Mentorship Program Finder

What the finder compares

BBU runs two mentorship programs, and they work on different things. The finder asks three questions: whether you have completed a doula training, whether you own or plan to start an agency, and which components you want to work on. Each component is a topic one of the two program pages publishes. It counts how many of your choices sit in each program, adds your answers about training and agency ownership, and tells you which program matches, or that both do, or that an initial training comes first.

The Doula Mentorship

BBU’s Doula Mentorship page describes six weekly live sessions on Zoom, designed by Anna Rodney and led by Chelsea Derrico, for doulas who have already completed a doula training with BBU or another organization, including doulas whose certificate has expired and who want it reviewed. The sessions work on confidence and communication with clients, peer and referral relationships, systems for the business side, time and sustainable growth, and a plan for the next 90 days. A workbook, recordings and cohort discussion are included, with six months of access to resources and the group.

The Doula Agency Owner Mentorship

The Doula Agency Owner Mentorship page describes five weekly live group sessions led by Anna Rodney for agency owners and aspiring owners: people with more referrals than they can personally serve, owners still taking client shifts alongside the administration, and established owners who want the agency to run without them. You do not have to be running a team already. The cohort works on people, clients, operations and the owner’s own role, with a workbook and cohort resources and one year of access to resources and the group.

What mentorship can lead to

BBU is clear that the Doula Mentorship “is not itself a training program, so it does not by itself make you a certified doula.” For doulas who have already trained, the published path is to upload proof of your prior training, attend all six sessions and, once BBU staff approve both, receive a three-year Doula certification for the appropriate discipline. If you have not trained as a doula yet, the page says to start with an initial training first, and the finder points you there. The Agency Owner Mentorship page does not describe a credential.

Dates, enrollment and what the finder leaves out

The finder does not choose a start date and does not print dates or prices. Cohort dates, enrollment and each program’s own requirements are on the program pages, which the result links to, so you always see the current version. It compares your answers with published components only; it does not predict results or say that one program is better than the other for everyone. Nothing you choose here is sent anywhere; press “Save on this device” if you want to keep your answers.