A deep dive into Life & Death
Join Inspired Endings and Fusion Medicine for a transformational three-day training on caring for the dying. Learn to provide holistic, non-medical support as an end-of-life doula (EOLD), offering emotional, spiritual, and practical assistance to those facing death, as well as their families.
Training is intimate and personalized, ensuring each participant is supported in exploring death, dying, and grief. This course is typically held on the Big Island of Hawaii, with mainland sessions available upon request. Daily in-person sessions run from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm.
This Unique Training
End-of-life doulas provide compassionate, non-medical support for those facing terminal illness and their families, honoring the sacredness of life and death. Doulas offer physical, emotional, and spiritual care based on the patient’s values, goals, and cultural significance.
This training equips you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to provide compassionate care for the dying and their loved ones. You will learn how to hold space for the complexities of death and dying.
Infused with lessons from the pandemic, global grief, and the Black Lives Matter movement, this program highlights the inequities in healthcare and death care, particularly for marginalized communities.
The Doula Classroom
Pre-Course Learning
- History of Death Midwifery
- Current medical landscape
- Ethics
- Personal exploration of death and dying
- Changes in end-of-life awareness
- Self-Care
- Exploring the Sacred
Supporting Those We Serve
- The Doula model of care
- Supporting diversity in care
- The physical and spiritual expression of dying
- Top End of life disease processes
- Community death care
- Creating care plans
Creative Endings
- What to expect as death nears
- Sitting vigil
- Caring for the body of the beloved
- Ceremony and rituals
- After death considerations
- Obituaries and Eulogies
Additional Learning
Bearing witness, resiliency, self-care, psychedelics in end-of-life support, palliative care, hospice, Medicare/Medicaid, diversity & culture, deep listening, grief support, Medical Aid in Dying, VSED, community caregiving, home funerals, green burial, and more.
Facilitators
Bobbi Bryant
Bobbi Bryant is the founder of Inspired Endings LLC and a community end-of-life doula, death educator, and home funeral guide. With experience in hospice training and mentoring volunteers, she offers end-of-life doula training and support for those passionate about caring for people in life’s final transition.
Dr. Charlotte Charfen
Dr. Charlotte Charfen is an American Board of Emergency Medicine certified ER physician with nearly twenty years of clinical practice in the field of Life and Death. She lives in Hawaii where she now spends her days coaching, consulting and empowering others to live and die well.
Eddy Cash Dudley
Eddy Cash-Dudley retired from her California law practice in 2014 and moved to Hawaii, where she recognized the need for affordable estate planning. She now prepares Wills and Advance Health Care Directives for seniors and maintains a limited family law practice in Waimea, primarily in the South Kohala District Court.
