“IT'S BEEN COMPLETELY LIFE CHANGING PERSONALLY AS A MOTHER BUT ALSO IN MY CLINIC, AND I REALLY COULDN'T RECOMMEND IT ENOUGH.

…her course has really given me a vision and helped me gain the tools and even an understanding and the words needed to explain the process that mothers go through and how to really challenge belief systems that limits us as mothers. So I've been able to work much more profoundly with my clients and really help them see… how they can revolutionize their own motherhood journey, so that they feel more fulfilled and overall, happier and in their motherhood journey.

Laila

Naturopath and Nutritionist

Oh Healthy Baby

“I FEEL MUCH MORE CONFIDENT… I CAN PLACE WHAT I DO WITHIN A MUCH WIDER SOCIOLOGICAL CONTEXT.

Sophie manages to encapsulate really complex ideas in a very understandable and accessible way, that you can then go and implement into your work with mothers, with families. I’ve been doing this work for a very long time, but I’ve never really had the language or the theories, or the references to back that up.”

Ali Pember

Coach, counsellor, mindfulness and hypnobirth practitioner. Specialist in maternal mental health and wellbeing.

Good Enough Mama

“this course has given me the language and the concepts that i can share with mothers to help them understand and navigate their motherhood.”

The motherhood studies certification is for any practitioner that wants to next level your work in the mothercare space. This certification looks deeply into how our modern day mothering practices have developed, and how mothers have come to form their identity due to this. This course has given me the language and the concepts that I can share with mothers to help them understand and navigate their motherhood. It has also been the perfect space to allow me to reflect on my own motherhood experience.

“Every mother or person who works with mothers should know this!.”

Working with Sophie was an amazing experience. She has an awe-inspiring depth and command of this knowledge.
The course both centered and enlightened me.
I felt the concepts that were discussed and their applicability to my own motherhood journey so deeply and appreciated their universality.
I look forward to the potential to bring motherhood studies further out in the world, with Sophie and my fellow practitioners.”

“IN MY WORK THE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM GAVE ME VOCABULARY, CONCEPTS, AND ULTIMATELY THE CONFIDENCE TO GO DEEPER INTO THE WORK OF MOTHERHOOD SUPPORT.“

As a coach for mothers as they journey into and through Motherhood, now this work is woven into everything that I do… It has transformed my work.”

Cayley Benjamin

Coach and facilitator of 14 years

Cayley Benjamin Motherhood Coaching

“Learning from Sophie, and the community of people who were on the course, was transformative both professionally and personally.”

The course surpassed all my expectations and as it went on, it became clear that it was an investment and experience of a lifetime.
After a few weeks, I began to have a shift of vision in how I viewed the world around me, including my personal life.
Midway through the course the content hit a chord within me that was deep and very personal. Sophie, and the community, were marvelous in how they supported me through that period of growth and integration.
My outlook is forever impacted by the content, relationships, discussions, and reflection I engaged with during and since the course.
THIS is the course to invest in for yourself and your future projects with mothers and families.

“THE COURSE JUST WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT I THOUGHT. I’VE GAINED SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE AND SUCH AN AMAZING WAY TO VIEW THE MACRO STRUCTURES OF MOTHERHOOD AND ALSO THE MICRO WHAT'S ACTUALLY GOING ON DAY TO DAY.”

I highly recommend it to anyone who's on the fence or considering it, you will not regret it. I completed Sophie's motherhood studies practitioner certification recently, I decided to do the course after absolutely loving her podcast and feeling like there was so much important insights and information that was coming out of it that I really wanted to dig deeper and learn more to add that to my own practice caring for mothers and families. And the course just went above and beyond what I thought.

Grace Taylor

Doula

Modern Village

“I have loved every second of this course.”

It has really opened my eyes up to more than just what i believed motherhood/matrescence to be.

It has given me insights into different cultural perspectives on motherhood and also helped put names to a lot of the different experiences I have had since becoming a mother and allowed me to feel 'normal' again.

Thank you Sophie for all your work and effort that goes into creating a course such as this.

“From day one of this course, I felt like I made a great decision taking this course… I could find my own voice and what I value in my life, as a mother, as a woman, and as a person.”

“From day one, I felt like I'd made a great decision taking this course. They way the course is structured, how accessible the material is, and of course, the actual content were exactly what I was looking for… One of the best parts of this course is that it is so thoughtfully designed for mothers in a variety of situations and life circumstances. The content was so valuable and helped me understand the real struggles that come with motherhood, and where those struggles come from. It enabled me to find my own voice and gain a deeper sense of what I truly value in my life.

I am truly in awe of how Dr. Sophie delivers the content. The way she teaches, the way she speaks, and the way she designed the course were perfect. I could feel her generosity of spirit, her deep compassion, and the genuine respect she has for mothers everywhere. I cannot wait to share all of the wisdom and knowledge I gained in this course with other women so that they can benefit from the wonderful lessons in the same way that I did.

Sakie Umehara

@sakiepeterson

“I really loved it, it was exactly what I was looking for. And in fact, I feel I have a better understanding and framework to work with when learning about motherhood and working with mothers and being a mother myself.”

Dr Jodi Pawluski

Behavioural Neuroscientist, Psychotherapist and Author

Dr Jodi Pawluski - All things mommy brain

“This course has been incredible.“

It’s allowed me to work through my own experiences of Motherhood, while learning and understanding how I can vastly improve the support I offer mums I work with. Sophie’s ability to break down and explain big and complex theory’s is amazing. Her knowledge and kindness both carried me through the course feeling fully supported.

“This course is truly the missing piece I was searching for.”

“It has been a truly expansive experience for me, it has absolutely exceeded all of my expectations”

I definitely felt feelings of imposter syndrome… connecting with other women in the course who I felt had way more experience than me in their fields and in their motherhood journeys, but what I really want to say to the women who might be questioning their own worth of whether this is the right thing for them: trust that heart pull and know that what your heart is saying that is saying YES you want to be part of this course - follow that lead - because that is the potency of you and your essence… you have something important to offer to Mothers.

I hope your fear of not-enoughness is not going to hold you back from stepping into this course and having a transformative experience, like I did.

Stephanie Jade

Holistic Mothercare Practitioner and Feminine Embodiment Leader

Holistic Mothercare

“This course has been amazing. It has given me a language to explain everything I have felt over the last few years. It has healed me in so many ways.”

I have made contacts with amazing women. Most importantly though, I have felt more like me! Time to think, reflect, process... I cannot thank you enough.

“It exceeded my expectations, the course content was so detailed, thought provoking, and transformative.”

Thank you Sophie for the wonderful experience throughout the certification.

I got more out of this experience than I imagined, both personally and professionally - it's stretched me in a personal capacity, prompting a lot of reflection and understanding about my own motherhood journey, as well as deeply enriched my business and understanding of how to best support the mothers I work with, but I think most importantly what I've learned though the certification is already impacting individual mothers, helping them to have meaningful shifts in perspective and make changes that benefit themselves & their families.

“This course was by far and away the best investment I have made - both personally and professionally.”

Not only have I gained the language, theories, concepts and references to deepen and expand the work I do in supporting mothers, but I also learnt so much more about myself personally, and has liberated me on levels that I could not have foreseen or expected.

Sophie is so gifted at summarising and encapsulating very complex theories and concepts so that they are much more digestible and relatable, so I feel so confident and empowered to be able to implement my learnings into my own practice and work with mothers.

A truly transformative and expansive experience!

“I'm very emotional the course is finished. It was one of the greatest, if not the greatest journey and learning I've ever gone on.”

Everyone will have a special place in my heart after our time together in the container you created and held so supportively for us.

“This program has been one of the most influential experiences in my life. I feel confident moving forward working with mothers.”

And I have a better understanding of myself and my practice. This coursework unveils the work that needs to be done from a social justice standpoint, and pushes ourselves to self-reflect and connect with others."

“There is nothing else like this anywhere else and I am so glad I decided to enrol and learn from Sophie.”

The Motherhood Studies Practitioner program was simply amazing!

Dr. Sophie Brock is a wealth of knowledge and holds such a gentle space for all women coming to this program, to share, to learn to grow and to be acknowledged.

I learned so much from all of the modules and was able to understand both my own experience as a mother more deeply and how I could better support my clients professionally.

If you are looking to explore motherhood studies - this is the place!

“It is uniquely both rigorous and profound.”

I am ever grateful to you Sophie for the depth, richness and inspiration of this certification course.

It has transformed my work with mothers in a way that supports their lived experiences with academic research and theoretical frameworks that demystify the constructs and complexities of motherhood.

“Choosing the red pill In The Matrix movie (1999), Morpheus offers Neo a choice: ‘You take the blue pill,’ he says, ‘the story ends’. With the blue pill nothing will change, your life will be the same or ‘You take the red pill (…) and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”

With the red pill you will have access to a deeper truth or in other words, you will continue to learn about the invisible conditioning messages that were set in the world to break them and get freedom.

Taking this motherhood studies certification was like choosing the red pill.

After the training, I could not see motherhood and mothering with the same lens.

It is an eye-opening course about our socialization as mothers and women. How the social construct of motherhood can be oppressive and how mothering can be a place of agency, power and resistance.

The certification brings the language, the concepts, the bigger narrative which contributes to supporting other women along their mothering journey.

I do believe that the web of motherhood studies practitioners that are spreading certification’s learning are planting invisible seeds of change.

In the movie Neo chooses the red pill and joins the rebellion.

Are you ready to join the web of invisible seeds of change?”

“The impact of this course for me on a personal level was completely worth the time and money alone. It is hands down the best training I’ve ever undertaken.”

I feel like my inner world has been blown apart… I feel like I’m seeing in colour.
I embarked on this course months ago to benefit my practice, better service my clients & to grow my offerings. Honestly? I’ve come away with SO much more.
It’s felt life changing.
The impact of this course for me on a personal level was completely worth the time and money alone.
It is hands down the best training I’ve ever undertaken.

“I have LOVED every element of Sophie's Motherhood Studies Practitioner Certification.”

Sophie has an obvious passion in supporting mothers and those in mother work, and has a high level expertise in the area of Motherhood Studies. The certification has supported in deepening my knowledge and understanding of Patriarchal Motherhood (the fish tank of motherhood) in a clear and helpful way to be able to pass on to those I support. I cannot see the world in the same way I did prior to completing the Motherhood Studies Certification. I thank Sophie for opening my eyes.

“The concepts and theories Sophie has shared with us has been incredibly important because what this offers women is a reason for why they may be feel so angry disconnected and lost.”

By understanding the impact that the social system of motherhood has had on us we can then begin to say no, not this a begin to align with new values and beliefs that do support mothers, her children, families, communities and the world at large to thrive!!!

“The material and presentations were wonderfully thorough, clear, well planned, and motivating! The depth of knowledge and passion that Sophie has for this material is evident!”

“I never realized how much of the patriarchy I had internalized around mothering. I came into motherhood with a set of rules for being a good mother. And when I couldn’t live up to those expectations, there was a sense of failing.”

I found Sophie through an article and then began listening to her podcast the Good Enough Mother. It gave me a language for what I was feeling. The course allowed me to dig deeper into what the literature says about the motherhood journey and along the way I got to voice all the things I was feeling with a group of women on their own journey to understand and support mothers. I am using the tools I have gained from this course in my counselling practice: Hope From Therapy.

“The Motherhood Studies certification has broadened my knowledge so much and I have learnt so much that I can use within my work in supporting mothers.”

I had so many 'yes!' moments where things became clear and values I've always held made sense. I can now reinforce these with theory and explain them. It has been amazing to be a part of- Thank you Sophie.

“This course was just the level of deepening I was looking for in my work in the birthing/motherHood world.”

The nuance, the intellectual perspective made me see the bigger picture. This reflected directly into my work as a coach and a teacher and put me straight on the path of what is really important to empower mothers. Thank you Sophie.

“Sophie’s course is a must do for anyone working with mothers. Being able to see, for myself, both as a mother/woman how my experiences of motherhood have been shaped and influenced by patriarchal structures, has allowed me to give a language to what I was feeling and continue to navigate this.”

Professionally, the course has been incredibly comprehensive and will continue to be a source of reference with the amount of literature and resources that Sophie has shared, for many years to come. This course has enable me to explore depths of motherhood that I feel confident to guide me as I support women and mothers in their own motherhood journey. Sophie is gentle and knowledgeable, and has a wonderful ability to hold space for all participants who are unpacking, unlearning and weaving together her teachings personally and professionally during the lives calls, as this course will change your relationship to many things, once you see patriarchal motherhood, you can’t unsee it!

“This course has changed my whole being, entirely. I will never view the world the same again.”

Amy Ewens

“This course sets the standard for motherhood studies - it has been thorough, well researched, easy to engage with and transformational.”

The structure of the course and opportunities for reflection and personal insight were well thought through. Dr Sophie Brock is a professional and warm guide, through complex topics that she is clearly expert in. I cannot recommend this certification highly enough.

“This course is so well-developed and executed!”

“The work is applicable to every stage of motherhood and across all different mediums of work as it explores the fundamental roots of the systems and narratives that we live in.”

I found the course to be exceptionally well laid out, thought provoking and well held. There is a wonderful mixture of theory and also learning through self reflection and group discussion. I hope to repeat the course and delve further into each topic.

“Sophie is a true leader in her field and her unique concepts and teachings approach motherhood in a way that makes sense and is also revolutionary.”

A truly eye-opening and unique course that you won't find anywhere else (trust me, I did my research!). There were so many aspects to the course that I would never even have thought of and yet when pulled together they create a vision of motherhood that is both deeply affirming and deeply challenging. I will be reshaping my business as a result of undertaking this course and believe the knowledge I have learnt will allow for me to offer a truly unique and much needed service that not many others have the knowledge to create. The community was full of inspiring, interesting women and I miss our regular calls already. I would highly, highly recommend this course to anyone considering.

“I loved this course! Sophie is such a generous and knowledgeable educator and facilitator. The depth and breadth of her Motherhood Studies knowledge is immense.”

Through this course, Sophie shares clear and easy to use frameworks and models that help communicate and explain really complex and challenging topics in an authentic and accessible way, whilst also sharing research and further information to enable you to delve deeper into topics as and when you choose. The online mode of delivery (both through the online portal and the podcast format) combined with the class and connection calls provide a safe and warm environment to learn and share stories and experiences. I highly recommend this course you anyone who is currently or is interested in working with and supporting mothers. It is invaluable.

Kat King

“You have helped give
words and language to what I had been feeling and experiencing but
unable to truly communicate.”

Thank you so much Sophie for this wonderful course. Not only are these teachings relevant to my
business but also to my life and work as a mama and woman. This work is
truly a gift to the world and I'm so excited to help spread it in my
community.

Belinda

“This course has exceeded my expectations. I find myself thinking about motherhood through this sociological lens on a daily basis with nearly everything I do in this area of life.”

The concepts, theories and knowledge I have obtained will be incredibly useful moving forward, personally and professionally

“The Motherhood Studies Certification Program provided insights and frameworks that helped me give new language to the work that I am already doing with mothers and deepened my understanding of the way that motherhood is an institution steeped in patriarchal, racist, and capitalistic ideologies.”

As a midwife I work one-on-one with mothers and as a transformational facilitator I work with groups of mothers to life shame and isolation within their experience of mothering. What I learned in the certification is going to help me immensely in the work that I am doing and provide new arenas of work. I highly recommend it for anyone working with mothers.