practitioner training program
The framework your training left out…
A two part live cohort program for multidisciplinary maternal health practitioners. Learn to see — and respond to — the developmental experience every mother is living through.
June 11 & 18
12.00 - 1.30pm PST
The mother in your room isn't necessarily struggling. She's becoming.
And she needs practitioners who understand the difference.
Do any of these sound familiar?
✓ The woman who misses her old life.
✓The client whose grief and love seem to coexist in ways that don't fit any diagnostic box.
✓The mother who is not depressed — not by any clinical measure — and yet something is clearly happening.
The reason you didn't have language for it isn't a gap in your clinical skill. It's a gap in your training.
Because the concept that names what you've been witnessing — matrescence — has been almost entirely absent from practitioner education across every discipline.
When practitioners have this framework, everything shifts.
Imagine what would be different if…
Ambivalence is named, not pathologized. Instead of only receiving a depression screening, a mother also receives a developmental context — and leaves the appointment feeling seen rather than assessed.
Identity disruption is recognized. Instead of "that's normal" or “it will get easier,” a mother hears "that has a name." And a name changes everything — because normal without context is still alone, but normal with context is the beginning of integration.
Disciplines speak the same language. A pelvic floor therapist, a midwife, a therapist, a pilates instructor and a doula can all be seeing the same woman in the same week — and working from the same map. Care becomes cohesive. The mother is finally seen whole.
introducing
Matrescence:
In Practice
June 11 & 18
12.00 - 1.30pm PST
A two part live virtual training that gives multidisciplinary maternal health practitioners the framework, the language, and the lens to meet every mother in the full complexity of what she is going through.
Open to all maternal care practitioners: physicians, nurses, midwives, doulas, lactation consultants, psychologists, counsellors, social workers, pelvic floor physios, chiropractors, RMTs, naturopaths, TCMs, acupuncturists, sleep coaches, coaches and more!
What You’ll Learn
Two x 90 minute sessions on Zoom
01
what is matrescence
This session focuses on the foundational framework: the history, key research, domains of matrescence, and holding matrescence and clinical presentations simultaneously.
02
matrescence in the room
This session focuses on discipline-specific application: what matrescence-informed practice looks like in your context, how to name it for clients and respond to the moments that matter.
By attending this training, you will be able to…
✓ Define matrescence with confidence — and explain it to clients in a single sentence.
✓ Recognise matrescence in the room: in the language clients use, in somatic presentations, in the moments that didn't fit any box you were given.
✓ Hold matrescence and clinical conditions simultaneously — the both/and skill that separates developmental awareness from diagnostic oversimplification.
✓ Apply a matrescence-informed lens within your discipline's scope of practice — with concrete, implementable changes.
✓ Leave with a matrescence-informed practice identity — not just knowledge, but a transformed way of seeing.
Program Cost
EARLY BIRD RATE
$129
Register by May 29
full price
$179
“When I share matrescence with a client, I can see their body soften, and that in and of itself is doing so much work that my hands don’t have to do.”
-RMT & Doula
Meet Cayley
Cayley Benjamin is the founder of The Matrescence Movement and one of Canada's leading voices on matrescence — the developmental transformation of becoming a mother.
With a background in Psychology and Sociology, 18 years of experience in leadership development and facilitation, a coaching certification through the Co-Active Leadership Institute, and a Motherhood Studies Practitioner certification through Dr. Sophie Brock, Cayley works with healthcare and educational institutions and clinical teams to bring matrescence-informed practice into maternal care.
Her work has been featured on Global News, the CBC, CTV News, the Toronto Star, BC Parent, Business in Vancouver and Canadian Affairs.
Her work is devoted to ensuring that no mother moves through this transition without language, recognition, or support.
