Lifetime access to the online course Bring Relief With Your Debrief
Includes a live training day over Zoom to practice the skills and framework
Invitation to join the closed facebook group community of TBR practitioners and students
Mentored assessment process
Regular monthly supervision in small groups
Next live training for 2025:
Tuesday 17th June
Wednesday 8th October
☛ Make any listening, debriefing or consulting service a valuable, satisfying opportunity for recovery from trauma
☛ Learn a tried and tested process for hearing birth stories in a way that can guide a person towards their own capacity to heal?
☛ Know how to avoid re-traumatising, re-triggering and gas lighting during listening services?
☛ Have ability and skill to make debriefs the starting point for growth, understanding and healing?
☛ Learn at your own pace with a course that represents 12 hours of CPD.
☛ Have an opportunity to practice the key skills at one of our live training days.
☆ This course has been created for all birth professionals, pre & postnatal specialists and HCP who regularly hear difficult stories and want to do more.
☆ Learn the framework for safe listening that I have been teaching to over 500 professionals since 2016.
☆ Be that professional who is remembered for making a tangible difference when they listened in a way that promotes recovery.
☆ Be able to offer, with confidence, a listening service that is a valuable initiation to healing.
♀ Wished you could do more to support parents who are clearly still impacted by their difficult or traumatic birth experience?
♀ Worried about their emotional and physical health and wellbeing but feel powerless to make a difference?
♀ Felt concerned that the trauma symptoms that they are experiencing a barrier to the other service that you wish to deliver?
♀ Felt frustrated that there are few adequately trained perinatal emotional health specialists to refer clients onto?
What if you had the confidence to offer a valued service to the 1000s of parents who want to talk about what happened because they instinctively know that it is the first step to feeling differently?
What if these skills were able to positively inform your entire birth or pre & postnatal service, giving you the reputation as a professional who can make a difference to traumatised parents.
This course offers fantastic value by providing life time access to the online course Bring Relief With Your Debrief.
These skills and techniques are priceless and will enhance anyone's professional service working in the perinatal field.
There is a real desire from parents to access more listening services more easily.
Sadly Covid19 has seen more distressed, traumatised parents and HCP all of whom could do with being heard in a way which brings relie
Our robust, mentored assessment process is available once students have completed the course content.
This builds confidence and prepares professionals to safely and gently listen to parents in their own practice.
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On successful completion of the assessments for this course students can be listed on the website as Practitioners offering a trauma informed listening ear..
We offer small group supervision, twice a month, online over Zoom, to ensure best practice, continued learning and development. These sessions are just £10 per session.
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‘I have finally completed Bring Relief with your Debrief.
I really enjoyed it and I think it will be so beneficial to my practice in general. I'm now a Specialist Bereavement Midwife at GSTT.
I would love to implement it into my work in PAL in the future but really appreciate all your hard work, explanations and the interview and one week progress report. Very powerful.
Thank you for both these courses Alex!’
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'Debrief: people always want to talk about their birth experience and rightly so, but it always bothered me that I may not provide the relief they need during this discussion.
This course has taught me to thoroughly listen, without thinking about what to say next. Most people just want to feel heard and validated, they don't need solutions and I have now supported many people using Alex's trusted technique with great success.
We all think we are good listeners, but I certainly question whether I was truly hearing people before taking this course.'
‘I have found the training to be very useful in my work as a midwife. I have used it to help colleagues with the effects of vicarious trauma. I have completed several forms of therapy training and felt that with Alex the value was very high. Ongoing support and supervision is excellent. She has created a community.’
Everything you need to know
This course teaches a debriefing or listening process that when applied can be a satisfying and healing process for both parents and birth professionals.
It teaches how to avoid re-traumatising and gaslighting (two things that debriefed parents frequently complain of) and how to use conversational techniques to focus on how they feel instead.
This is a service that can be confidently offered to parents either as part of their maternity healthcare pathway or privately.
From this position parents are able to gain confidence in their HCP or support team to continue recovering from their experience or by planning for their next better birth.
The course is delivered online over 5 mixed media modules that include pdf, audio and video case study that demonstrate the techniques.
On enrolling students receive a Welcome pack containing details on how to access the online course.
You will have lifetime access to this course and can return to review the content whenever you like.
There are mentored assessments that you can complete at the end of your study and we recommend that you complete these within 6 months of enrolment.
No. We cover a lot of the content on the live study day.
However you will need to review all of the online content before starting the assessments that this course has.
No. You can just review the online content and move on to the assessments.
However the live study day does provide you with the opportunity to practice some of the key skills covered and so is highly recommended, especially when working with a case study for the course assessments.
If you wish to cancel your enrolment on an online course you may do so within 7 days, so long as the course has not been accessed or started.
Refunds are given at the discretion of TBR College and must be requested in writing within 7 days of purchasing the course.
No refund will be given in the event that the course has already been started; it is not possible to offer refunds for partially viewed courses. We therefore highly recommend you read the course outline carefully before enrolling on a course to ensure it meets with your expectations.
Why did I create this course?
I first started surveying parents about their debriefing experiences in 2019 because, as a therapist working with traumatised parents I often heard that they had under gone a debrief with their HCP and that very often it had been a re-traumatising process that had brought more grief, upset and anxiety.
I was curious to know why parents request a debrief, what their expectation of such a session is. Indeed I often asked the parents who described their woeful experience why they were seeking a debrief and very often they replied that it had been suggested by a friend, loved one or even a GP.
Sometimes the debrief happened with no warning as part of a VBAC or birth choices clinic or consultant appointment. Often these impromptu discussions about what had happened last time were so re-triggering they left the woman speechless with anger, distress and anxiety about their impending subsequent birth.
One woman responding to the survey commented ‘I did not even get told the appointment was for a debrief. I thought it was review of my injuries. The experience was almost as horrific as the actual labour and birth trauma. I later found out have PTSD. Which explains the hysterical, rocking, crying, flashbacks and panic during him talking. The ‘debrief’ made everything worse’
I had lots of anecdotal accounts of maternity debriefs, some requested, some unplanned and I was interested to know if this was just the experience of parents that I was supporting or if it was reflective of what parents seeking a debrief generally experience.
I learnt that many parents want to talk about their experiences as a way of beginning to understand their feelings around what happened. Many see it as the first stage of recovery. However there simply are not enough adequately trained professionals who understand the nuances of perinatal trauma and the parenting life stage to be able to meet the demand of parents seeking this service.
I have trained over 600 professionals in these skills since 2016 A debrief should be the beginning of a persons healing journey NOT another source of trauma. Join the professionals who all know how to bring relief with their debrief today.