Special Offerings

Alongside our core Birth Story Medicine training, we host a range of special courses that deepen, expand, and enrich your work with stories, symbols, and healing. Some of these offerings are designed for trained Birth Story Listeners, while others are suitable for anyone who serves families in the birth space, including midwives, doulas, therapists, educators, and healers.

Each course opens a doorway into a particular dimension of birth stories and the human experience.

Birth Story Sessions for
Fathers & Partners

Your Birth Story, In Your Words

Make an appointment for a private session just for you as a father or partner. You may have been seen primarily in a support role during labor. Rarely does anyone ask about your own journey. Sometimes it feels awkward to process your experience with your partner. The day your child is born can stir a range of emotions, leave vivid memories, and shift your relationship.

The Birth Story Labyrinth

The labyrinth is an ancient symbol, representing our journey through life's ordeals and transitions. Its winding path takes you to the center and out again—although you may feel lost or stuck along the way. If you’re ready to begin moving through your story, the extraordinary ceremonial Birth Story Labyrinth Process is a gentle, easy way to do it.

The soul doesn’t evolve or grow, it cycles and twists, repeats and surprises, echoing ancient themes common to all human beings. It is always circling home.

—Thomas Moore, Original Self

ALCHEMY OF BIRTH STORY WORK
for BIRTH STORY LISTENERS

Join Pam for a seven-week immersion into psychological and spiritual alchemy. Each week, we'll delve into one of the seven stages of alchemical transformation. Experience personal growth through ancient teachings and meditations, and learn how to incorporate the wisdom of alchemy into your teaching and sessions.

Next Class: October 7 to November 18th, 2026, 9.30 am to 11:00 am PST

$175

T he WEAVING of BIRTH STORIES

This workshop is designed for anyone, whether a new or experienced birth story listener, who wishes to learn our philosophy of birth story work and enrich your sessions.

This class is a prerequisite to Pam's Open Your Ear Apprenticeship.

Coming Again This Fall

A BIRTH STORY ALCHEMY
GROUP FOR PARENTS

Transform an Unwished-for Experience into Gold

May 25 to June 8th, 2026; 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. PST
Pam England will be your guide.

This one-of-a-kind three-week journey welcomes parents who have given birth and want to feel differently about their birth experience.

Each week, you will enter your inner Birth Story Alchemy Laboratory to discover a new recipe in the ancient wisdom of alchemy. Vivid imagery and powerful metaphors will accelerate your inner work, ignite insights, and turn a medical story into meaning, even a mythic experience. The process of spiritual and psychological alchemy will transform what now feels like a heavy, leaden story into gold.

Trying to sort your birth experience out in your mind is like the old Zen saying, “It’s impossible to see your own eyeball.” Do-it-yourself birth story work is possible, but it often takes much longer to untangle a story.

Alchemy Group: $125. Registration Deadline: May 18

WHEN CHILDBIRTH BECOMES A CONSCIOUS INITIATION . . .

Open to all: Parents and those who listen to birth stories.

MAY 13, 2026. 10 to 11:30 am PST
Pam England will be your guide.

We will take a journey through the landscape of the childbearing year, but see it through the lens of Initiation as an archetype.

Pausing to reflect on the phases, landmarks, our dreams and images, and the timely tasks of Initiation can do two things: one make the inner experience conscious and embodied, and second, turn a medical story into a mythic one.

$30

the nine birth story gates

An evolving map of how birth experiences become the stories we carry

COMING IN FALL 2026

These special offerings are invitations to step outside the ordinary, to gather in community, and to explore birth through mythic, symbolic, and deeply human lenses. Whether you are seeking new skills for your practice or nourishment for your own heart, these courses offer inspiration and practical depth.