This accelerated program was born in response to the call to make a greater impact in the world by educating health-care providers about the potency of the Fertility Awareness Method for health, contraception, conception and support for life-transitions for their patients and clients.

If you are not a health-care practitioner, click here to learn about the two year teacher training program.

Is Menstrual & Reproductive health part of your calling?

Are you dedicated to serve your patients better, but haven’t figured out what's missing in your practice?

Do you want to provide integrative, empowered cycle care to all your patients?

Are you are deeply passionate about providing access to reproductive healthcare that is body literate and based on educated and informed consent?

The Advanced Fertility Awareness Practitioner Program was created for you!

Program Intentions: 

• To offer a training program for healthcare providers to integrate cycle charting education and interpretation into their practice and to become certified through The Well: School of Body Literacy and accredited by The Association of Fertility Awareness Professionals as Fertility Awareness Educators. 

• To offer those already working within a healthcare practice to advance their skillset to include Body Literacy, Cycle Tracking, Chart Interpretation and Holistic Reproductive Care.  

• To offer a condensed alternative to the 2 year Teacher Training Program designed for those with rigorous academic and clinical backgrounds in the healing arts.  

• An opportunity to study and collaborate with other students in an intimate online classroom setting.

Our Core Beliefs:

• This program adheres to the same principles as the Teacher Training Program, including an emphasis on the values of :

  • Sovereign Women/People: We believe in the potential of an individual to be the expert of their own bodies and an equal partner in their healthcare.  As practitioners this involves a humility and willingness to listen deeply to our clients. As women, as people with a womb, this requires developing (or remembering) how to listen to our bodies and to nature, and learning how to trust them to guide us.  

  • Collaborative Education: We are all teachers and we are all students.  We educate each other by stepping forth with our personal and professional life experiences and wisdom.  

  • Emotional Intelligence: This educational journey welcomes you to bring all of yourself.  Over the time of study, you will be supported and encouraged to traverse not only an intellectual and professional journey but also an emotional and spiritual one if so desired.

  • Diversity: Each group is mindfully chosen to include participants from varying cultural, ethnic, spiritual/religious, economic and lifestyle backgrounds so our understanding of life can grow from exposure to difference.

  • Activism & Intersectionality: The program encourages awareness and attention to the intersection of environmental and social justice and promotes activism as a way to create change towards a healthier life for all.

  • Equitable Access: Scholarships and Payment plans are available to create access for participants of varying economic status and to make reparations for historical and systemic racism.

Admission Requirements: 

• You are a healthcare provider working directly with clients in a clinical based practice

• Regardless of your credential or license, you prioritize or would like to prioritize offering a holistic, functional model of care

• You are passionate about client empowerment, education & preventative, whole systems health care

• You have a personal practice of cycle tracking and have charted using a sympto-thermal or similar method for at least one year

• You intend to actively use this education within your current practice and client base

 Upon completion you will receive: 

• Skills to teach and interpret charts in a clinical setting and offer a body-literate and fertility-aware approach to healthcare.

• Certification through The Well: School of Body Literacy

• Accreditation from AFAP

Curriculum Format:

• One to Two weekly classes for one year, (with seasonal and modular breaks) including teacher and student lectures and discussion. Some classes will have required attendance, some can be watched via video

• Weekly home study, including video lectures, study questions, reading assignments, research projects and presentation preparation

• 6 month practicum including case studies, chart reviews, practice classes, a master thesis and/or activism project

• An invitation to an optional wilderness retreat and an in person week long intensive in Oregon, USA

Curriculum Includes: 

• History of cycle tracking practices

• Science and research on various cycle tracking methodologies

• Comparative studies on practices currently available

• Clinical uses of cycle tracking

• Practice techniques for teaching ‘Cycle Mapping’ as taught by The Well 

• Rules for contraception 

• Utilizing the ‘contraceptive spectrum of options’, integrating cycle tracking with other methods 

• Using cycle tracking for conception 

• Discovery of pathologies via chart interpretation 

• Utilizing body literacy practices to support clients in phases of reproductive years

  • Menarche, Menopause, Coming off Hormones, Pre-conception, Postpartum

This program expects exposure and applicant experience in the following areas but will provide study options to ensure competency:

• Contraceptive Options available to your clients

• Reproductive/Sexual Anatomy and Physiology

• STI’s and vaginal microbiome

• Basics of whole body root cause health as it relates to the endocrine system

• The physiology of and cultural/emotional significance of menarche, pregnancy, postpartum, breastfeeding, pregnancy loss, infertility and menopause.

• The physiology of and whole systems/root cause understanding of endocrine pathologies

• Lifestyle and Diet support for endocrine function

• Environmental impacts and relation to endocrine health

• Skills in community networking and referring

What Graduates are Saying:

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Advanced Practitioner Training Program