Learn To Doula Village prepares doulas to support families with skill, ethics, humility, and grounded professionalism. Our program is rooted in the belief that pregnant, birthing, and postpartum people remain the primary decision-makers in their own care.
We teach doulas to offer steady, non-clinical support through pregnancy, birth, feeding, postpartum recovery, and family adjustment while honoring each client’s autonomy, culture, lived experience, and right to informed decision-making.
Rooted in Trauma-Informed Care
We operate under the five core principles of trauma-informed care:
✦ Safety
Clients and students deserve care and learning environments that support physical, emotional, and psychological safety.
✦ Transparency and Trustworthiness
Clear expectations, honest communication, informed consent, and ethical boundaries help build trust.
✦ Choice
Pregnant, birthing, and postpartum people have the right to make decisions about their bodies, their babies, their care, and their support.
✦ Collaboration and Mutuality
Doulas do not take over. We walk beside clients, families, providers, and community partners with respect and shared purpose.
✦ Empowerment
Our work supports clients in recognizing their own voice, options, instincts, and authority.
The Maternal Sovereignty Method™
Our training is grounded in the Maternal Sovereignty Method™, which centers client autonomy, informed decision-making, emotional safety, and nervous system regulation.
We teach doulas to understand how fear, pressure, confusion, and loss of agency can affect the birth environment. A calm, supported, well-informed client is better able to cope, ask questions, rest, move, communicate, and make decisions. This does not mean doulas control outcomes. It means doulas help protect the conditions where clients can remain present, informed, and supported.
For a fuller overview of this framework, read The Maternal Sovereignty Method™.
Professional, Practical, and Scope-Conscious
Doula care is heart work, but it is also professional work. Strong doulas need more than compassion. They need clear scope, ethical boundaries, documentation skills, referral awareness, communication tools, and practical business foundations.
Our training prepares doulas to serve families privately, in community-based settings, and in systems where Medicaid, insurance, credentialing, superbills, and reimbursement documentation may be part of the work.
Our Commitment
We are committed to training doulas who are compassionate and competent, warm and well-boundaried, client-centered and professionally prepared.
Our goal is to help doulas support families with respect, steadiness, cultural humility, and a deep commitment to maternal sovereignty.
Angela M. “Annie” Hill, AR-CCBD
Arkansas Certified Community-Based Doula, ADH Certification/License #005
Program Director, Learn To Doula Village