A deep dive into Life & Death
Inspired Endings and Fusion Medicine invite you to join this transformational learning experience focused on caring for the dying and expanding our awareness about this potent transition in our human lives.
End-of-life doulas (EOLDs), also known as Death Doulas, provide non-medical, holistic support and comfort to people preparing for, or experiencing end of life by offering education and guidance; emotional, social, and spiritual care; logistical and practical assistance, and more–before during and after death. End-of-life doulas complement and supplement the work of family and other caregivers (including hospice providers).
Training groups are intentionally kept small as the work we do together can be quite intimate. This also allows for each participant to be seen, heard, and well-supported as we explore the rich terrain of death and dying, grief and loss, and what it means to be mortal.
This is a three-day training typically held at a private residence or retreat center on the Big Island of Hawaii. We also provide trainings on the mainland by special request. We gather daily in-person from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm.
This Unique Training
End-of-life doulas honor the sacredness of our full life cycle with a specialized focus on death and dying. Doulas provide holistic non-medical physical, emotional and spiritual support for those facing a terminal illness as well as for their families. This patient centered care is based on the values and goals of the patient as well as what is spiritually and culturally significant.
This training will give you the confidence, knowledge, and skills necessary to provide compassionate care for those at the end of life as well as their families. You will practice building capacity in order to bear witness and hold space for the wildness of death.
This training is infused with new material based on the intense education we have received as a result of the pandemic, global grief and the Black Lives Matter movement all of which magnified the deep fractures in our health care and death care delivery systems exposing the inequalities in services that have a disproportionate affect on marginalized communities.
Program Overview
- Complete application, registration and payment
- Pre-course study, reading, and writing
- Post course written exam packet
- 30 practicum hours w/ documentation
- Certificate of completion package
- Two check-in calls
- Optional mentoring program
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
- PLUS MORE
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
- PLUS MORE
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
- PLUS MORE
Additional Learning
Bearing witness, resiliency, self-stewardship, psychedelics and end-of-life support, palliative care, hospice, Medicare and Medicaid, diversity, culture and religion, deep listening, guided visualization, grief and bereavement support, Medical Aid in Dying, VSED, community caregiving, home funerals, green burial, AND MORE
Facilitators
Bobbi Bryant
Dr. Charlotte Charfen
Eddy Cash Dudley
