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🌿 Welcome to The Rebirth Project! 🌿

We are honored to invite you to apply for the 2025 Certified Community-Based Doula (C-CBD) Training Program, an empowering opportunity to cultivate your skills as a compassionate, culturally centered birth companion. Together, we will help families step into their birthing journeys with confidence, dignity, and grace.

This hybrid training program is designed for individuals who believe that pregnancy, birth, and postpartum are deeply spiritual and emotional experiences, as well as physical ones. Our holistic framework blends ancestral wisdom with evidence-based practice to uplift and honor each family’s sacred path to parenthood.

✨ What You Will Learn:
- Comprehensive Birth Knowledge: Foundations of pregnancy, childbirth, and the physiology of labor
- Holistic Practices: Culturally rooted practices including nutrition, stress reduction, and natural pain relief
- Emotional Support Techniques: Active listening, empathy, and nurturing the mind-body-spirit connection
- Cultural Competence: Providing respectful, inclusive care to families from diverse backgrounds
- Postpartum Healing: Lactation support, newborn care, and addressing the emotional well-being of parents
✨ Why Choose Our Training?
- Expert Instructors: Learn from experienced doulas dedicated to honoring ancestral traditions and modern best practices
- Inclusive Community: We celebrate diversity and welcome learners from all walks of life
- Certification Opportunity: Become a Certified Community-Based Doula, enhancing your professional skills and credibility
- Personal Transformation: Deepen your connection to birthwork and expand your ability to provide nurturing, equitable care
We are so excited to support you on this journey. Please take time to carefully read and complete this application in full, ensuring all information is accurate and thorough. Once we have received and processed your application, a team member will contact you with next steps.

If you have any questions or need support while applying, please reach out to us at contactdoulaife@cherishinglifebeginnings.com.

We look forward to welcoming you into this powerful and transformative program!
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- We ask you to briefly talk about your main idea and points, being concise and direct as well as explanatory. Everyone will NOT be accepted into this program. We are seeking highly motivated, passionate, creative, and dedicated students to be a part of this program. How you answer the following questions and your essay response is how you will be selected for the program.
  
  You MUST answer all short questions completely. Do not leave any section blank. If it does not apply to you, put N/A in the answer box.
- In no more than 150 words explain why do you want to participate in The Rebirth Project CBD Training Program?*
  
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- What are your future goals when it comes to aiding your birth communities and how will these goals aid with alleviating the healthcare maternal crisis for BIPOC women?*
  
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- Essays are the opportunity for you to differ yourself from others and shine. Be direct, descriptive, and creative. This is your time!
  
  You are about to write two essays: one Personal Statement, which the prompt is the same for all applicants. In addition, you will also need to work on a Writing Supplement, which you will be able to choose from the five options listed below.
  
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  Your Personal Statement is very important for us to better understand who you are. Please write your Personal Statement in no less than 250 words and more than 650 words and based on the prompt below:
  
  Personal Statement Prompt: Birthwork is so rewarding yet requires a lot of time, energy, and planning. As an inspiring "Doula" or birthworker, describe the current state of the communities you want to service and how the goals and values will is aid with increasing more satisfactory, healthy, and peaceful births.
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- Your second essay is your Writing Supplement. Now, you have the opportunity to detail more about yourself. You will be able to pick one out of the five (5) essay prompts below. Please bear in mind that you need to write your essay in no less than 250 words and no more than 650 words.
  
  Be awesome. Be creative. Be yourself.
- What are you passionate about when it comes to Birthwork?How do you plan to use the Training to expand your career into birth work?How do your values and goals align with being a Birthworker?Why are Birthworker (Doulas) important and what roles do they perform to assist a Mother Earth in experiencing a healthy pregnancy and labor?Other
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- As of July 1st, 2025, please note that Cherishing Life Beginnings has funding for full scholarships. Please submit financial aid information with this application.
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