Daphne Singingtree is an Author Plant Medicine Midwifery Educator Water Protector and Land Defender She spent a lifetime learning and teaching plant medicine Her first work of fiction is Circle of the Earth due in Spring 2024 She was a midwife for over thirty years before her retirement in 2002 she played a pivotal role in shaping midwifery education licensure and accreditation for direct entry midwives She is also an urban homesteader promoting permaculture emergency preparation and food resilience. She is the author of the Birthsong Midwifery Workbook Emergency Guide to Obstetric Complications Training Midwives A Guide for Preceptors and other midwifery publications Eagletree Guide to Herbal Medicine Making is due out in Summer 2024 It gives recipes for the hundreds of products made in her forty years in the herbal business before she retired to focus on writing. Her heritage includes Lakota from the Standing Rock Tribe Spanish and European She is the mother of four grown children and six grandchildren She lives in Eugene Oregon Interviews and personal accounts from practicing and student midwives from a variety of practice sites and backgrounds They share their experience in teaching apprenticeship attending established programs and self study They share valuable advice and insight for both students and teaching midwives Clinical Teaching Tips student Learning Personal Stories Rights and Responsibilities Principles of Adult Learning Evaluations Contracts Communication Checklists And much Training Midwives A Guide for Preceptors.