Meeting mortality well is a soul-task. It’s not easy, but it can be profound.

About The Centre for Sacred Deathcare

Who We Are

We’re a vibrant community of learners and seekers who gather to share our curiosities, passions, insights, and experiences.

We’re committed to creating a death-positive culture where transformative loss is honoured as an important part of our soul’s evolutionary journey.

What We Do

The Centre for Sacred Deathcare was founded to help people meet death–and life–in ways that are more healing, and more whole.

Our work is dedicated to the health and well-being of our collective past, present, and future.

We welcome anyone who’s interested in bringing a more spiritual lens to death and bereavement, including:

Death doulas wanting to step beyond practical and logistical training into soul-centric approaches that resonate more deeply with their calling.
Birth doulas, healthcare or funeral professionals, bodyworkers, counsellors, energy practitioners, chaplains, and hospice volunteers looking to bring more spiritual depth to their practice.
People coming from unrelated fields, in transition, or curious about stepping into meaningful work as a death doula.
Those walking their own healing path after a deep personal experience with death and wanting to support others through the process.
Everyday mortals wanting to learn about sacred deathcare for themselves, their family, and their communities.

The Guiding Principles of Soul-Centric Deathcare

Community

Connecting with the larger whole

Life is an intelligent, sacred, interconnected whole.

We can lean into that greater power when our experiences are too big to face alone.

Initiation

Cooperating with archetypal forces

Like the rest of nature, we are in a continual cycle of releasing the old to make way for the new.

We can trust the soul-wisdom of this archetypal process.

Ritual

Creating the conditions for healing

Rituals create structures in consciousness through which healing energy can flow.

We can apply this healing modality to restore balance to our lives.