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Please give us 48 hours to get your information listed. We reserve the right to edit the information sent to us for space constraints, consistency, accuracy and style. For assistance with your listing, contact [email protected].
For more information, read our Tips for Choosing an EOLD Trainer.
United States
Arizona
Clara Brown, NEDA Proficient
Mesa Sacred Cocoon End-of-Life Doula Services 480-442-6239 [email protected] sacredcocoontherapeuticmassage.com/classes |
This is an in-person only training (4 weeks for 28 CEUs, NCBTMB approved course) held in Tempe, Arizona. Clara will be co-teaching this training with Jimmy Gialelis. The students do not need to be licensed LMTs and the majority of the course is focused on learning EOLD work. Contact Clara for the dates of classes.
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Leann Thrapp, RN, NEDA Proficient
Sun City West Respecting Choices 480-773-4224 [email protected] www.newhavenhealing.org |
Leann is a Registered Nurse with 15 years of high risk labor and delivery experience and resolve through sharing grief counselor. She has also had 15 years of hospice experience, and Respecting Choices Trainer/Instructor, and Reiki Master. She's dedicated her career to end-of-life care and support.
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Crystal Waldron, NEDA Proficient
Phoenix Gentle Transitions 602-791-6087 [email protected] www.gentletransitions.care |
How to care for loved ones/people during the dying process. How to wash the body and arrange home funerals. Green burial options for my home state of AZ.
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California
Alua Arthur, NEDA Proficient
Los Angeles Going With Grace 323-641-3687 [email protected] www.goingwithgrace.com |
In this unique 12 week online course, students learn the pillars of being with dying—emotional, practical, legal, and spiritual care—with videos from your instructor and a variety of experts in the field to create context for the work, curated exercises to deepen your practice, and assignments to further your skills. Students will be prepared to pass the NEDA proficiency assessment.
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Olivia Bareham, NEDA Proficient
Los Angeles Sacred Crossings 310-968-2763 [email protected] sacredcrossings.com/courses-and-trainings/ |
Our Death Doula training is a 2-level course offered in-person or via live webinar with a maximum of 20 students to maintain the intimacy of the group. The Death Midwife training is a further 2 levels expanding the practice to Home Funeral Guide and Funeral Celebrant. Emphasis is on the sacred, spiritual nature of the work with ongoing support and mentorship.
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1:1 mentorship alongside a robust resource and training protocol including bedside training.
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Denise is a co-founder of Heart Bridge Training (Your Heart Bridge LLC), She has been a hospice nurse and in end of life care for over 20 years. This is a comprehensive training designed to equip participants with essential skills and knowledge. Online and in person training emphasizes core competencies, including empathetic communication, cultural, religious, and spiritual awareness, and self-care strategies. Heart Bridge provides students with in-depth learning resources, practical business advice, and ongoing mentorship. CEUs available.
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Lynda Carré, NEDA Proficient
Sebastopol Wellspring Passages 518-819-8136 [email protected] www.wellspringpassages.com |
Compassionate, clinically-Informed interfaith Spiritual Care education and training for working with EOL Hospice Support; psychedelic-assisted integration therapy; mentorship available for sacred deathcare doulas, home funeral guides, ritual and officiant service providers. Rev. Carré offers compassionate, creative, and inspiring education through Wisdom Arts for Dying Training and Workshops in-person, online, and throughout the USA.
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The End of Life (ELP) Practitioner training program is designed to provide a historical, ethical, mythological, psychological, religious/spiritual and clinical understanding to prepare the participants with the knowledge, skills and presence needed to address the practical, heuristic, psycho-social and spiritual dimensions of dying.
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Sarah Hill, NEDA Proficient
Alameda East Bay Doula for the Dying 415-601-5968 [email protected] www.eastbaydoulaforthedying.com |
This 6-week process of discovery program is designed to help you, as a new end-of-life doula, grow your doula practice, both from a pragmatic nuts-&-bolts perspective of "setting up shop" to learning the tools that can help you deepen and grow your relationship with and identity as a doula.
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Brigitta Kastenbaum, NEDA Proficient
Los Angeles Bridging Transitions 310-699-7591 [email protected] bridgingtransitions.net |
Training, Sacred Aromatics, Rituals, After Death Tending, Mentorship, and a growing Student Community. Creating bridges to diverse communities and care systems, we offer education for tending to the emotional, spiritual, and practical needs of Conscious Living & Conscious Dying to all.
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Cheserae Scala, NEDA Proficient
Ojai Bridging Transitions 310-391-6417 [email protected] www.Bridgingtransitions.net |
Training, Sacred Aromatics, Rituals, After Death Tending, Mentorship, and a growing Student Community. Creating bridges to diverse communities and care systems, we offer education for tending to the emotional, spiritual, and practical needs of Conscious Living & Conscious Dying to all.
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Annie Valdes, MBA, CPCC
Mountain View Design Tugboat [email protected] www.designtugboat.com/doulacompass |
My backgrounds in human centered design, innovation, and coaching make me uniquely suited to help you co-create your yet-to-be seen dream career. If you've finished training and are unsure of how to find your way or what next steps to take, my one-on-one coaching helps you find your unique doula flavor, shed what doesn't serve you, and clarify your vision so you can go after it with confidence and momentum.
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Colorado
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Jan comes from a background of hospice & palliative care nursing and integrative nurse coaching. She is a faculty member for the end-of-life doula and coaching programs through the Conscious Dying Institute, leads workshops nationally on a variety of end-of-life topics, and provides end-of-life coaching to individuals, families, and caregivers.
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Elizabeth Elliot, NEDA Proficient
Denver Iliff Death Care Collective 505-250-6786 [email protected] www.iliff.edu/death-care-collective |
Beth is one of the founders of the Iliff Death Care Collective, a dynamic and inclusive community of death care professionals, educators, and advocates dedicated to reimagining the way we care for the dying, the deceased, and their loved ones. We offer innovative training and resources for individuals and organizations that seek to deepen their understanding of the end-of-life process. Our approach is rooted in compassion, respect, and a holistic understanding of death, designed to equip death care professionals with the knowledge, skills, and emotional resilience needed for this sacred work.
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Elizabeth Padilla
Golden Conscious Dying Collective 303-440-8018 [email protected] consciousdyingcollective.com |
We offer certificate programs that train coaches, doulas and community members in compassionate end-of-life care. All of our offerings begin with the personally transformative journey of befriending death, and build off of this foundation with practical knowledge and skills to support end-of-life transitions.
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Florida
Hannah Fowler, RN
Key West Conscious Dying Institute 860-368-9154 [email protected] www.eternalgracedoula.com |
As a licensed esthetician and makeup artist, my EOLD training includes full face and body aesthetic care for their clients.
End of Life Doula Training: Individuals, Communities and Healthcare Systems
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Nada Frazier, NEDA Proficient
Ponte Vedra Beach/Jacksonville [NE FL] The Sacred Servant 904-402-7061 [email protected] www.thesacredservant.com |
Nada Frazier is an End-of-Life Doula in Advanced Mentorship & Educator, certificate from Quality of Life Care. The Sacred Servant supports business clients and EOLD students with: hospice staff consultation and training; training and mentoring end-of-life doulas and end-of-life doula trainers; leading end-of-life education & workshops; and inspirational speaking.
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Michelle Montgomery, NEDA Proficient
Boynton Beach, Florida The Transplant Doula 305-923-6781 [email protected] thetransplantdoula.com |
This is a new model of doula care that directly supports organ failure patients, transplant patients, and living organ donors. Our training offers 9 in-depth modules (with accompanying course workbooks) that cover all aspects of the transplant journey and end-of-life support. Lifetime access to this course also includes our network, where you get monthly group and 1:1 coaching, ongoing education, and a community of like-minded peers.
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Georgia
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Created in 2018, Nine Keys is an intimate death midwifery apprenticeship program for small groups. The program begins by reflecting on our own mortality and relationship to the death culture and journeys through the many places Death Midwives may find themselves holding space. The course ends by preparing the Death Midwife to confidently teach a family or community about Home Funerals.
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As the founder of Second Wind Dreams, we make dreams come true for those in the long term care system. Our nonprofit has been serving this population since 1997 but we never provided care to families and people with dementia at the end of life until now. I currently train other dementia experts who are moved to provide end of life care to people with dementia. A death with dementia is very different than other deaths and this training gives providers tools to create and loving, calm way for all involved. I also developed a Dementia Doula kit to be used with advanced stage dementia along with an imminent death kit.
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Hawaii
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Bodhi Be is an ordained interfaith minister (Sufi Ruhaniat International); Executive Director, Doorway Into Light; Funeral Director; End-of-life and bereavement counselor, casket maker, hospice volunteer, home funeral guide
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Bobbi Bryant, NEDA Proficient
Kapa'au Inspired Endings 805-558-0628 [email protected] www.inspiredendings.org |
Bobbi Bryant teaches the critical information and skills to compassionately guide and prepare clients for the unfolding of the end of life journey through the practical, physical, spiritual, and emotional realms. Her experience training and mentoring patient volunteers for hospice organizations led her to create a multi-faceted heart-centered training co-facilitated by medical practitioners. Courses are both online and in-person through lectures, videos, discussion, role-playing, patient profile work, and group exercises. NEDA core competencies are interwoven throughout the training to assist in obtaining the proficiency badge.
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Indiana
Lauren Richwine
Fort Wayne Death Done Differently 260-241-8961 [email protected] www.deathdonedifferently.com |
I offer in person, one-on-one mentorships in community death care advocacy in one of the most restrictive states an EOL doula can practice in. These mentorships cover the legal landscape specific to Indiana, business essentials, addressing the death phobia in our own lives, grief support, and advance care planning. I am certified through the Earth Traditions death midwifery program and have been trained in the “Respecting Choices Advance Care Planning” facilitator program through Parkview Hospital. Currently I am a member of the National Home Funeral Alliance and the National Association of Certified Death Midwives.
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Kansas
Ann Allegre, MD, FAAHPM, FACP
Shawnee Authentic Presence 913-225-4681 [email protected] www.authentic-presence.org |
Authentic Presence offers training in contemplative-based care for people from all walks of life to discover their own inner resources for well-being and wholeness. We train healthcare professionals, volunteers and family caregivers in how to practice compassion and presence while caring for the seriously ill and dying. In our professional skills-training programs, we offer an integrated approach to the practical, emotional and spiritual dimension of care for living and dying. To date, more than 40,000 professionals and volunteers from around the world working in all fields of medicine, social care, and education have attended these skills-training programs.
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Rhea Mader
Lindsborg Center for Conscious Living Conscious Dying 785-227-8360 [email protected] www.consciouslivingconsciousdying.com |
Rhea Mader is the founder of Center for Conscious Living Conscious Dying where she offers Apprenticeship with Death, a comprehensive and professional End of Life Doula training. The training is for those willing to intimately explore their personal relationship with death and learn to serve in an ethical, professional way. Additionally, CLCD offers complementary studies to deepen specific areas of growth. Rhea is a bereaved mother, yogi, meditation teacher, Reiki master, and chaplain.
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Kentucky
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Susan provides end-of-life education, support for planning, and legacy training.
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Maryland
Katie Duncan, NEDA Proficient, ADCE Proficient
Gaithersburg Death Care Coach 301-337-8477 [email protected] www.deathcarecoach.com |
Our comprehensive End-of-Life Practitioner Certification Program is a unique curriculum designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills & experience needed to provide compassionate non-medical support in the physical, emotional, practical & spiritual aspects of end-of-life care. Led by Katie Duncan, a board-certified Nurse Practitioner, End of Life Coach & author of The Dying Process, our program combines research-based education with practical insights gained from her extensive background in hospice. Students will be prepared to pass the NEDA proficiency assessment.
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Michigan
Patty Brennan, NEDA Proficient
Ann Arbor Lifespan Doulas 734-663-1523 [email protected] www.lifespandoulas.com |
Patty Brennan is the owner and visionary behind Lifespan Doulas, a comprehensive professional training and certification agency for birth, postpartum, and end-of-life doulas, as well as business development guidance and mentoring. Hybrid end-of-life doula training includes both self-paced and interactive/live online training that meets NEDA core competencies. Patty has trained over 3,000 doulas over the past 23 years and is NEDA Proficient. She is author of the freshly updated Doula Business Guide and accompanying Workbook, 4th Editions (2024).
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Merilynne Rush, MSHP, RN, BSN,
NEDA Proficient Ann Arbor The Dying Year 734-395-9660 [email protected] www.thedyingyear.org |
Merilynne provides online, LIVE EOLD training that meets NEDA Core Competencies, individualized 1:1 support and mentoring to EOLDs, online Advance Care Planning Training, Home Funeral Guide Training, and How To Start a Death Cafe. She is a former home birth midwife, hospice nurse, experienced fee-for-service business owner, President of NEDA, dynamic speaker, and compassionate leader. Merilynne is endorsed by SageUSA.
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Minnesota
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Our course transcends the traditional training model; it's an immersive experience seamlessly guiding you through a comprehensive pathway from learning to practice, skillfully facilitated by our innovative 3 Base Camp structure. Tailored for those aspiring to commence their journey as death doulas, the course provides a foundational platform for self-empowerment in this meaningful field. Throughout the training, participants will acquire essential skills to offer support during the end-of-life process, create secure spaces for meaningful conversations, and cultivate the expertise necessary. At Dear Doula, our commitment extends to fostering an awareness of the ADHD and neurodiversity sector, acknowledging the importance of diversity within our learner community.
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New Hampshire
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Taught through the online death awareness platform Redesigning the End, Doulas and After-Death Care: Bridging Both Worlds is specially designed for doulas who wish to practice in the after-death space. Lee is a longtime educator, author, international speaker, and expert on funeral reform. A former president of the NHFA, she was instrumental in founding NEDA and developing core competencies and the proficiency programs for both doulas and after-death care educators.
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New Jersey
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If you’re ready to answer your calling and become an End of Life Doula, the International Doula Life Movement’s Death/End of Life Doula Specialist Certification program is for you. We have partnered with International Doula Life Movement to provide an in-person course that offers more than 80+ hours of instruction. Cohort 4 will start on Saturday, August 23th from 11a – 6p. Classes will be held at the Karen Ann Quinlan Hospice Administration Office on 99 Sparta Avenue in Newton NJ. Class dates are: 08/23,09/06,09/20,10/04,10/18, 11/01,11/15. You will receive practical bedside hours with Hospice patients and staff. You will also gain practical experience through our home for hospice and our bereavement center.
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The International End-of-Life Doula Association (INELDA), formed in 2015, is a member-based, nonprofit with the mission to encourage the presence of end-of-life doulas by normalizing death, dying, and grief through conscientious education, and stewardship, and by fostering community and advocacy. Our curriculum is bolstered by a group of passionate and inclusive educators who bring years of experience in hospice, nursing, psychotherapy, education, and supporting the dying. INELDA educators have worked in ICU units, delivery rooms, private homes, hospices, AIDS service organizations, and other spaces where people die. As of Spring 2023, INELDA has trained 5,600 doulas across every state and in 35 countries.
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New Mexico
Annette Gates, MEd
Taos Brennan Healing Science Practitioner 408-761-1679 [email protected] www.annettegates.com |
Dragonfly EOLD Program is designed for anyone wanting to learn about holding space for end of life transitions, learning about the human energy field, high sense perception, and boundaries. The certificate training takes 6 months, with monthly online classes and support groups, self-study curriculum, and two residential training weekends offered in New Mexico and Michigan.
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Rose Gordon, BA, NEDA Proficient
Arroyo Hondo Circle of Compassionate Care 505-310-2765 [email protected] www.circleofcompassionatecare.squarespace.com |
Rose offers death doula and grief support services to individuals and families and experiential training and mentoring to new and aspiring Doulas. Her approach is based on three decades of education & direct work in end of life in the U.S. and elsewhere, including 5 years as Director and faculty for the Upaya Being with Dying Program and 10 years as Spiritual Care & Bereavement Provider & trainer of hospice volunteers. Her trainings cover topics identified as the NHPCO Gold Standard of Hospice Care enhanced with a variety of contemplative approaches. Her deep listening and steady, calm presence invites families and individuals to enter the Great Mystery of Living into Death.
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I am an Educator for INELDA.org. My teaching specialty is the philosophy around death and physical changes in the process of dying.
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New York
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Suzanne B. O’Brien, RN is the proud Founder and Creator of the award-winning program Doulagivers: End of Life Doula Training, Eldercare Doula Training, and Doulagiver Care Consultant Training. “Awarded Worldwide Leader In Healthcare” by the International Nurses Association for creating Doulagivers, she is also an end of life educator, consultant and a #1 International Bestselling author. Today, Suzanne runs the global campaign "How to Care for Someone Who is Dying" The Good Death One Million People Trained where she gives free family caregiver End of Life Doula Trainings live every month online and to date has trained 126,348 families worldwide.
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North Carolina
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My individualized death doula education plan focuses on the specific needs and goals of the learner, whether they seek a career as a death doula or want to support loved ones through their end-of-life journey. This plan can include foundational training in topics like the role of a death doula, understanding the dying process, and providing emotional, physical, and spiritual support. It can also delve into advanced topics like end-of-life planning, grief support, and business skills for doulas.
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Holly Fisher, LMT, NEDA Proficient
Beaufort Let’s Go In Wellness and Massage 252-422-0988 [email protected] www.letsgoinwellness.com |
Approximately 20 hour program on understanding hospice care, healthcare advocacy, advance care planning, legacy work, vigil support, end of life planning, and bereavement support. Holly is also an approved provider for the NCBTMB for continuing education for massage therapists.
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Carrie Forbes
Stantonsburg [Eastern NC] Eastern North Carolina End-of-Life Doula Support 252-689-8734 [email protected] 
Linda Golymbieski
Marshall Sacred Passages Death Doula Program 828-776-3786 [email protected] www.Linda-Go.com |
We provide bereavement support, EOL community training, and evidence-based EOL online resources.
Sacred Passages Death Doula Program is 30 hour online and/or in-person training program that offers YACEP accredited hours. It is divided into two sections : Shamanic Practices in preparation for EOL and Let Go Yoga for Trauma Release. This program is designed for anyone interested in the shamanic practices and methods of death doula work and the rituals for creating a beautiful EOL transition.
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I facilitate a Comprehensive End of Life Doula training to prepare individuals for heart centered service. I am a INELDA trained EOL Doula, Hospice worker, Reiki Master and Shamanic Practitioner.
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Ohio
Lori Asmus, NEDA Proficient
Cincinnati Hospice of Cincinnati 513-246-9168 [email protected] www.hospiceofcincinnati.org/volunteer |
HOC Navigators includes Hospice, Palliative and Grief Programs. We serve annually over 6,000 patients and a team of over 600 end of life and advanced illness practitioners. Volunteer Doula Training is provided free of charge to HOC Volunteers who have served 100 hours in a patient facing role for at least one year. Training includes Vigil Bedside Presence, Life Review and Legacy Creation; Spiritual Care; Bereavement and Anticipatory Grief, Nutrition, Ambulation, Dementia Care, Comfort Touch; Guided Imagery; Introduction to energy, art and music therapy. Instructors include professionals in hospice nursing, social work, chaplains, counselors and other volunteer doulas.
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Oregon
Erin Collins, RN, BSN, CHPN, NEDA Proficient
Bend The Peaceful Presence Project: Compassionate Presence Training 541-647-8636 [email protected] https://peacefulpresence-courses.thinkific.com/courses/peaceful-presence-info-session |
We offer a 3-module Volunteer Doula training and an 8-module Professional Doula Training for anyone called to cultivate Compassionate Communities. We are NEDA-Proficient doulas, and this training prepares you for the NEDA proficiency exam.
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Elizabeth Johnson, MA, NEDA Proficient
Bend The Peaceful Presence Project: Compassionate Presence Training 360-296-5616 [email protected] https://peacefulpresence-courses.thinkific.com/courses/peaceful-presence-info-session |
We have developed our 3-Module and 8-Module Compassionate Presence Trainings to respond to an observed need to cultivate a more compassionate, death-literate and supportive culture in our country. Our training is informed by evidence based research, current best practices and our practical experience as NEDA- proficient end of life doulas.
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Pennsylvania
Jamie Eaddy Chism, DMin
Philadelphia Thoughtful Transitions 215-701-3868 [email protected] www.thoughtfultransitions.org |
LifePath Learners, (formerly Teaching Transitions/Doing Death Differently) provides an exceptional, intimate educational journey for end-of-life doulas. Our sought-after Certified End-of-Life Specialist (CEOLS) program grants a dual designation; EOL doula and hospice volunteer - as it meets and exceeds Medicare requirements and NHPCO guidelines for training. Profitable Pathways: The End-of-Life Doula Business Accelerator Membership presents a rich curriculum, expert training, and on-going coaching support to launch and nurture independent doula practices, work-for-hire opportunities, and develop EOL doula trainers. Patty is a healthcare entrepreneur who has held leadership positions in hospice organizations, and has trained over 25,000 hospice volunteers, staff, doulas, caregivers, and college students. She also held founding member roles in both NEDA and the NHPCO End-of-life Doula Council.
Thoughtful Transitions provides an intimate learning experience through training classes, workshops, and mentorship. Dr. J is a thanatologist, educator, and activist. She provides an affordable, radically inclusive transformative space to explore all aspects of grief support and end-of-life care for the dying person and their community.
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Lin Roussel, BA, LPN, LMT, LE, NEDA Proficient
Lititz 717-271-6669 [email protected] www.massageceadvantage.com/EOLS |
Lin specializes in educating licensed massage therapists how to safely, gently, and compassionately work with individuals who are facing the end of their lives, while staying within their SOP. Her End-of Life Doula: Hospice Care and Massage Therapy course offers 30 NCBTMB approved CE hours and prepares the LMT to offer massage and support to the dying; their family and caregivers, and includes a hands-on practicum and NEDA core competencies.
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Tennessee
Jade Adgate, NEDA Proficient
Thompsons Station [Nashville] Farewell Fellowship 504-289-8855 [email protected] www.farewellfellowship.com |
Jade offers an 11-month in-person death midwifery apprenticeship for those in the greater Nashville, Tennessee area. The apprenticeship is designed for all called to death walk (personally & professionally) and is a comprehensive death doula training comprised of 132 hours of coursework, 55 hours of in-person mentorship + hands-on practice in our community to bring fellowship as we companion farewells.
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Texas
Anna Adams, NEDA Proficient
San Antonio International Doula Life Movement 210-721-3422 [email protected] www.internationaldoulalifemovement.com |
We offer affordable End Of Life training. We want to support others that want to work in this journey. I have over 25 years of experience working and caring for patients on hospice.
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Deanna Flores Cochran, NEDA Proficient
Austin Certified CareDoula® [email protected] caredoulaeducation.com |
Deanna’s groundbreaking end-of-life doula training, Certified CareDoula® is the premier End-of-Life Doula Certificate Program in the US, created in 2010 for laypeople as well as healthcare pros. A founding member and 1st VP of NEDA and inaugural member and 1st Chair of the NHPCO End-of-Life Doula Advisory Council (2.5 years), Deanna has established many of the ‘1sts’ in our end-of-life doula history. Her mission now is to pass on her hard-won experience and knowledge to the new generation of doulas to continue to elevate the role and to continue to serve families at the highest level. Her pioneering work from the early 2000's in (pre-hospice) palliative care education, 20 years’ experience with her own end-of-life doula private practice, developer of custom Hospice End-of-Life Doula programs and 16 years as a hospice nurse (CHPN) set the stage for her powerful CareDoula® methodology for professional practice. Certified CareDoula® is the only end-of-life doula training taught within a Masters Level Chaplaincy program (RESPECT Graduate School). She continues to serve privately.
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Teaching specialty is: Anticipatory Grief, Bereavement, EOL Doula Role and Hospice Philosophy
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Vermont
Anne-Marie Keppel
Craftsbury Common Village Deathcare 802-777-8527 [email protected] villagedeathcare-circle-community- bf9e.circle.so/u/c5fd625f |
Founder of the nonprofit Village Deathcare and two-time award winning author of the book Death Nesting the Heart-Centered Practices of A Death Doula, Anne-Marie Keppel designed this course specifically for those who wish to engage in community deathcare. This course trains the individual to work independently and in partnership with others and their community to confidently and compassionately work in service for the one dying and to decentralize deathcare. Anne-Marie is of Celtic Irish and Finnish Sámi descent. She is a life-long meditator, mother of three, home funeral guide, Reiki master and quantum healer.
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Emily Ruff
East Barre Sage Mountain Botanical Sanctuary 802-479-9825 [email protected] www.sagemountain.com/end-of-life |
Creating an Herbal Toolkit for End of Life Care is a team-taught 5 week course empowering students to integrate food, herbal remedies, and aromatherapy into their end of life work. Led by herbalist Emily Ruff, this program offers 12 CEUs and includes live instructions, video lessons, and a virtual community of death companions for support.
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Virginia
Jennifer Thompson, NEDA Proficient
Fredericksburg Ars Moriendi Services 540-369-6019 [email protected] www.amshome.org |
Creating a guide to becoming a death doula currently part of a non profit.
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Washington
Kathy Bates, BS, GMHS
Shoreline Gentle Passage Doula Collective 206-636-5139 [email protected] www.gentlepassagedoulacollective.com |
The Gentle Passage Doula Collective, five founders, is a committed group of healthcare professionals who recognize the need for specialized EOL doula training. Our certification program provides future EOL doulas with practical skills, knowledge and tools to become empathic and caring Doulas. We firmly believe in a Holistic approach to end-of-care attending to the emotional, practical, spiritual and psychological well being of the individual and their loved ones. We also serve our community by providing information, tools and resources for individuals seeking to learn more about EOL doula training and to support those and their loved ones nearing the end of their life. Outside of our visual and in-person trainings we provide a monthly Death Cafe, Coaching, and Webinars.
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Crystal specializes in Voluntary Suspend Eating and Drinking. She offers coaching and mentorship to EOL-Doulas wanting to offer V.S.E.D in their practice. Crystal works one-on-one with individuals virtually. She also offers in-person presentations and training for those residing in the Greater Seattle area and the San Juan Islands. Individual and package sessions available
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Kathleen Putnam
Seattle Gentle Passage Doula Collective 206-356-0844 [email protected] www.gentlepassagedoulacollective.com |
We offer both in person and online trainings throughout the year along with monthly coaching and monthly webinars. Our trainings specialize in grief, trauma informed, mindfulness, nutrition at end of life, bedside vigil, boundaries, and self care.
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Lashanna Williams, NEDA Proficient
Seattle A Sacred Passing: Death Midwifery & Community Education 206-494-0023 [email protected] www.asacredpassing.org |
A Sacred Passing's mission is to guide and assist people towards a more conscious dying experience while honoring individual autonomy. We work to create and sustain authentic partnerships in death care through consent, inclusivity, and active interruption of harm and violence. Acting on these core values includes building access-focused, anti-racist, and gender-inclusive environments, doula training, workshops, story sharing, community events, and resources. While collaborating with many local, national, and international institutions ASP educates, collaborates, and shares ways to be supportive non medical companions through paid and free educational offerings.
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Wisconsin
Marggie Moertl, RN, NEDA Proficient
Oregon Embrace Your Inner Self 920-495-1566 [email protected] www.embraceyourinnerselfllc.com |
Marggie's focus is on the transformative power of guiding the soul through the many stages of facing mortality through death. This includes walking beside both clients and their loved ones, as well as those choosing this as their career. For all, I act as a guide through the personal transformation that is inherent in the inner process of experiencing the spiritual depth of each stage. I offer classes on the role of our soul in both creating life as well as sparking the withdrawal from our physical life, the use of sacred oils, and other soul based awareness.
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Felica provides training based on the 5 stages of black grief and social determinants of black grief. She is a Certified Grief Educator Grief Support Specialist Peer Support Specialist.
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International
Australia
Helen Callanan
Sunbury, Victoria Preparing the Way End of Life Doula Training +6 1413917574 [email protected] www.preparingtheway.com.au |
Non-accredited: Foundation Workshop - 9 hrs death and doula literacy Intensive Course - 4 days immersion in end of life doula training Family and Friends Workshops - 2 x half day sessions for people accompanying someone on an end of life journey Nationally Accredited: Certificate IV in End of Life Doula Services
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Canada
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Sarah Kerr, PhD, has been in in full-time practice as a death doula and trainer since 2013. Her approach is guided by ancient wisdom teachings, nature-based spirituality, energy medicine, and consciousness studies. She teaches a comprehensive healing methodology of soul medicine that can be adapted to each individual’s unique spiritual values, and that serves the living, the dying, and the dead.
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South Africa
Keshnie Mathi
Randburg, Gauteng The Wellness Specialist +27 614627419 [email protected] www.wellnessspecialist.co.za |
In this culturally diverse and comprehensive 8-week doula course, learn via virtual live sessions followed by a 4 week immersion period and practicals The final part is via an online academy called TWS Life Academy which serves to revise the theoretical aspects (including business building) via an online support platform providing support documents and templates with life time access This training covers the worldwide perspective on palliative care, ethical best practices and the practical and theory around support for in the areas of emotional support, practical & advance care planning, compliance and ethical wellbeing, and spiritual care highlighting various cultures and belief systems.
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Switzerland
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Monique is a pet death doula dedicated to teaching pet parents how to navigate the end-of-life journey of their beloved animal companions consciously. With over 15 years of experience in end-of-life care, she has pioneered an approach that restores the sacredness to the dying process. Through her Sacred Pet Death Doula Program, she trains individuals to become sacred pet death doulas, equipping them with tools and skills to compassionately embrace each dying experience as unique. This empowering program enables pet parents to approach the end-of-life journey in an enlightened way, deepening their bond with their pets and fostering peace for both animals and humans.
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NATIONAL END-OF-LIFE DOULA ALLIANCE (NEDA)
2423 SOUTH ORANGE AVE #115 ORLANDO, FL 32806 NEDA is a nonprofit 501c6 membership organization dedicated to supporting end-of-life doulas and the families they serve. Content on this website is for informational purposes only and is not offered as legal advice. |
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