Michele Bograd

Doula Dialogue Host

What I want the Guild Community to know about me:

Becoming and growing as an end-of-life doula can be lonely and isolating. How do I start a business? How do I keep learning? Where do I get solace and support? Who can I turn to with questions, successes,  self-doubts or moral quandaries? For me, the Guild is a place for connection, support and ongoing growth in many areas. As host of the Doula Dialogue, I am helping shape a context where we can bring all our questions, our vulnerabilities (which are usually the impetus for growth), and our need for community to reflect together on the personal, ethical and existential dilemmas of our work.  Given my career as a psychotherapist, I am deeply invested in how we grow as doulas, how we learn to hold space, how we bear what we are witnessing, how we identify our gifts and blindspots, and how we foster a deep acceptance in spite of our strongly held ideas. I am also committed to the idea of apprenticeship:  we learn from each other in many different ways. The Guild uplifts all of these possibilities.