Education
Going with Grace
Going with Grace offers a plethora of online and in-person educational resources including webinars, workbooks, workshops, courses, retreats, and summits, designed to shift consciousness, soften fear, and renew engagement with life through the contemplation, study, and practice of being with death.
The Conscious Dying Institute
Creating a wisdom-based caring healing culture of End-of-Life Doulas, Conscious Dying Coaches and Educators of all faiths, beliefs, and ethnicities who restore death to its sacred place in the beauty, mystery and celebration of life and contribute to the evolution of human consciousness.
Death Doula School with Kacie Gikonyo
Death Doula School is designed with your busy schedule in mind. Kacie’s online program is built in a learn-at-your-own-pace format, allowing you to seamlessly integrate your studies into your life, wherever and whenever you see fit.
Care Doula Education
Learn the skills that are changing the world with Care Doula Education’s rationale, tools, best practices, and pro tips.
International End-of-Life Doula Association
Whether you have received a life-limiting diagnosis, care for someone nearing the end of life, feel a calling to serve the dying, or just want to know more about best practices in end-of-life care, INELDA welcomes you. Its services include a variety of events and trainings.
Research
Experiences of engaging a death doula: qualitative interviews with bereaved family members
Qualitative research to understand the experiences of families who used a death doula in terms of what they did for the patient and family
Support
Jamie Thrower, End of Life Doula & Educator + Grief Support
Jamie’s death doula work is built upon the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance’s End-of-Life Doula Model of Care. It is collaborative, non-medical, non-judgmental, and client-centered. She’s passionate about normalizing the dying process.
Jill Schock, Death Doula
Jill Schock is the owner of DDLA (est.2016) She is a Los Angeles native with over a decade of experience in end-of-life care. She received a Master’s Degree in Ethics and Theology from Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Jill is a certified Clinical Chaplain, Spiritual Counselor, and Ordained Minister.
Glendon Muir Geikie Sr., MSW and End of Life Doula
Glendon’s professional training, clinical experience, the many deaths he has experienced in his personal life, and his doula training with the International End of Life Doula Association have prepared him to provide the integrity and empathy necessary to bring dignity, meaning and spiritual comfort to the end of life experience.
Stefanie Elkins, MA, MM Eldercare Manager & End-of-Life Doula, Death over Drafts Founder
Stefanie currently serves as the LA Unit Chair of the Western Region of the Aging Life Care Association®and am a member of Valley Chevra Kadisha Leadership committee. She’s actively involved with various organizations dedicated to promoting end-of-life choices and providing support to seniors, including Compassion & Choices, Foundation for Senior Services, Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (CTAC), Reimagine, and Silent Book Club of Death.
Birgitta Kastenbaum, Death Doula with Bridging Transitions
Bridging Transitions offers emotional, spiritual, and practical support to those living with limited life expectancy, the dying, the people who love and care for them, those living with grief, and anyone interested in conscious living and dying. They serve individuals, families of origin and chosen, care circles, and communities of all makings.
Arielle Friedtanzer
Arielle strives to make conversations around death, grief, and end-of-life care commonplace, accessible and accepted as she assists and supports individuals in making informed value-driven decisions. Her website offers individual sessions along with additional Death Doula resources.
Melissa Wood Death Doula with Peaceful End of Life
Melissa’s offers personalized support, advocacy, and care to those facing the end of life and promotes a culture of openness, honesty, and compassion in all aspects of end-of-life care.
Books
The Death Doula’s Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared: An Essential Workbook to Help You Reflect Back, Plan Ahead, and Find Peace on Your Journey by Francesca Arnoldy
This workbook is a first-of-its-kind publication that invites you to process your life and legacy, create remembrance projects, build connections to vital supports, and draft informative wishes and plans for your last chapter.