The Introduction to Active Birth Melbourne 2025 Workshop is a comprehensive workshop that empowers health professionals with skills to help women achieve normal physical birth.

Empowering Midwives to Empower Women

One of the greatest pleasures for midwives is helping a woman through normal, physical birth. To help a woman in this way requires skills, patience, and trust in the natural birth process. Midwives know the dangers of intervening with the body’s natural processes. Women may lack confidence and feel anxious about delivering babies safely and the pain of labour. Women demand epidurals, elective caesareans, and inductions, believing these are safe for themselves and their babies. Midwives caught up in the politics of maternity care often feel powerless to change this situation, yet there is much they can do.

If you haven’t attended one of these workshops, here’s your chance to get a great introduction to active birth. If you have attended in the past, is it time you updated? Do you need to be encouraged and inspired? You can discover tools that will empower you to empower the women in your care, including:

Practical skills to help women achieve normal, physical births
Improve skills and add new, helpful support techniques for labour
Implementing active birth strategies in your workplace

Introduction to Active Birth Melbourne 2025 – Workshop Objectives:

This is a one-day experiential learning workshop (6.5 contact hours) for health professionals working with expectant parents: childbirth educators, midwives, doulas, physiotherapists, doctors, and nurses.

✔ Understand the Why – Review the foundational rationale behind active birth and its benefits for both mothers and babies.
✔ Support with Purpose – Explore the vital role professional caregivers play in facilitating physiological birth.
✔ Empower Birth Journeys – Discover strategies to empower both women and caregivers in achieving optimal and desired birth outcomes.

Learning outcomes:

By the conclusion of this Introduction to Active Birth, participants will have:

✔ Revisit the Foundations – Reviewed the normal physiologic process of birth.
✔ Build Parent Confidence – Explored practical, effective teaching strategies to increase expectant parents’ trust in their ability to birth physiologically.
✔ Practice for Birth – Practised a range of self-help techniques and upright positions that support and enhance normal physiology during labour and birth.
✔ Inspire Through Education – Viewed visual aids and video content while discussing impactful teaching strategies for antenatal and birth education.
✔ Create Systemic Change – Explored actionable strategies for integrating physiologic birth practices into hospital settings and prenatal education programs.

Continuing Professional Development Points

CPD Endorsed hours: 6.5

Program

Download our full Introduction to Active Birth Workshop program here FULL PROGRAM PDF

Facilitator

Jane Palmer

Cost

The Introduction to Active Birth Workshop Melbourne 2025 costs $275. This includes morning and afternoon tea, workshop folders, and notes. Student and group discounts are available—contact us for details by email or phone at (02) 9630 5357.

The Early Bird discounted ticket is $230.00. Save $45 when you register early! Registrations must be paid for by 14th of October 2025 to receive this discount.

Because our Introduction to Active Birth Workshops are popular, we are sharing the dates for 2025

Brisbane: TBA
Sydney: Friday 12th December 2025
Melbourne: Tuesday 25th November 2025

Workshop numbers limited

If your hospital or area health service wants to sponsor a program on this topic for you and your colleagues, please email or phone us at (02) 9630 5357 for information on how to set up in-service courses through Birth International.