Doula and Birth Photography Mentoring with Morag Hastings

Birth Photographer Mentor Morag Hastings

Doula Mentoring with Morag Hastings

Are you looking to sharpen your doula skills? Do you want to learn how to help your clients with low intervention, informed-based care?

This 10 birth / one-year mentoring program works well on its own or it can be added to the birth photography mentorship. During our one on one sessions, we will cover prenatal visits, comfort measures, what normal birth looks like, how to help your clients get the birth they want, running your business, self-care, how to run a successful doula business and get clients. Included with the on-call portion you will get personalized on-the-spot birth support, post-birth debriefing sessions and business support.  This one-on-one training will help you take your doula business to the next level. 

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Morag Hastings

Birth Photography Mentoring with Apple Blossom Families

Are you looking for birth photography mentoring? Apple Blossom Families mentor program is a one year mentorship including 12 hours of instruction. The sessions are focused on what you need to become a professional birth photographer in your city. Our sessions cover everything from what gear you need, shooting births, editing, portfolio review, promotion, contracts, and workflow.

Once your mentorship has started you will have access to Morag for a 1 year period to ask questions as needed. The birth photography mentoring program was created to meet you where you are at in your business, to help you grow as a photographer.

Morag has mentored both new photographers and experienced photographers, both of who gained knowledge from the mentoring sessions. For more information and to apply click here

About Morag Hastings

Morag Hastings

Morag always shares her insight with extremely refreshing, no-holds-barred honesty and humour. Her work with her busy doula and birth photography business, Apple Blossom Families, has not only helped individual families to have positive births but also has been hugely successful at increasing awareness of normal birth and breastfeeding practices through her photography. Morag has photographed over 400 births, averaging 40-50 per year,  in both home and hospital, including many cesarean births as well as some unassisted births.

Upon graduating from the Langara Professional Photography program in 2000 I have continued to improve my work through self-education. I started my business in 2011, since then I have lead the pack locally and nationally in professionalizing the Canadian birth photography industry. People follow my work from around the world through my extremely popular Facebook and Instagram feed.

I co-founded the Canadian Birth Photographers Directory in 2012. It is a listing site for birth photographers all over Canada. Our website promotes birth photography nationally, while the private Facebook group, is a place for birth photographers to support each other. I love the community and people supporting each other through business.

My image won the Best in Labour category in the 2016 International Birth Photography Contest and I was voted one of Vancouver’s top Family Photographers on Vancouvermom.ca. My work has been published in top magazines and websites including Elle, Cosmopolitan, Self, Redbook, The Independent, BBC, huffingpost.com, Today’s Parent, and featured in TED Talks.

In 2020 I acquired Dancing Star Birth a well known childbirth education business in Vancouver. I shifted my work to teaching prenatal classes and mentoring doulas and birth photographers full time. 

When I am not talking about birth I am often found in the endowment lands walking my two rescue dogs or hanging out on the Gulf Islands with my kids, dogs and partner. 

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Apply for Mentorship

Please fill out the application below to apply for the Apple Blossom Families birth photography and/or doula mentoring program. There are limited spots available throughout the year. Potential photography mentees must have attended at least two births and must have or be willing to purchase professional quality photography equipment.

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