In-Person Doula Training

Buckinghamshire | 23RD – 27TH NOVEMBER | Limited Places | self study course included

Learn the art, science and advocacy of birth while becoming the woman capable of holding others through transformation.

What this training is

When Push Comes to Shove Doula Training blends deep physiological birth knowledge, advocacy skills, and inner work so you can support women with clarity, confidence, and integrity.

For women who want to attend births, support families, hold space for others, and understand themselves more deeply. Learn birth physiology, advocacy, informed consent and the inner work required to truly support another human being.

This is transformational training.

 

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Who this training is for?

You do not need previous experience. You do need a willingness to engage in personal and emotional growth.

This training is for you if:

  • You feel drawn to birth work but do not resonate with the medicalised midwifery model.

  • You feel called to support women but are still discovering what that looks like.

  • You facilitate women’s circles, healing spaces, community groups or mentoring work.

  • You are fascinated by human behaviour, communication and the nervous system.

  • You care deeply about women’s autonomy, informed consent, and physiological birth.

  • You want to support birth without coercion, fear, or disconnection.

  • You know that who you are matters just as much as what you know.

What makes this training different

Most childbirth education teaches birth. This training teaches birth AND the woman supporting it.

Alongside physiology, advocacy and informed consent, we explore the nervous system, survival adaptations, communication patterns, boundaries, projection and self awareness.

Because birth does not happen in isolation.

Every fear, belief, coping strategy and unconscious pattern walks into the birth room too.

Every woman who trains with us is invited to explore her own patterns so she can support others with greater clarity, presence and integrity. This inner component is not an optional extra. It is the foundation of the training.

This training is about more than becoming a doula

 

 

What you will leave with

Many students describe this training as life-changing, not just career-changing.

After this training, you will have:

  • A deep understanding of physiological birth
  • Confidence supporting women through labour and birth
  • The ability to advocate without escalation or fear
  • Clarity around your role as a doula or birth companion
  • A grounded sense of self when supporting others
  • A supportive community and ongoing mentorship

Location

Great Missenden – Buckinghamshire

23RD – 27TH November

During each training day, the following will be provided as part of the day delegate package:

– On arrival there will be tea and coffee with either freshly baked pastries or a smoothie.

– Tea and Coffee

– Lunch

– Bottled water will be available throughout the day, and we’ll have full use of a projector and screen for teaching.

 

 

Included:

  • Full online doula course (6 modules, 29 lessons)

  • Lifetime access to learning centre, including twice monthly community meetings on zoom

  • Course handbook and resources

  • Certification (IPHM accredited)

  • Directory Listing

  • Mentorship with your first 5 births (You will be a recognised doula after you have attended 5 births)

  • Student community access

  • Ongoing education webinars

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                         Investment

Early booking rate: £1,399
Standard price £1,599

Payment plans available.

Limited places. In-person training is capped to keep the group small and supported.

Pay In Full

£1399
  • Use Klarna or Clearpay at checkout

Pay a Desposit

£500
  • £500 today. Balance payable before the training begins.
  • Use Klarna or Clearpay at chekout

Important to know before applying

This course requires a commitment to inner work.

You will be exploring emotional, psychological, and belief-based patterns that affect how you show up in birth spaces. This is what allows you to support women without projecting fear, control, or unresolved trauma.

If that feels aligned, you are in the right place.

About the facilitator

Nickita Starck is the founder of When Push Comes to Shove and a world-renowned birth advocate, doula trainer, and human dynamics specialist. Her work has influenced thousands of women, birth workers, and practitioners internationally, particularly in the areas of informed consent, physiological birth, and women’s autonomy within maternity care.

She is widely recognised for her ability to combine clear, evidence-based birth education with deep respect for women’s intuition, emotional safety, and lived experience. Her teaching is known for being both uncompromising in truth and deeply humane in delivery.

Nickita’s work centres on restoring trust in birth by supporting the woman first, recognising that safety, sovereignty, and inner steadiness are the foundations of transformative birth experiences.

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I have never felt so empowered. This course changed the way I see birth and myself.

Participant, Student
“By accepting it’s not others that make us feel certain ways, but we do it to ourselves by reacting to the triggers, it’s enlightening, and helps to see the absurdity of how we treat and talk to ourselves.”
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