Hypnobirthing Instructor Training Program
Become a Certified Calm Birth School Hypnobirthing Instructor in Under 12 Weeks
If you’ve ever dreamed of a meaningful, flexible, and heart-centred career that truly makes a difference, The Calm Birth School’s Level 3 Diploma in Hypnobirthing Instructor Training could be exactly what you’ve been searching for.
Our fully accredited UK hypnobirthing instructor training programme is designed to give you everything you need to become a confident, professional hypnobirthing teacher — ready to inspire and support families through positive, empowering birth experiences.
In less than 12 weeks, you can complete your hypnobirthing teacher training and begin your exciting new journey as a Calm Birth School Instructor. You’ll gain a certification that allows you to teach hypnobirthing classes using our trusted and globally recognised framework, while building a rewarding business that fits your lifestyle.
Transform Your Life — and the Lives of Families You Teach
It’s time to change the way birth is experienced and talked about. With our hypnobirthing practitioner training, you’ll be equipped to help parents-to-be embrace calm, informed, and confident births — whatever their circumstances.
Whether you’re looking to:
- Start a brand-new career doing something you love (no experience or qualifications necessary)
- Add a complementary skill to your existing birth or baby related profession
- Create more balance, fulfilment, and purpose in your work life
…the Calm Birth School can help you become a hypnobirthing teacher and step into a role that’s both meaningful and empowering.
Our comprehensive UK hypnobirthing instructor training course has already helped hundreds of people transform their passion for birth and wellbeing into successful, independent businesses. You’ll join a thriving, supportive network of teachers who are making a genuine difference — one family at a time.
When looking into learning about hypnobirthing for my own birth, I found The Calm Birth School and instantly connected with it. It’s positive, empowering and very importantly, it’s powerful for any type of birth. Couldn’t love it more! Am so happy to be part of The Calm Birth School family. And if you’re considering doing it online, I am based in Hong Kong and was able to do the course via Zoom. I felt completed connected and supported throughout, and still do one year later! Oh and you’ll love Liz. Just do it!
Lindsay Parfitt, Calm Birth Hong Kong
Why Now Is the Time to Follow Your Passion
If recent years have taught us anything, it’s that life can change in an instant. Between a global pandemic, a cost-of-living crisis, and the pressures of everyday work, many of us have paused to ask: Is this really how I want to live?
You might remember promising yourself that you’d never go back to the endless “work, eat, sleep, repeat” cycle — and yet here you are, craving more freedom, balance, and purpose.
The truth is, there’s never been a better time to take control of your future. You deserve to feel fulfilled and financially supported while doing something that lights you up inside. With our UK hypnobirthing instructor training programme, you can build a business that fits around your family, supports your wellbeing, and allows you to help others find calm and confidence in birth.
Will it take effort? Yes. But you won’t be doing it alone. Every step of your hypnobirthing practitioner course is supported, mentored, and designed to help you succeed — both as a teacher and as a business owner.
How the Calm Birth School Hypnobirthing Teacher Training Works
Let’s break down exactly how our hypnobirthing teacher training course supports you from the very first module to your first client session.
Each round of The Calm Birth School Hypnobirthing Instructor Training includes:
A fully accredited Level 3 Diploma:
our most in-depth and up-to-date qualification yet, giving you the professional confidence to teach anywhere in the UK and beyond.
Access to private support groups:
including The Calm Birth School Community, The Calm Birth School Instructors, and a dedicated trainee hypnobirthing instructor group for your training round.
Flexible learning options:
complete most of your hypnobirthing practitioner training online, at your own pace. UK-based trainees can also join an optional two-day, in-person training event.
FREE Birth Trauma Competency Training
created by our resident psychologist, Rosie Gilderthorpe — ensuring you feel confident supporting all types of birth stories.
The Calm Birth School Parent Course
giving you insight into how your future clients will experience your teachings.
Interactive, mentored study:
although much of the training is online (and if you are outside of the UK, it is completely online), you’ll receive feedback, mentorship, and guidance throughout.
Access to “The Birth & Baby Business Academy” membership
completely free for all trainees for 3 months, helping you launch and grow your new business with confidence.
Investment:
Secure your space with a £200 deposit, followed by £150 per month for 10 months — or pay £1,500 in full and save £200.
Spaces are limited for each intake of the Hypnobirthing Teacher Training Course, so early booking is recommended.
“ I chose to train as an instructor with the calm birth school because the fresh, straight talking, down to earth approach really appealed to me. So much info is packed into the 2.5 months of online learning and the face to face aspect really pulled it all together. Liz and the team are awesome – absolute fountains of knowledge and enthusiasm and they gave me the confidence to put myself out there. It paid off – I booked my first 3 clients within just a few weeks and can’t wait to continue spreading the calm birth school Joy. Highly recommend!”
Laura Scarlett, Laura Scarlett Doula
What makes The Calm Birth School Different?
We know there are many hypnobirthing practitioner training courses out there — so what makes The Calm Birth School unique?
Simply put: we don’t just train you to teach; we help you build a thriving, heart-centred business that changes lives.
Our UK hypnobirthing instructor training programme offers not only comprehensive education but also mentorship, community, and long-term professional support. You won’t just graduate with a certificate — you’ll leave with clarity, purpose, and confidence to launch your hypnobirthing business right away.
Here’s how we help you succeed:
Knowledge
Teach
Marketing
The Fully Comprehensive Calm Birth School Hypnobirthing Teacher Course
Valued at £1,500, our Hypnobirthing Instructor Training Course includes everything you need to feel confident, competent, and fully prepared to support parents on their pregnancy & birth journey.
Over approximately 12 weeks (10 weeks online + 2 days in person for UK participants), you’ll work through a structured programme covering:
- The philosophy and science of hypnobirthing
- The Calm Birth School teaching framework
- Effective communication and facilitation skills
- Running workshops and classes
- Supporting diverse families and inclusive birth experiences
- Business setup and marketing guidance
Your progress will be individually assessed by one of our experienced trainers — not through multiple-choice tests, but through reflective, practical assignments that help you grow as a teacher. You’ll receive feedback and personalised support every step of the way.
Once complete, you’ll earn your Calm Birth School Hypnobirthing Instructor Certificate, qualifying you to begin teaching immediately.
Continued Mentorship and Community Support
Your journey doesn’t end when your hypnobirthing teacher training finishes — in fact, it’s just the beginning.
All graduates receive three months of free access to The Birth and Baby Business Academy (worth £75), giving you the tools to continue growing your business with confidence. You’ll enjoy:
- Hot seat coaching sessions
- Kickstart the Month goal-setting calls
- Moon Magic and Tapping wellbeing sessions
- Access to the Brave Beginners Roadmap to build momentum
This ongoing mentoring ensures you always have expert guidance, accountability, and community as you establish your new business.
Meet The Calm Birth School Team
The Calm Birth School team is here to guide, support, and inspire you throughout your hypnobirthing instructor training and beyond. Together, we transform birth-passionate people into confident, successful hypnobirthing practitioners who make a real difference.
We’ll help you: Discover your potential and step into your purpose | Create a business that supports your family and your lifestyle | Feel connected, motivated, and empowered within a like-minded community
Many of our trainees say that the hypnobirthing teacher training feels like personal development and therapy rolled into one — an uplifting, life-changing experience that reignites their passion and confidence.
Liz Stanford
Owner
Liz leads The Calm Birth School with love, energy, and vision. She’s passionate about supporting trainees, instructors, and the wider community — ensuring that every individual who joins TCBS feels encouraged, capable, and part of something special.
Sabrina Taylor
Resident Hypnotherapist
Sabrina supports trainees throughout their hypnosis module and remains available for ongoing guidance once you’re qualified. As a dedicated advocate for positive birth, she brings warmth, expertise, and insight to every stage of your journey.
Helen Fakoya
Resident Midwife
Helen leads the Birth Basics module and offers professional midwifery insight throughout your hypnobirthing practitioner training. With nearly two decades of experience, she’s passionate about informed choice, human rights in maternity care, and how hypnobirthing can transform birth experiences for families everywhere.
Your Gateway to a Positive Birth Career
At The Calm Birth School, we believe birth can be calm, empowering, and positive — and that you can be part of making that vision a reality. Through our UK hypnobirthing instructor training programme, you’ll gain the tools, confidence, and community to guide parents toward life-changing birth experiences.
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are you ready to find out if you’re the right fit for The Calm Birth School?
Success Stories
Josette Sticher from The Little Nestling Place
Meet Josette Sticher! I am very proud to have this lovely lady as part of our community. Due to her experiences of being pregnant in a foreign country and not knowing the system or the language (Josette moved from the UK to Germany whilst pregnant with her first child), she decided that no mother should labour in silence, give birth in silence, or take their baby home to silence. The feeling of isolation and zero support was unbearable. This superwoman is on a mission to help empower women and birthing people in an unfamiliar setting a foreign country to have the birth they know they can have and to feel mightily empowered too. In both her hypnobirthing practice and her Baby massage business, she has now taught couples originating from Iran, Brazil, India, Bulgaria, Vietnam, China, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, Spain, France, Lithuania, Argentina, Hawaii, America, England, Scotland, Ireland, Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, Australia, Hungary and Mexico! Wow!
Lindsay Parfitt from Calm Birth Hong Kong
Lindsay is making waves in Hong Kong! Lindsay completed all of her hypnobirthing training online and despite having a new born baby was was soon filling hypnobirthing taster sessions, teaching 1:1 and spreading the word about positive, accessible birth.
She has and incredible spirit and bring calm and empowerment to everyone she comes into contact with!
Not all my instructors train with me in the beginning. Lovely Jade found TCBS after training with a few other methods and established herself in her local area of Aberdeenshire. Jade didn’t feel that the method she was teaching was totally aligned to her beliefs around birth and she wasn’t getting the support she needed to grow her business.
She has blended her own wonderful style of teaching with some inspiration from TCBS to create something very special for clients. 3 years on from joining us and Jade has expanded her team to include two other instructors!
Jade has done amazingly and I am so proud of her!
Investment: £200 deposit followed by £150 per month for 10 months, or £1,500 in full (save £200).
Limited spaces available for each training round — join now to begin your journey as a certified Calm Birth School Hypnobirthing Instructor.
What makes a great hypnobirthing instructor?
I’m Liz Stanford — hypnobirthing instructor, trainer, hypnotherapist, mindset coach, author, and proud owner of The Calm Birth School.
I am going to share everything you need to know about how to become a hypnobirthing teacher in the UK, what it’s really like to teach hypnobirthing, and how to run a thriving, heart-centred business in the birth world.
This is one of the most common questions I hear from people thinking about joining our UK hypnobirthing instructor training programme:
“What makes a great hypnobirthing teacher — and will I actually be good at it?”
It’s a totally natural worry. Many new trainees feel nervous about standing up and leading a class for the first time. They wonder: Will anyone listen to me? Am I confident enough? What if I invest in a hypnobirthing practitioner course and then realise I’m not cut out for it?
If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone — and you absolutely can do this. In fact, the qualities that make a wonderful hypnobirthing instructor are often the same ones that drew you to this work in the first place: empathy, curiosity, communication, and a deep desire to help others.
So as you look to progress your hypnobirthing practitioner training journey, we’ll look at exactly what helps you connect, engage, and grow as a teacher — even if you’ve never taught anything before.
Teaching with Connection and Collaboration
At The Calm Birth School, we believe the best learning happens through connection and relationship-building. When we feel safe, seen, and understood, learning flows naturally.
That’s why both our hypnobirthing teacher training and our approach to teaching parents focus on collaboration, communication, and inclusivity. You don’t need to stand at the front of the room and lecture for hours. Great teachers guide, support, and invite participation.
One of my favourite guiding principles — one that I share with all my trainees — is this:
Tell me, and I forget. Show me, and I remember. Involve me, and I understand.
This old Indian proverb perfectly captures the spirit of hypnobirthing education. As teachers, we’re part instructor and part facilitator. We don’t just talk about birth; we create experiences that help parents feel it, imagine it, and prepare for it.
Every trainee in our UK hypnobirthing instructor training learns how to deliver classes that are engaging, inclusive, and deeply interactive. Because when your clients are actively involved, they retain more, practise more, and ultimately have more positive births.
Active, Collaborative, and Inclusive Teaching
Let’s look at the three qualities that form the foundation of great hypnobirthing instructor training:
- Active Learning
Imagine you’ve completed your hypnobirthing practitioner course and you’re teaching your first group. A great class isn’t one where clients passively sit and take notes for two hours straight.
Instead, your lessons will include movement, discussion, and practice. You might invite couples to stand up and try a breathing technique together, holding birth positions that mirror real-life labour scenarios. You might facilitate group reflections or quick breakout discussions.
Every time your clients do something — even something small like visualising or role-playing — they’re building understanding and confidence.
- Collaborative Learning
Teaching hypnobirthing is never a one-way exchange. Our best instructors learn to encourage conversation and group thinking.
For example, you might divide your group into smaller pairs or teams to discuss birth environments — hospitals, birth centres, home births — and weigh up the pros and cons. You’ll be surprised how much they teach each other, drawing on their own perspectives and experiences.
For one-to-one courses, you can create collaboration between partners. You might give them scenarios to discuss: “If labour slows down, what could we try? What questions would we ask? How can we use our tools to stay calm and confident?”
That’s how you help them become their own best birth advocates — and how you grow into a confident hypnobirthing teacher yourself.
- Inclusive Learning
Inclusivity is at the heart of everything we do at The Calm Birth School. Every parent deserves to feel represented, respected, and supported in their learning journey.
As a hypnobirthing instructor, you’ll meet people from many different cultures, backgrounds, and belief systems — people whose lived experiences may be very different from your own. This is a gift. Each client helps you grow, learn, and expand your understanding.
That’s why, as part of our UK hypnobirthing instructor training program, we offer additional development opportunities on inclusivity and awareness — from LGBTQ+ competency workshops and anti-racism training, to specialist sessions on supporting neurodivergent clients.
These optional certifications not only enhance your teaching skills but also help you stand out professionally. Graduates can display inclusion badges on their websites and instructor directory listings — giving potential clients confidence that you’re an empathetic, well-rounded teacher.
The Journey of Growth and Learning
When you first consider enrolling in a hypnobirthing practitioner training course, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. You might wonder, How will I ever know enough to teach others?
The good news is: you don’t need to know everything on day one — that’s what your training is for! Our Calm Birth School Hypnobirthing Instructor Course is designed in manageable, flexible modules — ideal for busy parents or professionals balancing family life.
Lessons are presented in short, digestible sections, with a mix of:
- video tutorials
- audio lectures
- visual slides
- downloadable workbooks
- written guides for every topic
We use multiple learning formats because everyone absorbs information differently. You’ll also complete interactive quizzes, reflective assignments, and live video tasks to help you apply what you learn.
By the time you complete the course, you’ll have a strong understanding of hypnobirthing theory and the ability to communicate it confidently. You’ll know exactly how to deliver your own classes, answer questions, and support every kind of client with warmth and professionalism.
Confidence, Passion, and Adaptability
To become a hypnobirthing teacher, you don’t need to be perfect — you just need to be passionate. Passion and enthusiasm are contagious. When you’re genuinely excited about the subject, your clients feel that energy and become more engaged themselves.
A great teacher is also adaptable. Every group will be different, and every parent learns in their own way. During your hypnobirthing practitioner training, we help you develop the flexibility to adjust your approach — whether that means simplifying your language, adapting for a visual learner, or gently supporting a quieter client.
And remember, your case study client will be your first real learning experience. You’ll teach them, reflect on what worked well, and note what could be improved. Their feedback helps you grow quickly, turning theory into confidence.
Through this process, you’ll discover your authentic teaching style — one that feels natural, relatable, and uniquely you.
Empathy and Communication: The Heart of Great Teaching
Empathy is one of the most essential skills you’ll develop in our hypnobirthing teacher training.
Building trust and rapport with your clients makes all the difference. When clients feel safe, supported, and understood, they’re more likely to practise their techniques, stay engaged, and achieve the calm, confident births they desire.
That’s why we include insights from neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) in our training — to help you understand the importance of rapport, communication styles, and body language.
Being a great communicator doesn’t mean you need to be loud or outgoing. It’s about being clear, compassionate, and responsive. You’ll learn how to ask good questions, offer balanced information, and empower clients to make their own informed choices — without judgment or pressure.
Ultimately, your clients aren’t looking for a lecturer. They’re looking for someone who listens, connects, and walks beside them — and that’s exactly what our instructors become.
Interactive, Empowering, and Accessible Teaching
Hypnobirthing isn’t about telling parents what to think or do. It’s about helping them discover what’s right for them.
As a teacher, you’ll present evidence-based information, signpost to reliable resources, and encourage self-led exploration. The aim is to help your clients feel informed and empowered to make their own decisions about birth.
Engagement is key. When clients are involved and inspired, they practise more consistently and attend sessions with enthusiasm. That engagement can directly translate into more positive birth outcomes — and glowing testimonials for you as an instructor!
At The Calm Birth School, we help you deliver hypnobirthing in a way that’s relatable, accessible, and practical. While hypnobirthing sometimes sounds “woo-woo” from the outside, it’s deeply rooted in science and psychology. You’ll learn how to present it with confidence, blending evidence with warmth and intuition.
A little bit of “woo” is fine — we love a touch of magic! — but your clients will appreciate your ability to keep the material grounded, professional, and reassuring.
Supporting You to Grow Into a Confident Hypnobirthing Instructor
Our goal at The Calm Birth School is not just to teach you what to say, but to help you discover how to say it in a way that reflects your unique personality and strengths.
That’s why our UK hypnobirthing instructor training programme includes plenty of opportunities for practice and feedback:
- You’ll record live teaching videos that we personally review and give feedback on.
- You’ll prepare and deliver short presentations — either online via Zoom or in person at our UK training events.
- You’ll receive an Instructor Manual filled with lesson plans, activity ideas, and practical teaching tips.
And while we provide a clear structure, we also encourage creativity and authenticity. We don’t want carbon-copy teachers; we want you — your energy, your story, and your individual voice.
This freedom is part of what makes our graduates stand out. When you become a hypnobirthing instructor through The Calm Birth School, you’re not just joining a programme — you’re joining a community that values diversity, authenticity, and heart.
Continuing Your Journey Beyond Qualification
When your training ends, your growth doesn’t. Once certified, you’ll continue learning through our instructor community, where we share updates, live workshops, and continuing education opportunities.
Our graduates often go on to expand their work — offering birth preparation workshops, fertility and postpartum support, or even mentoring new trainees. Because once you step into this world, the possibilities truly open up.
The Calm Birth School will always be there to guide and cheer you on. You’ll never feel alone in your teaching journey.
Ready to Start Your Own Journey?
If you’ve been searching for a way to combine passion, purpose, and flexibility, this could be the perfect path for you.
Our UK hypnobirthing instructor training helps you:
- Build a business that fits your lifestyle
- Empower families with evidence-based tools and mindset techniques
- Create a fulfilling, financially sustainable career doing something that truly matters
So whether you’re a birth professional ready to expand your skills or someone brand new to the field and curious about how to become a hypnobirthing teacher in the UK (or anywhere in the world), The Calm Birth School is here to support you every step of the way.
Book a discovery call today to learn more about our next hypnobirthing practitioner course and see if it’s the right fit for you.
You’ll gain clarity on the training process, the support available, and how you can soon be teaching your very own Calm Birth School classes — helping families everywhere experience birth with confidence, calm, and joy.
Investment:
£200 deposit, then £150 per month for 10 months, or pay in full for £1,500 (save £200).
Limited spaces available per training round — enrol now to begin your journey with The Calm Birth School.