A unique, comprehensive, fully accredited, Level 3 Diploma course providing everything you need to become a professional Hypnobirthing Instructor for The Calm Birth School in under 12 weeks!

There are lots of hypnobirthing teacher course training providers out there so what makes The Calm Birth School different?

I don’t just give you a fully comprehensive hypnobirthing teacher training course… I give you a full hypnobirthing teacher training course immersion experience (because the journey to success is more than just a certificate). I know from my experience of training hypnobirthing instructors and years of running my own business that the right support creates success.

This week, I thought I would take you through what it takes to be a great teacher with engaged clients. This is something that I know that a lot of people who are interested in training to teach hypnobirthing might struggle with. They might worry if they have no teaching experience, how they’re going to be able to stand up and deliver content for two and a half hours per week over four weeks, or even, you know, if they’re, if they’re delivering it over a weekend, that could be six hours in one day. So it can feel quite daunting to think, am I gonna be any good at that? Who’s gonna listen to me? And yeah, just, what if I invest this money and I’m actually rubbish at it? That is something that I hear from people quite often. So I thought in today’s episode, we would explore some of the things that you can do that will make you a really great teacher with clients that are listening and absorbing and implementing what it is that you are asking them to implement.

And I always have this in mind when I’m teaching Hypnobirthing to my Hypnobirthing clients, and also when I’m training people to become instructors. And that is tell me, and I forget, show me. And I remember, involve me and I understand. And that for me really says it all because when we are Hypnobirthing instructors, we are part teachers, part facilitators as well. So it’s really quite a dynamic role. So we are never, just always in that role of talking and lecturing and providing information in, you know, one format. We are encouraging people to get involved using different techniques to help them to understand our approach and, and what we are teaching them. And keeping in mind that the people in the room or the people that we’re working with, maybe auditory learners, visual learners, kinesthetic learners, those people might have some neurodiversity, which means that they learn differently from you.

So collaborative means, perhaps, like I’ve just already mentioned, that the group of people that you are working with may work together at times. So it could mean splitting your Hypnobirthing group into two smaller groups. Or it could mean if you’re teaching privately that you are asking the birth companion and the pregnant woman or pregnant person to work on something together to discuss something. So it might be that you’ve given them a scenario they might be presented with and, you know, given them some time to discuss, well, how would we deal with that? What questions would we ask? How would we approach it? What techniques might we need to employ to navigate this potential scenario? In terms of a larger group, it might be that you are teaching about where you are, where your clients might want to give birth. And so perhaps you might be asking them to come together to consider the pros and cons of different environments.

Like people from different cultures, different religious backgrounds, different races, people who have just had totally different upbringings to you, people who live in different countries or you could be working on Zoom. And so their lived experiences are different to yours, and that always provides opportunities for you to be able to learn, but also it’s important to be prepared to be able to safely work with those people. And so that’s why at The Calm Birth School, we organise training. Once you’ve completed your Hypnobirthing training, we organise annual training sessions that will help you to work with all kinds of different people with different life experiences.

So for example in the past we have run LGBTQ competency training with the Coya birth club. We have run, we do annually run The First Steps To Anti- Racism training with Lorna Phillips. And we are also in the process of organising a training with Neurodivergent birth so that my instructors can feel equipped to be able to support people who have neuro people who identify as neurodivergent. And of course, those opportunities are optional. There is an additional cost because we are collaborating with instructors and outside companies who have the expertise to deliver those kinds of training, but it is optional, but advised that at some point you take those additional trainings so that you can further your knowledge, your teaching skills and your experience. And at the end of those training sessions, you also get a certificate, but you also get what we call a button or like a logo from those different businesses that you can put on your website or you can put on your social media platforms.

And we, we give you a real depth of knowledge, but your clients don’t need to know absolutely everything that you are learning that’s going in your brain. We are giving you the depth of knowledge so that you are able to understand what you are teaching and answer questions that might come up for you as well. So a good teacher or a great teacher should be enthusiastic and really passionate as well. And if you are, you know, wanting to teach Hypnobirthing, I know that you’re gonna be a passionate person. And so conveying that enthusiasm to the people that you are teaching is really important. And when you are excited about what you are teaching, that’s infectious, so your clients will be more engaged and motivated and inspired by you as well. So it’s important, like I was saying in terms of inclusivity, that’s also really comes down to being able to adapt.

So a good teacher should be able to adapt their teaching style to meet the needs of the people in their room that they’re the people that they’re teaching. So understanding if there are any specific learning needs and being able to adjust your approach, which does come with, you know, experience and practice. So we’re not expecting you to start out and be the best teacher ever for everybody. You know, you have a case study, which is your first client, and that case study really allows you to go through the content and under because they know that they’re your case study and understand like, where could I maybe make this more in interactive or collaborative or, you know, have I conveyed that in a way that really helped them to understand? So you can really reflect upon your case study and your case study provides some reflections as well, which is always really helpful.

How can I help them get the experience that they want? How can I help them learn if, you know, if they are having any issues or, or difficulties? It’s important for a Hypnobirthing instructor to be a good communicator as well. This is definitely one of the top characteristics that we have cuz like I’ve said before, you’re gonna meet so many different types of people, which is one of their most amazing things. Being able to communicate clearly and effectively is important and does make a good teacher that enables you to be able to explain things properly and clearly and offer any guidance as well.

So a good teacher should also, like I’ve said before, have some interactive teaching methods, discussions, group activities, hands-on learning experiences even, but also provide self-led learning for clients as well. So with Hypnobirthing, we are working to empower our clients to make the right choices and decisions for them. You know, we are not making choices and decisions for them. We’re not picking and choosing what information they consume or we’re not telling them, this is good, this is bad, you shouldn’t do this, should, shouldn’t do that. We are presenting them with information and helping them to find the information and resources that they need to make the decisions for themselves. So often with signposting people to do their own research for things that might specifically pertain to them. And so encouraging them to do that. Self-Led learning is important as well. And when your clients are engaged, then you know, it keeps them interested, it keeps them coming back to the sessions, which they, I’m sure they would anyway cuz they paid for them, but it also keeps them motivated.

We ask you to prepare and deliver presentations at our live sessions, which can either be face-to-face in the UK or online over Zoom as particularly if you are overseas. You also get an instructor’s manual, which has got all the lesson plans in it, which has got activity ideas and equipment ideas. And we really encourage free will as well. We encourage you to be unique, to be you we’re not prescriptive in terms of how you teach or how you communicate with people because we want you to bring your own beautiful, unique self to your teaching because that is what’s going to help you to stand out from everybody else.

And so all that’s left for me to say is thanks for listening to the episode this week. I will be back next week with another little tidbit for you to absorb to help you understand more about training to teach Hypnobirthing and understanding more about what it is like. So if you have any comments or thoughts about my podcast, then feel free to head over to Instagram. I’m at The Calm Birth School, send me a dm. I’d love to connect with you or if you would like to learn more about my training course, I will put a link in the show notes so that you can check it out. And from that page you’ll be able to apply for the course or book a call with me. So it would be great to be able to speak to you soon. Have a great week.