Deep, Nurturing Postnatal Care - UK Training Course
Become the postnatal doula families remember for life.
The Postnatal Sankofa Course teaches you how to deliver deeply nurturing, culturally safe postnatal care and build a sustainable doula business without imposter syndrome, cultural appropriation, or burnout.
Who this is for:
If you’re a birthworker who wants to:
- Support families ethically and inclusively (with zero saviourism),
- Feel calm, confident and prepared in the messy real‑life postpartum,
- And turn your calling into a stable, values‑aligned business…
…then Postnatal Sankofa is your next right step.
What You’ll Learn:
- Culturally safe care, done right: Provide grounded, respectful support for diverse families without overstepping.
- Real‑world postnatal skills: From rest, recovery and feeding, to advocacy and navigating a strained system.
- Your business, on purpose: Price with clarity, attract aligned clients, and protect your energy and income.
- Self‑trust you can feel: Ditch the doubt. Show up steady, loving, and professional in every home.
Course format & dates
Live in person cohort: four days
When: 3, 4, 5, 6 November 2026
10am - 4pm (UK time) North London - venue confirmed on booking
Practice pods: triads (doula/client/witness) with witness notes.
Online specialist component: live guest masterclasses; recordings where possible.
What’s Inside
- Core Training: Deep, nurturing postnatal care rooted in ancestral wisdom.
- Learn the origins of traditions (belly binding, oils and healing foods, baby carrying, the ‘lying‑in’) and how to use them ethically and safely today.
- Inclusive Practice Labs: Practical frameworks for supporting Black and brown families, LGBTQ+ parents, blended and non‑traditional families, and different learning styles — with cultural humility at the centre.
- Case Studies + Role Play: Rehearse real scenarios so you’re ready for anything in the days after birth.
- Business & Marketing Toolkit: Pricing, packages, client journey, messaging, boundaries, and referral systems to make your work sustainable.
- Self‑Reflection + Cultural Sensitivity: Identify bias, strengthen presence, and create a practice that truly welcomes.
Outcomes you’ll leave able to
- Invite access needs and adapt care
- Make clear, rights‑based asks and escalate calmly
- Offer non‑coercive options and steady a room
- Signpost confidently and debrief ethically
- Set up a simple, consent‑centred client pathway
Bonuses (to help you implement fast)
- Lifetime access to the private Abuela Doulas Community — mentorship, networking and ongoing support.
- Two weeks of WhatsApp support with facilitators after the course — ask questions, get momentum.
- Abuela Doulas Tote + Notebook — for your materials, reflections, and client notes.
- Implementation Workbook — collate learning into a ready‑to‑use practice plan.
- Promotional Templates — customisable assets to announce your services with ease.
Your Certification
Graduate as an official Abuela Doula with a certificate you can proudly share, plus the confidence and competence to back it up.
Throughout it all we embed cultural safety and humility.
The Curriculum (snapshot)
- Sankofa Foundations — ancestry, ethics, cultural humility.
- Nourish & Restore — healing foods, warmth, rest, and care rhythms.
- Feeding & Bonding — responsive support, referrals, and boundaries.
- Home Support with Dignity — practical help without centring yourself.
- Advocacy Without Aggression — navigating services and safeguarding energy.
- Business Made Gentle — pricing, packaging, client experience, and simple marketing.
- Integration & Next Steps — your personalised practice plan.
Specialist Online Masterclasses
- Sleep: Biologically Normal Infant Sleep & Safer Night Support Clarity over quick fixes. Understand what “normal” looks like, safer sleep guidelines, responsive settling, and how to support shattered parents without promising rigid schedules. You’ll walk away with: a compassionate sleep‑conversation script, a customisable gentle sleep plan template, and a red‑flags & referrals checklist.
- Business: Pricing, Packaging & Boundaries for Postnatal Doulas Make your care sustainable. Choose a pricing model, design a simple offer suite, set protective boundaries, and map a 90‑day client‑attraction plan. You’ll walk away with: a price calculator, plug‑and‑play package outlines, and a 90‑day visibility plan.
- Trauma‑Informed Care: Nervous System‑Aware Postnatal Support Care that heals, not harms. Spot signs of trauma, use grounding and co‑regulation tools, adapt visits and language, and know when/how to refer. Includes vicarious trauma care for you. You’ll walk away with: trauma‑aware intake questions, a grounding toolkit, referral pathway map, and documentation do’s & don’ts.
All masterclasses are recorded and added to your library with lifetime access.
Unsure if our course is the right one for you? Scroll down to see a sample of the feedback we have had.
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Choose a pricing option
- Preferred option
3, 4, 5, 6 November 2026£1600.00 - Preferred option3, 4, 5, 6 November 2026- PAY IN FIVE5x £320.00
- Preferred option3, 4, 5, 6 November 2026 - PAY IN TWO2x £800.00
I absolutely loved this Postnatal Sankofa course it is filled with so much information. The tutors are fantastic, so honest and open. My tutors Mars and Lorna really gave me food for thought. I loved the group of ladies I was studying with. Everyone is so supportive and understanding. We all learnt something from one another, sharing our own experiences in a safe place. I didn’t know what to expect from the course as it was going to be on Zoom. (As the last time I studied was over ten years ago in classroom filled with people) The course touched on every subject in regards to becoming a Doula for example- nourishing food, boundaries, breast feeding, advocating, relationships and so much more. The reading material provided was so beneficial to my learning. I learnt so much and gained priceless knowledge from this course. I felt it was a very safe place to learn not just for me but for everyone involved.
A big big THANK YOU. Since completing the course, I have been facilitating groups for parents with pre crawlers, where we talk about birth and we just hold each other during these first few months, I’ve also had amazing experiences working postnatally with individual families and single parents, my clients have been mainly black birth folk and non binary parents.
