Constructing a Liberatory Consciousness to Improve Black Maternal Health

This intensive experiential learning course (meeting once a month for nine months) is designed for healthcare professionals, birth workers, health policy agents, administrators, researchers, educators, consumer rights and birth justice advocates, organizers, CBOs, funders and birthing people. You will gain a practical understanding of the multifaceted and intersecting impacts of interpersonal and structural racism as it impacts birth outcomes and construct practical strategies for personal growth and systemic transformation. If you are involved anywhere along the birth care/reproductive health continuum, and you are frustrated by the changes you see occuring, this course is for you. Expect a scholarly examination of the issues that create health inequities, a historical overview, challenging and practical insights from real world learning, guest lectures from experts in the field from across the nation, all presented through a womanist lens from a leading expert in Black Maternal Health. This is the course no institution would dare to offer in today's climate, but one that is needed to make real and lasting positive change. Be prepared for enlightening lectures, thought provoking discussions, stimulating reading and homework assignments, but no tests! Transfomation of your lives and work environments will be the test. The purpose fo this course is not to arm you with facts and figures but to equip you to make the real world changes that Black childbearning families deserve.

Once tuition has been paid, a link will be sent for the online class.

Once registered, no refunds will be issued.

There are no continuing educations credits, but a certificate of completion will be issued.

Would you like to learn to teach this course? We are offering a facilitator training course to be taught concurrently with the current 9 month course. Facilitators will meet bi-monthly, first, to attend the course, and second, to attend a facilitator's course. Joining the facilitator course is a competitive process. You must fill out an application and have an online interview. If selected, there is a tuition fee of $1500 payable in two installments. We will select up to three candidates for the facilitator course. Once the course is completed, you will be able to teach this course for Hakima Payne Consulting.

You will learn:

• course content
• online class management
• adult prinicples of learning
• teaching tools and strategies for online learning
• teaching/learning theory
• course planning
• lecture and public speaking skills
• experiential learning strategies