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The Global Doula Project funds doula organizations and educates on the importance of doula support.

11/14/2025

Where Quebec, Ontario, and New York State meet, there is the Mohawk Community Akwesasne which means "Where the partridge drums."

Diane Boots, devoted community member and death doula, is the founder of Lifting their Minds, a nonprofit organization offering end of life doula training.

Not only is Diane working tirelessly to preserve end of life rituals and connection amongst the Akwesasne community, she is also creating the first end of life home where family members can spend precious last moments with their loved ones.

Global Doula Project supported Lifting Their Minds with a grant in the amount of $1000 to put towards this project. In Diane's words "we are spiritual beings having a physical experience."

Thank you, Diane, for the work you are doing in your community to make sure that no one is alone at the end of life, and that people have the tools to support others in honoring both our spiritual and physical experiences at such a delicate time. 💖

11/12/2025

The doula profession is growing—but recognition and visibility are still catching up.

That’s why we’re creating something new: a Global Doula Training Directory, and we want your voice in shaping it.

Join our next Listening Session (for FREE) on November 15 (9am CET) as we gather ideas, experiences, and hopes for a more connected, equitable future for doulas everywhere.

Your insight matters. Your story matters.

Sign up through the link in the comment section to join the conversation.

11/11/2025

Every voice makes a difference.

Our first listening sessions showed just how powerful it is when doulas, trainers, and advocates come together to share ideas and experiences.

This November and December, we’re opening two more sessions—with a new time to welcome participants from Europe, Africa, and Asia. 🌍

If you’re passionate about making doula care more accessible, inclusive, and culturally grounded, we’d love for you to join us.

🗓️ November 15 at 9 AM Central European Time
🗓️ December 15 at 12 PM Estern Time

📩 Sign up through the links in te comment section.

Together, we’re building a stronger global network of care—one conversation at a time.

11/08/2025

Every person deserves to face the end of life with dignity, choice, and care.

Through her training with The HeartWay, scholarship recipient Portia Fieldstad is preparing to guide individuals and families through this sacred transition with compassion and advocacy.

At Global Doula Project, we believe that death—like birth—deserves support. By empowering doulas like Portia, we’re helping communities everywhere reimagine what compassionate end-of-life care can look like.

Together, we’re creating ripples of change.

One doula, one family, one life at a time.

11/06/2025

We are in the very beginning stages of creating something new - something that could improve the way aspiring doulas search for a training program and the way funders consider who and how to improve entire communities with doula support.

What do you think about a Global Doula Training Directory?

We will be holding listening sessions in November and December because we want to hear from you!

Please send us a DM to learn more or sign up through the registration link in our bio.

We are not here to regulate, we are here to inform, but there are so many ways that can be done!

What do you think?

We can't wait to hear from you.

11/05/2025

Every family deserves to feel held. 💛

At the Global Doula Project, we’re rebuilding the village—one connection at a time.

Through grants, scholarships, and research funding, we’re strengthening the circle of care that surrounds birth, death, and all the moments in between.

Because when doulas are supported, families are supported.
And when families are supported, entire communities begin to thrive.

Follow us along to learn more about how we’re creating a world where care and compassion are never out of reach.

10/30/2025

Would it make it less scary if we all recognized a little bit more that all lives come to an end at some point?

Talking about it won’t make it happen.

End of life doulas around the world are working hard to increase death literacy and we are all for it. The more we know, the more empowered we can be to make decisions, have conversations that need to be had, and live our best lives, now.

Please share this post to increase awareness.

10/29/2025

In partnership with Hour Children, Inc., Global Doula Project helped bring postpartum doula training to seven incarcerated women at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York where mothers are able to stay with their babies for their first year of life.

Through this initiative, these women will not only receive care but become caregivers—supporting one another as doulas, friends, and fellow mothers navigating one of life’s most tender chapters.

The training was provided by Jen Chandlee of Luminous Postpartum, whose guidance helped these women begin their journeys in nurturing new beginnings, even in unlikely places.

Every act of care creates ripples and this one began behind the walls of Bedford Hills.

Help us continue this advocacy to provide support to families during birth, postpartum, death, and grief!

Kindly check the link in our bio to see different ways you could help.

10/25/2025

Even in nature, mothers aren’t meant to do it alone.

In a study led by Dr. Robert Froemke at NYU, researchers found that even mouse mothers seek help after giving birth.

When caring for their newborns, they often invite other females into the nest — to help feed, to share warmth, to keep the little ones safe.

And when those helpers leave, the mothers go out to find them and bring them back.

It’s instinct. It’s survival. It’s community.

The mice who didn’t have this support struggled more — reminding us that nurturing the nurturer isn’t optional, it’s essential.

This same pattern exists across species, from elephants to humans. Anthropologists call it "allomothering" or the shared care that allows both parent and child to thrive.

In many traditional societies, this isn’t just normal, it’s expected. Aunts, fathers, grandparents, neighbors — everyone plays a role in holding the mother and the baby.

But in much of today’s world, mothers are often left to figure it out alone. And it’s taking a toll.

What if we began to return to what we already know — that care is most powerful when it’s shared?

That mothers need circles of support, not just checklists of tasks?

Because when a mother is cared for, her child is cared for.

When a doula, a friend, or a family member steps in, the whole system of love grows stronger.

Let’s build that village again. One family, one doula, one community at a time.

You can read the full article in our website

What we Do > Research & Education > Featured Initiatives below that page

Our website link in our bio.

10/23/2025

In Pretoria, South Africa, Sibongile Monakedi is stepping into her calling as a birth doula by completing doula training with Mama Bamba.

Global Doula Project is so proud to support her in this journey! We are honored to be a part of the ripple effect of compassion that starts with Sibongile and the families that she will support.

Her journey is guided by empathy — by a desire to nurture mothers in one of life’s most vulnerable and transformative moments. Through her work, Sibongile hopes to bring gentle, informed care to her community and remind every mother that she deserves to be supported, seen, and cared for.

We’re so honored to be part of her story.

Help us support more aspiring doulas. Check the link in our bio to send donations. Any amount will be a big help for us!

10/16/2025

Some days you’ll feel okay.

Then you won’t.

That’s not going backward

That’s being human.

Grief moves like the tide — gentle one moment, overwhelming the next.

It doesn’t follow a timeline or a checklist. It ebbs, flows, returns.

You might find yourself crying at a song years later, or smiling at a memory that used to ache. That’s not regression — it’s remembrance. It’s love, still finding its shape.

However your grief looks today, know that it’s yours to move through, at your own pace.

Tell us — how do you honor your waves? Comment below. We'd love to honor you!

10/14/2025

When birth feels supported, everything changes.

We feel safe.
We feel seen.
We feel strengthened.
We feel surrounded.

Support changes birth.

It’s not about having the “perfect” experience.

It’s about feeling safe in our body, seen in our needs, and surrounded by care.

Every birthing person deserves to feel this way. 💛

Double tap if you agree.

📸 Sarah Lingle. Thank you Sarah for sharing this powerful moment. The strong hands of your partner supporting you with strength and love is beautiful, and your midwife looking on with encouragement, too.

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