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During your training you will be required to work with women in order to
gain experience. You will use these experiences to develop and practice
hands-on skills that you learn about in your study workbooks. The peer group
support that you receive and the strong trainer and mentor support will
reinforce your learning.
All your training materials are provided to you both
online through our unique learning system, and as
paper based student manuals that become part of your
professional library for future reference.
When you register for a training program you will be given
immediate access to your course through the student website,
enabling you to get started right away. We will then send you
the complete set of study workbooks that you will use for your
training (study workbooks are posted to students on the
installment plan scheme once all installments have been
completed. In the meantime, you have access to all course
materials through the student website.) Each study workbook
contains information on the topic together with activities for
you to work through to grasp a better understanding of the
topic.
You will be directed to online readings that give you new ideas
on ways that you can support women through pregnancy, birth and
the postpartum period. Our online videos produced by our own
trainers give you a visual tool to see these skills in action.
Your trainer has direct experience of flexible learning as a
student herself and has developed many strategies for helping
you learn the practical skills you need as a birth professional.
As soon as you register as a student, we will assign a mentor
and trainer to you. She will be a certified and experienced
birth professional herself, who can guide you through your
training. You receive immediate access to the student website
where all the student materials can be found. This means you can
be up and running within 5 minutes of signing up as a student.
In
addition to your student manuals, you will be given access to
our student email community, providing you with peer group
support from other students around the world. We have a Student
Support team to help you with any questions you have.
At the end of
your training, on successful completion of all course requirements, you
will be a certified and be awarded a certificate (diploma for the
Childbirth Educator program). There is no need to recertify with
Childbirth International - your accreditation is for life! We encourage
you to continually learn new skills, develop your own understanding of
issues related to pregnancy and birth, and keep up to date with
research. You may then choose to take advantage of the ongoing advanced
training programs to focus on specific areas. Once you have established
your business as a Birth Doula, for example, you may decide to expand
your skills with training for Childbirth Education, Postpartum Doula
training or becoming a Breastfeeding Counselor - other great income
sources and able to be flexible enough to fit in around your other
commitments.
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