Cornwall Doula Course
An accredited six month journey into birthkeeping.
A Journey into Holistic Pregnancy and Birth Support.
Rooted in experience, relationship-based care and a Wise Woman approach. Become a holistic birth doula, weaving science and the sacred; intuition and wisdom.
Begin studying today and follow the path that’s been calling.
Becoming a doula isn’t about memorising all the facts…it’s about remembering what your bones already know.
What Students Are Saying
“The description of a birthkeeper really resonated. I am trained to teach hypnobirthing & this has never felt fully aligned. And now I understand that what I was always being called to was birth keeping! I also love the wise woman approach, rooted in traditional knowledge.”
Rosaleen Hird, The Yorkshire Rose Birthkeeper
“I've really enjoyed the journal work as it's really given me so much clarity, reflecting on my lineage, my scripts around birth, and the type of birthkeeper I want to be.”
Lara Calus, Birthkeeper.
Your Course Modules
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Birth Culture & Beyond
Birth does not happen in a vacuum. In this module, we explore how culture, power, and history shape modern birth experiences.
You’ll examine birth under patriarchy, reflect on your own story and beliefs, and explore what it means to be a birthkeeper in today’s world. You’ll be introduced to a holistic approach to pregnancy and birth that values physiology, relationship, and integrity.
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Supporting Pregnancy
You’ll learn how to support your clients through each trimester using holistic approaches, including prenatal self-care and ways to encourage connection with the baby.
Wild pregnancy and freebirth are explored here too with a focus on understanding, ethics, and how to support families making this choice.
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Prenatal Doula Support
You’ll learn how to plan and structure your prenatal visits, support intuitive birth planning , and hold space for reflective, heart led conversations as your clients navigate their pregnancy journey. From birthrights to risk, out of guidelines support and what this means for both your client and you.
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Supporting Labour and Birth
This module expands on your in person training further exploring the process of physiological labour and birth, birthing the placenta naturally and the baby’s transition earthside.
How can we optimise physiological birth and what is our role in undisturbed birth. From longer labours to VBAC and emergency scenarios, this is our dive into birth.
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Becoming a Practicing Doula
You’ll explore ethics, scope, and responsibility; trauma-informed practice; boundaries; and self-care. You’ll learn how to respond to your first enquiry, begin sharing your work publicly, and build a practice that reflects who you are.
This module is supported by our monthly group coaching calls.
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Live Study Calls
Live and recorded study calls deepen learning through real-world topics and case discussion, including navigating maternity care, the medical model of second stage, waterbirth, vaginal examinations, and complex birth situations.
These sessions support critical thinking, reflection, and ethical decision-making in real practice. You will have ongoing access to these calls after your initial training.
Who This Doula Training Is For
This course is for you if you:
Feel called to support women and birthing people throughout pregnancy not just for birth
Want a course that specialises in physiological birth but is grounded in reality. Not all births go as planned or hoped. And they matter too.
You care about evidence, lived experience, choice and autonomy to support someone to have their version of an empowered birth
How It Works
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Enrol on the course and book your in person weekend
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Start working through the self paced online modules once enrolled
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Attend the live study call and group coaching calls each month
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Start practicing while you learn by supporting someone in pregnancy. (Birth attendance not required).
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Submit a case study and feedback from your practice & book a one to one call for final certification.
The course is designed to be completed within 6 -12 months of your training weekend, allowing plenty of time to integrate the work into your life and practice.
What You’ll Learn in the Holistic Doula Training
Explore how we arrived here today in the medical model of birth and how we can be walk a holistic path that weaves both science and wise woman tradition
Reflect on your own stories, conditioning, and beliefs so you not only understand your gifts and shadows but honour your individual path into this work
Learn how to support clients holistically trimester by trimester through pregnancy
Birth preparation methods you can use in your sessions - from mindset to biomechanics to intuitive practices.
Physiological birth and what it looks like through the stages of labour, and the foundations of presence in undisturbed birth
Explore boundaries and scope of practice in today’s climate
Working alongside healthcare professionals while prioritising autonomy, choice and consent
Birth preparation and planning with depth in order to make intuitive choices
When birth takes a different path: supporting clients through interventions, transfers and unexpected outcomes.
Exploring freebirth and wild pregnancy with a balanced perspective and how to support clients authentically
Listening skills and holding space without advising
Self-care and honouring your own nervous system as a birthkeeper
Building your business: fees, finding clients, marketing
A Peek Inside the Online Modules
More Than A Doula Course
We get to know each other through the live calls, the messy reality of life with little ones and families and then create a true sisterhood in our Whatsapp group.
We are walking the same path, learning from each other, holding space for one another, and rediscovering who we are and who we want to become.
Your Student Doula Course Handbook
You’ll receive your course workbook during your training weekend. It includes all the journal prompts, study plan and learning activities to help you stay organised and reflect as you grow.
Introduction to Becoming A Doula Workshop
If you feel drawn to birth work but still have questions - this free live introductory workshop is for you.
Do you want to understand the role more deeply?
Are you wondering how the training and work could look for you?
Join me and ask me questions! We’ll explore what a doula is and how we can work holistically through pregnancy, as women and birthing people reclaim birth as a transformative rite of passage.
✺ Frequently asked questions ✺
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It’s designed so you can work at a pace that’s right for you.
When you enrol, you’ll gain lifetime access to the online modules -including all pre-recorded video lessons, downloads, and resources - so you can revisit the content as often as you need.
You’ll have access to the live teaching sessions for at least one year.
You could complete the course within 6 months or less as long as you have completed your case study.
To receive your certification you will need to complete your case study and book a final call with myself.
If this is after the 12 months then there will be an additional fee of £60.
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The course is divided into structured modules, with clear, easy-to-follow lessons. You’ll move through the content at your own pace, with all materials available from the start—allowing you to dive deeply into the areas that call to you most.
You will then be expected to join the live teaching calls each month, plus the bi-monthly mentorship and practice calls.
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These are the current planned live dates. All calls are recorded and uploaded to the course platform.
September: Saturday 13th and Saturday 27th
October: Thursday 9th and Saturday 25th
November: Tuesday 4th and Saturday 29th
December: Saturday 13th and Tuesday 16th
January: Saturday 10th and Thursday 22nd
February: Saturday 7th and Tuesday 24th
March: Saturday 7th and Thursday 19th
April: Thursday 16th and Saturday 25th
May: Saturday 9th and Thursday 21st
June: Saturday 6th June and Tuesday 16th June
July: Saturday 4th and Tuesday 14th and Saturday 18th.
August: Summer holiday
These are the expected dates for our live online calls but can subject to change in the event of being called to a birth or a family emergency.
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Yes. After completing the course content and participating in reflective tasks, you’ll book a 1:1 certification call with Evony to honour your journey and receive your digital certificate. You can then apply to register with IPHM – International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine, to access insurance.
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Although insurance as a doula or student doula is not mandatory in this country, you will have access to insurance both as a student and upon certification. The cost of this is not included in your course fee but should be less than £100 per year and payable in instalments.
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Yes, all calls are recorded and uploaded to the course platform.
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Yes you will receive a course handbook to support your studies if you are within the UK, with an option to download or purchase one if outside the UK.
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No prior experience is needed to begin, including having had your own baby. The course is designed for anyone feeling the call to birthwork - from curious beginners to those ready to leave midwifery.
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To qualify for certification, each student should:
Complete all course modules
Work through all video lessons, resources, and content in the learning platform.
Attend at least 3 live group study calls and a group coaching call over the 6 months
Support at least one client during the course
Work with at least one pregnant client, online or in person under supervision to certify. You do NOT have to go on call for a birth.
Submit one case study
A case study of your client support, plus client feedback, must be submitted as part of the assessment process.
Keep a reflective journal throughout
You are encouraged to document your learning journey regularly. This won’t be formally assessed but is a powerful part of your growth and inner work.
Book an end-of-course 1:1 call
Within 12 months book a 1:1 review call with Evony. This is to support your transition into practice and complete your certification.
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You have 12 months to complete the course and receive your certification. If you need more time, you can continue to access the course materials and request certification at a later date.
Certification Fee: £70 applies after the 12-month period.
Extensions can be granted in some cases, so this fee would not apply.
Start your Journey
I give thanks to my mentors and teachers over the years I have practiced as a midwife and birthkeeper. I share below some works of those that have guided and informed me in creating this course.
Learn about the wise Michel Odent with whom I learned all about physiological birth with Melanie the Midwife on her Great Birth Rebellion podcast.
Listen to the first chapter ‘Herstory’ in Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage by Rachel Reed, a key text in this work for all doulas and midwives.
The keys to physiological birth - written back in 2002 by the late Tricia Anderson, independent midwife and one of my student midwifery lecturers.
Explore the reasons, evidence and understanding of freebirth with Dr Sara Wickham
And if you want to understand what’s actually happening with maternity services in the UK - listen to this podcast with Sheena Byrom and Soo Downe.
My Podcast
Honest conversations from the perspective of a former midwife who cares about our right to safe and supported physiological birth. I talk to others in this field, doulas, birthkeepers and midwives and those who made choices in their own births.
Have a listen on your favourite podcast platform.