The Transform Parenting Pathway
A 6-month facilitator training and mentoring journey for people who feel called to support families from pregnancy through to the first 7 years of parenting.
6 months, fortnightly | Starting Friday 19 June 2026
1:00 – 3:00 pm on Zoom | Founding cohort $4,500
Parents are drowning in information, but often starving for inner steadiness. They need someone to walk beside them not with more tips, but with the deeper support to trust themselves, attune to their baby and become the parents they want to be. This pathway trains you to hold that space.
IS THIS FOR YOU?
The Transform Parenting Pathway is for people who want to support families in a deeper way from pregnancy through birth, babyhood, toddlerhood and the early years. You do not need to have all the answers. But you do need to care deeply about families, and be willing to hold space without rushing to fix.
It may be for you if you are a:
- Birth worker, doula or childbirth educator
- Midwife or nurse
- Hypnobirthing practitioner
- Parenting educator or early childhood professional
- Therapist, psychologist or coach
- Social worker or family support worker
- Women’s circle facilitator or space-holder
- Parent who feels called to support others on this path
You need to value connection over performance, and understand that birth and parenting are not just practical events; they are profound emotional and identity transitions.
THE TRAINING PROGRAM
Six months. Twelve pillars. A complete pathway.
Over six months, meeting fortnightly on Zoom, Tracey walks you through the full Transform Parenting Pathway. You will cover 12 core pillars that take families from the inner journey of pregnancy through birth, the postnatal period, toddlerhood and into the early years.
The focus is not on overwhelming parents with more information. It is on helping them build inner resources, attunement and connection. You will learn not only the content of each pillar, but how to facilitate it: how to hold conversations, guide reflections and support emotional safety.
As a founding cohort, you will also help shape the pathway as it evolves.
This is an intimate, collaborative experience, deeply held and closely mentored.
At a Glance
Format: Fortnightly 2-hour Zoom sessions
Length: 6 Months
Day & Times: Fridays, 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Starting Date: Friday 19th June
Delivery: Online via Zoom
Cohort: Founding cohort – intimate and closely held
THE 12 PILLARS OF THE PATHWAY
1
Becoming a Parent Begins Before Birth
Understanding pregnancy as an emotional, relational and identity transition, not just a physical one. You will learn to hold the inner experience of becoming a parent from the very beginning.
2
Attuning to the Baby Within
Helping parents connect with their baby as a responsive, relational being from the start, building the foundations of attunement before birth.
3
Protecting Inner Authority in Pregnancy
Supporting parents to navigate opinions, systems, care providers and birth stories without losing connection to their own inner knowing.
4
Working With Fear and the Mind
Teaching parents how fear affects the body and how to build mental and emotional resources for birth and parenting, moving through fear rather than around it.
5
Trusting the Body in Labour
Understanding labour through safety, physiology, hormones, breath, movement and body trust, facilitating confidence from the inside out.
6
Birth Choices, Advocacy and the Birth Map
Helping families prepare for birth with clarity, communication and flexibility, navigating the birth system with self-trust intact.
7
The First 40 Days: Landing as a Family
Preparing families for recovery, support, boundaries, tenderness and the profound early postnatal transition, one of the most underserved seasons in a family’s life.
8
Learning Your Baby
Supporting parents to understand cues, feeding, sleep, touch and connection through the lens of relationship, building confidence through attunement, not prescription.
9
Integrating the Birth Experience
Helping parents make sense of what happened and carry their birth story with compassion, holding space for grief, gratitude and everything in between.
10
Matrescence, Identity and Relationship After Birth
Exploring the profound emotional and relational changes of becoming a parent: identity, partnership, self and the loss and expansion that come with this threshold.
11
Building the Family Culture
Helping parents consciously shape values, rhythms, rituals, support and connection in family life, creating a home culture with intention rather than default.
12
Triggers, Loving Limits and Playful Connection
Supporting parents to understand behaviour, their own reactions, boundaries, repair and connection with young children, the inner work of conscious parenting in the early years.
YOUR INVESTMENT INCLUDES
Everything you need to begin this work
12 Fortnightly Live Training Sessions
Two hours with Tracey every fortnight over six months, live on Zoom. Each session covers one pillar of the pathway in depth, with facilitation guidance, reflective practice and group discussion.
The 12-Pillar Framework
The complete Transform Parenting Pathway framework. The body of work Tracey has developed over more than 20 years, curated to support families across the full arc from pregnancy to the first 7 years.
Founding Cohort Membership
As a member of the first cohort, your input will help shape the pathway as it evolves. This is an intimate, collaborative experience: closely held, deeply mentored, and genuinely co-created.
Facilitation Guidance and Practice
You will learn not just the content, but how to hold it, how to guide reflections, support emotional safety, ask deeper questions and help parents return to their own inner knowing.
Reflective Practices and Parent Exercises
A curated set of practices and exercises from across the Transform Parenting body of work, ready for you to bring into sessions with the families you support.
Support as You Begin to Apply the Work
Guidance on how to bring the pathway into your own community or practice, with Tracey’s support as you take your first steps towards offering this work to families.
YOUR TRAINER
Get To Know Tracey Anderson Askew
Tracey is the founder of Transform Parenting and the creator of the Transform Parenting Pathway. For more than 20 years she has been teaching birth education, supporting parents, creating programs, holding groups and gathering wisdom about what families truly need as they move through pregnancy, birth and the early years.
Tracey is a certified Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) practitioner trained in the Marisa Peer method. Her facilitation approach sits underneath all information in the deeper layer of inner resources, attunement and self-trust that families are often starved of. She does not train people to teach parents. She trains people to hold space for them.
As a trainer, Tracey brings the same warmth and intentionality to her work with practitioners. She is not simply teaching you a curriculum. She is inviting you into a way of being with families in one of the most profound seasons of their lives.
- Certified RTT Practitioner, trained in the Marisa Peer Method
Founder of Transform Parenting - Creator of Thriving as a New Mum, Thriving as a New Dad, and the Transform Parenting Pathway
- Host of the Transform Your Birth podcast
- Supporter of the Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation
- More than 20 years working with families through pregnancy, birth and parenting
Words From Thriving As A New Mum
“As a second time mum, there’s not many activities I would do twice. But signing up to Tracey’s 10 week Thriving as a New Mum course for a second time, with my daughter, was an inspired decision that I’ll never regret. Tracey has devised a 10-topic program expertly to guide you comprehensively through issues you’ll naturally want to and need to discuss as a new mum. Tracey provides a safe and nurturing space for mums to be vulnerable, to share their highs and lows, joys and fears, trials and triumphs with other mums. Tracey’s warmth, kindness and wisdom helps nourish this community each week, drawing out mums who want to speak at length whilst respectful of those who need to pass and observe the journey of others. Many of the new mums I met in Tracey’s course with my first child, and I can see likely with my second child, have become my closest and potentially most enduring friendships. I couldn’t recommend Tracey’s course high enough. It has been the highlight of both my maternity leave periods. Don’t hesitate, grab a spot. You’ll love it.”
– Natalie
“Thank you so much for creating thrive – it’s hard to put into words what it’s meant for me but I’ve tried as best I can! Happy for you to use parents or to take things out if needed. Thriving as a new mum has absolutely changed the course of my parenting journey. I am so much more confident in my intuition and abilities and am finding joy in each day with my daughter. Each week, coming to Thrive felt like a warm hug due to the sense of community Tracey creates. The content is so relevant to the transition to motherhood and I have appreciated the opportunity to think more deeply and share my own vulnerabilities, in a safe and supportive environment. This course is one of the best investments you could make in your parenting journey and for me, has meant I’ve become more in tune with my instincts and my baby and in turn, a happier, more confident parent.”
– Lauren
“This is an absolutely amazing course. Tracey is a caring and heartfelt facilitator. I cried and laughed with other like-minded women as we shared our journeys as new mothers.
Each week was like being wrapped in a warm blanket of love. It was the perfect empathy tonic during my first weeks of parenthood. I appreciated that all voices were heard and respected.”
– Rose
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What you might be wondering
Do I need to be a credentialled professional?
No. The pathway is open to birth workers, practitioners, space-holders and parents who feel called to support families on this path. What matters is that you care deeply about families and are willing to hold space without rushing to fix.
When and how does the training run?
The training runs fortnightly on Fridays, 1:00–3:00 pm, live on Zoom. It begins Friday 19 June 2026 and runs for 6 months. You do not need to be based in Canberra or Australia, you can join from anywhere.
What is a founding cohort?
This is the first time the Transform Parenting Pathway has been offered as a training. The founding cohort will be intimate, collaborative and closely held. You will be learning the framework alongside Tracey, and your input will help shape how the pathway evolves. It is a genuinely special opportunity.
What professional backgrounds are welcomed?
Midwives, doulas, birth educators, childbirth educators, parenting educators, nurses, hypnobirthing practitioners, Calmbirth educators, early childhood professionals, therapists, coaches, social workers, family support workers, women’s circle facilitators and parents who feel called to this work are all welcome.
What are the payment options?
The founding cohort investment is $4,500 paid in full. Payment plans are also available, just reach out to hello@transformparenting.com.au and we will arrange a suitable plan.
What is the live information session on 4 June?
Tracey is holding a free live Zoom session on Thursday 4 June, 7:00–8:00 pm, to walk through the vision, the 12-pillar structure, the founding cohort details and the different ways this work could be used in your own practice or community. It is the best next step if you are curious.
YOUR NEXT STEP
Come to the live information session
Tracey is holding a free Zoom session on Thursday 4 June, 7:00–8:00 pm, to walk you through the pathway vision, the 12 pillars, the founding cohort details and how this work could fit into your practice. It is the best way to feel into whether this is for you.
