2021 & 2022 Online Certification Groups, Coaches, Days and Times (central time)

New Doula Groups:

Fridays, 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m, Robin Fuehrer, beginning June 3, meets weekly

Mondays, 8:00 – 9:30 p.m, Amanda Echols, beginning June 6, meets weekly

Saturdays, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m., Tori Freund, beginning June 18, meets every other week

Mondays, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m., Amanda Echols, beginning May 23, meets every other week

Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., Kay’La Mumford, beginning June 15, meets weekly

Experienced Doula and Health Care Provider Group:

Thursdays, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. CT, Amy Gilliland, June 23 – November 17, meets monthly

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Meet Our Certification Coach Robin Fuehrer

Date and Time: Fridays, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. CT beginning June 3

Group size is limited to 6 people. 

Robin has been a doula for over five years and is also a successful birth photographer. She has several grown daughters and an adopted two year old son. Robin has served as the president of the Bismarck Doula Community and is an excellent nurturer of new doula talent. Find her on the web as Robin’s Nest Birth Support. The Bismarck, North Dakota, area has fewer than 40,000 people with only two hospitals that do labor and delivery. She’s a great choice for rural doulas.

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Meet Our Certification Coach Tori Freund

Saturdays, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m., beginning June 18, meets every other week

Group size is limited to 6 people. 

Tori is a full spectrum doula and educator who offers trauma informed, inclusive, affirming and person-centered support to families making many kinds of pregnancy and parenting decisions. Tori says she feels honored to be chosen by all kinds of people as their doula, and is especially welcoming to those whose identities are often unseen and marginalized in our medical care system. More about Tori at Greater Love Doula Services, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Meet Our Certification Coach Kiara Schott

Kiara’s next group will start this summer.

Group size is limited to 6 people. 

Kiara is a full spectrum doula working with Black families in the Milwaukee, Kenosha, and Racine areas. She is the director of the WeRISE doula program through the African American Breastfeeding Network, a Certified Breastfeeding Specialist, and a placenta encapsulation specialist. Kiara is in her second year of midwifery school! Read more about Kiara at For The People Doula Services.

 

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Meet Our Certification Coach Amanda Echols

Mondays, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m., beginning May 23

Mondays, 8:00 – 9:30 p.m, beginning June 6

Group size is limited to 6 people. 

Amanda has attended over 200 births, is a Certified Childbirth Educator, Placenta Encapsulator, and in Aromatherapy for Childbirth. Amanda is also a Chiropractic Technician and a Naturopathy and midwifery student. She is the founder of Faithful Haven Doula Collective and serves a five county area in eastern central Wisconsin.  Amanda’s passion is education and looks forward to nurturing new doulas and passing along what she has learned. Read more about Amanda.

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Meet Our Certification Coach Kay'La Mumford

Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., beginning June 15, meets weekly

Group size is limited to 6 people. 

Kay’La is a Full Spectrum Holistic Doula, doula trainer and has a wide range of skills in labor support, placenta encapsulation, and childbirth education. She led the development of the WeRISE doula program through the African American Breastfeeding Network, and has attended hospital births, home births, and unassisted births. Kay’La has two organizations she runs in order to promote the expansion of the birth community to increase birth equity for Black families.  One is a non-profit organization with 501c3 status, Birth and Embrace Communities.

 

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Meet our Certification Coach Amy Gilliland

Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. CT, meets every four weeks: June 23, July 28, August 25, Sept 22, Oct 20, Nov 17

Group size is limited. 

Experienced Doula and Health Care Provider Groups meet for six Book Club meetings.

Dr. Amy Gilliland, PhD, is the leader of our organization, curriculum author and founder of Doulaing the Doula Birth Doula Trainings and Certification. She enjoys discussing concepts with health care providers and experienced doulas and is the leader of their Mentored Group Support experience.

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