Simkin Center at Bastyr University's Birth Doula Skills Workshop

Kim James

Certified Birth Doula

Certified Childbirth Educator

The Simkin Center for Allied Birth Vocations at Bastyr University

I am an instructor at the Simkin Center for Allied Birth Vocations at Bastyr University and co-teach the birth doula skills workshop. Here is my 2012 schedule:

February 9-10 and 16-17

Co-taught with Teri Shilling. Two weekend workshop. Click here to register.

March 9-10 and 16-17

Co-taught with Jenna Noelke. Two weekend workshop. Click here to register.

June 25 - 28

Co-taught with Penny Simkin. Four day workshop. Click here to register.

October 19-20 and 26-27.

Co-taught with Jenna Noelke and Sharon Muza. Two weekend workshop. Click here to register.

The Simkin Center offers the birth doula labor support course almost every month of the year with varying formats, from weekend intensives to 4-weekday seminars. Please click here to see the full schedule of labor support courses to find the workshop that's right for you.

More great Simkin Center workshops at Bastyr University can be found here.

Class Participant Feedback

Thank you so much for being fun, patient and real. The way you spoke and answered questions made me feel comfortable and valuable. Thank you for setting such a wonderful example of how we treat and teach others. - September, 2010 Birth Doula Skills Workshop participant

I am on the path to become an OB, and did not feel at all as though doulas are at odds with OBs based on the attitude presented by you and the rest of Seattle Midwifery School. That was a great relief to me as I had worried that I would be outcast for going the medical route. You, specifically, seem like a great person to fuse these two communities: medical and non-medical, as your doula philosophy seemed to me to be very woman centered, but yet no-nonsense. - May, 2010 Labor Support Course participant