Thank you, for your interest in the SBD doula training.
Once your payment is received, you are considered registered for our training, and you have certain rights and responsibilities once your registration is complete.
Stillbirthday provides the most comprehensive birth and bereavement support training in the world. As a registered student, it is so very important for you to begin the SBD mindset, even now. As such, when you become a registered student, you are also registered as a stillbirthday Provider Care mentee with the right to receive SBD Student Support. This means, that at any time, our Doula Advisory Team agrees to avail themselves to you as best as we are able, in online confidential counsel and mentoring. This mentoring may be initiated by you at any time you feel you need it, and can be as simple as asking a one-time question, to more intensive support including weeks of private coaching.
Should there be a suspected issue of conduct that could potentially interfere with your quality of supportive services to families, this mentoring may also be initiated by our team, and may suspend or replace your training. The stillbirthday birth and bereavement training is at times emotionally challenging. It is not uncommon for a student to desire a small break or an extension of their session as the course content invites them to explore their own emotional healing. Training simply resumes once the student and the team agree to move forward with it.
If it is determined that our mentoring was unsuccessful at resolving an issue, recommendations for more intensive support, including counseling, may be made, and may need to be fulfilled before resuming the training, per the discretion of the SBD Doula Advisory Team. Many of the SBD students are bereaved parents themselves, and we at stillbirthday understand that grief can bring with it enormous challenges, which we may not always respond to as well as we might otherwise. If you are an SBD student or are considering our training and you know that your journey has included situations that may appear controversial or potentially damaging to your professional character, we ask that you consider sharing these things with us. We do not offer financial refunds to registered students, because your financial commitment to your doula training is immediately reinvested into the work of stillbirthday, and because, quite simply, this serves as a measure of protection to limit the number of prospective enrollees whose objectives may be compromised; we each as Doula Advisory Team members voluntarily bring our years of experiences to our roles here, and as such, we understand that the temptation for you to quit, stop even before you start, or drop out, are all opportunities for something much bigger – your own growth, and our growth, together as a team. Rich healing can come through transparency, as painful as it might be. Re-taking the training is also a possibility, as outlined in the materials.
We care about every family we serve, and this includes you.
We want to see you grow and develop professionally, and we know that this will only happen if you grow and develop emotionally.
In word and action, maintaining a personal code of conduct is important. After you complete our training, you will read and sign our Principles of Service. All doulas listed at stillbirthday have read and agreed to them as condition to being listed here. Additionally, certified SBD doulas can utilize professional mentoring through the course of their career. Because the decision to support families giving birth in any trimester is an important one, the SBD Doula Advisory Team agrees to provide these services to you even now, as a registered student.
Also important to know at this stage, is that any fraudulent or misrepresentations of your background, character or service are taken seriously. Forgery, manufacturing altered or tampered letters of recommendation or certifications – ours or others – will be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Every part of stillbirthday is proprietary and copyright protected, including your certification. This protects the students who work so very hard to serve the families of their communities.
While the aforementioned issues pertain to suspected areas or issues that may be alluded to in our learning time together, there certainly can be individuals for whom our training just isn’t best for. Please read our published Frequently Asked Questions for more. We take our investment of time and energy toward those who desire to grow and learn seriously, and those who show a clearly demonstrated hostile, volatile, belligerent, socially aggressive or otherwise harmful presence toward their fellow classmates may simply not qualify for completing the training session and by such deliberate action forfeit their placement in the program.
All considerations of student mentoring, transferring, or dropping of a class is at the sole discretion of the founder of stillbirthday, who strives to personally ensure that every representative of stillbirthday represents the founding principles and exhibits a demonstrated and consistent understanding of and desire to continue to pursue serving others with our objectives and principles of service. It is important for you to know that you are always invited to connect directly with Heidi Faith at any time with any questions or concerns you may have.
The search for uninhibited validation is often a fundamental and pervasive quest of the bereaved. This struggle is found as a feeling that others are defending ideas or principles or ideologies, rather than simply coming alongside and just flat defending the person. As such, student confidentiality is maintained to the highest possible standard, including by those individuals for whom stillbirthday is not the best fit. It’s an unfortunate truth that not only will stillbirthday not be the best match for an individual, but that the individual may not have the self-permission and the self-discipline to simply accept that maturely. I don’t want to fuel that by defending a place that is already upright and insodoing, jeopardizing the fleeting moment I may have had with someone by engaging in a toxic banter with them. Every person has a right to opinion and feelings.
Thank you, so much, for considering registering for our training. If you have any questions, you can comment below or email me privately at Heidi.Faith@stillbirthday.info. Once your payment is received and you are considered a registered student, you will also receive our welcome letter, which will reiterate our commitment to serving you. The most important lesson we hope to impart to you as a prospective SBD student, is that we here at stillbirthday care very much about you.
Warmly,
Heidi Faith, SBD Founder
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