As a member, you get lifetime access to the community and the Transplant Doula core course. The course has 9 modules and is regularly updated to stay relevant and provide you with the latest in the transplant world. We encourage you to revisit the material whenever an update is released.
THE CORE COURSE
A Comprehensive Course to Become a Transplant Doula
Module 1
The Role of the Transplant Doula
We explore the role of a transplant doula: what it can include, what it doesn’t include, and what it means for the transplant landscape.
Module 2
Organ Transplantation & Donation
Everything you need to know about solid organ transplantation. This includes history, a bit of biology, and the general transplant team structure. We’ll also discuss details of cadaver organ donation, living organ donors, and awareness.
Module 3
Pre-Transplant
When someone learns they need an organ transplant, their world changes. This module will teach you all about transplant candidacy, considerations for center research, developing medication plans, finances, and other factors that will play into your clients’ experience.
Module 4
Waiting for Transplant
Doulas can be of huge support while waiting for a transplant—like navigating the shifts in habits, routines, and lifestyle changes, preparing for practicalities, and understanding possible challenges.
Module 5
The Transplant
Learn what a doula can, should, and should not do in supporting pre-op, surgery, and post-op. We’ll explore various matters that can arise with family, common complications patients face, and best practices for navigating hospital matters.
Module 6
Post-Transplant
Once the transplant is complete, life shifts significantly. Learn how doulas can support with support team management, medication and compliance matters, and general home follow up care.
Module 7
Rumble with Mortality
Medical directives, end-of-life planning, and the organization of life affairs is one aspect of support doulas can provide transplant patients and living organ donors while they wait for a transplant—but there’s so much to review, it’s gotten its own module!
Module 8
Care for the Caregiver
Your client’s primary caregiver is navigating their own journey throughout this event—some of which might even echo the patient’s journey. Learn how to care to the caregiver: things to be mindful of, and more.
Module 9
Building Bridges
This module aims to provide alternative language that better serves families while partnering with policymakers in hospitals, transplant centers, clinics, and care facilities to create effective, accurate, and family-friendly policies. It shares insight to being a valued part of the transplant team.
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
A Comprehensive Course to Become a Transplant Doula
As a member, you get lifetime access to the community and the Transplant Doula core course. The course has 9 modules and is regularly updated to stay relevant and provide you with the latest in the transplant world. We encourage you to revisit the material whenever an update is released.
Expand Your Service
Gain the skills and confidence to offer comprehensive care across various transplant-related situations, broadening your impact and service capabilities.
Deepen Your Understanding
Deepen your knowledge on a wide range of topics such as end-of-life care, emotional regulation, behaviors, somatic practices…the list is endless. Every month, we share a new training or resource that we feel members will benefit from.
Stay Informed
Stay current with the latest in transplant care. Our training materials are periodically reviewed and updated, and we provide relevant industry information, research papers, and more— to make sure that you have access to vetted resources.
Business
We do not subscribe to “dream selling” (you know the kind—you’ll make six figures doing what you love!), but we can support you by sharing business and marketing experience that has been applied to real-life scenarios as a doula. You’ll be guided in building a doula practice that is truly sustainable to your life.
Marketing
Whether it’s to find clients or to build awareness and solicit opportunities to share education around the role of a transplant doula, marketing is a needed tool in your doula toolbox—and we share a wealth of information about how you can build a sustainable practice that doesn’t rely only on social media and word of mouth.
Accountability
Benefit from a supportive community that keeps you accountable. Participate in group coaching sessions and one-on-one consultations to stay on track with your goals, receive constructive feedback, and continuously improve your practice.
Wisdom Sharing At Its Best
Monthly Group Coaching
Every month, we come together to share what’s working and what’s not; we help mold the overarching standards of this work while walking alongside one another. These group coaching calls are a hot-seat format, giving everyone the chance to bring whatever they’d like to the table and have space held for them, receive feedback, or get help in brainstorming something out.
Tailored Guidance
Monthly 1:1 Coaching
Every month, you have the option to schedule a one-on-one coaching call with Michelle Montgomery. The focus of this call can be on anything—insights you’ve gleaned as you move through the training, developing business and marketing strategies specific to your practice goals, digging into your doula work with clients (while maintaining confidentiality, of course), and more.
Ongoing Education
Research & Industry Discussions
The field of organ transplantation is always shifting and evolving. We work to curate relevant and timely research that is pertinent to a transplant doula’s work. Likewise, we also connect once a month for insightful industry discussions; these are great events to attend whether you’re a member or not (yes, our industry discussions are open to the public!) so that you can keep a finger on the pulse of what other doulas are doing.
ENDLESS AND ACTIONABLE
Resources to Grow Your Practice
We’re actively building a library of resources to help you in your transplant doula work,. These include (and certainly aren’t limited to) plug-and-play templates, workbooks, examples and more.