Do you feel a call to bring cyclic awareness & period power into your work with clients & greater community?
This is a 6-month online group training & certification designed for FACILITATORS who feel a call to share menstrual cycle awareness with their community, clients & students. want to work as a menstrual cycle coach? you’re in the right place.
If you’re working with women and people who bleed, you have a powerful opportunity to create change in the lives of your clients by integrating cyclic awareness & menstrual understandings into your professional skillset. Whether your community is engaged in the realms of wellbeing, self-empowerment, sexuality, spirituality, creativity, career, money or relationships, working with the power of periods can deepen and enliven your client’s potential in any healing modality that you specialise in.
To be clear: this training is going to take you on a professional and personal journey. It will give you the tools, practices, mindset shifts and understandings that you need to guide your clients into a rich connection with their menstrual cycle. This training can help you to better serve your clients by helping them to better understand themselves. You will walk away from our intimate time together with your own period power activated and inner menstruality deeply nourished.
2024 training dates:
Course starts: 2nd February 2024
Course ends: 2nd August 2024
The entire 6-month online training is structured to flow with the rhythm of the year.
We meet for calls near new and full moons, marking the equinoxes and turn of the seasons with the flow of the course.
Who is this training for?
As a certified health and life coach, my approach with this training is through the lens of coaching. The training is also suitable for other healers and leaders. Since 2019 our trainees have included coaches, yoga & pilates teachers, naturopaths, sex therapists, social workers, students, women’s circle facilitators, holistic health specialists, holistic business owners, sensual movement teachers, creatives, fertility specialists, fertility awareness teachers, nurses — and more.
This training is for women and female-bodied gender non-binary folks.
This training is for those who are willing to expand in their understandings, engage in a group learning environment and honour the power of this work with their time, energy and care.
Our Cycle Coach graduates work in a 1:1 coaching capacity, they hold group workshops and run online education platforms of their own. They lead sacred circles, educate in the corporate sphere and are creating inspiring change in their communities far and wide.
And now it's time for us to invite YOU to join us in circle next year.
Want to work as a menstrual cycle coach? You’re in the right place.
WE ARE PROUD TO BE APPROVED BY IICT AS A PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROVIDER & ACCREDITED WITH IPHM
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Scholarship places.
These are a number of scholarship places available to folks who are Black, Indigenous or Persons of Colour (BIPOC), members of the LGBTQIA+ community, those living with a disability or who are socio-economically disadvantaged.
I recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion in the fields of menstrual cycle awareness, coaching and women's health. There are five half scholarship places available in the 2023 training.
I am committed to constantly evolving my business and offerings to be anti-racist and to actively work to create equity for all. Offering these scholarships is one of the actions I am taking in my business to work towards this.
Applications for scholarship places will open late November. Please ensure you’ve registered your interest here.
About Claire:
Hi there! I’m a coach, speaker, author & facilitator in the realms where periods meet women’s health, creativity & self-empowerment. When I started coaching women 10 years ago, I couldn’t understand why there wasn’t more guidance in my trainings on working with the menstrual cycle. Today this is changing; there is increased awareness of how crucial it is that we integrate a cyclic approach in our professional work with women and people who bleed.
Over the past decade I have had the honour of sharing cyclic awareness and period power with hundreds of coaching clients and thousands of women in my courses and workshops worldwide. In this time, and through studying under many of the leading voices on menstruality and The Feminine, I have developed my own frameworks, understandings, tools and approaches — and this is what I want to share with you.
I’m based in London but as this is an online training, we have a very global classroom.
2024 Applications
APPLICATIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED
What this training will give you:
Confidence to teach and share menstrual cycle awareness with your clients, in group settings and in your wider community.
Guidelines and examples on how to teach cycle charting, how to work with your client’s charts and how to hold both 1:1 and group sessions.
Skills to help your clients navigate their menstrual shadows and optimise their menstrual joys.
Teachings on the rites of passage on the menstrual path (menarche, bleeding, pregnancy, menopause, etc.) and how to guide your client as they navigate those.
Cyclic self-care tools, tips, practices and womb journeys to share with your clients.
Practices to nourish the menstrual eco-system.
Foundational coaching and space-holding skills to elevate the quality of your client sessions.
Understandings on how you can help your clients to come into a rich connection with their cyclic nature.
Opportunities to develop your own approach and frameworks in accordance with your own skillset and unique flavour.
Overviews of the physiological systems involved in menstrual health, how to support a healthy system and how to identify potential imbalances.
The opportunity to claim your place in the global menstrual movement happening right now.
Experiences and assignments to enliven your own life with a richer relationship with your inner menstruality.
Spaces to connect with other like-minded coaches, healers and leaders on the same path.
The exciting possibility to share your work with the group and find your voice in your business, both online and offline.
The certification pathway will give you a certificate as a graduated Cycle Coach, with international recognition and professional membership options as a Menstrual Cycle Coach with the International Institute for Complementary Therapists (IICT), recognised in 39 countries and the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM).
What it won’t do:
Give you the ability to diagnose menstrual or hormonal imbalances or prescribe medical advice.
Teach you fertility awareness methods.
Give you in-depth business development guidance or advice.
Questions & Answers
+ How much time will I need to invest in the training each week?
Time & energy requirement per month: Self-study lessons (3 - 4 hours) Live group training call (3 hours) Pod call with mentor (90-min) Listening partnership (90-min) Reflection, assessment and practice (6+ hours)
+ How is the training delivered?
Everything is delivered digitally. All of the self-study lessons, workbooks and resources are delivered in our secure training hub over video, audio and PDF. Monthly live group training and 'pod' calls will be held over Zoom throughout the duration of the training.
+ What time will the live calls be?
We have a very global classroom, which means the group calls will happen at different times throughout the training to ensure everyone is able to make as many of the training that they can. All group calls are recorded and available afterwards.
+ How much support will I receive?
It's important to us that every trainee feels held, seen and heard throughout the program. Our community manager Lauren is there to support you and our founder Claire is present & available over email & via the audio app Voxer for questions and will hold the space on group calls. You will also attend a monthly 'pod' calls with a Cycle Coach mentor and smaller group. You will be paired with a listening partner for ongoing connection and be set up in a peer supervision group towards the end of the training for ongoing support.
+ Does it matter if I'm not already working with clients?
This program works best as a compliment to other healing modalities & trainings. But if you feel a strong call to this work and aren't qualified or experienced in working with clients yet, you are still very welcome to apply. Sometimes the biggest hurdle to just getting started is ourselves.
+ Will this training give me a certification?
Yes, if you choose the optional certification path (please download the syllabus for those full details). There is an assessment component required for certification. Upon certification, you will also be eligible for professional membership and insurance through the International Institute for Complementary Therapies (IICT) and the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM) as a recognised Menstrual Cycle Coach, globally recognised in 39 countries.
+ Can I take this training if I don't have a menstrual cycle?
Yes! We have had many past trainees who weren't menstruating, whether post-menopausal, pregnant or breastfeeding. An experience of a natural menstrual cycle (present or past) will help with integrating this work. If you are currently not menstruating or will not experience a natural cycle again, you will bring a valued perspective to our group. The training is open to women & gender non-binary folks only.
+ Do I need to have taken any of your courses or read any books on menstrual cycle awareness before taking this training?
Yes. This training is not for someone brand new to cyclic awareness.
+ Will you be teaching fertility awareness in this course?
No. This is not a course designed to teach fertility awareness or provide information on natural conception or contraception.
+ Will you be running this training again?
Cycle Coach may run again in 2025.
+ I have a personal question, can I email you privately?
Please! You're welcome to contact Claire on claire (at) clairebaker.com
Thanking my teachers
I have an enormous amount of gratitude, respect and awe for all of those have guided my professional menstruality path. I would especially like to thank and acknowledge Alexandra Pope & Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer of Red School, Dr. Kerry Hampton, Jane Hardwicke Collings, Natalie Kringoudis, the team at The Institute for Integrative Nutrition where I trained as a coach, Amy O’Brien, Clara Bitcon Bailey, Shaney Marie and Miranda Gray, whose books first introduced me to this work many years ago. I would like to honour my many and treasured peers in this field. And I am especially grateful to the many hundreds of women I have had the honour of working with 1:1 and the thousands more in my courses over the past years. You have taught me so very much. Thank you x.