork
This course invites you to zoom out so you can zoom in.
You will explore the foundation on which modern birthwork stands, from the anthropology of the mother to trauma informed care to global birth practices. Together we build a clear picture of how birth is shaped by culture, systems, history, and community. You are encouraged to understand the birth culture you live in and, most importantly, how to be of service within it.
By the end of this course, you will have a strong understanding of what birthwork requires emotionally, culturally, and practically, and how to show up with steadiness and respect.
Course Two:
Understanding Birth
All things birth! This course gives you a grounded understanding of how labor works and what the body needs. You will learn anatomy, the hormonal flow of birth, comfort measures, positioning, nervous system support, advocacy, and presence.
You will also learn how to support birth across settings and cultures with a trauma aware and globally informed approach.
You will leave this course with clarity and confidence in your ability to support the physiology and ceremony of birth.
Course Three:
Postpartum & Reproductive Transitions
Support the full arc of becoming: birth, postpartum, grief, healing, and beyond.
You’ll step into global postpartum traditions, emotional integration, NICU literacy, PMAD awareness, infant rhythms, fertility, loss, and the lifelong continuum of womb care.
This course teaches you to hold families through the deepest transformations, the tender, raw spaces where identity shifts and new worlds begin.
This is the heart of community care.
Course Four:
Beyond Birth- Social Justice, Diversity & Ethics
Birthwork exists inside systems that reflect the world around us. This course helps you navigate those systems with awareness, responsibility, and cultural humility. You will learn intersectional care, queer and trans support, disability informed care, anti-racist practice, informed consent, power dynamics, and the social realities that shape birth outcomes.
You will understand how to support every family with integrity and how to help make birth environments more compassionate and respectful.
Course Five:
Stepping Into Practice
The world needs more birthworkers.
This course prepares you to begin working. You will learn client care, documentation, accessibility, pricing, reimbursement pathways, branding, storytelling, community visibility, and sustainable scheduling.
You will also receive guidance on how to build relationships with hospitals, clinics, and community networks.
These entrepreneurial tools extend in all facets of life. We just want to get you working.
Because when mothers rise, we all rise.
THE WORLD NEEDS MORE BIRTHWORKERS
The Wombs of the World Full Spectrum Doula Training brings together everything we have learned through years of global maternal health work, traditional midwifery partnerships, clinical collaboration, and community-based projects. It was designed to equip you with the knowledge, awareness, and perspective you need to support families anywhere in the world.
A core truth we have learned through all of this is that the doula is the bridge.
You are the bridge that connects the reverence and sacredness of birth with the realities of modern systems. You help create space where ceremony, tradition, advocacy, and evidence-based care can coexist in any birth setting, whether that is at home, in a birth center, or in a hospital.
The goal of the full spectrum doula training is to help you understand birth within your own culture and its systems, and to equip you to care skillfully for the families you will support.
The world needs more birthworkers, and we are here to give you everything you need to begin.
How The Full Spectrum Doula Training Works
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Tuition: NOW $1,500 USD
A Full Spectrum Doula Training That Honors Your Timing
This is not a cohort-based program.
You can enroll at any time.
Start when it feels right.
Move through the material at your own pace.
Pause, revisit, and integrate as needed.
Your enrollment includes one year of optional monthly mentorship and community building call our "Office Hours."
Come to every session, join occasionally, or simply know the space is there when questions arise.
You retain ongoing access to the course content, with no pressure to “finish” by a certain date.
This training is designed for real life, real nervous systems, and real integration. For anyone, anywhere in the world.
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Included Component | What Students Receive | Value |
|---|---|---|
Full-Spectrum Doula Education | Comprehensive education in birth, postpartum, newborn care, fertility, pregnancy loss, abortion support, reproductive transitions, physiological birth, comfort measures, advocacy, cultural humility, reproductive justice, and global maternal health. | $2,800 |
Stepping Into Practice Business Course | Services, pricing, branding, marketing, outreach, referral-building, professional systems, and a practical plan for beginning or growing a doula practice. | $700 |
One Full Year of Live Mentorship | Two hours of live mentorship every month, totaling 24 hours of professional guidance throughout the year. | $1,800 |
Unlimited Text and Community Support | A place to ask questions, receive encouragement, troubleshoot challenges, and stay connected between mentorship sessions. | $600 |
Complete Resource and Birthworker Toolkit | Templates, worksheets, client resources, comfort-measure guides, reflection exercises, planning tools, business resources, and materials students can return to throughout their work. | $600 |
Total Professional Value | A complete pathway from learning about birthwork to beginning the work with education, tools, mentorship, and community. | $6,500 |
Certification & Our Philosophy
We believe birthwork is ancestral and community-rooted, and that doula knowledge has always belonged to the people. At the same time, many of us live in systems that require certification in order to work in hospitals, access reimbursement, or be recognized by institutions. We value accessibility, and as always, our priority is to help you begin supporting families as soon as you feel ready.
When you complete all five courses and your final project, you will receive an official Full Spectrum Doula Training Certificate of Completion from Wombs of the World. This certificate reflects full spectrum doula training in global birthwork, cultural humility, postpartum support, advocacy, and practical skills.
We designed this program to align with the core requirements many hospitals, states, and insurance programs look for, including Medicaid-supported doula programs.
Your final project is simple: show us how you are stepping into birthwork — a website, flyer, client packet, pitch to a hospital, or any practical tool that reflects your path. You will share it during one live session.
Our goal is to prepare you to work in your community with confidence.
The world needs more birthworkers, and we are here to help you begin.
Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ Question | FAQ Answer |
|---|---|
Is the Full Spectrum Doula Training required to travel with Wombs of the World? | No. You do not need to complete our training if you are already trained as a birthworker. Our trips require participants to have prior birthworker training so that everyone arrives with a shared foundation for entering birth spaces meaningfully and respectfully. If you want to travel with us but are not yet trained, the Full Spectrum Doula Training is a wonderful place to begin. |
When will I receive access to all five courses? | Immediately. When you enroll, you receive access to the complete five-course pathway. The courses build upon one another, so we recommend moving through them in order. However, the training is entirely self-paced, and you can return to the curriculum throughout your lifetime. |
How long does the Full Spectrum Doula Training take to complete? | The training includes more than 250 lessons, so there is plenty to explore if you want a deep dive. You can move through the modules entirely at your own pace. Some students complete the online curriculum within a few months, while others take the full year and move through it alongside the live mentorship sessions. If you wanted to complete the modules in one month, you could, and you would still receive the full year of mentorship and community support as you begin putting what you learned into practice. |
Can I take only the birth section of the Full Spectrum Doula Training? | No. We believe birthwork is inherently full-spectrum, and birth does not exist in isolation. The families we support may also experience fertility challenges, abortion, pregnancy loss, postpartum recovery, feeding concerns, grief, newborn-care questions, and complex reproductive transitions. Even if you ultimately focus your practice on labor and birth, understanding the wider reproductive journey will make you a more informed, compassionate, and prepared birthworker. For this reason, the five courses are offered together as one professional pathway. |
How is this different from other doula training programs? | Many programs focus primarily on labor support, with postpartum, loss, reproductive transitions, business education, or mentorship offered separately. Wombs of the World brings these pieces together in one complete pathway. The training combines physiological birth knowledge, practical comfort measures, postpartum and newborn education, reproductive justice, cross-cultural birth practices, global maternal-health education, professional development, and one full year of mentorship and community support. Our global perspective is not a bonus module. It is woven throughout the entire curriculum. |
Will this training help me build a professional doula practice? | Yes. We know that completing a training and knowing how to begin working as a doula are not the same thing. Course Five, Stepping Into Practice, helps you develop your services, pricing, branding, marketing, outreach, referral relationships, client experience, and professional systems. You will also create a final project that turns your learning into an actionable next step. It is entrepreneurship for people who want to change the world. |
What mentorship and support will I receive? | Your enrollment includes one full year of mentorship, with two hours of live mentorship and community gathering each month. You will also receive ongoing text and community support between sessions, giving you a place to ask questions, receive feedback, and stay connected as you complete the curriculum and begin supporting families. |
What is required to receive my certificate? | You will complete all five courses, create a final applied project, share that project during a live mentorship session, and complete the final reflection course. Your project might be a website, client packet, professional flyer, workshop, outreach plan, community program, or pitch to a hospital or organization. After completing these requirements, you will receive your Wombs of the World Full Spectrum Doula Training Certificate of Completion and be invited to join our Birthworker Directory. |
Will this certificate allow me to work as a full spectrum doula? | This training gives you a comprehensive educational and professional foundation for beginning or expanding your work as a full spectrum doula. Requirements vary by country, state, hospital, insurance provider, and reimbursement program. Depending on where you plan to practice, you may need additional documentation, CPR training, insurance, supervised experience, or regional credentials. We encourage students to research their local requirements, and we are happy to help you identify any additional steps you may need. |
Do you offer payment plans? | Yes. Four-month and eight-month payment plans are available. Temporary sales and special enrollment offers may have different payment options. The plans currently available will be clearly listed at checkout. |
Do you offer scholarships? | We are currently developing a formal scholarship program and look forward to offering more scholarship opportunities as funding becomes available. New opportunities will be announced through our website, newsletter, and social media. |
Meet (one of) Your Educators
Charlotte Brielle
Founder of Wombs of the World | Perinatal Social Worker | Full-Spectrum Doula
Charlotte Brielle is the founder of Wombs of the World, a perinatal social worker, and a full spectrum doula. She has spent the past decade building global maternal health partnerships, learning alongside traditional midwives, and supporting families in hospitals, birth centers, and home births.
She brings a grounded, global, justice-rooted perspective to this training and is committed to helping birthworkers begin their careers with confidence and cultural awareness.
A global perspective. Real skills. Ongoing mentorship.
A community that grows with you.
This training prepares you to support families anywhere in the world.
