The caregivers who last aren't the ones who give more. They're the ones who learned how to receive.
The Space + Time Method is for caregivers who are ready to understand why they do this work, and how to do more than just grin and bear it.
Join us for a nine-week mentorship program on October 6th, 2026 (recorded if you miss one) with a private WhatsApp community throughout and an option to speak with me 1:1 once during or after the course.
Investment: $1800
Two and three-part payment plans are available.
Discount for Carriage House Birth alumni.
This isn't therapy, and it's not a substitute for your own support system. It's a space to look honestly at why you're called to this work, what it's costing you, and how to keep doing it without disappearing inside it. Created and led by Domino Kirke, who has spent nearly twenty years as a birth worker, educator, and caregiver herself.
You've probably always been the one people call.
Maybe you were the kid who noticed when someone was struggling long before anyone else did, the one who cries when they see someone else cry, or the one who approaches people on the street if they seem like they need support.
Maybe it was your own birth, or your own postpartum experience, that first showed you what real care looks like or doesn’t look like, and made you want to give it to someone else, or do it better.
Maybe someone just said, "You'd be so good at this," and some part of you knew they were right.
Whatever it was, something deep inside answered “the call.”
We will be dismantling “the call”
Then you started doing the work. And it quickly started asking more of you than you ever could’ve imagined.
You give, and give, and give. You bleed. Somewhere along the way, you stopped asking what it's costing you.
The exhaustion starts to feel normal. Even familiar. The blurred boundaries start to feel like part of the job, and when you think about it it’s all you’ve ever known. You wonder if the burnout everyone talks about is inevitable or if you'll be the one who finds a way through?
That's why Domino created The Space + Time Method and this mentorship.
This is not a training, it's a collective unlearning.
This is the part of care work no one teaches you, because everyone’s too invested in you forgetting your why.
When you join us for this nine-week mentorship you’ll learn how to hold so much more of YOU than your clients and patients. My PROMISE to you is that you’ll learn how to hold BOTH.
You’ll have a trusted practice that you’ll be able to trust in and sustain.
The four shifts you'll make inside the mentorship
Unpack/put down the Past
As I said, I'm no therapist, but I’ve been a birth professional, a Mother and in mentorships myself for my whole career, which started in 2009. I’ve studied IFS (Internal Family Systems and am headed toward becoming a practitioner) and continue to be mentored today and throughout the entirety of this course and its creation. I’ve been mentoring doulas in groups and 1:1 for 12 yrs.
Your own birth story, childhood, and adolescence will be examined. Don’t worry, we’ll just take a look back but we won't stare.
Community First
Care work is community work, and yes, “community” is now buzz word on social media. What does it even mean today? We’ll discover what it means to you. It's also, as we'll explore, work rooted in reminding the people you serve that they have people to lean on. You'll learn how to braid those worlds together, theirs and yours, big and small.
Protect Yourself
Burnout in this field isn't a personal failing, it’s INFORMATION. It's a near-certainty of the demands the work makes on you physically, mentally, and emotionally, right up through depression, dread, and dissociation. I’ll teach you, whether you're brand new or twenty years in, how to do this work without losing yourself. If anything, you’ll find yourself!
Energy Work
Caring is energy work. That exchange demands real self-reflection and a basket full of tools if you want to keep showing up fully present. We'll walk you through that inventory: a proverbial cleaning of your own mirror.
This is for you if...
You You identify as a caregiver — birth professional, or otherwise — and you're not totally sure when you heard the call, and now you’re second-guessing it and want to understand why.
You've been doing this work for twenty years, or you were certified last month, and either way, you're craving something deeper than technique, tips, and tricks.
You're tired of boundaries feeling like a threat to how good you are at your job.
You've felt the early signs of burnout and want a way through it that doesn't mean quitting the work you know you love.
You want to connect to the work from your whole self — not just the version of you that shows up for everyone else and has done that way since you can remember.
[I'm ready. →]
Everything included in
The Space + Time Mentorship
Structure
We meet on Tuesdays (starting 10/6/26) for two weeks of curriculum, followed by one week of reflection — repeated three times across the 9-week mentorship.
During reflection weeks, we center your expansion: revelations you're having, questions that have bubbled up, anything you want to digest as a group.
Outside of our recorded Zoom gatherings, you'll stay connected with mentees and mentors in a private WhatsApp group.
Format
Our format follows the cycle of labor itself: between contractions, there is expansion. That's where the most essential work happens. We build in real moments of pause for rest, reflection, and integration throughout the mentorship.
Mentors
You'll learn from a diverse group of mentors that Domino consults with weekly. This ever-evolving team of experts in birth work and adjacent fields brings their own stories, missteps, and lessons into the core curriculum. You can expect a range of voices, not just one.
Investment
$1800 for the full nine-week mentorship. Two and three-part payment plans are available. Discount available for Carriage House Birth alumni.
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“This mentorship has changed the way I move through the world. There is now ease and patience where there was once intense friction, and for that I am forever grateful.” BC
BC
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"It's a deep, personal journey where you will understand who you are, what brought you to caregiving, and how you can take care of yourself to sustain a long career." GC
GC
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"The mentorship itself felt like a spiritual retreat. It left me with a rejuvenated excitement about the work. It didn't feel like the end, it felt like a jump start into my next phase of growth as a doula.” MS
MS
Is this for me?
This mentorship is for anyone who identifies as a caregiver.
When did you first care for somebody?
When did you first hold someone up, provide advice, information, guidance, emotional support and physical comfort?
Through this mentorship, you’ll discover why you were called to care for others.
You’ll explore what it actually means to do this crucial work more broadly.
You’ll connect with your calling as your whole self.
What to expect
Unpack the Past
Your own beautiful or, alternately, traumatic birth/childhood or adolescent experience may be what nudged you towards care work and we’ll unpack how the way you arrived here can inform your approach.
Community First
Care work is community work and it’s also, as we’ll explore, work that is rooted in reminding clients that they do indeed have a community that they can lean on; you’ll learn how to braid those worlds together for the people you serve.
Protect Yourself
Burnout rate with this kind of work, which demands so much of you physically, mentally and emotionally, is often an inevitability, leading to depression, dread, even dissociation. We’ll teach both longtime and newly certified birth workers how to do this work without losing yourself.
Energy Work
Birth work is energy work. And this type of energetic exchange demands deeper personal reflection to be able to be fully present in this role. We’ll show you how to do the self investigation required—a proverbial cleaning of your mirror—so you can show up for the families you serve
About Domino
Domino Kirke-Badgley has nearly twenty years of experience as an educator, birth worker, parent and caregiver. She believes it is vital for anyone already deep in care work or exploring the possibility, to prioritize mentorship.
“I didn’t know exactly what to expect but I can say that I got more out of it than I had ever hoped for.”
“I will cherish this experience and the wisdom that was shared with me forever.”
“This mentorship changed how I view my work and how I walk in this world.”