Orlando Doula Training
Keeping Your Power | Advocacy in Action
Learn to advocate in the birth space with confidence, skill, empathy, while implementing the Keeping Your Power® concepts developed by Traci Weafer. Join the commitment to reduce birth trauma by learning birth room advocacy skills.
Time & Location
October 11, 2025, 9:00 AM – October 12, 2025, 5:00 PM
Moonrise Birth Collective | 630 N Denning Drive, Winter Park, FL 32789
What's included in the workshop?
Why should doulas advocate?
Understanding our personal triggers that can hinder advocacy
True responsibilities
Biases and why they can cause birth trauma
Sustainable business practices and avoiding burnout
Keeping Your Power®
Perspective, conversations w/ empathy and compassion
Advocacy birthroom scenarios and practice
...and more!
Workshop Investment
CFBN Members: $249
Non-Members: $299
Please reach out to tamara@centralfloridabirthnetwork.org with questions or to discuss payment plan options.
Need a Hotel? There are plenty of places to stay nearby. These are just a few!
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Hilton Garden Inn Winter Park
1275 Lee Rd,
Winter Park, FL 32789This hotel is around the corner from where the training is being held.
It’s a 3 minute drive and less than 15 minute walk.
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SpringHill Suites Winter Park
1127 N Orlando Ave,
Winter Park, FL 32789This hotel is around the corner from where the training is being held.
It’s a 4 minute drive and less than 15 minute walk.
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Comfort Suites Downtown
2416 N. Orange Ave.,
Orlando, FL, 32804This hotel is a 10 minute drive from where the training is being held.
Are you ready to become a better Doula, Nurse, Childbirth Educator, Birth Worker… Advocate?
The challenges of advocating inside a broken system can feel lonely and frustrating for everyone in the birth team. We all have a responsibility to learn how to be better advocate support where 1 in 3 birthing people say they experience trauma. The hierarchy of power within the system is a myth. The only person with power is the birthing person and it is the birth team’s job to keep this person in the center of the decision-making process.
As birth workers, we have a special responsibility by being the most connected to the birthing person. We have a relationship and understanding with our clients that is unique. We are entrusted with information that we hold dear and need to relay this information to other members of the birth team if and when necessary. If you are leaving births cloudy-headed and asking yourself if you could have done something different... this is the workshop for you.
The Keeping Your Power®: Advocacy in Action workshop is a 2-day workshop for doulas to dive deeper into their advocacy identity and gain birthroom advocacy skills. This commitment will reduce trauma during labor and birth by keeping the person giving birth in the decision making process and keep their power while in a vulnerable place.
Join others who are making the same commitment to learn about themselves to be the best advocates, without getting kicked out of the birth room.
Who’s Our Guest Educator?
In Traci’s own words,
“I have been serving within the birth community for over 20 years! I’m local to the River Region and Montgomery Alabama, but serve birthing people and birth professionals from all over the world. I’m passionate about birth and am committed to educating, supporting, and serving in any way I can to help a family meet their birthing goals.
My commitment to the incredible people I serve is evidenced by my drive to provide current, personal, and evidence-based information, as well as individualized support to families. In my home state (Alabama) currently has a cesarean rate of 34%, but the Healthy People 2020 target is 23%. With these discouraging numbers, I have continued to educate myself to advocate for my clients and have committed to helping educate families to lower primary and repeat cesareans. I’ve served as a mentor and trainer to her fellow doulas, and a Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator. I’ve recently launched my one-of-a-kind Doula Insights Comprehensive Childbirth Class!
As an Advanced Advocate Doula and Educator with high-level experience, Among a wide range of services, I am offering high-risk services such as VBAC, sexual abuse, birth trauma, and higher-risk pregnancy issues as well as low-risk births, natural pain free plans and homebirths.
With the finalization for the trademark of my Keeping Your Power® concept in 2019, I began to see the need for a deep dive mentoring membership program for Doulas to continue their education in advocate support. Currently, I am including in the membership community other birth workers who serve birthing people and are committed to respectful care and reducing trauma in the birth space.
I began my childbirth professional education after the birth of my first son, Christopher. Christopher was born with a heart defect and underwent open heart surgery at two months, at which time I was not encouraged to continue breastfeeding. While educating myself during my second pregnancy, I knew I wanted this birth to be different. I grew angry and the educational choices in Montgomery, and knew I wanted to one day bring better childbirth and breastfeeding education to her community. I was a teenage mom who was under the impression that my age was the reason I was not provided with the education or support I would have gotten otherwise. I have learned SO much over the years!