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What's a doula do? Are you curious? Did you have a doula? Wanna be a doula? We run preparation courses to help people become doulas.

The course is approved by Doula UK. We offer both online and in person courses.

16/12/2025

Is 2026 the year you train to be a doula?

Are you ready to embrace your calling?

Families are looking for someone just like you!

We have courses running in London, Norfolk, Brighton, Cambridge, Surrey, Manchester and online.

The Developing Doulas Doula Preparation Course and Postnatal-only Course are Doula UK approved.

We have been training doulas since 2007.

Our course is more than just a training. It is a time to reflect, expand and deepen. To get to know yourself and the support you will offer.

Developing Doulas is a community and we can't wait to welcome you into our cuddle.

#2026

15/12/2025

✨ Developing Doulas FREE Introductory Taster Session ✨

Are you thinking of doing our doula training in 2026?

Join our FREE 2-hour Zoom workshop and explore what our doula training and life in the birth world are really like.

Led by one of our experienced doulas and course facilitators, these intro sessions are a safe space for you to:
• Have an overview of the Developing Doulas doula training
• Gain an insight into birthwork and ongoing mentoring
• Be in a supportive space to ask questions and share your hopes (and fears!) with a like-minded group

Upcoming Dates:
📅 Tuesday 16th December - 10am

To book, simply add your chosen date when emailing info@developingdoulas.co.uk
Zoom links are sent the day before.

09/12/2025

🌿 A Very Special Developing Doulas Course in Sheringham 🌿

In February 2026, something truly special is happening in Sheringham, North Norfolk. For the first time since July 2024, will be putting her teaching hat back on and we are beyond honoured to welcome her back.

Maddie is the Co-Founder of Developing Doulas. She wrote this transformational training and has been lovingly guiding new doulas since 2007. There’s simply no one like her, her teaching is pure magic: spacious, wise, effortlessly captivating, and rooted in nearly two decades of holding families and doulas through every season of birth.

If you’ve been feeling the call to take your first steps into birth work, this is the moment to listen. There is something profoundly special about learning from someone who has shaped so much of the doula landscape in the UK and beyond.

We’ll be gathering in the heart of the UK’s premier seaside town, right on the shoreline. Two nourishing weekends by the sea — 21st, 22nd, 27th, 28th February and 1st March. We will be held in community, curiosity and gentle transformation.

A limited number of overnight spaces are available on site at £50 per night for those who want to sink a little deeper into the magic.

For this intake, we’re hoping to welcome a professional photographer and videographer to gently capture the essence of the course, it is a way of holding these precious moments in the DD story forever. This means participants will need to be comfortable with discreet filming during the course.

Come join us. This one will be unforgettable. 💜

#2026

05/12/2025

Did you know there is an annual Developing Doulas retreat?

Our next one is September 11th-14th 2026.

Our retreat is open to all our members. Whatever Developing Doulas course you have done, you are welcome here 💜

✨ 🌱It takes place in the magical where we will be held by nature and each other as we recharge, reconnect and rejuvenate. 💫🌿

📆Tickets go on sale mid January

💜 Thank you for capturing these moments at this years retreat 💜

#2026

15/11/2025

✨ Developing Doulas FREE Introductory Taster Session ✨

Curious about becoming a doula?

Join our FREE 2-hour Zoom workshop and explore what our doula training and life in the birth world are really like.

Led by one of our experienced doulas and course facilitators, these intro sessions are a safe space for you to:
• Have an overview of the Developing Doulas doula training
• Gain an insight into birthwork and ongoing mentoring
• Be in a supportive space to ask questions and share your hopes (and fears!) with a like-minded group

Upcoming Dates:
📅 Friday 21st November — 10am
📅 Tuesday 16th December — 10am

To book, simply add your chosen date when emailing info@developingdoulas.co.uk
Zoom links are sent the day before.

14/11/2025

Begin your doula journey with in Surrey for our February Doula Preparation Course!

Dates: February 2nd, 3rd, 9th, 10th, 11th
Location: Haselmere

Laura has been teaching the course since 2021 and says " I consider it to be such a privilege to hold space for others who are embarking on their Doula journey. I facilitate courses now from my home in a village outside Haslemere, sitting on the boundary of Surrey, Hampshire & Sussex. The work that I do is a huge passion of mine, but I’m also so passionate about supporting newer Doulas to set up sustainable businesses, to believe in their value and self worth. I so look forward to you joining my cohort, where I can facilitate you the crazily exciting beginning of your Doula journey – Doulaing you all the way!"

You can find more details on the curriculum of the course, fees and how to book a place on our website.

13/11/2025

Is 2026 the year you start your doula journey? 💫

Join the Developing Doulas Doula Preparation Course with this January in South London. We look forward to welcoming you onto our nurturing and powerful course that equips you to support birth and postnatal families across the UK

🌿Our courses are a space to learn, grow, embrace your calling and connect to yourself 🌿

This is your year! And so many families will benefit from the unique gifts that you will bring to this work and into their lives.

You can find out more information on the course curriculum on our website, email for more information or book a connection call.📞

We can't wait for you to join our great big doula cuddle 💜

07/11/2025

✨ Connection & Consolidation Day ✨
Our C&C days are designed especially for DDs who’ve taken the online version of the Developing Doulas course and for those thinking about starting their doula journey.

It’s a chance to come together in person to practise the things that are trickier online, share experiences, and of course… get some real-life doula hugs! 🤗💛

This C&C day is followed by two optional extras:
🌿 A relaxed social & doula cuddle day
🌿 A hands-on workshop day

If you’ve completed any DD course, both the C&C Day and the Cuddle Day are completely free to you.
If you’re curious about becoming a doula, you’re warmly welcome to join as a taster for just £50.

We have just ran C&C days in Cambridge and Surry and have many more planned for 2026

We can’t wait to gather, connect, and grow with you. 💫

# birthsupport

03/11/2025

The Storm has passed. The danger has not.

On the 28th of October Jamaica experienced one of its strongest hurricanes in its history.

It has left people without their homes and livelihoods, without access to clean water and without food. Families with newborns and young children and pregnant mothers are at great risk of danger and illness without safe food, basic hygiene and newborn care.

The White Ribbon Alliance UK is raising funds to provide on the ground support to help mothers, parents, and children in Jamaica recover after the devastating hurricane. Their work will provide support for safer births, hygiene, and dignity.

You will find a link in our linktree to their gofund me page. If you can give anything at all, it will make a huge difference to the most vulnerable living there.

31/10/2025

Never a truer word spoken! Thank you for these words that cut through the distraction techniques of those who would like to control birth. It’s not doulas, midwifery education, physiological birth, homebirth or old, fat and complicated women making birth unsafe and unsatisfying. It’s a broken system that has been running on fumes and unpaid overtime FOR YEARS.

It time for those of us who understand how birth ACTUALLY works and what parents ACTUALLY want and need to take the gloves off and start setting the agenda. We can’t leave policy making and funding decisions to ignorant politicians and biased campaigners.

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