The Ethos of the Courses
First and foremost, Mindful Birth Group® courses are about educating parents on their options to navigate birth and empowering them to make the right choices for their individual circumstances. We then support them through hypnobirthing and mindfulness techniques to support their own mind and body throughout the process.
This is what we call the Mindful Birth Group® power of 3…
Your Options
Your Body
Your Mind
Self-paced learning (80%) with weekly live Zoom sessions (20%)
38 hours over a 4-6 week period to give you flexibility but the benefit of 1:1 support along the way too.
The course content
Hypnobirthing
- The mind-body connection and how it can be supported during this important life stage and beyond
- Science-based tools and techniques which are applicable to all births
Antenatal
- What to expect at the later stages of pregnancy, during the birth and after the birth
- How to navigate the care system and any unexpected turns
- Informed decision making using evidence-based information
- Writing birth preferences and choices
Individualising the course content
- Who are we teaching? Different backgrounds, preferences and paths to parenthood
- External training with our partners
- Birth Rights
- Baby Loss with Teddy’s Wish / Bereavement Training International,
- Culture and Diversity with Black Mothers Matter + other training providers
- LGBTQ+ with Transparent
Loan of essential training resource books including
- Why Oxytocin Matters
- Why Home Birth Matters
- Why Caesarean Matters
- The Good Ally by Nova Reid
- Supporting Queer Birth by AJ Silver
- In your Own Time by Dr Sarah Wickham
- What’s Right for Me by Dr Sarah Wickham
- Big Fat Negative by Emma Haslett and Gabriela Griffith.
Business set up
- Adapting your current business to include your Mindful Birth course offering, how the membership works with your own brand
- Starting a new business from scratch and launching yourself as a new local offering
Course logistics
- Teaching the variance of courses (vaginal, abdominal, online, in person, group or private courses!)
- Giving your clients access to all of the incredible support package benefits that come with your Mindful Birth course
Assessment
To ensure you have understood everything you need to begin teaching your courses, we include a question-based assessment at the end of the course and ask you to write a short review on each book. This assessment is FEDANT approved and allows you to apply for FEDANT certification and practitioner insurance.
Once you have completed your training and assessment, you will automatically join the membership which includes:
Location exclusivity and use of assets
- Space to set up and grow your Mindful Birth teaching in your local area (up to 10 miles radius).
- Permission to use the Mindful Birth brand and materials for teaching and advertising your courses
- Access to the full support package for your clients, including yoga, relaxation sessions and so much more. Find out about it here.
Marketing & business side
- Dedicated profile page on the highly ranked TMBG website,
- Occasional paid advertising PPC Google ads and FB/Insta ads, which link to the booking page on the website
- Instagram posts & reposts of your Mindful Birth course /educational content
- Invitation to join us and volunteer at The Baby Shows
- Access to the ongoing training we organise for all members
- Option to join FEDANT registration and benefit from lower insurance costs
Social side
- Quarterly Zoom meet up with the group to brainstorm, discuss, socialise!
- Access to the teacher hub on Circle where we host the online teacher community
- Annual in person meet up
Earnings potential:
A teacher who is fully dedicated to market their local business in the ways we recommend can expect to earn between £12,000-£24,000 per year (after costs). The lower end of the scale would be teaching one group course per month (approximately 5 hours per week for teaching and business development time), the higher end would be teaching two group courses and two private courses per month (approximately 8 hours per week for teaching and business development time).
We are here to support your business from a brand and logistics perspective, but it is equally important that teachers put in the time and energy to marketing their business’ locally particularly through networking, their website and an element of social media. It is also key that courses are listed consistently at regular intervals if group courses are your preferred teaching format.
Teacher Testimonials
Hear from some of our wonderful team
Ready to apply to join us as a teacher?
Steps to joining The Mindful Birth Group®:
Step 1: Join the information hub here
Step 2: 1:1 call with the training & membership coordinator team
Step 3: Register and pay for the course (payment plans available)
Step 4: Training month starts, which is a mix of self learning & weekly virtual ‘huddles’
Step 5: Teacher qualifies via assessment, CPD hours can be recorded & FEDANT accreditation can be registered.
Step 6: Joins membership the week after the training is completed
Step 7: Lists courses on the website & updates own website with Mindful Birth Group® offering
Apply to train
Do you think the Mindful Birth Group® teacher training & membership would be perfect for you?
Please sign up to the hub to access all of the information you need and book in a 1:1 call with the team.