CE & CME Workshops
Professional Development for Medical Providers & Nurses
Dr. Amy Gilliland offers a series of courses and workshops that qualify for CE or CME that are uniquely designed to:
- Build Your Knowledge – Experience innovative curriculum and workshop activies focusing on the neurobiology of the brain in labor, with over 500 references, written by expert Amy Gilliland, PhD.
- Improve Patient Outcomes – Lower your cesarean birth rate through evidence-based care that aims to reduce racial inequities and foster the best possible outcomes for your hospital by using a more multidisciplinary perspective.
- Strengthen Patient Experiences – Provide trauma-informed care and enhance your connections with patients while building capacity in labor support that will help limit your own burnout.
Connect with Dr. Amy Gilliland, certified continuing education provider, to build your labor support skills, to enhance your capacity for relationship-building, and to improve patient outcomes at your practice.
Workshop Objectives:
- Implement birth doula skills
- Communicate using trauma-informed principles
- Utilize strategies that minimize the incidence of implicit bias
- Use patient defined culturally congruent behaviors
- Respect the body’s sexual pleasure functions in their birthing practices
- Refine the neurological caregiving system in their brains
- Relate the multidisciplinary perspectives of neurology, endocrinology, anthropology and more to medicalized birth
- Work harmoniously alongside doulas and nurses
- Decrease maltreatment in labor
- Implement structural change in their facilities that benefit staff and patients
- List the subtle nuances that make doula programs succeed or fail
- Feel transformed about your work and inspired to make changes towards kind, person-centered care
Course Recognition
CE Information
Dr. Gilliland is an approved Continuing Education Provider by the California Board of Nursing, #16959. This training is worth 32 nursing CE’s.
CME Information and Accreditation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care and Doulaing The Doula Trainings and Certification. The Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care (WAPC) is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care (WAPC) designates this LIVE COURSE for a maximum of 32 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits(TM). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
No one in control of content has any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
Upcoming CE/CME In-Person Workshops:
July 28– August 2, 2025
Baker’s Sunset Bay Resort
Wisconsin Dells, WI
November 3–7
Private Estate in Southeast
Las Vegas, NV
February 23–27
Residence Inn Fort Myers Sanibel
Fort Myers, FL
Other Programs & Courses to Transform Your Perinatal Care Practices
Recognizing the Previously Traumatized Person in Labor Earn 2 Nursing CEs
This informative session covers the normal and altered neurological function of the attachment and defense systems in the laboring person’s brain. Learn More 
Newborn Communication Skills Earn 5 Nursing CEs
This workshop is designed to increase the skill and accuracy of perinatal professionals in recognizing infant cues and temperament to 85% agreement. Learn More
The Postpartum Course Earn 5 Nursing or AASECT CEs
This course is a comprehensive examination of the first year after a pregnancy ends. This course is uniquely developed to help a wide range of people through the postpartum period, focusing largely on parents, educators, birthworkers, nurses, family visitors, sexuality educators, and therapists. Learn More
Hear From
Past Participants
“As an OB/GYN, I hope to utilize what I learned in your course (and book) to educate, support, and empower women through, perhaps, the most important and self-determining event in their lives. Thank you! Thank you! A million times over, thank you!”
“I think of you almost daily. I took two of your classes for Doula training. I recommend you all the time. I still use many of the things you have taught now though as a family nurse practitioner and nurse midwife. You definitely formed who I am today.”
“It’s such a bonus when my students take the training! They become amazing students in clinical as a result…It’s such a struggle to keep this a reality in our hyper-medicalized-surgicalized health care world. Thanks for doing what you do!”
“As a nurse with twenty years experience, I thought I knew it all. But this training inspired and revitalized me even more than learning new skills. I understand the “why” behind so many things now and can work with people more effectively. Thank you!”
“Without this workshop I doubt I would have become the doctor I always wanted to be for my patients. I wish everyone had the opportunity to take this training and learn vital patient care and self care skills!”
Check Your Schedule
Doulaing The Doula offers a wide range of courses and workshops throughout the year. Check out our course calendar to see what educational opportunities are waiting for you.
