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City and Guilds Level 3 – Antenatal Educator
City & Guilds, CMA (Complementary Medicine Association)
PROFESSIONAL ANTENATAL TEACHER TRAINING
If you’re searching for antenatal teacher training, chances are you already feel drawn to this work.
Maybe a personal experience sparked your interest in birth. Perhaps you’ve supported friends through birth, or perhaps you’ve seen enough of what’s happening in maternity care to know you want to be part of making it better.
But if parents are already going to antenatal classes, learning about labour, interventions, pain relief, birth plans and informed choice….
Then why are so many still coming out of birth feeling unprepared, unheard or struggling with what happened?
Because they’re navigating a maternity system under enormous pressure, and information is only a small part of what prepares someone to do that.
Because parents don’t experience birth as a checklist of informed choices. They experience it through the lens of who they are – their identity, subconscious beliefs, previous experiences and nervous-system responses all come with them.
The Level 3 City & Guilds Diploma in Antenatal Education was designed with this reality in mind.
It includes everything you’d expect from professional antenatal teacher training: evidence-based birth education, informed choice and advocacy. But it goes further.
The training integrates psychology, neuroscience, advanced teaching skills, coaching techniques and nervous-system regulation. So the parents you support aren’t simply better informed about birth. They’re better prepared to navigate it.
BECOMING A TRUSTED GUIDE
You want to be good at this. To know the work you’re doing genuinely changes how prepared parents are for what comes next. And, when parents in your area have a choice of educators, you want to give them a reason to choose you.
But there’s a challenge most new antenatal educators don’t realise they’re walking into:
When I was teaching, parents would travel up to two hours to get to my classes. They weren’t travelling because I knew more facts about birth. They travelled because I’d built a reputation for offering something they couldn’t get from the class down the road.
Because what they were looking for was someone who can ask the right questions rather than simply give them the “right” answers. Who helps them prepare for the reality they’re actually facing: the decisions, relationships, pressure and unpredictability of navigating birth within today’s maternity system.
When your expertise solves a deeper problem, you stop giving parents another antenatal class to compare. You give them a reason to choose you, not simply another class to compare.
That’s what this training helps you build in your own community: real expertise, a reputation you’re proud of, and work that makes the difference you came here to make.
The parents who could be sitting in your first classes may be choosing their antenatal educator while you’re still training. Parents often book classes three to six months ahead. So if you wait until graduation to start marketing and taking bookings, you could be beautifully prepared to teach, but have an empty classroom.
We’d rather help you get found, get noticed and get booked from the start.
You’ll learn how to position your offerings, get found by local parents and talk about what you do in a way that makes the right parents choose you.
You’ll have practical support to do it too: SEO and website checklists, blog ideas, email templates, social media prompts, editable Canva templates and monthly marketing surgeries where you can get feedback and support for whatever you need.
You’ll also learn Bingeable Breadcrumbing™, Lizzie’s approach to turning a simple blog into weeks of marketing, so this become another full-time job.
And there’s BirthWorld, ATI’s own directory designed to connect parents with trained professionals.
But none of this means you have to start taking bookings before you’re ready. It’s simply there right from the start, ready to go when you are.
Don't start with your logo. Start by understanding exactly what your parents need and why your business is the one they should choose.
SEO and website checklists, 52 blog ideas, email templates and lead magnets to help you make progress faster.
Bring along your projects and problems to our monthly marketing surgeries and get hands-on help to improve them. Support, tips, tricks and questions answered.
365 content ideas, angles and conversation starters so your content is always engaging - plus 30 editable Canva social media templates in multiple different brands.
Learn how to write content that converts by connecting with your parents' feelings and desires. Word swap templates,
Learn Lizzie's secrets to taking one piece of content and turning it into weeks of emails and social posts in just a few clicks.
If this is starting to sound like a completely different kind of antenatal class, it isn’t.
You’ll still teach the birth preparation parents expect. The difference is that these skills are woven into the fabric of the class, shaping how you teach, the questions you ask and the conversations you create – so parents get far more from it.
After one of my classes, a mum emailed to thank me and said of her husband:
“He is now the partner I never knew I needed.”
That’s the difference. Not the list of things to put into a birth bag, or how to time contractions. The transformation of how parents view themselves and their role.
And if some of this sounds advanced, don’t worry. You don’t need to arrive knowing how to do it.
We teach it step by step and give you ready-to-use teaching plans, so you’re never left wondering how to turn what you’ve learned into a class.
Enrol whenever you are ready and get started straight away - no waiting around!
The course is approximately 60 study hours (excluding the marketing modules).
- Online
- Optional in-person workshops
- Highly interactive with workbooks, videos, audio casts, animations and live masterclasses.
- Weekly drop-in, drop-out masterclasses (Replays available)
- End of module multiple choice quiz
- Word searches and Crosswords and other gamified assessments.
- End of Diploma portfolio -- Plan, Teach Reflect
- Immediate access on enrolment
- Lifetime access to updates and support
- Personal Student Support Advisor
- WhatsApp community
- Learning differences support through individual learning plans.
City & Guilds, and the Complementary Medical Association
City & Guilds Level 3 in adult education - Antenatal Educator
£1347 (with pay in full bonuses)
12 monthly instalments of £130
(The one with the pelvis!) Lizzie is a best-selling author and multiple award-winning educator who started her career training as a midwife, before turning to Antenatal Education.
Fast forward, 1000’s parents, 1500 students, 16 years of research and 9 years of post-grad study later, Lizzie will be showing you how throwing away the “rule book” about perinatal education is the best thing you can do to build an impactful, powerful and life-changing service for your parents.
These are the exact methods that got parents travelling 2 hours to her classes and dream celebrity clients book her services !!
Ruth, Mia and Becky also teach on this course!
“This company was recommended to me, and because of the money-back guarantee, I decided to give it a go. Loving it! Especially the live tutorials and the variety of learning materials. I feel mentally stretched and energised. Found my village! Thank you Lizzie.””
Antenatal Educator Diploma
When you enrol and pay in full, you’ll also receive the following professional support bonuses designed to help you move from training into teaching with ease and confidence.
Receive a 1:1 private strategy session with Lizzie to design your first antenatal offering and map the journey parents will take through your services.
Getting this right is a key step to quickly and easily filling your classes.
We’ll also look ahead and map how future services could fit into your practice, so as your work grows everything connects together like a well-oiled cog, rather than becoming a jumble of disconnected offerings.
While you focus on your training, we’ll help you prepare the marketing foundations that attract parents.
Together we’ll map your first "funnel" - a blog outline, freebie download to gift your parents, emails and social media content so your marketing takes parents from discovering you to booking.
Because most parents book around three months ahead, you can begin taking bookings during your training and qualify with classes already filling.
Attend any of our in-person skill days and take part in a photo shoot.
Revive 5 individual staged shots for your socials and website PLUS any images captured throughout the day.
Your 5 staged images can be anything you’d like, from professional headshots to sitting on a birth ball or using a laptop.
Your unstaged “in the moment” images may show you teaching, handling equipment, or chatting with others.
All are valuable for showing parents the people behind your brand!
At Antenatal Training we go beyond just the qualification with practical and hands on, lifetime marketing support to help you establish and grow your brand.
Antenatal Training International has gained affiliation with Westminster Insurance. This partnership has been awarded in recognition of our exceptional quality courses and ensures that all our students can be covered for a discounted fee in any area we train in!
None! Your qualification doesn’t “run out”, it doesn’t need renewing, you are not tied to any licencing or membership. After the Antenatal Teacher Training you are an independent practitioner.
Its certainly unusual I will grant you that, but in reality all birth workers, no matter what specialist area they work in, are by nature and need, evidenced based. I have come across accredited training which not only was a loads of twoddle, but also highly dangerous – why? because the teacher in question had no idea about research (or no interest in keeping up to date).
As for the other more unusual modules – well again, its not just about the birthing person, its not just about the neuro typical parent, to give well rounded brilliant classes you need to be able to flex and adapt to all parents needs.
Your training consists of the online self paced modules, as well as a series of live tutorials on all manor of subjects.
Each tutorial is between 1 and 2 hours enabling you to fit this round your schedule and you can pick and choose which ones, and how many you come too.
We also don’t insist you join of these live, as they are recorded, and we recognise that 7pm UK is probably 3am for some of our students!
These tutorials are a mix of support, chances to get questions answered and to discuss your learnings and insights.
After your Antenatal Educator training, theses tutorials can continue if you wish! Just because you’ve qualified does not mean we remove the live support.
We also have a Facebook group and CPD opportunities for mentorship lead by the team and guest experts.
Its very understandable to be nervous – after all learning online is very different to teaching a groups of strangers in person!
ATI gives you the chance to learn and practice hot to tach in variety of different ways – from online live and recorded sessions, to our workshops that help you develop your skills in private and group classes.
We even take you though the different skill set in running retreats and community events!
So no matter how you want to teach your classes you are covered with plenty of chances to practice.
There are three main reasons really.
The first is the way we teach you – to consciously consider and design your lessons – how you want them to be. We don’t teach you to teach “our way”. We encourage and support you to explore the way that feels right for you and your parents’.
Of course, we have so many resources included in your Antenatal Educator training that you can, if you want, just pick these up and run with them. Whatever is right for you!
The second thing is our vision to see Antenatal Educators recognised as a valuable part of a parent’s maternity team. To see them recognised as the expert professional we train you to be. This means our training is so levelled up, you will be able to take great pride in your work, but also stand shoulder to shoulder with other professionals (as one student said, I could “hold my own”)
And lastly, but most importantly, is the 3D rEvolution and the ECLAtra methodologies. Combining holistic and evidence-based care to impact a parent’s emotional and mental well-being is THE core reason why ATI exists.
Just take this simple comparison for an example – our Advocacy training (just this one element from the ECLATra training) is a 16 hour module, whilst others offer this through a 2 hour workshop.
This the difference between gaining an understanding of a topic or gaining s strong skill set.
Go beyond simply being an Antenatal Educator.
Yes, Yes you can!
Ok so lest start with out ongoing extensive marketing training and support. Getting you up and running with your brand, your message and marketing from the moment you enrol – but importantly KEEPING it going beyond qualification!
Instagram likes dropped off a cliff, TikTok reel showing to 3 people (and ones your Gran)? Pop onto a tutorial and gets Pamela’s eyes directly on your feed and fix the problem!
Lifetime support and lifetime updates for an ever changing, and frankly often confusing part to your business.
If you don’t have the time to market your classes or simply don’t want to bother with it (who could blame you!) you also have the choice to teach for your UK wide agency BirthWorld CIC. Gain clients on autopilot and just turn up and teach!
Well to be honest you don’t know until you try. We wont be for everyone admittedly, and nor do we try.
But to help you decide, we do have a taster experience so you can have a go at some of the modules, see our workbooks and generally see how the backend fits together.
Just pop to the link below to take a look.
Free Taster Course Experience – Antenatal Training International (antenatal-training.com)
But we also offer a 14 days no questions asked money back guarantee. So if you sign up and its not for you, just let us know and we will pop your money back into your account with no deductions and absolutely no risk.
No absolutely not. There are no entry requirements.
We will support anyone to become the wonderful antenatal educator they can be.
Our training will take you from ground zero to full fledged professional Antenatal Educator
Depending on your circumstances – yes.
Because BirthWorld is a CIC we have the ability to apply for grants and funding for our students to cover their training and business support.
Find out more here… Grants & Funding
Work your way through the online modules and tutorials at your own pace, in your own time. Broken down into small bit sized chunks its easy to achieve this around your life and helps you work your way through the course in a time-sensitive manner.
Video, animations, workbooks, puzzles, audio casts, and blogs cater for every learning style. No "death by power-point" here!
Our "Earn as you Learn" process means you could be teaching in as little as 8 weeks!
Live weekly tutorials with the module leaders will help you apply your new knowledge to working life situations.
Using scenarios, case studies and ethical discussions you will take your learning to the next level.
Also covered are topics like setting up your practice, discussing lesson plans and opportunities to practice online teaching are also included.
Missed one? Can't attend live? Watch on replay!
Our Workshops are designed to help you practice your teaching and communication skills and build your confidence. A photographer and videographer will also be present to support you in building your brand presence!
These are not compulsory and you do not need to attend to pass your qualification.
Details are sent out towards the end of your training. Location/dates vary but is usually Spring or Autumn within the Midlands
Lifetime access to the course, all the updates AND the live tutorials allow you to refresh and keep updated whenever you wish.
Sitting alongside this is FREE, ongoing CPD keeping you on top of the latest developments both in your industry and in the world of social media and marketing.
And for our Advanced Diploma Students, additional FREE mindset, CEO sessions provide strategy, gentle accountability and support to ensure your success - For life!
This Diploma encompasses all Seven of our mainstream diplomas, PLUS qualifies you as a Lactation Consultant, and a Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner.
Passion to Profession: a FREE 4-day workshop, 5 to 8 October, 7pm on Zoom.
For anyone obsessed with birth work and wondering how to turn it into a real career. And for midwives who have lost the joy in it.
Design a career that fits your life, teach in a way that actually changes outcomes, see how simple marketing can be, and find the funding to pay for it. Live bonuses every night, and replays if you miss one.
