Sacred Death Care Courses
If you’re navigating a personal death or loss, these courses will give you tools to face it with grace.
If you support dying people and their families, these courses will give you confidence to offer grounded practical and spiritual guidance.
Featured Course
Navigating Pet Death
If you’re an animal lover, you know how hard it can be to lose a pet.
• Practical and spiritual guidance for giving your pet a good death
• Grief-healing support for before, during and after your pet’s last breath
• Tools to support yourself, your pet, or your clients through the journey
Course Library
EXPAND YOUR UNDERSTANDING
Sacred Deathcare Principles
The Soul’s Journey Series
This course series offers pragmatic maps for the spiritual journey of death and loss.
With perspectives from nature-based spirituality and modern consciousness research, these modules cover the core principles of the soul’s journey, including what happens:
- For the dying person and their loved ones, during the dying process
- For the dying/dead person, after they leave their physical body
- For the living, as we a navigate the grief of a loved one’s illness and death
The Soul’s Journey Through Death and Loss
Understand the spiritual geography of living and dying. Learn to meet death with grace and confidence.
$299 CAD / ~ $216 USD
EXPAND YOUR SKILLS
Sacred Deathcare Practices
The Doing Death Better Series
This series of classes gives you pragmatic information, insights, and practices for meeting each stage in the dying process.
If you’re dying, or helping a dying loved one, these courses will help you make it a beautiful, meaningful, and connected experience, for everyone involved.
If you’re a death doula or other helping practitioner, you’ll learn to support dying people and their families in a more soul-based way.
When Death is Coming
Honour death as an important part of your soul’s journey. Learn practical ritual tools for healing and connection before an expected death.
$169 CAD / ~ $122 USD
Holding Space at a Deathbed
Understand the spiritual and emotional journey of active dying. Learn to greet the last breath with open-hearted compassion.
$169 CAD / ~ $122 USD
After the Last Breath
Learn what to do in the hours and days after a death. Find grounded ritual practices for supporting both the living and the dead.
$169 CAD / ~ $122 USD
Designing a Healing Funeral
Learn to create a ceremony that fits your values and soothes your soul. Celebrate a life, mourn a death, and help everyone begin to move on.
$169 CAD / ~ $122 USD
Ritual Healing for Grief and Loss
Make peace with your grief, and with the reality of your life as it is now. Let your grief become a catalyst for authenticity, aliveness, and compassion.
$169 CAD / ~ $122 USD
EXPAND YOURSELF
In-Person Workshops
Across the Veil Constellations
Across the Veil Constellations are the experiential aspect of Sacred Deathcare training.
These transformative rituals help participants develop an embodied, intuitive relationship with Sacred Deathcare principles.
If you are a practitioner, you’ll learn to grow your medicine body to be the map that dying people and their families need. This is the healer’s “stance.”
If you’re a dying or bereaved person, you’ll find healing and grace for unresolved issues with death, dying, or dead people.
Across the Veil Constellations
Explore the soul’s journey in the afterlife. Find connection and resolution with your dead loved ones.
DEATH DOULA CERTIFICATION
The Centre for Sacred Deathcare will be developing a Death Doula Certification program in 2025. Sign up here if you’d like to be notified when it opens for registration.
In the mean time, the courses above provide a grounding and orientation for the Certification program and will be the basis for the rest of the training. The courses above each stand alone, but are designed flow in the order they are listed.