Birth Mapping Workshop
A birth map is flexible and responsive, offering guidance through the twists and turns of labour — unlike a fixed plan, it supports informed choices no matter how your birth unfolds.
Our course offers a creative and grounded process for building your birth map. This course is for you if you are seeking to communicate clearly and make informed, values-based decisions.
Tickets include support partner space.
This is five hours of group-facilitated content delivered. The day is facilitated by Josie and a member of the Radiant Birth doula team. You will have a space to explore your needs, wants and values and to communicate this to those who care for you in pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
Why a Birth Map and not a plan?
There’s nothing wrong with having a birth plan. But a birth map invites you into something deeper. It’s not just about outlining what you hope will happen. It’s about becoming informed, intentional, and prepared for the full spectrum of birth.
Birth mapping is a process of exploring your values, needs, and informed choices. It helps you consider both your ideal birth and the unexpected, guiding you to understand how you want to make decisions and how to communicate them clearly with your support team.
Birth is unpredictable. But when we birth map, we step into that unpredictability with clarity. We build a broader understanding of the options that may arise, such as induction or caesarean. We then create space for confidence, even if things shift. This is about expressing what matters to you, naming what helps you feel supported and safe, and ensuring your voice is at the centre - through every possibility.
Course dates
27th September
13th December
17th January
Course Info
Time: 11:15am-4:30pm
Location: Restoring Wellness, Reservoir
Companion Courses
The day offers a grounding space designed to help you connect with what matters most alongside practical and compassionate discussion that prepares you for the “what-ifs” and the multitude of pathways that birth can take us.
We’ll explore:
Your personal values and beliefs around birth
Decision-making frameworks that feel aligned and empowering
Roles of birth support people and how to prepare them
Tools and techniques for comfort, calm and confidence
Creating your vision for a supported, satisfying birth – whatever it may look like
Common medical interventions: what they are, when and why they’re offered
Your rights and options in each situation
Birth pathways such as fast birth, induction, caesarean, assisted birth
How to stay centred and supported when plans shift
Creating adaptable preferences so your birth feels informed and empowered – no matter the outcome
Facilitators
Josie, Alex and Beth
Josie, Alex and Beth are Birth and Postpartum Doulas, who actively support women, birthing people and families across Victoria. Between them have additional training in Spinning Babies, Internal Pelvic Release work, Birth Debriefing, Breastfeeding, Infant Sleep and so much more. Lead by our work as doulas, lived experience as mothers and Birth Cartographer training with Catherine Bell we are here to inform, support and guide you. You can read more about them here.
