The first step towards embodying the role of leader in one’s community and embarking on the path of sovereign birth-work involves excavating the Self, and claiming a life of integrity.

Foundational to the MatriBirth Mentor Institute is our life-changing self-mastery program: an immersive, experiential redesign of your beliefs, stories, assumptions, and unconscious commitments, allowing you to unlock your potential and uplevel your success in every area of your life. 

Based on the The Conscious Leadership Institute pedagogy (and introduced briefly in The Radical Birth Keeper School), the tools of self-mastery involves a deep dive into the a reconfiguration of consciousness, giving you the skills required to become a self-actualized leader in the birth world and beyond.

Encountering the Self

Week 1 | The Road Map to the Four States of Consciousness 

Week 2 | Unpacking Full Responsibility & Living in Curiosity 

Week 3 | Body Mapping & Emotional Intelligence  

Week 4 | Learning Candor, Congruency, and Integrity 

Week 5 | Your Unique Lane of Genius: Living in Your Full Aliveness 

Week 6 | Practicing Appreciation, Play, Rest, and Renewal

Week 7 | Understanding Projection: The Four Questions of Self Inquiry 

Week 8 | Sourcing from Within: Harnessing Our Own Approval, Security, and Control 

Week 9 | Choosing Enoughness: I Am, I Deserve 

Week 10 | The World as My Ally: I Am the Solution 

Week 11 |  Persona Play: Befriending Our Hard Wired Behaviors and Working with Guides

The Matribirth Mentor Institute offers a radical departure from the dominant paradigm of obstetric birth, delivering a grounded education in the physiology of pregnancy and childbirth supported by expert spotlight teachers, while remaining rooted in a psycho-spiritual approach that rightfully represents birth-work as service and spiritual vocation.

MMI is grounded in the commitment to birth as a sacred transformational ritual as much as it is a physical experience. When we combine devotion, knowledge, and wisdom as sovereign midwives, our work and our lives become Art.

The Sovereign Birth Paradigm

Week 1 | The Root Cause 

• The Far-Reaching Impacts of Industrial Birth
• How Midwifery has Shaped the Cult of Obstetrics (and vice versa)
• Empowerment Culture and the Myth of Informed Consent
• Ethics of the Embodied Birth Keeper

Week 2 | Introducing the Sovereign Birth Paradigm 

• Ethical Birth-Work and the Sovereign Frame
• Becoming an Embodied Sovereign Birth Attendant
• The Freebirth Revolution
• No One Can Attend a Freebirth
• The Principles of Sovereign Consciousness 

Week 3 | Knowing Birth 

• How Physiological Birth Unfolds
• Supporting & Protecting Undisturbed Birth
• The Alchemical Imprint of Physiological Birth
• Navigating Birth Culture, Legalities, & Politics
• Certifications vs Licensure

Week 4 | The Sovereign Birth Keeper Code

• The Cognitive Dissonance of Licensed Midwifery 
• How To Be a Grown Woman
• The 8 Pillars of Authentic Birth-Work
• Traversing the 4 Stepping Stones of Sovereign Birth-Work 
• The Commitments of the Resourced Birth Keeper 
  
  

Walking With Women

Week 5 | Your Lighthouse Birth Practice

• Establishing Your Integral Birth Practice 
• Deconstructing Birth Client Interviews
• Red Flags and Security 
• Wild Pregnancy: Supporting Pregnancy Outside the System
• Symptoms & Self-Healing During Pregnancy
• Case Studies 

Week 6 | Prenatal Support

• The Prenatal Connection Session
• Moving Through the Three Seasons of Pregnancy
• Using a Fetoscope 
• Palpation 
• Anemia 
• The RH Factor 
• Cholestasis 
• Pre-eclampsia 
• Prenatal Nutrition and Movement 
• Approaching the Veil of Birth
• Being on Call and Handling Back Ups
• Early Early Labor, Missing Births, & Showing Up Clean
• Working with Trauma 
• Preparing the Family: managing roles and expectations 
• Working with Single Mothers 

Week 7 | The Internal and External Energetics of a Birth Keeper

• Sacred and Spiritual Birth-Work 
• Logistics of Attending Birth
• Mastering the Energy of the Birth Room  
• VBAC
• Emergence and Newborn First Breaths 
• Placental Examination 
• Waterbirth
• Birth Photography 

Week 8 | The Unexpected

• Supporting Women Through the Unexpected
• Long Births 
• Precipitous Births 
• Preterm Birth
• Variations of Normal
• Breech 
• Twins
• Resolving Complications at Home 
• Excessive Bleeding
• The Birth of the Placenta 
• Cord Snapping 
• Bladder Challenges 
• Early Ruptured Membranes

Week 9 | Navigating Rare Emergencies

• Transfer
• Shoulder Dystocia 
• Uterine Rupture 
• Placental Abruption 
• Transverse & Positioning Issues 
• Hemorrhage 
• Meconium Aspiration 
• Cord Prolapse 

Week 10 | Death Work is Birth Work: Supporting the Full-Spectrum of Loss

• Supporting Miscarriage: Within and Outside of the System 
• When a Baby Dies in Pregnancy 
• When a Baby Dies in Labor 
• Surprise Stillbirth
• Known Stillbirth 
• Abortion: Within and Outside of the System 
• Spiritual Loss: The Seasons of Womanhood 

Facilitating Sacred Postpartum

Week 11 | Sacred Postpartum

• Supporting Breastfeeding 
• The First 3 days: What to Expect for the Mother
• Supporting Postpartum Logistics  
• Trailing membranes 
• Retained placenta 
• Mother’s Postpartum Recovery
• A Fresh Perspective on Tearing
• The Thriving Newborn: Understanding the Scope of Newborn Physiology and Behavior
• First 40 days - What a New Mother Needs to Thrive and Integrate 
• Diastasis Recti, Hemorrhoids, Prolapse 
• Organizing Support & Holding Space 
• Co-sleeping
• Sex & Sexuality
• Body Issues and Yoni Changes 
• Conducting a Postpartum Debrief

It is a delight to introduce within the MatriBirth Mentor Institute program, two core MatriBirth methodologies: The MatriBirth Trauma Integration Method and MatriBirth Sovereign Childbirth Education.  

The MatriBirth Sovereign Childbirth Education program is a complete training in our unique signature childbirth education curriculum, rooted in the consciousness of radical responsibility and birth liberation.

The program includes a teacher manual, sample class plans, instruction on how to teach with power and inspiration, and parent handouts, along with a module on successfully marketing your birth education classes in your community and online. 

The MatriBirth Trauma Integration Method is an unprecedented leading-edge coaching program that offers a profoundly compassionate, emancipatory, and effective approach to supporting women who are healing from obstetric violence, abuse, and mistreatment.

The MatriBirth Trauma Integration Method approach combines a revolutionary understanding of the root causes not only of birth-related trauma itself, but of its reverberations throughout the collective culture and individual lifelines, with a focus on integrating and resolving subconscious patterning. This module will equip MMI students with the core competencies required to begin a practice as skilled birth-related trauma debrief practitioners.   

Teaching Sovereign Childbirth Education

Week 1 | The MatriBirth Childbirth Education Curriculum + Recorded Live Series

Week 2 | Teaching Etiquette: How to Run a Transformational Container 

Week 3 | Business and Troubleshooting 

The Fundamental Elements of Powerful Coaching Virtually and In-Person

Week 4 |The Coaching Framework & Practice 

Week 5 | Assuming the Role of a Truly Grounded Coach: Power, Rightful Authority, and Triggers 

Week 6 | Business Essentials, Coaching Ethics, and Etiquette: Professionalism and Building an Internal Business Structure 

Introducing the MatriBirth Trauma Integration Method

Week 7 | Deconstructing Birth-Related Trauma 

Week 8 | Who Are the Women, the Spectrum of Readiness 

Week 9 | Conducting Birth Trauma Debriefs 

Week 10 | Asking Transformational Questions and Coaching with Presence, Candour, and Compassion

Week 11 | Transmuting Trauma Into Power: The Next Steps

Whether you’re brand new to the professional world of birth-work, or re-birthing an existing business, our business school will give you the tools, the action-steps, and the roadmap for not only building a successful birth-business, but for creating a life and legacy of true abundance and financial freedom. With the guidance of two of the most successful business-women in the birth-world, you’ll design and implement your business plan, face and fix your residual money-hangups, and finally raise your thermostat setting so that you can truly shift from scarcity to abundance. 

In a rapidly accelerating social landscape, more and more women are recognizing that financial freedom and self-sufficiency are the keys to collective wealth and thriving. MatriBirth Mentor Institute’s business program is your path to creating a lifestyle that is easeful, profitable, sustainable, and profoundly rooted in love and service to motherbaby and families.

The Step-by-Step Guide to Awakening Your Birth Brand

Week 1 | Birthing Your Brand 

Week 2 | Setting Up Your Platforms and Assets and Crafting Your Offers 

Week 3 | Money: Your Relationship to Money, How to Make It, Agreements, When to Hire

Week 4 | How to Write Authentic and Impactful Copy

Week 5 | Using Social Media Without Being Used: Healthy Strategies and Perspective 

Week 6 | Expressing Your Unique Voice: Thriving in the World of AI 

Week 7 | Creating Easy Customer Funnels That Sell: Newsletters, Opt-Ins, and Campaigns

Week 8 | Doing the Work: Discipline, Consistency, Rhythms, and Flow 

Week 9 | Nurturing Your Women-Centered Business: How to Network Online and In Person in Sisterhood

Week 10 | Integration: Action Steps for Your Continued Success 

Week 11 | Launching Your Business into the World!

Our Monthly Spotlight Workshops for '25-'26

We’re honored to feature a powerful lineup of brilliant teachers sharing rare, invaluable teachings. These sessions dive deep into the wisdom, skills, and nuance essential to a truly sovereign birth practice.

With each year of the MatriBirth Mentor Institute, our guest teachers offer transformative, embodied workshops. These sessions don’t disappear—they’re added to our growing Spotlight Teacher Library, an ever-expanding archive you’ll have ongoing access to. That means you receive not just this year’s wisdom, but the legacy of all those who came before you.

Our past teacher workshops include:

Sister MorningStar

The Primal Newborn Transition:  | It is with great honor and privilege that we welcome elder independent midwife and high priestess, Sister MorningStar, to share her wisdom on the final stages of birth and the newborn transition, including the birth of the placenta. Sister is a foremother in the sovereign midwifery movement, with a particular passion in the newborn transition. She will teach you about the newborn first breaths from both a physiological and spiritual perspective, how to support a woman as she releases the placenta, and how to hold space for a mother intuitively assisting her baby to transition. 

Dr. Rebecca Cohen

The Postpartum Pelvis | Join sovereign midwife, OBGYN turned RBK graduate, and holistic women’s health care practitioner to learn about the postpartum pelvis from a physiological standpoint. You’ll discover the ancient practices that support real pelvic healing after birth, including how to prepare the women you serve for this sacred time. This workshop will cover prolapse, tearing, diastasis-recti, and more. This is essential wisdom for anyone working with postpartum women.

Arielle de Martinez

Herbs, Homeopathy, and Cell Salts | This workshop will introduce the application of natural medicines for both the midwife herself, and the families she serves. You'll learn the art of cultivating an effective, respectful, and appropriate relationship to plant allies and earth’s healing elements, with an emphasis on the distinction between allopathic herbalism and the role plants and natural healing can play throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

Nancy Lucina

Ritualizing the Motherhood Continuum | Join Nancy Lucina, Shamanic Facilitator, to learn the importance of ritual and ceremony for marking significant passages in women’s lives. Nancy will guide you through the steps to ritualize pregnancy loss, mother blessings, and the postpartum transition. This aspect of midwifery is incredibly important as you learn to support women through such powerful portals as pregnancy, birth, and newborn motherhood. The skill of shamanic facilitation will support you and the women you serve to access real, sustainable growth and embodiment through these passages.  

Kristin Hauser

The Female Hormonal Matrix | Learn from hormone expert, acupuncturist and herbalist, Kristin Hauser, about the hormonal phases of a woman's life cycle. Hormones are not a pathology. Instead, they weave a rich tapestry of thriving health throughout our reproductive lives. This workshop will give you an understanding of the phases of womanhood through the lens of our amazing hormones as they impact pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and beyond, and how to physiologically support women through it all.

Andrea Sager

3 Steps to Legally Protect Your Business | Learn from Business Attorney, Andrea Sager, about the essential foundations of legally protecting your business—including entities (LLCs), contracts, and intellectual property. This is a powerful addition for anyone building their practice or dreaming into their future work. 

Ari Stewart, North Carolina
Ari is a Sovereign Business Director and has been FBS’s Lead Operations Director for 5 years. Her work embodies the business operations side of the radical women’s liberation movement.

Caitlyn Collins, South Africa
Caitlyn is a mother, wife, nature worshiper, embodiment guide, self-mastery coach, birthkeeper, and lifelong student of the sacred cycles of life. She has been attending sovereign births for over a decade and holds deep faith in the body as a sacred healing vessel where are souls are free and sovereign.

Kate Varsava, Canada
Kate is a mother, birth keeper, midwitch, medicine maker, yogi, song writer and teacher. For over a decade Kate has been attending sovereign birth in the safety of women’s homes. She also facilitates women’s circles and is an advocate for the art of personal responsibility. 

Bec Wild, Australia 
Bec is a Women's Self Mastery Coach and Radical Birth Keeper who intertwines science, history, psychology, and spirit to support and challenge women to take back their power.

Jess Owens, Canada
Jess is a Radical Birth Keeper who walks with women through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, offering in-person support and virtual coaching, while exploring their autonomous choices.