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Training for Death Doulas, End-of-Life Practitioners, and Everyday Mortals
Learn soul-healing practices for the living, the dying, and the dead.
Transform your relationship with death and with life.
Join the movement to build a death-positive culture.
The Guiding Principles of Sacred Deathcare
Community
Connecting with the larger whole
Initiation
Cooperating with archetypal forces
Ritual
Creating the conditions for healing
Learn to meet death—and life—in ways that are more healing, more whole, and more holy.
- Validate what you intuitively know about the soul’s journey.
- Learn the what, the why, and how of soul-centric death care.
- Embody your knowledge with confidence and integrity.
- Find support and inspiration in a network of warm-hearted peers.
Death is hard, but it doesn’t have to be as hard as we make it in Western culture.
~Sarah Kerr, PhD
Founder, The Centre for Sacred Deathcare
Welcome to The Centre for Sacred Deathcare
Hi, I’m Sarah Kerr, and I’m the founder of the Centre for Sacred Deathcare.
There’s a huge gap between the kind of soul-healing we get around death and loss in dominant culture, and the soul-healing we actually need.
We could avoid a lot of unnecessary suffering if we approached the end of life from a wider, more spiritually-aware perspective.
The Centre for Sacred Deathcare helps people meet death –and life– in ways that are more healing, more whole, and more Holy.
We offer educational and community-building programs, for death doulas and others, who are called to offer spiritual support to dying people and their families.
Our programs validate your intuitive insights, and give structure and direction to the healing energy inside you, so you can offer it in service to your community
To learn more about the principles of sacred deathcare, and how to get started, I invite you to download our introductory e-book.
Thanks for being part of doing death better.
Begin your journey with an introductory ebook
Community Feedback
A huge awakening for me
“It was a fabulous training! Sarah’s teaching is articulate, well thought out, and enthusiastically and succinctly presented. It’s clear that she’s passionate about her work around death and healing. This was a huge awakening for me and a powerful stimulus to step further into this field.”
~ Ellen L.
Insight into ways to help my dying patients
“In Sarah’s classes, I gain so much insight into ways to help my dying patients and their families, even how to maintain my own boundaries and well-being as I navigate the spiritual aspects of my work as an ICU nurse.”
~ Cathy N.
Poignant and useful information
“I love Sarah’s trainings. She is always well prepared and the information is incredibly poignant and useful in my work as a Soul Midwife. Her teaching style is very easy to follow and very helpful. She has a gift! I would highly recommend any course Sarah offers.”
~ Dawn Y.
A truly sacred approach to deathcare attends to our souls as well as our bodies and to the dead as well as the living.
~Sarah Kerr, PhD
Ready to develop your sacred deathcare skills?
Start with these online courses:
Awakening the Archetype of the Deathwalker
Activate the wisdom of your soul’s calling
- What the deathwalker archetype is and how to tell if it’s manifesting in you.
- A path for deepening and delivering the healing energy you carry.
- Tools for taking your place in a lineage of soul-workers and ritual leaders.
The Soul’s Journey
Understanding the spiritual cartography of death and loss
- Comprehensive maps of each stage in the death and bereavement experience.
- Affirmation for your intuitive knowing about the deeper aspects of the dying process.
- Perspectives for making meaning of suicide, pregnancy loss, dementia, and other difficult deaths.