Death Doula Training Program

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Creating compassionate, contemporary, and conscious death doulas and end of life planners. For access to the free preview, you must create an account. For access to the full course, apply!

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Are you ready to heed the call to be with dying?

Apply to join us for this engaging and comprehensive course that will walk you through the emotional, practical, legal and spiritual aspects of being with dying. Let's guide each other home.

1. A message from your instructor about the course
2. How To Get Started
1. Module 1.1 Video
1. Module 2: Conscious Dying
1. Module 3: The Art of Medicine featuring Dr. Tammi Harris
1. Module 4: Being with Dying featuring Dr. Aditi Sethi and End of Life Doula and Touch Educator Elizabeth Erbrecht
1. Module 5: Natural Death Care featuring Demonstration and National Home Funeral Alliance President Isabel Knight
1. Module 6: The Funeral Industry and Home Funerals featuring Vice President of Green Burial Council and Co-Owner Creston Cemetery Natural Burial Ground Baxley Andresen and Mortician Monica Torres of Cold Hands Studio
1. Module 7: Legacy, Ritual, and Meaning Making featuring Death Doula and Artist Brianna Hernández and Death Doula, Educator, and Oral Historian EE Miller
1. Module 8: Advance Directives and End of Life Decisions featuring Community Deathcare Educator, Death Doula, and Community Organizer Lashanna Williams
1. Module 9: Advance Planning featuring Estate Planning Attorney Janice Shen
1. Module 10: Wrapping Up Affairs featuring Death Cleaner Courtney King and with a special download of the Going with Grace Guide to Completion e-workbook
1. Module 11: Bereavement and Burnout featuring Licensed Psychologist specializing in grief and loss, Dr. Mekel Harris
1. Module 12: Business Building and Self-Care
1. Wrapping Up

About this course

Free
15 lessons
0.5 hours of video content

Pricing options

There are 2 options for enrollment, both with 3 and 6 month payment plans available. •For $1495, you will be working on a self-directed basis, with complete access to videos, exercises, and assignments to be completed in your own time at your pace. •For $1895, you will work in a group setting with other students and directly with your instructor Alua who will offer feedback, live chats, and discussion groups.

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Create an account to access the free preview. Watch a free partial lesson in Module 1, and see what you will uncover in each module.

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Begin your journey supporting people through death with your instructor Alua Arthur and other experts in the end of life field.

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Meet your instructor

Alua Arthur

Founder, Going with Grace

Alua Arthur is a death doula, recovering attorney, and the founder of Going with Grace, a death doula training and end of life planning organization that exists to support people as they answer the question, “What must I do to be at peace with myself so that I may live presently and die gracefully?” Going with Grace works to improve and redefine the end-of-life experience for people rooted in every community using the individual lived experience as the foundation. Alua was a keynote speaker at EndWell 2019, and has been featured in the LA Times, Vogue, Refinery29, The Doctors, and InStyle. She is inspired by the gift of LIFE itself and is always on the quest for the best donuts and fried plantains!

End of Life Training Preview

Are you ready to heed the call to be with dying?

What is this course about?

Module 1: The Role of a Death Doula

Module 2: Conscious Dying

Module 3: The Art of Medicine

Module 4: The Death of the Body

Module 5: Natural Death Care

Module 6: The Funeral Industry and Home Funerals

Module 7: Legacy, Ritual, and Meaning Making

Module 8: Advance Directives and End of Life Decisions

Module 9: Beyond the Advance Directive: Advance Planning

Module 10: Wrapping Up Affairs

Module 11: Bereavement and Burnout

Module 12: Business Building and Self-Care