Upcoming Workshops.
At Birthing the Magic Collaborative, we curate culturally grounded perinatal education designed for Black birthing people and those who support them. Our workshops bring together trusted experts, lived experiences, and evidence-based knowledge to separate fact from fiction and provide information that is both credible and compassionate.
We believe that Black motherhood is a birthright, not a battle. Our sessions are safe, affirming spaces where Black women and families can learn, connect, and leave empowered with tools for healthier pregnancies, births, and postpartum experiences.
Workshops are open to expecting parents, new parents, grandparents, doulas, nurses, community members—anyone who is committed to supporting safe and joyful birth outcomes for Black families.
🕒 Please note: All workshop times are listed in Eastern Time.
Nourishing New Beginnings:
Feeding Baby. Supporting Mama.
August 17–24, 2026
Created in recognition of Black Breastfeeding Week, this series brings together mamas, families, doulas, nurses, and providers for honest, supportive conversations about breast/chest feeding.
Join our expert speakers to:
Build Confidence: Talk through common feeding challenges and share practical guidance mamas and families can use.
Know When to Seek Help: Gain the confidence to recognize when you or your baby would benefit from additional support.
Support with Compassion: Understand how to support mothers with empathy and encouragement instead of criticism, shame, or "what ifs."
Feeding support should care for both mama and baby. Join us for trusted information, thoughtful conversation, and reassurance for every stage of the feeding journey.
Nourishing Baby, Supporting Mama: More Than the Latch
Join Kristina Cheek (Doula, CLC, PMH-C), an empowering advocate and visionary leader advancing Black maternal health in South Georgia, for a practical, compassionate conversation for mamas, nurses, doulas, providers, and loved ones about what to do when feeding becomes difficult.
Helping Your Baby Thrive: Mother's Milk in the NICU
Having a baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) can feel overwhelming, but there is a powerful role only you can play in your newborn’s health and healing. Breast milk—often referred to as liquid medicine—offers life-saving nutrients, growth factors, and immune protection tailored specifically for vulnerable babies.
Whether you plan to breastfeed directly, pump, or want to learn about options like donor milk, this supportive workshop provides the tools, guidance, and encouragement you need to navigate your feeding journey with confidence.
What You’ll Learn
Why Milk is Medicine: Discover the incredible, targeted benefits human milk provides to protect your baby's gut and help them grow strong in the NICU.
Building & Maintaining Your Supply: Understand how milk production works ("coming to volume") and learn practical tips for early hand expression, pumping schedules, and establishing a strong supply.
Navigating NICU Life: Get guidance on managing pumping around hospital routines, utilizing donor human milk as a bridge, and understanding hospital resources like lactation specialists and skin-to-skin care.
Overcoming Real-World Barriers: We unpack the physical, emotional, and social factors that affect feeding—offering actionable advice, non-judgmental support, and clear answers to common safety questions.
Breaking Cycles, Building Legacies: Breastfeeding Thru Culture & Community
Join us to explore how culture and community shape breastfeeding stories and create lasting legacies together.
Feeding your baby isn't just about nutrition; it's tied to culture, generational wisdom, and community.
Yet, so many Black families face conflicting advice, outdated myths, and a lack of culturally relevant support when navigating infant care.
You don't have to figure it out alone.
Join Dr. Tenise N. Hordge—Clinical Director of Mother’s Magical Milk, doctor of health administration, board-certified lactation consultant, author, and fierce family advocate.
This is a judgment-free space designed to celebrate your heritage, bust common feeding myths, and give you practical tools to feed your baby on your terms.
What We’ll Cover Together:
Reflect on Your Roots: Unpack the cultural messages and generational beliefs surrounding breastfeeding in Black communities—honoring the wisdom that helps and releasing what doesn't.
Separate Fact from Fiction: Learn to easily spot the difference between supportive traditions and persistent myths that get in the way of your goals.
Chart Your Own Course: Walk away with actionable strategies to blend your family’s unique heritage with confident, evidence-based feeding decisions.
👉 Doulas who attend the full session will receive 1 contact hour.
Defying the Diagnosis: Breastfeeding & Despite High Risk Pregnancy
Managing a chronic health condition during pregnancy can feel overwhelming. Whether you are living with gestational diabetes, lupus, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic hypertension, or another medical condition, it can seem as though every conversation focuses on what could go wrong.
But a chronic illness should not automatically define your feeding journey. Too often, families encounter assumptions, outdated warnings, or recommendations to default to formula before fully exploring what may be safely possible.
Every pregnancy and diagnosis is unique. With individualized care, informed guidance, and thoughtful planning, many women with chronic health conditions are able to breastfeed successfully.
Join Dr. Cassandra E. Henderson for an evidence-based, compassionate conversation designed to replace fear with clarity, bridge clinical gaps, and help you navigate breastfeeding with confidence.
👉 Doulas who attend the full session will receive 1 contact hour.
Held: Reclaiming Rest, Joy & Community in Motherhood
Welcoming new life or navigating postpartum? Find space to pause, breathe, and reclaim yourself through community and rest.
Motherhood is one of life’s most sacred transformations. It can bring immeasurable joy, deep love, unexpected challenges, and profound change—all at the same time.
Yet too many Black mothers are expected to navigate this journey while carrying the weight of caregiving, work, family responsibilities, and the lingering effects of stress, isolation, and inequity.
Held is an African-centered sister circle created to remind Black women that we were never meant to mother alone.
Whether you are preparing to welcome new life, healing after birth, navigating the postpartum period, or simply longing to reconnect with yourself, this gathering offers space to pause, breathe, and be cared for. Together, we will explore how rest, joy, community, and collective care are not luxuries—they are essential to our health, our healing, and our ability to thrive.
Guided by Dr. Teah M. Johnson, this experience weaves together maternal mental wellness, holistic health, ancestral wisdom, reflection, and meaningful connection to support mothers in reclaiming/rememberingthemselves while embracing the beautiful journey of becoming.
Protecting Her Joy: The New Mama Playbook
A real conversation on postpartum emotional well-being, baby blues, anxiety, overwhelm, and how loved ones can support new moms.
Having a baby can be an emotional rollercoaster. From the “baby blues” to shifting moods, anxiety, overwhelm, and exhaustion, a new mom’s mental health deserves a real game plan.
Join Dr. Joy Baker Leaks for a real, eye-opening conversation about postpartum emotional well-being, what is normal, what is not, and how partners, friends, and family can step in with the right support.
This is for the new parent, the partner, the best friend, the grandmother, the auntie, and everyone who wants to love a mother well after birth.
The Goal: Less burnout. More support. More joy.
Life Is Lifin’: Rest, Restore, and Reconnect (Virtual Yoga)
Life has been lifin’, and your body deserves a moment to exhale.
Join us for a calming virtual yoga experience designed to help you release tension, reconnect with your body, and make room for rest. This gentle session is open to all experience levels and will include mindful movement, breathing practices, and moments of reflection to support emotional well-being and relaxation from the comfort of home.
How Mama Got Her Groove Back
Pregnancy brings lots of changes, and surprisingly, that can include your sexuality.
After birth, many mamas notice shifts in desire, comfort, body confidence, intimacy, and how they feel in their relationships. How Mama Got Her Groove Back is an honest, judgment-free conversation about sexuality after pregnancy, including healing, communication, pleasure, and reconnecting with yourself in a way that feels safe, supported, and real.
From Stress to Safety: Finding Calm in the Midst of Challenges
What if one of the greatest gifts you could give your baby is your own emotional well-being?
Long before children understand our words, they respond to our presence. They learn from how we navigate challenges, manage stress, seek support, and care for ourselves. Yet many of us enter our pregnancy and motherhood carrying stress, worry, and responsibilities that leave little room to pause, rest, and recharge.
In this engaging and empowering conversation, Dr. Trinisia Brooks will explore how stress can affect both mothers and babies, why having trusted sources of support matters, and how creating moments of safety and connection can strengthen the well-being of the entire family.
Drawing from a healing-centered perspective, Dr. Brooks will help participants recognize the signs of stress, understand the importance of building a strong support network, and discover practical strategies for finding calm during life's most demanding seasons.
Whether you are expecting your first child, navigating early motherhood, supporting a loved one, or serving families professionally, this session will offer encouragement, practical tools, and a fresh perspective on the powerful connection between a mother's well-being and a child's healthy development.
When mothers feel safe, supported, and connected, families are better positioned to thrive.
Main Character Motherhood: Preparing Mom. Mobilizing the Squad
Motherhood changes everything, and moms should not have to figure it all out alone.
This workshop creates space for expectant and new moms to talk honestly about the identity shift that comes with becoming a mother, how stress can show up, and how to recognize the early signs that more support may be needed. Together, we will explore what it means to protect mom’s well-being before she reaches a breaking point.
We will also make space for the village: partners, family, friends, and loved ones who want to help but may not know what to do. This conversation will move beyond “let me know if you need anything” and offer practical, respectful ways to show up with care, consistency, and real support.
Participants will leave with a simple Village Blueprint, a tool to help moms name their early warning signs, identify the kinds of support that feel most helpful, and invite their village to commit to concrete ways they can show up before being asked.
4Kira4Dads: Fatherhood and Advocacy for Safer Births
Join our partner, 4Kira4Moms, for a meaningful conversation about their new fatherhood initiative, 4Kira4Dads, and the profound impact fathers can have during pregnancy, birth, and beyond.
Together, we’ll explore how fathers can show up with presence, respect, and intention to support mamas through one of life’s most powerful experiences. We’ll talk about how fathers can take part in the wonder of birth, build strong early bonds with their babies, and contribute to healthier outcomes for the whole family.
This conversation will also highlight tangible ways fathers and partners can be engaged, from learning key risk factors and warning signs to helping monitor blood pressure, asking thoughtful questions, attending appointments, and understanding when to speak up or seek support.
Through 4Kira4Dads, fathers are invited to see themselves as essential members of the birth team, helping ensure that mamas feel seen, heard, and supported every step of the way.
Beyond the Bump: Your Essential Guide to Pelvic Health
Pregnancy and postpartum recovery can impact pelvic floor strength, core stability, bladder control, and overall comfort, but many women are never taught what is normal or when to seek support.
Join Dr. Jane Grant, PT, for an empowering virtual conversation on pelvic health during pregnancy and postpartum. Learn about pelvic floor function, diastasis recti, pelvic organ prolapse, postpartum recovery, and practical strategies to help you feel stronger, more comfortable, and more connected to your body after birth.
Whether you are pregnant, postpartum, returning to exercise, or supporting birthing families, this session offers practical education and expert guidance for navigating pelvic health with confidence.
The Sacred Bond: The Magic of Skin-to-Skin Care
Description
This session redefines skin-to-skin contact not as an optional "extra," but as a fundamental clinical right. Join global developmental care leader Dr. Yamille Jackson and renowned neonatologist Dr. Alice Obuobi as they discuss the science behind human connection.
Safer Births Now
Safer Births Now is a virtual Maternal Health Fair commemorating Black Maternal Health Week, offering free online workshops for Black birthing people and those who care for them.