• Part 1: Introduction
• Part 2: The Role of a Death Doula
• Part 3: The Importance of the Role of a Death Doula
• Part 4: Death Doula Practices in History
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• Why Death Doulas Matter
• How Death Doulas Differ From End-of-Life
• The End-of-Life and Dying Industry
• The many names of the Doula – Death Doula, End Of Life Doula, Soul Doula and Death Midwife.
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• Elder Care
• Providing Support and Comfort to the Terminally Ill
• Respite Care for the Family
• Facilitating Legacy and Life Review Project
• Conducting Living Funerals
• Planning and Conducting Vigils
• Mourning and Post-Loss Support
• Facilitating with Post-Death Home Organizations
• Pet Doula Death Services
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• Tools of the Trade (and How to Use Them)
• How to “Hold the Space” for Someone
• Initial Consultations: Deep Listening + Empowerment
• Talking About Life and Dying
• Discussing Advanced Care Directives
• Discussing After-Death Body Care, Burial, and Funerals
• Understanding the Needs of the Dying
• Using Traditional and Newly Created Rituals
• Educating the Family on the Dying Process
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

1. The difference between support and doing 
2. Cultural humility, what it is, why it is needed, how it looks
3. The needs of special populations
4. Providing doula services vigils
5. Music thanatology
6. Referrals to physical modalities, such as massage, reiki, acupuncture
7. Life review, meaning of life, legacy work
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

This module will radically transform your fears and beliefs about death and dying.
By learning tools to eliminate death anxiety, reduce pain and suffering, and receive death with open-hearted acceptance.
Topics Explored
• Giving Birth / Receiving Death
• Examining fears and beliefs
• Energy fields and the luminous body
• Healing ancestral wounds
• Family Constellations
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

This module will radically transform your fears and beliefs about death and dying.
By learning tools to eliminate death anxiety, reduce pain and suffering, and receive death with open-hearted acceptance.
Topics Explored
• The journey of the soul
• Religious perspectives on death and dying
• The life review
• The death rehearsal
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• Essential Skills for Death Doulas (Ethical Awareness, Self-Care Skills and More)
• Getting Comfortable with Death and Dying
• Learning From End-of-Life Experts
• Volunteer Experience for Prospective Death Doulas
• End-of-Life Doula/Midwife Training Programs
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• Part 1: Exploring Attitudes About Death
• Part 2: Promoting Meaning in the Face of Mortality
• Part 3: Cultivating Empathy and Active Listening in Communication
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• Part 1: Assessing the Needs of Patients and Families
• Part 2: Developing Individualized Care Plans
• Part 3: Caring for the Family of a Patient
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• Part 1: Building Rapport with Your Client
• Part 2: Five Key Ingredients to Building Rapport
• Part 3: NLP Submodalities
• Part 4: Four Stages of the Counselling Relationship
• Part 5: Cultural Diversity
• Part 6: Questioning Techniques
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points Exercise
• Module Assessment

• Active listening
• Knowing how to talk about death in accessible, compassionate, and clear terms.
• Using deep listening skills; maintaining eye contact
• Recognizing barriers to communication; using critical thinking and creative problem solving to overcome obstacles.
• Recognizing and coping with resistance
• Facilitating family issues
• Assisting the family members in saying goodbye
• Knowing community resources for referral with situations of family dissonance, dysfunctional behaviors, domestic abuse, etc.
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• Techniques for dealing with family dissonance
• Identifying patterns in family dynamics
• Knowing when to refer to specialists
• Accurately communicating what is meant by “getting one’s affairs in order”
• Assisting the patient and family members in saying good-bye
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

1. What to look for
2. Identifying when professional help is needed and how to make a referral
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• Family dynamics, coping mechanisms and psychological issues surrounding terminal illness, death and Bereavement
• Being familiar with medical protocols
• Universal precautions
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

Hypnosis is an excellent modality for quickly helping people:
Reduce excess stress and anxiety, Gain control over pain and other discomfort,
Improve sleep and resolve heavy emotions of fear, regret, guilt, anger, and more.
Establish and tap into positive resources. Re-define hope with transformational work Assist clients and caregivers with overwhelming emotions, and Help find meaning in the experience of living and dying.• Introduction
• Part 1: The Mind-Body Connection
• Part 2: How Does Pain Think?
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points Exercise
• Module Assessment

• Part 1: Physical and Emotional Pain
• Part 2: Chronic Pain Versus Acute Pain
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points Exercise
• Module Assessment

• Part 1: What’s Your Story?
• Part 2: The Power of Affirmations
• Part 3: Switching Your Mindset from Victim to Life Changer
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points Exercise
• Module Assessment

• Part 1: How Does Hypnosis Work?
• Part 2: Myths and Misconceptions
• Part 3: Self-Hypnosis
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points Exercise
• Module Assessment

• Part 1: Meditation And Guided Imagery in Pain Management
• Part 2: Meditation for Pain Management
• Part 3: Chad Technique for Pain
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points Exercise
• Module Assessment

• Part 1: Mindfulness and Pain Management
• Part 2: Popular Mindfulness Techniques
• Part 3: The Relaxation Response Exercise
• Part 4: Mindfulness to Manage Stress
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points Exercise
• Module Assessment

• Part 1: What is Parts Therapy?
• Part 2: Parts Therapy Dialogue
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points Exercise
• Module Assessment

• Part 1: Regression Therapy
• Part 2: Past Life Regression Therapy
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points Exercise
• Module Assessment

• Part 1: What is NLP?
• Part 2: NLP Techniques
• Part 3: Using NLP to Manage Chronic Pain
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points Exercise
• Module Assessment

• Introduction
• Part 1: Defining Hypno Conscious Dying
• Part 2: What is Hypnosis?
• Part 3: From Hypnosis to Hypnotherapy
• Part 4: The Theory Behind Hypno-Conscious Dying
• Part 5: Summary
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• Part 1: Options for Hypno Conscious Dying Methods
• Part 2: Who Can Use Hypno Conscious Dying?
• Part 3: Summary
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• Part 1: Undergoing Hypno-Conscious Dying
• Part 2: Summary
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• An ER Doctor’s – Legislator’s Approach
• Treating Pain & Anxiety
• Non-pharmacologic methods and OTC Medications
• Narcotics, Opioids, Sedatives and Tranquilizers
• The Pain Issue
• Medical Cannabis and Marijuana
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• Part 1: Understanding Common Symptoms
• Part 2: Pain Management and Palliative Care
• Part 3: Assisting with Activities of Daily Living
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• Advocating effectively for the patient, the family, and the EOLD doula profession
• Advocating for patient priorities, healthcare treatment decisions, and spiritual goals
• Communicating with the individual’s and families’ wider circles
• Paper calendars, folders, timelines, med schedules
• Care-share interactive websites with information and updates, calendars, message, and well-wisher boards
• Event organization tools, photo galleries
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

1. Independent, assisted living, skilled nursing, hospice facility
2. Preparing and/or managing care plans for family/caregivers
3. Protocol for initial care plan meeting
4. Goals and patient priorities
5. Expectations for actions and timetables
6. Decision-making processes
7. Stumbling blocks and developing contingency plans
8. Structure, schedule, gatekeeper role 
9. Goals of care plans: comfort, dignity, choice, meaning, connection, and “dying well”
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

1. Definitions and terminology
2. Reporting procedures and requirements
3. Philosophy and goals
4. Services
5. How to handle an emergency
6. How doulas fit into the current hospice model
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• Knowing about trends and specialties in end-of-life care
a. The Good Death
• Palliative care
• Biopsychosocial cultural spiritual model of care (whole person, whole family)
• Intuiting what dying individuals want
• Closure, pain & fear free, affairs in order
• Self-determination, in contrast to the former paternalistic model
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• Assisted Suicide
• Exit Guides on your own terms
• Assisted Dying
• Assisted Dying: Pros and Cons
• Medically-assisted Death
a. where it is legal
b. what the doula role is and isn’t.
• The Legislation
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• When things get tough
• Some things to discuss
• Assisted Dying: Pros and Cons
• This is important to young people as well
• No one should die alone
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• The Challenge of Dementia
• The costs of Dementia
• End of Life and Dementia
• National Health Care
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• Learn the Liver disease & Pancreatic Cancer end-of-life disease process
• Disease progression
• Interventions to use for symptom management
• When to alert the hospice team of change in patient presentation for care plan changes.
• ACTUAL PATIENT CASE STUDIES
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• Learn the Stroke, Colon & Brain Cancer end of life disease process
• Disease progression
• Interventions to use for symptom management
• When to alert the hospice team of change in patient presentation for care plan changes.
• ACTUAL PATIENT CASE STUDIES
• Test Your Knowledge
• Module Assessment

• Learn the Breast Cancer end-of-life disease process, disease progression, interventions to use for symptom management, and when to alert the hospice team of changes in patient presentation for care plan changes.
• Learn the ALS end of life disease process, disease progression, interventions to use for symptom management, and when to alert the hospice team of change in patient presentation for care plan changes.
• ACTUAL PATIENT CASE STUDIES
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

• What It is
• What you can do
• Why It’s Important
• The Three Questions! Ask in Every Case and on Every Visit (if you only do this- you will be an incredible support!)
• Learn Interventions to use for comfort in each part of this phase
• ACTUAL PATIENT CASE STUDIES
• Test Your Knowledge
• Module Assessment

• What It is
• What you can do
• Why It’s Important
• This is your Window of Opportunity
• How to facilitate final conversations, goodbyes, and unresolved issues
• How Forgiveness is the single most powerful tool for a positive passing
• Learn Interventions to use for comfort in each part of this phase
• ACTUAL PATIENT CASE STUDIES
• Test Your Knowledge
• Module Assessment

• What It is
• What you can do
• Why It’s Important
• Learn the systematic way that the body shuts down
• Learn the Indications that someone is going into the transition phase
• Learn Interventions to use for comfort in each part of this phase
• ACTUAL PATIENT CASE STUDIES
• Test Your Knowledge
• Module Assessment

• What It is
• What you can do
• Why It’s Important
• Learn the Physiology of Actively Dying
• Breathing Changes, Sleeping Coma, Temperature Changes, Skin color Changes, The Importance of giving permission to go (saying goodbye)
• The Three Reasons why people will hang on
• Learn Interventions to use for comfort in each part of this phase
• ACTUAL PATIENT CASE STUDIES
• Test Your Knowledge
• Module Assessment

1. Who may perform care 2. Under what conditions
• Test Your Knowledge
• Key Learning Points
• Module Assessment

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