Upcoming Workshops.
Education You Can Trust. Conversations That Matter.
Our free workshops combine trusted experts, lived experience, and evidence-informed knowledge to create spaces where you can ask questions, challenge misinformation, and leave empowered. They are open to parents, families, doulas, nurses, and anyone committed to the health, safety, and well-being of Black families.
🕒 Note: All workshop times are listed in Eastern Time.
📣 DOULAS: Earn 1 Contact Hour!
Unless otherwise noted, the Academy of Birth Leaders & Educators will provide Contact Hour(s) for our workshop(s)
Safe to Thrive
Because surviving should never be the standard.
Black birthing people deserve more than survival. Survival is the minimum. Safety is the foundation. Thriving is the goal.
Safe to Thrive transforms how we navigate, demand, and receive care—equipping Black people and those who care for them with grounded strategies to move out of crisis mode and into true reproductive abundance.
Whether you’re managing complex health realities, protecting your peace, or demanding dignity in the healthcare system, you don't have to carry the weight alone. We provide the guidance and community you need to protect your body, secure your peace, and reclaim joy across your entire perinatal and parenting journey.
Shift from surviving to thriving.
Decoding Fibroids: Symptoms, Fertility, and Taking Control
Join Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist Dr. Ukachi Emeruwa for an important conversation about uterine fibroids and fertility. Learn the signs and symptoms to watch for, how fibroids may affect your reproductive health, and what questions to ask when seeking care. You’ll leave with practical information to help you better understand your body, advocate for yourself, and make informed decisions about your health and future.
Fibroids & Motherhood: What to Know Before, During & After Pregnancy
Join Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist Dr. Ukachi Emeruwa for an important conversation about fibroids and what they can mean for your health during and after pregnancy. Learn how fibroids may affect pregnancy and birth, what symptoms and changes to pay attention to, and what to know as your body recovers during the Fourth Trimester.
Safe to Thrive with Caroline Peters: Gender Justice, Maternal Well-Being, and the Power of Community
Birthing the Magic Collaborative is honored to introduce our village to Ms. Caroline Peters, an internationally recognized human rights defender, survivor, gender justice advocate, and movement builder who has transformed lived experience into decades of action for women, families, and communities across South Africa.
With more than three decades of frontline advocacy and community leadership, Caroline is the founder and Executive Director of the Callas Foundation in Cape Town. She has built a career confronting gender-based violence where it actually happens, in homes, neighborhoods, courts, taverns, barbershops, and community spaces. In 2026, she was appointed to the inaugural National Council on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide, bringing that hard-earned, community-rooted expertise to the national stage.
Caroline knows this reality from both sides, as a survivor and as a woman who has spent decades fighting to change the conditions that allow violence to persist. She transformed her own traumatic experience into action, creating pathways to safety and justice while demanding greater accountability from the institutions and systems meant to protect women and children.
But perhaps most compelling is where Caroline believes change begins. She does not wait for people to walk into traditional programs or for a crisis to bring them to the system. She goes where people already are. Through the Callas Foundation, conversations about violence, trauma, emotional well-being, masculinity, and healthy relationships happen in barbershops, taverns, schools, and neighborhoods. Men and boys are not treated as bystanders to the problem. They are intentionally brought into the work of prevention.
This is an opportunity to hear from a woman doing this work thousands of miles away, in communities with their own histories and challenges, and to discover how remarkably connected our experiences truly are.
Caroline’s courage is extraordinary, but what moved me most is what she chose to do with it. She took what could have silenced her and turned it into a force for protection, justice, healing, and change for women and girls.
There is something powerful about hearing from a woman who has lived the issue, challenged the systems around it, and helped shape a national response.
I believe this conversation will stretch us, connect us, and stay with us long after it ends. Caroline’s perspective pushes us beyond the conversations we usually have about maternal health and asks us to think more deeply about what safety really requires for women and families.
Please make time for this conversation. I truly believe Caroline will leave us thinking differently about courage, prevention, community, and what it takes to create real safety.
WHEN GRIEF GOES HOME Supporting Families After Pregnancy & Infant Loss
Explore compassionate, interdisciplinary support for families experiencing miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss with Nneka Hall.
Beyond the Mask with Dr. Priscilla Hubbard
In her book, Removing the Mask: From Pain to Purpose, Dr. Hubbard takes us behind the accomplished leader the world sees to reveal the woman who had to fight to reclaim her safety, identity, voice, and future.
This conversation explores intimate partner violence and the complex realities that make abuse difficult to recognize, disclose, or leave. But it also goes where these conversations rarely do: What happens after survival?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.