End of Life Sacred Companioning:
The Art and Practice of Becoming a Death Doula
2025 Cohorts coming soon!
Student and Referral pricing available!
Certification Cost: $1,295*
STUDENT PRICING: $300 OFF WITH DISCOUNT CODE STUDENT
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You will learn
- End-of-Life Support: Gain the confidence and skills needed to provide compassionate companionship to individuals at the end of their lives and offer vital support to their families.
- Inclusive Spiritual Care: Learn to respect and integrate a wide range of faith traditions, spiritual practices, and rituals, ensuring that you can meet the diverse spiritual needs of clients, regardless of their beliefs.
- Collaborative Care: Become prepared to work harmoniously with the entire care team, including hospice professionals, family members, friends, and clergy from various religious backgrounds, while respecting boundaries and recognizing your own limitations.
- Scope of the Doula Role: Understand the doula/midwife role thoroughly, striking a balance between honoring your role’s significance and staying within its defined scope.
- Personal Exploration: Delve into your own emotions and fears related to death and dying, enabling you to serve in this sacred space with authenticity and empathy.
- Advance Directives: Learn how to assist patients and clients in expressing their end-of-life treatment preferences through Advance Directives, ensuring their wishes are respected.
- Legacy Projects: Explore creative projects that help clients find meaning in their lives and facilitate closure, adding a unique dimension to your support.
- Understanding the Dying Process: Acquire knowledge about the dying process and the anticipatory grief experienced by both patients and their loved ones, allowing you to provide empathetic care.
- Business Development: Explore the practical aspects of establishing a death midwife practice, including essential considerations related to business and liability.
- Post-Death Care: Become proficient in assisting with post-death care and body disposition, preserving the dignity and comfort of both the deceased and their family.
- Advocacy and Support: Develop the skills to advocate for clients and their families, guiding them through the end-of-life journey with grace and unwavering support.
- Interfaith Understanding: Gain insight into how different religious traditions approach death and dying, fostering interfaith sensitivity and competence.
- Continual Contemplative Practices: Embrace ongoing contemplative practices throughout the program, promoting personal growth and mindfulness settings.
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$1,295 Course Fee with Certification
Sessions will be held live but recorded
for your convenience if you can’t make it to one.
- Weekly live Zoom sessions
- Homework assignments include writing, reading, videos
- Certification upon full completion of all requirements
Our comprehensive curriculum encompasses a wide range of topics, ensuring that you emerge as a well-rounded and highly skilled Death Doula ready to make a profound difference in the lives of those you serve. Moreover, we recognize the transformative potential of incorporating music, art, poetry, and video into our course. These creative elements not only enrich the end-of-life experience for your clients but also offer a unique opportunity for your personal growth and self-discovery, ensuring that you emerge from the program as a truly compassionate and empathetic companion.
No Prerequisites Required
All you need is a pure heart, an open mind, and a desire to serve at this most sacred time.
This certification course is for anyone wanting to understand the full spectrum of the dying process,
whether you choose to become a professional death doula or not. You can also serve your community, your family, and friends.
We need to be bolder in discussing death, facing our fear, and becoming informed – especially at this pivotal time in our global interfaith/interspiritual age.
All Paths welcomes your participation in this vital conversation!
Curriculum
Module One: Overview - The Art and Practice of Being a Death Doula Midwife & Facing One’s Own Mortality
Module Two: Practical Matters - Finding meaning and leaving a legacy
Module Three: The Art of dying
Module Four: The All Paths Sacred Companioning model of working with the dying
Module Five: Practical post-death care
- Module Five: The Power of Perception
- Module Five: Assignment
