End-of-Life Doula Training
the most all-inclusive, educational training of its kind
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.
This training was created and inspired by Bobbi Bryant, a highly trained End-of-Life Doula who brings many years of hospice experience. She created the first end-of-life doula training program implemented by hospice in the state of Hawai’i.
Co-facilitator Dr. Charlotte Charfen, Emergency Medicine Physician and Death Doula, adds an important medical perspective designed to inform the non-medical work of a Death Doula. Gaining deeper knowledge of common terminal illnesses is indispensable for caregivers and doulas in the role of advocates for clients and families.
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 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
2024 Trainings
EOL Doula September Hawaii
The September training will be September 27-29th.
Location: The location of the training is in a private home in Kohala Estates. The address is 59-319 Hookela Pl, Waimea, HI 96743. Here’s the location link on Google Maps
Accommodations: A list of accommodations in the area are available upon request. Airbnb is also another good option and if you search Hawi, Kapaau or Waimea on the Big Island, you will get nearby accommodations for the training.
Payment options:
1. Full payment: There is an early bird tuition of $1295 plus tax. After April 20, 2024 the price increases to $1495 plus tax.
2. Payment Plan: There is a down payment of 50% required initially to secure your spot in the training. One or two other payments can be made for the balance over several months. If you’re interested in this option, please read through and complete this Payment Plan Agreement. There is an added administration fee of $100 for this option.
3. Scholarship fund: Our nonprofit, Life & Death Wellness, does offer a fundraising scholarship option for End-of-life doula trainings. This involves allowing you to raise funds for your tuition under our tax deductible status. There is a $500 deposit required to secure your spot in the training that does need to be received upfront. Any funds that you raise through the nonprofit minus the administration fees are applied to your tuition. You are responsible for any balance owed if the full tuition can not be raised in the allocated time frame. Click here for more details.
Psychedelic Training: We will also be providing an optional day for a Psychedelic experience/training using Ketamine on September 30th. This will take place at the Fusion Medicine & Wellness center in Kapaau, HI. This day will be limited to 8 participants. There will be an extra associated fee of $695. In order to participate, a medical and psychological screening will need to be completed prior to being accepted into this portion of the training. You can find the screening health form here.
Optional EOL Doula Psychedelic Training
Training Details
Dr. Charfen will be offering an optional training in using Psychedelics for supporting death anxiety and existential distress for trainees attending the Inspired Endings EOL Doula Training on September 27-29, 2024. The legal use of Ketamine for a psychedelic journey will be available to 8 participants and will take place at the Fusion Medicine & Wellness center in Kapaau, HI. There is a fee of $695. In order to participate, a medical and psychological screening will need to be completed prior to being accepted into this portion of the training. You can find the screening health form here.
Date: September 30, 2024 9am-2pm
Location: Fusion Medicine & Wellness 54-3858 Akoni Pule Hwy Kapaau, HI 96755
Fee: $695 includes:
- Medical evaluation by Dr. Charfen
- Precourse preparation & education materials
- Precourse Zoom group preparation session: Sep 18, 2024 3:00 PM HST
- One IM (intramuscular) group medicine session
- One sitter session with assigned partner
- Post course Zoom group integration session Oct 9, 2024 3:00 PM
- Nutritious, grounding snacks and beverages
There will be two ketamine sessions on September 30th. Four sitters will hold space for the other four journeyers who are having the Ketamine experience. Then later in the day, the groups will switch. Each Ketamine session will last approximately 2 hours: one hour for the Ketamine experience itself and one hour for integration. Dr. ChaCha and other skilled practitioners will be providing support in these sessions.
Learn more about how EOL Doulas can be trained in Psychedelics as a tool for End-of-Life.
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
Optional EOL Doula Psychedelic Training September 30
Training Details
Dr. Charfen will be offering an optional training in using Psychedelics for supporting death anxiety and existential distress for trainees attending the Inspired Endings EOL Doula Training on September 27-29, 2024. The legal use of Ketamine for a psychedelic journey will be available to 8 participants and will take place at the Fusion Medicine & Wellness center in Kapaau, HI. There is a fee of $695. In order to participate, a medical and psychological screening will need to be completed prior to being accepted into this portion of the training. You can find the screening health form here.
Date: September 30, 2024 9am-2pm
Location: Fusion Medicine & Wellness 54-3858 Akoni Pule Hwy Kapaau, HI 96755
Fee: $695 includes:
- Medical evaluation by Dr. Charfen
- Precourse preparation & education materials
- Precourse Zoom group preparation session: Sep 18, 2024 3:00 PM HST
- One IM (intramuscular) group medicine session
- One sitter session with assigned partner
- Post course Zoom group integration session Oct 9, 2024 3:00 PM
- Nutritious, grounding snacks and beverages
There will be two ketamine sessions on September 30th. Four sitters will hold space for the other four journeyers who are having the Ketamine experience. Then later in the day, the groups will switch. Each Ketamine session will last approximately 2 hours: one hour for the Ketamine experience itself and one hour for integration. Dr. ChaCha and other skilled practitioners will be providing support in these sessions.
Learn more about how EOL Doulas can be trained in Psychedelics as a tool for End-of-Life.
Facilitators
Bobbi Bryant
Bobbi Bryant has a history of working for hospice training and mentoring volunteers to support the dying and those who love them. She is the founder of Inspired Endings LLC . Bobbi is a community end-of-life doula, death educator and home funeral guide. She facilitates end-of-life doula training’s and provides support for those who are passionate about caring for people in the final transition of this human life.
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
