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We value the importance of continuing education in our community!

  • 2013 - DONA International approved Birth Doula Training (Mariah Falin)
  • 2014 February – Birth into Breastfeeding: A Breastfeeding Webinar with Jennifer Tow and Special Guests Patrick Houser and Gena Kirby  (online) (Mariah Falin)
  • 2014 March - TENS and Rebozo Training with Carrie Kenner of Big Belly Services (Seattle, WA) (Mariah Falin)
  • 2014 October – NW Doula Conference attendee (Renton, WA) (Mariah Falin)
  • 2015 February – PALS Advance Doula Training with Heidi Koss: Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorder (Seattle, WA) (Mariah Falin)
  • 2015 March – Breastfeeding for Doulas – Simkin Center for Allied Birth Professionals | Kirkland, WA (Mariah Falin)
  • 2015 July – PALS (Puget Sound Labor Support) Doulas Board member (Mariah Falin)
  • 2015 June – PALS Advance Doula Training with Sharon Muza: Working with VBAC clients | Seattle, WA
  • 2015 October – NW Doula Conference (Organizing Committee and attendee) | Seattle, WA
  • 2015 November – Healing Birth Trauma online conference attendee
  • 2016 January – Swedish Doula Program Participant | Seattle, WA
  • 2016 February – Pre and Perinatal Psychology  of Bonding – Barb Decker (Mariah Falin)
  • 2016 Feb-April -Penny Simkin’s Home and Birth Center Childbirth Education Series (Center for Birth) – Class Assistant - Mariah Falin
  • 2016 March – REACHE Conference (Regional Association of Childbirth Educators of Puget Sound): What does today’s research say? Helping expectant families understand evidence based care  with Sharon Muza, Rebecca Dekker, and Christine Morton. (Mariah Falin) 
  • 2016 March – When a Baby Dies (Supporting Families through Grief and Loss) – Gigi Wickwire
  • 2016 April - Spinning Babies w/Gail Tully (Seattle, WA)
  • 2016 July - DONA International Conference (Bellevue, WA)
  • 2016 September - APPPAH Regional Conference - Pathways to Prenatal Wholeness: Integrating Healthcare Disciplines in a 21st Century Dialogue  with Stephen Bezruchka, MD, Vincent Felitti, MD, Joel M. Evans, MD, Wendy McCarty, PhD, RN, Gerhard Schroth, MD, Phyllis Klaus, LMFT, LMSW,  Jennie Joseph, LP, CPM et.al. (Kenmore, WA) (Mariah Falin)
  • 2016 October - 9th Northwest Doula Conference (Seattle, WA) (Mariah Falin)​
  • 2016 October - Northwest Birth Assistant Course (Kirkland, WA) (Mariah Falin)
  • 2016 March - Spinning Babies w/Gail Tully x3 (Seattle, WA) (Mariah Falin)
  • 2016 March – REACHE Conference (Regional Association of Childbirth Educators of Puget Sound) (Mariah Falin)
  • 2017 April - Breast-sleeping with Dr. James McKenna (Kenmore, WA)
  • 2017 February - Tongue Tie and Chiropractic - Catherine Fenner, IBCLC and Dr. Chelsea Moe, PC​​
  • 2017 April - Spinning Babies w/Tammy Ryan x4 (Redmond & Edmonds, WA)
  • 2017 October -  10th Annual Northwest Doula Conference - Jen McLellan (Plus Size Birth)/Ashlee Wells (4th Trimester Bodies Project) (Seattle, WA)
  • 2017 September/October DONA Postpartum Training (Seattle, WA)
  • 2018 March - Spinning Babies w/Rachel Shapiro x4 (Tacoma & Edmonds, WA)
  • 2018 May - Biologixx Bloodborne Pathogen Training/WA State Food Handlers Permit (Seattle, WA)
  • 2018 May - Trauma Informed Care
  • 2018 June Penny Simkin Day of Learning with Penny Simkin, CD (​Look (Back) Before You Leap (Forward)  Dr. Neel Shah, MD (Designing Systems to Improve Care for Every Mother, Everywhere), Dr. Andrew Kotaska, MD (,Informed Consent & Refusal: an Ethical and Pragmatic Guide|Intact cord resuscitation: more than hemoglobin), Dr. Melissa Cheyney, CPM (The Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) Statistics Project: “Troubling” the Technocracy) Katie Rohs, CD (Gender, Language, Pregnancy, and Birth: A Panel Discussion) Kathy McGrath, CD (Seattle, WA) (Mariah Falin)
  • 2018 June - PALS Conducting Effective Postpartum Meetings Panel (Seattle, WA) (Mariah Falin)
  • 2018 October - Northwest Doula Conference (Mariah Falin)
  • 2018 October - President of PALS Doulas (Mariah Falin)(through May 2021)
  • 2019 October - Northwest Doula Conference (Mariah Falin)
  • 2019 April - Biologixx Bloodborne Pathogen Training/WA State Food Handlers Permit (Seattle, WA)(Mariah Falin)
  • 2020 Summer - COVID Convenings Workgroups with Ariadne Labs  (Mariah Falin)
  • 2020 August - Biologixx Bloodborne Pathogen Training/WA State Food Handlers Permit (Seattle, WA)(Mariah Falin)
  • 2021 February - When Survivors Give Birth - Penny Simkin and Phyllis Klaus  (Seattle, WA) (Mariah Falin)
  • 2021 September - Biologixx Bloodborne Pathogen Training/WA State Food Handlers Permit (Seattle, WA) (Mariah Falin)