Death Doula 101 Apprenticeship Courses Mentorship Library About
Contact

BROWSE all FAREWELL EDUCATION COURSES

Here you’ll find the courses and circles that open the way into deathwork, from first steps to advanced apprenticeship.

BROWSE all FAREWELL EDUCATION COURSES

Before we can accompany others toward death, we first develop our own trusting relationship.  From this place, we cultivate the tools and skills of death midwifery.  See courses below. 

New to Deathwork? Start Here.

Every journey begins with a first step. In this course, you’ll be introduced to the foundations of deathwork: its history, practices, and the presence it calls forth. Here, you’ll begin to find your footing in the sacred art of walking beside the dying and the grieving.

The Farewell Courses

Farewell courses are designed to meet you wherever you are on the path. Many students choose to pair their coursework with mentorship, creating an apprenticeship-style learning experience where knowledge is deepened through conversation, reflection, and real-world application.

Others take the courses as standalone trainings to strengthen their skills as death doulas, hospice volunteers, or caregivers supporting loved ones at the end of life. Whether you are seeking guidance along the way or simply expanding your understanding, these courses are meant to support you in doing this work .

Choose One Course At A Time

For now, you can enroll in any of the 9 courses that shape the Farewell Education Path as individual offerings.

This Mortal Terrain: Answering the Call Into Deathwork

By examining what it is like to face end-of-life in N. America today, who is being well-served and under-served by the system, and how death doulas and midwives can bridge the gaps in current end-of-life care, we begin to see the spaces we are called to fill.  We then turn our attention to building a spiritual relationship with Death.  

$350.00 USD

Sacred Ground: Honoring Your Grief

When we are called into deathwork, we hold space for others as they journey toward Death and through the depths of their grief.  We must first be willing to do the same with ourselves.  To fully honor grief as deathwalking requires, we must know the facets of grief well, explore our shadow and ancestor work, and develop rituals for grief-tending as a part of building a trusting relationship with Death.

$350.00 USD

Whispers Between Worlds: Energy Work for Deathwalkers

Through five modules, you’ll explore the energetic foundations of deathwork, including how values and ethics form a safe container, how to sense the luminous body, why deathwork is energy work, when somatic presence supports the path, and how ritual and ceremony deepen your connection to spirit, grief, and the unseen.

$350.00 USD

Mapping the Farewell: Advance Care Planning Tools for Deathwalkers

Through five modules, you’ll learn why comprehensive advance care planning matters, the core components of strong documentation, how to weave in meaning-centered reflection, and how legacy projects offer clarity, healing, and connection for those preparing to die and for those who will carry their memory forward.

$350.00 USD

Vessel & Veil: The Physical & Spiritual Process of Dying

Through five modules, you’ll explore the physical and spiritual process of dying, including how to stand at the threshold, hold sacred space at end of life, recognize the body’s final signs, respond with compassion to suffering, and walk alongside the soul with trust, reverence, and presence as it prepares to let go.

$350.00 USD

This Grief Has Teeth: Doula Support for Traumatic Loss

Through six modules, you’ll explore the sharp and complex edges of grief, including sudden and unexpected death, perinatal and pediatric loss, death by suicide and substance use, medical aid in dying, voluntary stopping of eating and drinking, and the injustices that shape how death is experienced.

$350.00 USD

Circling the System: A Death Doula's Guide to Hospice

Through five modules, you’ll examine the hospice system from the inside out: including its funding and regulations, for-profit vs. nonprofit care, gaps in access and equity, the role of volunteers, the limits of respite and Medicare rules, and how death doulas can serve alongside, within, or beyond the system.

$350.00 USD

Resting Rites: The Art of After-Death Care

Through six modules, you’ll explore after-death care from the ground up: including the history of who has tended the dead, the scope and costs of the American funeral industry, the role of ritual and home funerals, the practices of body preparation and vigil, and the possibilities of ecological and green burial.

$350.00 USD