Develop the professional skills to support fathers through one of the biggest psychological, emotional, relational and identity transitions of their lives.
This diploma is the training that finally turns to face them.
No Start - Finish dates. Enrol when it suits you. Study when it suits you.
From 12 weeks (Lifetime access)
City and Guilds Level 3 - Fartherhood Educator
Cite & Guilds & CMA
WHO IS SUPPORTING THE FATHER?
You’re good at what you do. You hold space for parents; you know birth inside out. And somewhere along the way, you started to notice the man sitting slightly outside the conversation.
He’s in the room, but the room isn’t really for him. He gets taught some massage, a list of what to pack in the birth bag and maybe a discussion around “new duties” at home; otherwise, he works it out alone.
Then, you see the Facebook posts, Mums saying things at home aren’t right. Her hubby has gone quiet, or he’s working all hours, or there’s tension nobody saw coming.
But this is what frustrates you, it’s rarely because he doesn’t care. So is going on?
It’s usually because he cares enormously and has no idea what to do with it.
His life changes every bit as much as his partner’s, just differently. His role, his relationship, his sense of who he is. Yet unlike her, he’s had almost no preparation for any of it.
So he feels something shifting and has no language for it. And feelings without language leak out sideways: irritability, withdrawal, overwork, distance.
Which is exactly why we built this diploma.
The conversation around fatherhood is shifting, and families are asking deeper questions. They want more than education that treats the father as a spare pair of hands.
That’s a real opportunity. Very few professionals anywhere are properly trained in paternal psychology, masculine distress or father-baby bonding. The field is wide open, and growing.
No previous experience needed. You’ll explore the psychology, the neuroscience, the communication and the attachment science, and learn to apply it confidently in your own work. And, as ever with ATI, you’re supported with your marketing for the long haul.
A session about birth positions and breathing was never going to be enough – in fact it’s wildely insufficient
Becoming a father reshapes a man’s stress responses, his coping, his confidence, his relationships and his sense of purpose, often all at once. And when he struggles quietly, it doesn’t stay contained. It ripples through the couple, the bonding, the whole home.
So the problem was never that fathers lack information. It’s that the system was never built to see them, and almost nobody is trained to support them as whole people.
This diploma changes that.
Becoming a father remakes their sense of self , who he was, who he's becoming, what he quietly loses and gains along the way. You'll explore the felt experience of that identity shift, every bit as real as the birthing parent's, just far less talked about.
Men carry a lot of unspoken rules about what a "good dad" looks like. This unpacks where those expectations come from and how they shape, and sometimes silence, the way men father.
Paternal and maternal distress are rarely expressed in the same way as maternal distress. You'll learn to spot it disguised as withdrawal, anger, overwork or irritability, and develop the skills to reach and support them, without infantilising.
Fatherhood shifts the male brain and body more than most people realise. You'll explore the stress response, regulation and the hormones of bonding, taught honestly, including where the popular version oversimplifies it.
You'll explore the science of attachment, co-regulation and emotional safety, and the role of play, touch and responsiveness in building a strong father-baby relationship that shapes a child for life.
Most men measure their fathering against their own dad — whether they mean to or not. You'll explore how a man's experience of being parented influences his growth into the parent he becomes, and how to support him in becoming the kind of father he wants to be.
You'll explore how parenthood reshapes intimacy, communication and conflict, and learn practical ways to help fathers stay connected to their partner through the strain rather than retreating into silence.
Families come in many shapes and roles are shifting fast. You'll explore shared parenting, emotional labour and the invisible load, so the support you offer fits the family in front of you.
Often, a mix of helplessness and fear. You'll learn to support a father through it, without relying solely on massage, breathing and other "sidekick" roles, so he can be genuinely present rather than quietly overwhelmed.
You'll explore the experiences of neurodivergent fathers, LGBTQ+ families, adoptive and non-biological fathers, separated and young fathers, and learn to make your support genuinely welcoming to all of them.
Men don't respond the way their partners do. You'll learn what actually gets a father to open up, and why how you ask matters far more than what you offer.
All the core modules are found inside our other foundational diplomas! Including the art and science of teaching, the 3D rEvolution, informed choice and birth rights - There is simply too much to list here
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.
A few words about Inclusion
You’ll notice this diploma talks about fathers and men, rather than using more inclusive language.
As a training provider who takes this very seriously, this is something we wrestled with. Men undergo real, measurable hormonal and biological changes as they move into fatherhood: shifts in testosterone and in the hormones of bonding and stress, as the male body and brain adapt. That’s physiology, and it’s distinct to men, and that doesn’t cross over to any other type of partner.
A non-birthing mother in a same-sex couple, or a non-binary co-parent, is going through an enormous transition of their own, but in a different way.
The biology is only half of it. Masculinity and social expectation shape how men cope and whether they ever admit to struggling. Men disclose distress differently, and far more reluctantly, than their partners.
The good news is that every partner deserves space and support, and much of what you learn here, the identity shift, the relational strain, the bonding, will strengthen your ability to support non-birthing partners who aren’t cisgender fathers. What we won’t do is gather them all into one tidy group, because that’s just not how humans are!
Enrol whenever you are ready and get started straight away - no waiting around!
The course is approximately 90 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)
SALE £650 (with pay in full bonuses) - Ends 31/05/26
12 monthly instalments of £130
SALE 6 monthly installments of £125 - Ends 31/05/26
(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.
Perinatal Fatherhood Practitioner Training
– Foundation Diploma
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 Perinatal Fatherhood Practitioner Training you are an independent practitioner.
Anywhere you deem suitable. This maybe your home, it maybe a community centre – I’ve even taught in a yurt, wedding venues and a boat! Inside the training you will discover lots of tips on how to choose venues, how to manipulate venues – even how to source venues depending on the weather and season!! Intrigued much? lol
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 Perinatal Fatherhood Practitioner 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 Perinatal Fatherhood Practitioner 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 Perinatal 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.
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 Severn of our mainstream diplomas, PLUS qualifies you as a Lactation Consultant, and a Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner.
Unlock the gateway to a fulfilling career with our unique Perinatal Fatherhood Practitioner Diploma. Enrol today and become an expert in the field of antenatal teaching and create the difference you want in childbirth.
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.
