Description
This is a 1-day training exploring Culturally Aligned Practice within Maternity & Neonatal care. This will be an interactive and reflective workshop discussing:
- The current maternity & neonatal landscape
- The challenges families face
- Key concepts that impact equity
- Navigating language barriers
- What Cultural Aligned Practice is and why it’s important
- Using our C.A.R.E. Practice Model to help you work towards offering equitable care.
Who’s it 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 understanding of their own biases
- Knowledge on the importance of offering culturally safe maternity care
- A clear path to start developing themselves personally and professionally
- Steps to continue professional development beyond the training
- More confidence in their role and tools to help them to continue to develop professionally
About the training:
This training has been developed by Manisha and Anna, founders of Support ME; and will be delivered by Manisha.
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 Perinatal and Child-loss 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. She has been working closely with Donna Ockenden to encourage their engagement into the NUH review.
Anna now also has developed and and delivers our comprehensive doula training programme where cultural safety is at the core of the curriculum. She is also a local councillor in Newark, working towards making change for her local community.
Training details
Wednesday 12th November 2025 : 9am-4.30pm
Cost – £120
Spaces are limited to create a safe and impactful environment so please book here to secure your place. Access to training will be emailed 1 week prior, if you’ve not received these by then, please email Manisha at manisha@supportmecic.com.
All attendees will receive a certificate of attendance. If you have any questions or need to let us know anything about your booking, please email Manisha directly at manisha@supportmecic.com.
Cancellation policy: We do not offer refunds. Spaces can be transferred to the next workshop with at least 48 hours notice. If you’re unable to attend with less than 48 hours, the space can be transferred to someone else. Please email us Manisha at manisha@supportmecic.com for more info.
Previous training reviews:
” I think the workshop was absolutely brilliant and so very important! Anna and Manisha certainly inspired me and gave me a lot to think about, and I hope they continue to develop their work so they can inspire as many people as possible. We need it! “
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“Excellent day, thank you so much. I’m very glad I’m attended.”
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“I really appreciated the training. I felt it was very inclusive and embracing whilst still challenging. “
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” The training was great. It was well delivered and the speakers were wonderful. “
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