Birth Cartographer Online Training

Discover the ways of The Birth Cartographer, and develop practical tools to create an environment that leads to informed, supported and confident birthing.

This revolutionary approach to birth preparation is so stunningly simply to implement, and yet extraordinarily powerful.

Are you ready to boldly go where no birth plan has gone before?

The Birth Map is the creation of Catherine Bell – a Mother of four, with a master’s of Science Communication, who trained as a doula and breastfeeding educator to reclaim the knowledge that is our birthright. In observing that standard maternity care means women’s reasonable expectations are considered unrealistic, she sought to bridge the gap. The birth plan, a tool intended to give agency and aid communication, was falling short. Catherine developed a new tool, building on the intent of the birth plan, working within the context of standard care to help women to unleash the power they hold within by giving them the means to take responsibility. From here, she saw that maternity care providers were just as eager to see this gap closed: and Birth Cartography evolved. Birth Cartography gives care providers the foundation to build relationships based on respectful maternity care, with effective communication to create an environment for informed decision making.

This course includes access to all the content needed to become a Birth Cartographer with optional zoom chats each month to provide an engaging, community building environment.

This course is self-paced and could be completed over 4 weeks (estimated at 2 – 3 hours per week). At the end of each module there are tasks to be completed using the closed forum.

Once a month a live and interactive optional 1 hr zoom session enhances the course. Different times are available for these sessions, in order to accommodate the global nature of this course. You are encouraged to attend as many as you need to as you move through the modules. They are a relaxed format, with the opportunity to ask questions and discuss topics. These zoom chats help us to build a community. If you are keen, there is The Birth Map facebook group. This will evolve as our community grows, and your feedback and interaction are encouraged to help it grow.

You will have access for one year, with an option to renew annually for $50.

In addition to the course content, registration for the online course gives you:

• a PDF copy of The Birth Map
• discounted access to face to face training (not often) and zoom training (10th of each month) for 60% off (which includes $80 of resources: The Game of Birth and a print copy of The Birth Map)
• member access, which includes a flipbook version of The Birth Map, the digital version of The Game of Birth and other resources.

Birth Cartographer® Online Training with Catherine Bell

Participants can join anytime, and work through at the speed that suits them; the live zooms will be scheduled for the fourth Friday of every month.  You will be awarded your certificate of completion once you have completed all the modules.  You are invited to maintain your access and interaction in the group, and are welcome to attend as many lives as you enjoy, as we build our networks and this online community for birth cartography.  Access can be renewed annually.

Topic title	Topic duration (mins)	Learning Outcomes to be covered	Opportunities for interactivity	Suggested Tasks	Opportunities for feedback
The trouble with consent Benefits of Birth Cartography	90min plus 1 live hour	Understand consumer perspective of consent, risk and choice. Understand the concept of birth cartography and its key elements and benefits.	Game of Birth Activity Live 1 hr zoom chat forum	Attend live zoom, forum interaction, create a meme or blog post	Via forum and email
Informed Decision Making The Fast Birth Pathway The Partner Perspective	90min	Understand decision making from a consumer perspective Understand the concept of the fast birth pathway, and how it benefits birth preparation.  Apply this to your practice.  Understand the partner perspective and analyse the impact this has on outcomes.  Evaluate decision making, and begin to create a birth map.	forum	Forum interaction, meme or blog post	Via forum and email
General Considerations The Vaginal and Caesarean Pathway	90min	Understand the pathways from a consumer perspective, apply this into practise by analysing wholistic appreciation of individual care and evaluating circumstances to support consumers in the creation of an individual birth map for use during labour.  Create communication tools to enhance practice, creating effective and efficient appointments.	forum	Forum interaction, meme or blog post	Via forum and email
Beyond the Birth	30min	Understand the wholistic and varied nature of the newborn phase, Understand matrescence and applying education antenatally to support this phase.  Create new methods and networks particular to own practice to enhance education and support within own community.	forum	Forum interaction, meme or blog post	Via forum and email
Putting it into Practice	60min plus 1 live hour	Creating a landscape overview particular to your practice, within the context of individualised birth.  Consolidates all the sessions, provides opportunity to clarify or grow concepts	Game of Birth Activity Live 1 hr zoom chat Forum	map, forum interaction, attend live	Via forum and email

Once registered, you will have access for a year, with an option to renew annually.

I am very excited about the potential of this course, and I look forward to meeting you there!