We’re not just educators — we’re lived-experience leaders.

At Evelyn James & Company, we teach from the inside out.

This isn’t a scripted slideshow or a checkbox CEU training. ( To be clear- our training does not offer CEU’s yet) This is raw, refined, human education rooted in real-life heartbreak — and real-world healing. Our founder, Vallen Webb, created this training in honor of her daughter Evelyn, who was stillborn at full term. This company was born from that loss, not just as a way to grieve, but as a way to change the world of care for every family who comes next.

Vallen didn’t just read the books. She lived it.
She held her daughter. She navigated the silence. She returned home to a postpartum body with no baby in her arms — and no roadmap.

That lived experience informs every moment of our training. But it doesn’t stand alone. It’s woven together with Vallen’s expertise as a doula, educator, and mom of 5, with years of work alongside doulas, therapists, hospital systems, and families who’ve lived through the unthinkable.

When you train with us, you don’t get watered-down scripts or academic jargon.
You get real tools, real reflection, and real preparation for the moments when grief shows up — unannounced, unpredictable, and full of complexity.

You’ll leave prepared, not overwhelmed.

We know how it feels to freeze in the face of loss.
To not know what to say.
To worry about saying the wrong thing, or making it worse, or overstepping.

That’s why this training is built to make sure you walk away feeling clear, capable, and grounded.

You’ll learn how to walk into hospital rooms and postpartum visits with presence, with grace, and with confidence. You’ll learn what to say when words fall short — and how to hold space when silence says everything.

Because doulas, nurses, therapists — you are already showing up for these families.
Grief is happening behind the scenes of rainbow baby births. It’s happening after medical terminations. It’s happening in postpartum check-ins, and you’re the one sitting across from them.

We want you to be ready.
Not perfect. Not clinical.
Just ready.

It’s training that transforms you.

We hear this again and again:

“I’ll never be the same — in the best way.”

Our training doesn’t just add to your professional toolkit — it shifts the way you understand support, compassion, and trauma-informed care. It deepens your sense of purpose. It brings a new dimension to how you walk into your work.

You’ll learn, yes. But you’ll also feel.
You’ll reflect. You’ll challenge your assumptions. You’ll see grief — and the people carrying it — in a whole new light.

And that changes everything.

Because when you’re trained with this kind of depth, you don’t just do the job.
You become the person families remember.
The one who didn’t flinch.
The one who held space.
The one who showed up.

And that’s the kind of care the world needs more of.