The Advocacy Training: Colorado Springs, Colorado

JUNE 13-14 2025

Early bird tickets available now! Grab your 10% early bird discount with code: EARLYBIRDCO

This is the training you missed: the one that equips you to elevate your clients in the birth room. The one that educates you on the legal realities of birth, and on hospital policies, practices and loopholes. This is the training that helps you become a bridge-builder, a leader, a confident representative of your client's needs and values as a certified patient advocate.

This ticket includes:

  • Two full days of training
  • Value-packed workbook and birth bag flashcards
  • The opportunity to role play every advocacy tool with seasoned pros
  • Two lunches

[This ticket does not include lodging, breakfast or dinners. Contact our hosts at [email protected] with questions about local accommodations or transportation.]

***No refunds after 14 days prior to event, with the sole exception of attendance at a client's birth.

 CERTIFICATION AS A PERINATAL PATIENT ADVOCATE

 After you have completed this 2-day training, there are only two steps left to become a certified PPA! (Anyone may take this training regardless of intention to certify.)

  1. Apply for your certifying exams within six months of your training. Testing fee is $40. 
  2. Take your written exam, and your virtual oral exam. 

What People Are Saying:

This retreat was such a wonderful environment to learn and practice advocacy skills, in a setting that was intimate and comfortable. I feel like I have so many new tools to help me be a better advocate for my clients! Meredith and Alicia are organized and articulate and full of wisdom and experience that they so willingly and lovingly shared With all of us! I can’t recommend this training enough if you are looking to improve yourself and your business as a Birth worker! Also, so many things that are applicable to not only birth work, but just real life and relationships!

Tara Martinsen

Meredith and Alicia envision doulas as genuine champions of physiological birth, serving as advocates within the birthing community and standing alongside families on their empowered journey to birth. They skillfully share tools and strategies that nurture the holistic well-being of families, encompassing mental, physical, and spiritual health. They aspire for families to emerge from the birthing experience not only knowledgeable and confident but also equipped to positively impact the world through the improved communication and deep connection that comes with an empowered birth experience.

Lori Barklage

$597.00 USD

By purchasing a ticket to the Intentional Birth Advocacy Retreat you agree to the following terms:

FOOD, TRAVEL, AND ACCOMMODATION

  1. You are responsible for your own transport before, during, and after the retreat. Please email us if you would like to be matched with another attendee for carpooling.
  2. You are responsible for your own accommodation for the duration of the retreat. Early purchasers have the option of staying inexpensively on site.
  3. We will provide two lunches and two breakfasts. You are responsible for your own dinners.

CANCELLATION POLICY

  1. If it is necessary to cancel your registration for The Advocacy Retreat, please provide as much advance notice as possible so the host can offer the available space to another attendee. Registration fees cannot be transferred to another retreat.
  2. If a request for cancellation is received thirty (30) or more days prior to the start date of a retreat, a refund of the retreat cost minus a $50 administrative fee will be issued.
  3. If a cancellation request is received between thirty (30) days and fourteen (14) days prior to the start of a retreat, 50% of the program cost will be refunded, or credited toward a future event.
  4. If a cancellation request is received less than fourteen (14) days prior to the start of a retreat, none of the retreat cost will be refunded, but 50% may be credited toward a future event.
  5. No refund will be given if an attendee leaves early or arrives late. Out of consideration for others on the waiting list, please make a commitment to attend the entire retreat.
  6. Intentional Birth reserves the right to cancel the event for any reason (including, without limitation, by reason of a Force Majeure Event), and will refund all program costs and registration fees in such a case.
  7. If you have questions or would like further assistance to register for The Advocacy Retreat, please contact us at [email protected] for more information.

ASSUMPTION OF RISK

  1. You acknowledge that you have voluntarily enrolled to participate in this retreat. In consideration of Intentional Birth allowing you to participate, you agree to this release of claims, waiver of liability and assumption of risks. You release Intentional Birth from liability for any personal injury, death, property damage or loss or any nature suffered by you as a result of participation in any activity related to the retreat. 

MEDIA RELEASE

  1. You grant to Intentional Birth the absolute and irrevocable right and unrestricted permission concerning any captured media that she/he has taken or may take of you or in which you may be included with others, to use, reuse, publish, and republish in whole or in part, individually or in connection with other material, in any and all publishing platforms now or hereafter known, including the Internet, and for any purpose whatsoever, specifically including illustration, promotion, art, editorial, advertising, and trade, without restriction as to alteration; and to use your name in connection with any use if she/he so chooses. You release and discharge Intentional Birth from any and all claims and demands that may arise out of or in connection with the use of the media, including without limitation any and all claims for libel or violation of any right of publicity or privacy. 
  2. To opt out of this media release, you must email [email protected] with the email subject MEDIA RELEASE EXEMPTION and your request will be accommodated.