As a Research Fellow and lifelong doula trainer, my goal is to “Transform Research Into Practice”. Thanks for being interested in my newest online courses and how they can enrich your life!

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NOW, How about those first three classes!!! Here’s a brief description.

Powerful Prenatal Relationships is our premier course! Grounded in twenty years of research with birth doulas and parents, this course leads you into becoming the professional who transforms their clients and patients lives for the better. Four hours of topics, with lectures, handouts, and graphics to guide you every step of the way. (Four nursing CE’s) Investment: $200

Recognizing the Previously Traumatized Person in Labor focuses on how you can discern the person who is presenting with previous trauma and what you can do differently to optimize their outcomes. Along with 90 minutes of dynamic videos, this course is full of BONUS reference articles and handouts that are helpful to use! (Two nursing CE’s) Investment: $80.00

The Social Brain introduces learners to the concept of a social brain, how it works, and how understanding it can improve all your relationships. Sound too science-y or boring for you? It’s not! I make it easy to understand and relate to. That’s my job!

The last installment of the course shows how to use this information when relationships with clients is limited to virtual visits (video calls). Learn how to build those connections that just come naturally when you are all in the same room. This one hour course is offered at a very low price for one CE or for FREE as our sampler class. Investment: $40 or FREE

What can Powerful Prenatal Relationships Do for ME? Does it really have $200 worth of value?

By taking this class, YOU will…

• Gain the insight from 20 years of research with birth doulas and parents – over 100 study participants!
• Increase confidence in your own value, no matter what your role
• Relate effectively to all kinds of families throughout the perinatal period
• Increase effectiveness with many kinds of partners, supportive parents and fathers
• Organize your materials and structure your visits
• Become a more effective guide for their journey
• Implement Trauma Informed Care (TIC) from the first conversation
• Take away personal growth and development tools that counter burnout
• Receive effective tools to work with your own implicit bias
• Be exposed to insightful principles that pertain to ALL your relationships

Your clients want to transform into better versions of themselves AND so do you.

This course shows you HOW.

4 Nursing CE’s! Link to full new course objectives and description.

Our Courses are Unique Because Amy Gilliland is unique!

• My approach is to be “edutaining” and comprehensive
• I’m a learner friendly instructor – videos, captions, transcripts, slide handouts, outlines and BONUS reflection sheets, client handouts and MORE!
• People really enjoy learning with me, especially if they’ve had bad experiences before
• My perspective is informed by research with doulas, partners, interpersonal neurobiology, infant mental health, healing from trauma and sexuality
• Decades facilitating adult learning (see amygilliland.com)
• I read hundreds of journal articles a year, and my purpose is to make all that knowledge ACCESSIBLE and USEFUL for you. That’s why I’m here.

This course will transform your offerings AND your attitude

• If disorganization is keeping you from feeling confident
• If a lack of confidence is keeping you from advertising
• If your service packages aren’t really serving potential clients
• If your calendar isn’t full of client support meetings
• If you’re uncertain how to approach diverse families
• If virtual visits are unsatisfying…
• If you want to get “better” but a business course isn’t the answer
• It’s also for you if everything is pretty great AND you want to use your gifts in a more impactful way
• If you are ready for the next step in your professional growth

• Ready to Sign Up? Go to our ONLINE Course Page on Thinkific.

• Want to know more before choosing? If You’ve Tried Before, and…

• Other online classes fell flat and their tools weren’t comprehensive enough to get at the root of the issue
• Videos didn’t keep your interest
• Books and blogs had an approach that was too general to really help
• It was too challenging to figure out what and how to change

Dr. Amy Gilliland’s courses are specific, effective, and focused on your needs as a perinatal support worker – nurse, doula, physician, midwife, family visitor, lactation specialist, health navigators – our courses are designed to focus on you. My goal is to make you the most effective version of yourself that you can be!! And I’m good at it too!

What about the Trauma course? Can you really recognize a previously traumatized person if you don’t know them and they’re in labor?

Yes, you can! In fact they are giving off very strong nonverbal signals. Once you know what to look for, it becomes much easier to adapt your behavior. You’ll learn how to recognize a laboring person presenting with previous trauma and how to optimize their experience. The course also covers how traumatic experience changes the functional adaptive processes of the brain, especially when that brain is faced with new or novel experiences. Human labor and birth are also prime times for the healing of trauma because of the flooding of oxytocin, or the reinforcement of trauma resulting from disrespectful treatment.

Link to Trauma course objectives and description

Ready to Sign Up? Go to our ONLINE Course Page on Thinkific.

How about that last online class? Social brains? Virtual Visits?

And it’s free sometimes? Explain this!

I wanted to offer a short course that would be really intriguing and useful to YOU! I wanted to make a class that you wouldn’t stop talking or thinking about. You know the kind, where you can’t wait to hear the next installment! For the last five years I’ve been studying interpersonal neurobiology, which looks at what are our brains are doing when humans interact with one another. I got into this to figure out the doula-laboring person relationship, but I ended up learning so much more. PLUS it made getting along with my fellow humans SO MUCH EASIER.

The Virtual Visits and the Social Brain course is a five part short course that you can take in an hour. The cost is $40.00 for the 1 nursing continuing education hour Thinkific class, which includes video captioning, downloadable pdf transcripts, handouts, diagrams, quizzes to verify attendance, and a certificate. I want so many people to have this useful information, that I also offer it as a FREE sampler class without any CE’s.

Link to Virtual Visits and The Social Brain course objectives and description

Ready to Sign Up? Save your time and get your One CE for only $20! Go to our ONLINE Course Page on Thinkific.

No, Amy, I want the free version if I can get it! That’s great! That’s why I created it! Just remember you can sign up for the Thinkific course at any time, receive all the support materials, and get a CE for what you’ve learned.

To make the FREE COURSE more fun, we’ve created it as a Five Day Virtual Visit Challenge! By now, most of us have had professional meetings and appointments via video call. As you receive each day’s video, consider how knowing that material could have made relating to people in a virtual environment easier. That’s our challenge! The last day’s video is full of concrete strategies to use that build on the information in the first four installments about the Social Brain. With your list and ours, you’ll be so much more effective in all your relationships. People will just make so much more sense to you. In just FIVE DAYS!

FAQs

otherwise known as “the fine print”

Who will benefit from Powerful Prenatal Relationships?

Any professional working prenatally with families will benefit from this class. This could include but is not limited to nutritionists, lactation and parenting support workers, doulas, nurses, family/home visitors, physicians and naturopaths, midwives, counseling and therapeutic professionals.

Can I enroll at anytime?

Yes, you have a year to finish.

What if I decide it’s not the right course for me?

We do our best to make sure you know what you’re getting up front. Some of the lessons in each course can be previewed for free when you enroll in Thinkific. Once you have started a course, we do not offer refunds and you cannot transfer the course to someone else. However you do have a year to complete the course.

Where did the information in these courses come from?

Powerful Prenatal Relationships is informed by my 20 years of research with birth doulas. Trauma is informed by my many clients with trauma histories, 20 years of study as a trauma researcher and my personal experiences with post traumatic stress disorder. Social Brain and Virtual Visits is part of my commitment to transform research into practice as a University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Fellow.

Who are you anyway?

Amy L. Gilliland, Ph.D., CBD, AdvCD(DONA), CSES (AASECT) is a Research Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an adult sexuality educator supervisor, an infant mental health expert with specialized training in attachment, and a birth doula trainer for over 25 years. Dr. Gilliland is approved by the State of California Board of Nursing and the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists as a continuing education provider.  Dr. Gilliland’s research has been published in JOGNN, Midwifery, Journal of Perinatal Education, Sexuality and Culture, and the Wisconsin Medical Journal.  She is considered to be a thought leader and visionary on birth issues through her numerous conference appearances, birth video production, influential blog and doula mentoring and certification organization, Doulaing The Doula. She is the author of The Heart of the Doula: Essentials for Practice and Life, as well as chapters in numerous anthologies. Dr. Gilliland also has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and identifies as a person with a disability.

Are you ready yet?

If you’ve made it this far, you must be like me –

Here’s your reward for perseverance and thoroughness – 10% off any or ALL classes!!

here’s the code: grtcustmr10

(Use on the Thinkific site when you check out) Good through September 5th, 2022!

Go to our ONLINE Course Page on Thinkific.

Enjoy your transformation!