Culturally Aligned Practice Training
“Today’s training was both thought-provoking and reassuring. It surfaced so many areas I know I need to reflect on and explore further, while also putting some of my fears to rest. I really appreciated the way the space was held, it felt safe enough to be vulnerable, ask questions, and learn without judgement. I feel stretched, supported, and inspired to keep doing the work, both personally and professionally. Thank you Manisha.”
This one-day training explores Culturally Aligned Practice (C.A.P) within maternity, neonatal and perinatal care.
It has been developed to help professionals understand how culture, language, power and identity shape care experiences and and how to create systems that are both clinically and culturally safe.
Rooted in our C.A.R.E. (Culturally Aligned, Responsive, and Equitable) Model, the training supports professionals through a reflective journey of self-awareness and practice change. Participants are guided to recognise unconscious bias, understand privilege, respond with empathy, and work towards advocacy, through a gentle and judgmental approach.
This training is an interactive and reflective session to help professionals move from awareness of equitable care towards action, strengthening both confidence and compassion in practice.
Though this training, we will explore:
- The current maternity, neonatal and perinatal landscape, beyond the numbers
- The challenges families face including including language barriers, discrimination, and loss of psychological safety
- Understanding unconscious bias, intersectionality, and racial trauma
- Building cultural humility and communication confidence
- Working within systems to influence change
- Applying the C.A.R.E. Model in practice and within leadership
Who is this training for?
We recommend all professionals working within maternity & neonatal attend our training, including midwives, nurses, obstetricians, leadership teams and those involved in perinatal mental health and pastoral care. We also invite universities to consider this training for their faculty and students, especially those involved in midwifery and obstetrics.
We also encourage perinatal and birth professionals to attend this training, including doulas, perinatal counsellors and birth workers.
By the end of the training you will start to have:
- Deeper self-awareness of their own biases and cultural assumptions
- Greater understanding of the relationship between equity, privilege, and systemic barriers
- More confidence in recognising racial trauma and its impact on care
- Steps to explore reflective and reflexive practice for professional growth
- Practical tools to implement culturally aligned and equitable care
- Clear framework to support continued development and advocacy
About the trainers:
This training has been developed by Manisha and Anna, founders of Support ME.
Manisha has had lived experience of birth trauma and postnatal depression & anxiety and has spent the last several years helping to improve equitable perinatal care.
As well as running Support Me, Manisha is an experienced Cultural Safety trainer and perinatal Advocate for marginalised families. She now focuses on training within Support Me as well as her work as a Baby Loss & Perinatal Counsellor, helping to reduce stigma and improve services for Muslim and South Asian families.
Anna has lived experience of accessing maternity when she arrived in the UK from Poland 10 years ago. She has had years of experience working with migrant families to make sure they’re receiving equitable maternity care whilst working as the local MVP project manager for a number of years.
Anna also has a background in education and a Masters in Psychology, having done research on the experiences of the Polish community of maternity care in the UK. Anna now also has developed and and delivers our comprehensive doula training programme where cultural safety is at the core of the curriculum.
