Matrescence is the most significant transformation of a woman's adult life.
Almost no one is trained to support it.
Mama Rising is the world's leading practitioner training in matrescence — the science of who a woman becomes when she becomes a mother — and the proven method for taking that science into the rooms where it changes everything.
Pregnancy,
Adoption,
The fourth trimester,
Fatherhood.
The return to work.
The systems that hold mothers, or fail them.
ICF-recognised education provider.
Trademarked, evidence-based method.
Graduates working across healthcare, corporate, policy & community worldwide.
Understanding matrescence is the breakthrough.
Knowing how to hold it is the work.
In the last decade, matrescence has moved from a forgotten term to a body of research reshaping how we understand maternal mental health, identity, neuroscience, and the workplace.
But research alone changes nothing.
The difference is made by people who can translate it — who can sit with a mother in the disorientation of early motherhood and know exactly how to support her, and who can stand in a boardroom, a clinic, or a policy meeting and make the case for doing things differently.
That translation — from theory to practice — is what Mama Rising trains. It is the only thing we train.
And after five years and hundreds of graduates across the world, no one does it the way we do.
You're someone who sees that we need a new way of supporting mothers.
you're a change-maker, a space holder, a leader.
You're ready for Mama Rising®.
The Mama Rising training is a wonderful, in-depth look into what it means to be a mother, and how to deeply support a mother through this transition.
The space that Amy creates is warm, nurturing and supportive whilst still pushing you to reflect on your own reality, explore your own beliefs and question everything. The delivery of content, group coaching sessions and masterclasses are brilliant and all support each other through your learning journey. I am so grateful to have found this training.
Emma Snelgar, Registered Nurse & Midwife
The Mama Rising Facilitator training was literally life changing.
It enabled me to do the inner work I needed to do to ensure my own happiness was a priority. This had a ripple effect across my whole family, improved my marriage and was also the missing piece of the puzzle in my doula training. For any mamas who are considering joining this movement of women who are truly getting to grips with what it looks like to honour motherhood, I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Alison Burnley, Postpartum Doula and Arts Manager
The Mama Rising Facilitator training helped me reinforce my understanding of matrescence but most importantly get clear on how I could weave this body of knowledge into my work as a Life Coach.
Amy's formula of support and the framework she provided for group workshops were exactly what I needed to gain confidence in sharing this important message with the mothers I work with. It was priceless to get Amy's support during the coaching sessions and the encouragement from the amazing community of students in the training. I feel privileged to be part of a movement that is going to change the way we value motherhood!
Elise Clement, Life Coach
Mama Rising® is a unique and trademarked coaching training that empowers and equips you to support a woman's experience of becoming and being a mother, whether that's in pregnancy, postpartum, in the workplace or in the community.
It will provide you with the language you need to speak directly to the women you want to work with.
It will give you the skills to coach and support her no matter what she is going through, and it will equip you with the resources you'll need to talk to companies, governments and policymakers about Matrescence.
What is Matrescence?
First named by anthropologist Dana Raphael in the 1970s and resurrected through the research of Dr Aurélie Athan at Columbia University, matrescence describes the profound developmental transition a woman moves through when she becomes a mother — biological, neurological, psychological, social, and spiritual.
It is as significant as adolescence.
It rewires the brain, reshapes identity, and reorders a woman's entire sense of self. And until very recently, our culture had no language for it — which is why so many mothers move through it feeling like they are failing, when in fact they are becoming.
Matrescence changes how we see, value, and support a mother — in the clinic, in the boardroom, in her relationships, and in herself. That's the knowledge. Here's what makes us different.
Our graduates don't just coach. They change how the world supports mothers.
After completing the training, Mama Rising graduates have gone on to:
- Design and roll out a new pregnancy, maternity-leave, and re-onboarding program inside a global commercial real estate company.
- Build a return-to-work support network and mentoring system across Asia-Pacific for a global recruitment firm.
- Consult government agencies, corporations, and HR leaders on maternity-leave reform and gender equality through a parenthood lens.
- Train midwives, doulas, social workers, and lactation consultants in matrescence-informed support, grounded in the Mama Rising method.
- Deliver workshops into male-dominated industries to improve understanding and long-term retention of working mothers.
- Create dedicated support for diverse paths to parenthood—including IVF, same-sex parents, and adoptive mothers.
- Establish pro bono postnatal support for mothers in need, including our inaugural Mama Rising Ambassador's work in Africa.
- Support nurses, midwives, and social workers in leaving traditional roles to build the businesses and practices they always knew they were meant to lead.
These are not coaching outcomes. They are system-level outcomes — created by people trained in matrescence.
And by the end of this training, you will not only be able to support mothers in a whole new way...
You will be a registered Mama Rising® Facilitator, with all the resources and support
you need to thrive.
Your Training is
Broken Down into 3 Parts:
part 01: theory
The science and foundations of matrescence and what it means for mothers today.
part 02: practice
Walking your own path through matrescence, so you can guide others with integrity.
part 03: Application
The Mama Rising principles of support, and the skill of holding a mother — one-to-one, in groups, and in the systems around her.
A trademarked method.
A recognised credential.
Mama Rising is a trademarked, proven method for supporting a mother through matrescence — refined over five years and applied across the world. The program is also a recognised education provider with the International Coach Federation (ICF), the peak global body for professional coaching. ICF recognition tells you the training meets the highest standards of educational rigour — but the credential is the floor, not the ceiling. What you're really gaining is fluency in a field most people don't yet have the language for.
Mama Rising® is so much more than a 9 month training program
- Certification to share the Mama Rising method in your community, your practice, and with workplaces
- Worksheets, coaching resources, presentation templates and client workbooks
- A profile on the mamarising.net facilitator directory so mothers can find you
- Feature on the @MamaRisingMovement community
- Affiliate access to the Mama Rising meditation library
- Wholesale access to the Mama Rising book (Hay House) to sell or gift
- Marketing materials to share your work
- Lifelong access to the most activated community of practitioners in this field
Running over nine months,
your training includes:
Q&A and group coaching calls with Amy
Live training and pre-recorded content you can move through at your own pace
A small tutorial group in your timezone to work through the material together
The very latest research into matrescence, maternity care, postpartum care, and workplace policy
Worksheets, resources, and workbooks to use directly with the mothers you support
A closed, deeply engaged community of aligned practitioners
A trademarked, proven method for supporting a mother through matrescence
Regular coaching and feedback from Amy and the team
Enrol in the September 2026 intake
EARLY ENROLMENT DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE!
pay in full
$6,897AUD
Plus two 1:1 coaching sessions with Amy*
9-month plan
$769AUD/m
SPREAD ACROSS
9 MONTHS
*When you choose the Pay in Full option, you will receive 2 x 1:1 coaching sessions with Mama Rising Founder Amy Taylor-Kabbaz either before or after the training. (Limited places).
We are thrilled to be able to offer a LIMITED number of scholarships through our Global Matresence Foundation each year.
Who steps into this training?
The skills you build in Mama Rising are transferable to almost any setting where mothers are supported, employed, treated, or led.
We train coaches and entrepreneurs — and also midwives, doulas, GPs, nurses, psychotherapists, lactation consultants, physiotherapists, yoga and Pilates teachers, HR and people leaders, diversity and equity specialists, community leaders, and healers.
What unites them isn't a job title. It's the recognition that the way we currently support mothers is broken — and the decision to be part of changing it.
Our Mama Rising Coaches have -
It will provide you with the language you need to speak directly to the women you want to work with.
Implemented a brand new return-to-work support network and mentoring system based on the Mama Rising training for Asia-Pacific for a global employment and recruitment company...
Turned their small yoga teaching business into an online coaching program during 2 years of lockdown, enabling them to support mothers world-wide...
Left their roles as nurses, social workers, and midwifes to finally create their own business to work with mothers in the way THEY want to...
Given workshop presentations and training to pre-dominantly male dominated industries to encourage better understanding and support for working mothers and the long term retention of women....
Consulted to government agencies, corporate businesses, and HR managers on better maternity leave and gender equality support with parenthood in mind...
Introduced matrescence-based support into their counselling and therapy as social workers, lactation consultations, and doulas...
Established pro-bono coaching and post-natal support for local mothers in need in Africa, as our inaugral Mama Rising Ambassador
Created bespoke products for new mamas including gift boxes that consider the mother and not just the baby, and in-home support services that honour the 4th trimester...
Easily expanded their yoga, personal training, doula and hypno-birthing businesses to include coaching and group programs...
Created unique coaching support for diverse experiences of motherhood and parenting, including IVF parents, same-sex parents, and adoptive mothers...
WE'VE WORKED WITH:
Your training is more than just motherhood
and matrescence focused.
You will also learn from these leading coaches, speakers & business women:
louise o'reilly
is a mother and a Warrwa-Noongar woman whose mission is to support cultural inclusion, diversity and equity in business.
Julie Tenner
is an author, speaker, facilitator, Naturopath, intimacy coach and mother of four.
Natalie MacNeil
is the founder of Coaching Evolved, an award-winning media entrepreneur, and the bestselling author of five books.
Julie Parker (she/her)
is the Founder of The Beautiful You Coaching Academy and a mentor, counsellor, coach, supervisor and guide for sacred leaders and space holders.
Ronit LeMon
is a Master Certified Coach and weaves into her work all her experience as a teacher, mother, spiritual seeker, and woman in this world.
Jenna Ward
is the founder of the School of Embodied Arts and a leading Feminine Embodiment Coach & Embodiment Teacher.
Megan Dalla-Camina
is the Founder and CEO of Women Rising, a celebrated coach, influential writer, researcher and world leading expert in women’s leadership.
Anjani Amriit
Kemi Nekvapil
Meet Amy Taylor-Kabbaz
Hay House author, journalist, award-winning coach, and matrescence activist.
With more than 15 years as a producer at the ABC, Amy brings the rigour and research instinct of a journalist to the depth of an anthropologist. She holds an Honours Degree in International Studies and a Graduate Certificate in International Development focused on empowering women — and has spent over a decade translating the science of motherhood into support that actually works.
In 2020 she created Mama Rising to train the people the world urgently needs: those who can take the research on matrescence and change how mothers are supported, everywhere.
Let’s Heal The Mother To Change The World.
Enrol in the September 2026 intake
pay in full
$6,897AUD
Plus two 1:1 coaching sessions with Amy*
9-month plan
$769AUD/m
SPREAD ACROSS
9 MONTHS
*When you choose the Pay in Full option, you will receive 2 x 1:1 coaching sessions with Mama Rising Founder Amy Taylor-Kabbaz either before or after training. (Limited places).
We are thrilled to be able to offer a LIMITED number of scholarships through our Global Matresence Foundation each year.