So you’re thinking about enhancing your skillset and taking a sleep training course. Congratulations! As the premier sleep-training provider we can definitely help you with that.
We offer 3 different pathways to help you achieve your goal:
You can read the overviews below to choose your path and then click through for full details of each option.
Whether you’re brand new to providing sleep support, offering it as part of the support you give your families, or you’re working as a sleep consultant, we have a course that’s right for you.
Babyem’s gentle sleep consultant courses are accredited through the Open College Network (OCN). This allows you to achieve a formal accreditation whilst developing your skills and confidence in work supporting families.
Babyem’s online Gentle Sleep Practitioner Training includes interactive video-based training that teaches the most current evidence based thinking in relation to the understanding of the science of normal sleep for newborns and infants. The course addresses topics ranging from, night waking, naps, how food affects sleep, self soothing and controlled crying, safe sleep, and more.
Babyem’s 2 day Gentle Sleep Coach Training is led by Holistic Sleep Coach & International Board Certified Lactation Consultant Lyndsey Hookway. This practical, evidence based sleep course consists of one day of online training content and one day of attendance to an in-person training in London.
The 16-module Holistic Sleep Coaching Program is a 360-degree training experience, with our most up-to-date strategies, access to over 25 world-renowned experts, plus our ongoing support in a community of peers. You will be coached by Lyndsey Hookway, who literally wrote THE book on Holistic Sleep Coaching.
It is the most comprehensive sleep coaching program available internationally, with over 100 hours of content available, that you get lifetime access to.
If you want to learn how to support families in a gentle, responsive way that gets them results, without resorting to non-responsive techniques, which conflict with their responsive parenting beliefs, our gentle, holistic sleep programs are for you. Our ideal students fall into one of these categories:
“Our gentle sleep consultant training courses are designed to disrupt the sleep space and challenge outdated beliefs regarding infant sleep.”
EMMA DEWEY DIRECTOR BABYEM
We believe that your sleep course is only the start, and we are dedicated to supporting our students throughout their career.
Your teachers and cohort will be there for you as you go through your course and also after the course – so that if you have any should you have questions whilst working with families you feel supported.
Two of our three sleep courses provide different levels of mentorship and support:
Our gentle sleep consultant training courses are structured around active participation as a valuable tool for learning. We use a variety of teaching aids to suit each sleep coaching course and its participants – from case study analysis and role-play to quizzes and practical assessments. Whatever your learning style, we’ve got you covered.
All of our gentle sleep consultant training courses are available online (with a hands-on feel) through our Facebook groups. This provides flexibility and accessibility so that no matter how busy you are, juggling kids or clients you won’t miss a thing!
Because we also know that some people prefer face to face training our 2 Day Blended Gentle Sleep Coach Training includes a face-to-face day in London at the Marriot Hotel in South Kensington, London. With a spacious venue, we aim to ensure you are able to get the most out of the training.
Our gentle sleep consultant training coaching courses are delivered by change-makers in the industry, who are fiercely passionate about their work, which seeks to empower and support families.
In addition to running their private practices, their achievements have included:
All trainers receive ongoing CPD and our sleep courses are regularly reviewed by both our agency and OCN.
Andrea is a Holistic and Gentle Sleep Consultant, Doula, Adult Insomnia Coach, author, and Practitioner. She holds two university certificates in Advanced Marriage and Family Functioning and Home and Family, from Brigham Young University In her sleep practice, she has helped over 8000 families get better sleep. She also has extensive hands-on experience working with babies throughout the night. Andrea has also spent the past 8 years training and mentoring Sleep Consultants and Night Coaches around the world and has written 3 books related to infant and child sleep.
HOLISTIC SLEEP COACH AND INTERNATIONAL BOARD CERTIFIED LACTATION CONSULTANT
Lyndsey is an experienced Paediatric Nurse, Health Visitor and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and Holistic Sleep Coach. As an International speaker, Lyndsey regularly teaches health, lactation and childcare professionals. She is also the co-founder and clinical director of the Holistic Sleep Coaching Program, and the author of Holistic Sleep Coaching and Let’s talk about your new family’s sleep and has written a number of published articles.
Babyem specialises in offering accredited childcare and postnatal maternity nurse training courses in the UK, internationally and also online. The Babyem team consists of over 20 antenatal and postnatal specialists ranging from Lactation Consultants to Early Years Educators. In addition to running Babyem, Emma works with organisations internationally as far afield as Nigeria and China to support them to develop their training, policies and procedures.
With a background in Children Services, Emma has speaks frequently at conferences and has written a number of best practice guidance documents for Local Authorities and Associations, including creating the British Association of Au Pair Agencies (BAPAA) childcare handbook.
The Gentle Sleep Education Courses have been created in partnership with renowned Holistic Sleep Coach Lyndsey Hookway, author of co-founder of the Holistic Sleep Coaching Program, and Andrea Strange, author, Gentle Sleep Coach and Doula.
The contribution and knowledge from both trainers, means that students are able to benefit from both tutors’ diverse experiences – from working with international client base and having a wide range of skills including Andrea being a doula and sleep coach, and Lyndsey being IBCLC and a sleep coach.
In the Holistic Sleep Coaching Program, you will be taught by and have access to over 25 world-renowned experts, whose expertise is as wide-ranging as allergies, nutritional deficits, feeding, sensory and special needs, business-building, marketing, and more.
Completing the accredited version of the course demonstrates your ability to digest information, and sets you apart from those that don’t hold an accredited course.
However, with our online sleep practitioner training course, we offer a ‘non accredited’ option, where you simply complete the online course and all the quizzes and then you are able to download your certificate of completion.
Regardless of whether you complete the non-accredited course or the accredited course, you will be able to download your certificate of completion once you have completed the online content. We offer this option as we recognise that for people completing coursework, they will want to be able to demonstrate they have completed the course content.
We understand that life gets in the way, and sometimes you need more time to complete the assessment. If that happens you simply email us and let us know, so we can help you if needed.
We want to support your career growth and that’s why we have generous payment plans to make our courses really affordable.
That may be the case and for good reason. When you train with us, you can be confident that you are learning from the leaders in the industry. We often train the people that set up courses to train others in our field! We heavily invest in our students and when you consider the ongoing support we provide, in the end, our courses work out to be less than the other organizations (and that is before you work in added costs of travel costs and babysitters).
There are many sleep courses available internationally.
However is all the information and advice they offer based on evidence?
Do the tips and strategies promote biological and developmental needs, as well as the many competing factors affecting the child’s sleep? Quite often the answer is no.
We believe that if you provide sleep support to young families, you are in a unique position to have a significant positive influence on families.
Our approach is holistic, gentle, and evidence based and puts families at the centre of the support provided.
Our trainers are the leading experts in the field, including Holistic Sleep Coach & IBCLC Lyndsey Hookway, who has written THE book on Holistic Sleep Coaching.
Our extensive team of sleep coaches and expert contributors are change makers in the industry, and in promoting gentle, holistic, responsive parenting.
Our aim is to provide the best sleep education available.
Great news, we can’t wait to start working with you! All you need to do is click the sleep course you are interested in (above) which will take you to the course page, where you can then sign up!
The 2 day blended Gentle Sleep Coaching course allows time for you to answer all your questions in the face to face session. If you have questions after the course you are most welcome to contact us.
The online Holistic Sleep Coaching Program and Gentle Sleep Education Course both have facebook groups. The quickest way to get your questions answered is to post them in these Facebook groups, which are there specifically to support you with course queries and ongoing questions when working with clients.
If you have any other non-course-related queries regarding payment, tech, deadlines etc… then please contact the Babyem team and we can happily help you.
Currently there is no set industry ‘qualification’ that qualifies you to be a sleep consultant. This means that after any sleep course, you could technically call yourself a sleep coach/sleep consultant/sleep nanny etc…
We offer the short gentle sleep courses which are ideal if you are working alongside parents and supporting them with sleep in a gentle and holistic way.
The benefit of completing the Holistic Sleep Coaching Program is that you can complete an in-depth 18 week training program, which is delivered by leading specialists in the field. This enables you to feel confident that you are receiving the best possible information and guidance that will put you in the best position to help you in your work supporting families.
Let’s talk about “overwhelm” for a second.
Overwhelm happens when you don’t have an actionable plan and easy to follow information to follow. We have created our sleep courses in a way that ensures you never feel overwhelmed. We pride ourselves on taking complex thinking and science and making it easy to understand and digest so you can take practical steps when working with families.
We don’t present you with “all the things, all at once”. We break down all of our courses into easy to digest lessons with practical steps, with videos, text, quizzes graphics and downloads to support all learning styles.
Our courses are designed to help you digest the right information at the right time with lessons building on top of each other.
Each course outlines the estimated time that's required to successfully complete the course.
As all of our sleep courses are available online you are able to log in and out when convenient for you, meaning you can work as many or as few hours as your schedule allows.
We offer a 14-day money-back guarantee.
We are so confident in the quality of our training that we know that we are providing you with the best training in the industry, supported by leading experts.
However, we also want you to feel comfortable with your investment – so we offer a 14-day money-back guarantee. If you join and within 14 days and decide the program isn’t right for you, then you can request a full refund and we wish you well for the future.
We are confident that you will love the course and we are very excited at the opportunity to support you and be part of your journey!
Whether you’re new to the world of sleep or already helping families to get better sleep, the Gentle Sleep Practitioner Training will provide you with a myriad of gentle and supportive strategies so you feel confident to help families improve sleep.
Online Gentle Sleep Practitioner Training at a glance:
The course enables you to understand the different approaches to supporting families with sleep, how to create the right sleep environment and an insight into how to effectively complete sleep consultations with parents. You will also explore real life case studies.
You will cover key factors that contribute to babies and children waking in the night including sleep regression, developmental milestones, cognitive changes, nutritional factors and environmental factors. The Gentle Sleep Coach Training also addresses sleeping behaviours in older children including child psychology and how different types of attachment can manifest into sleep problems.
During the in-person training day, you will build on what you have learned during the online training, as well putting theory into practice through reviewing sleep diaries to interpret sleep problems and practically reviewing how to target sleep interventions to the root cause. You will focus on quick wins, and how to co-create sleep strategies with families.
2 Day Blended Gentle Sleep Coach Training, Online & In-Person at a glance:
We’re giving you everything you need to make a bigger impact, learn from the BEST in the field, and build a sleep coaching career that you love.
As well as being theoretically grounded, the course is also highly practical. We spend time reviewing real-life case studies and consultations in order to help you feel confident as a Holistic Sleep Coach, no matter what situations you encounter. Your clients want to look to you as the expert, and we give you the training to make that happen.
We understand the importance of having the right support around you to ensure you succeed as a sleep coach and that’s why our support goes far beyond the 16-week course! We offer intense marketing support and also run quarterly continued professional development training. You will also be part of our graduate community where you can receive ongoing support from course leaders and your peers when working with clients.
Getting started
You will need to book a call with a member of the Holistic Sleep Coaching Program team to discuss your options. When you are accepted on to the program you can start right away!
We offer two options for this course:
The self-paced version – You will get instant access to all 16 modules so you can start immediately and go through the course at your own pace. This version doesn’t include the live weekly Q&A sessions.
The live version – We run this course live twice a year (intakes are every March and September) The content is drip-fed and you move through the course together with other students in your cohort. This program includes weekly live Q&A sessions with industry experts.
Holistic Sleep Coaching Program at a glance: