• Mentorship

    NAPS Doulas is excited to announce our new, updated Mentorship program!

    After completing your doula training, navigating the next steps in your doula career can be an overwhelming process. A mentor serves as a valuable resource and listening ear during the process of interviewing and working with a family. Mentors are current members of NAPS, trained and experienced doulas, and have attended a NAPS Doulas Mentor Training.

    If you are interested in learning more about our mentorship program, please email us at mentorship@napsdoulas.com

    The goal of the NAPS Mentorship Relationship is to foster community, peer accountability, access to resources, and a mindset of continual learning and growth at every level of the NAPS organization. Putting into practice the expertise learned through training is a form of apprenticeship—working with someone more experienced to learn, skill by skill. It’s an ancestral pathway, which has Black and Indigenous roots. As part of our community goals of working towards equity and dismantling colonization practices, the NAPS Mentorship Relationship will honor and acknowledge the appropriation of these ancestral practices, recognize their own areas of privilege and bias, facilitate discussions about these areas of learning and growth, and guide one another to resources for continued learning when appropriate. With that acknowledgment, our goals are for every member to feel supported through their continued learning, client experiences, and the launch or expansion of their doula practices.

    We are currently training mentors for this program.  If you are an experienced NAPS doula interested in becoming a mentor, please fill out our Mentor Application.

    If you have any other questions, please contact the Mentorship Leads mentorship@napsdoulas.com