I trained to teach Hypnobirthing but still had no clue...
I felt lost, confused and a bit thick to be honest. It was January 2015 and I’d returned home from my Hypnobirthing teacher training. I’d enjoyed the time doing something that felt for me and I’d loved meeting the other people on the course BUT I had no idea how I could translate what I’d learnt to a course for expectant parents.
I felt I had BIG gaps in knowledge.
I wondered whether it was just me that felt that way.
Was I overthinking it?
Was I stupid?
Quite frankly the Hypnosis for birth stuff went completely over my head and then the other stuff just didn’t sit right with me. I felt like I was going to give clients fear of intervention. Quite frankly, I knew that if I delivered the course in the way I’d been trained it would have felt back to front and I’d be so worried I’d bore them to death because it was like I was going to have to talk at them for 12 hours.
A few months went by and I finally got my first client. It was a couple that I used to work with. They were both secondary school teachers. It was their second baby and they’d previously done a well-known antenatal class. I was so happy to have my first clients but then I was like… ‘HOW am I actually going to do four sessions with them with what I have. I actually don’t know where to start!’
I felt like cancelling their sessions. Refunding them.
But I had to face it. I wanted to make a success of my new venture.
I sat down and spent night after night rejigging the whole content. I created resources and made it more interactive. I used to skills I’d gained as a secondary school teacher to make things interactive and relatable. It was really hard. I even cried at times worrying they’d think what I was delivering wasn’t good.
Since Christmas I’ve chatted to three Hypnobirthing teachers that had found me on social media and they told me they felt lost after training with another Hypnobirthing brand recently. It reminded me of how I’d felt. They felt unable to even promote their courses for fear of someone booking and them having to deliver what they had. It broke my heart a little.
I told them that it was not just them that feels this way.
My training business actually started by supporting already certified Hypnobirthing teachers to make their courses more engaging and flow better. It is what I was doing long before I started training people from scratch.
It’s one of my absolute passions, as I know these people have all the passion but perhaps haven’t had the best start to this. With a bit more support and guidance I love seeing their confidence grow and they get out there and they support families just like they originally intended.
In a few of weeks, I’m running a free event designed for aspiring Hypnobirthing teachers to give them a taste of teaching hypnobirthing. So often though, already trained Hypnobirthing teachers join and tell me how valuable they found it.
