learn to be present in an authentic & compassionate way, to look at ourselves
in the mirror that we are for one another and face the truth of our shared
human condition
A Life, Death, and Transition Doula is a compassionate companion, supporter, advocate, assistant to any person ready and willing to contemplate loss, grief, death and the natural cycles of living and dying in order to live a fuller, more meaningful life to its most peaceful end.
Compassionate Accompaniment is a state of being, a lifestyle, a spiritual practice, a natural human impulse, and a grossly untapped human potential.
In this immersion course we explore and tap into our own depths and capacity for compassionate presence, care & accompaniment with self and other through the cycles of life-death-life.
The course is endorsed by the Fundación EKR México Centro, a member of the Worldwide Hospice and Palliative Care Alliance. It is also supported by Quality of Life Care and its School of Death Doulas, The School for Accompanying the Dying, The Institue for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death, and INELDA.
The EKR Death Doula Certification (Life, Death, and Transition Doulas) requires an additional process of supervised internships and participation in various complementary trainings.
In 2024: Course begins in January and August
Course includes: video lectures, readings, practice tools, online discussions, individual and group assignments, and live videoconference meetings.
INCLUDED IN THE 15-WEEK TRAINING:
- 30 video lessons introducing and expanding on each week’s topics and exercises
- 12 informative slide show presentations
- Weekly readings, self-inquiry exercises, experiential activities, creative exercises and explorations
- Weekly group discussions
- Guided meditations, guided visualizations and trance work
- Our private learning platform and online community
- Four 2-hour group video conference meetings
- Four 1.5-hour small study group sessions
- Certificate of participation from Fundación Elisabeth Kübler-Ross México Centro & course booklet upon completion of course requirements
TOPICS:
- Stories and Mythologies of Birth and Death
- The Culture of Death Denial
- Our Compassionate Impulse
- The Practice of Self-Aweareness
- The Labor of the (Life, Death, and Transition Doula
- Conscious Living & Dying
- The Nature of Change
- Preparing for a Good Death
- Creating & Sustaining Safety
- Pain & Suffering
- The Pillar of Patience
- Symbolic Language, Visions & Dreams
- The Art of Presence
- The Power of the Imagination
- The Importance of Ritual
- Learning to Die
- When Death is Near
- The Neurobiology of Loss & Grief
- Accompanying Losses
- and more
Final date of registration: 2 days before course start date.
REGISTRATION PER PERSON
15 weeks, 60 hours
$ 720 USD – registration up to 2 days before course start date
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