Why Online Doula Training Needs Heart, Not Just Curriculum

The Doula in Training Isn’t Just a Student… They’re a World-Changer

When someone decides to become a doula, it’s rarely a casual decision. For most of our students, it’s a calling that runs deep. It comes from lived experience, generational trauma, dreams about a better way to care for people, or rage about how the system fails parents again and again.

But that calling can quickly dim in a training space that feels clinical, competitive, boring,  or indifferent.

Our online doula training recognizes that our students are already bringing wisdom, resilience, and brilliance with them. Whether they’re childless doulas, parents of five, trans birthworkers, full-time baristas, or survivors of obstetric violence – our job isn’t to mold them into someone new. It’s to walk with them as they remember their power.

That’s what our doula training online does. It’s not a one-size-fits-all curriculum. It’s a space for deep self-reflection, community connection, and building a business model that reflects your values, not just the market’s. We want every one of our students to feel transformed in their programs and when they fly the nest and start taking clients. 

An Online Training Shouldn’t Feel Like a Lonely Island

A common complaint we hear from folks taking other doula trainings online? That it’s isolating. You click through slides, complete assignments, and hope someone answers your question in the forum.

That’s not how transformation happens.

Our full spectrum doula  program includes live classes every week where students can connect face-to-face with instructors, ask questions in real time, and break off into small groups for deeper chats. If you miss a class? No problem. You get lifetime access to all recordings.

There’s also our legendary community spaces: private discussion groups, peer mentorship programs, and even our loss-specific trainings and grief support spaces for doulas navigating tender terrain. Yes, that means we offer free therapy for all our students and alumni! Yup, true story!

Because doulas do their best work in community, not in isolation. And that starts during training.

Birth Isn’t Just Clinical… Neither Should Your Doula Training Be

If we’re preparing doulas to support people through birth, postpartum, fertility challenges, loss, and death, our training cannot be all videos, textbooks, and tests.

Reproductive health is intimate and sacred. It’s political and personal. And supporting it demands both knowledge and emotional fluency. That’s why we embed trauma-informed care, anti-oppression frameworks, and embodied learning into every corner of our program.

For example, our lessons on informed consent don’t just skim medical definitions, they center stories of reproductive injustice and surface the real, lived consequences of systemic failures on birthing people’s lives. In our module on supporting LGBTQ+ families, students engage with real-life scenarios and community-led teachings, equipping them with tools molded by lived experience. This matters deeply considering that one in three LGBTQ+ adults reported experiencing discrimination in the past year, and 39% avoided seeking healthcare because of mistreatment  Axios. And when it comes to the section in our postpartum doula training online, we don’t just teach diapering and swaddling – we dive into postpartum mental health, navigating complex family dynamics, the art and science of infant sleep and attachment theory,  and identifying the often invisible weight of emotional labor. Maternal mental health conditions remain the most common complication of childbirth, affecting one in five birthing people, yet less than 20% receive treatment Policy Center for Maternal Mental HealthMMHLA. In short, we train doulas to support the whole human…their mind, body, identity, and spirit…not just their uterus. We educate doulas with a whole body method as well. 

Read and learn incredible stories of our Doula Community and amazing people!