Registration Now Open! Pre-Training begins January 18, 2025. Official Training begins August 2025.
When you serve and support someone through their end-of-life journey — the most precious transition there is — you undergo an undeniable transformation as you witness an essential piece of life’s great mystery.
Now you can share this gift and step into your next evolution as you impact the end-of-life journey for others — integrating your Soul’s journey with your life’s work as an End-of-Life Practitioner/End-of-Life-Doula (ELP).
Our unique, holistic End-of-Life Practitioner & Doula Training is designed to equip and empower you to support your clients in the death and dying process, in all dimensions of the death and dying process — physically, psychologically, and spiritually.
Our immersive, depth-training program encompasses every facet of the ELP’s role exploring this work through a multidisciplinary lens — from historical to mythological to therapeutic — so you’ll understand every facet of this deeply meaningful work, including how to advocate for your clients while navigating end-of-life medical communities.
Sadly, many Death Doula/ELP education programs are little more than weekend workshops that fall very short of properly training and preparing practitioners for this beautifully complex work.
Because we know that the work of an ELP is much more than just an occupation, the very best, multifaceted training is absolutely essential.
In many ways, it’s a pivotal moment for those who feel called to this work. ELPs are on the cusp of formal accreditation, with a similar trajectory to chiropractors and acupuncturists.
Receive 20+ hours of foundational training (a $1,900.00 value!)
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As a student in Foundations: ELP 101 Training — only available with early registration — you’ll receive:
4 LIVE 90-minute Sessions with Dr. Deerheart and Dr. Tom Daniel:
- In the first session on Saturday, January 18, Dr. Deerheart will guide you to become fully oriented as you embark on this life-changing path of study.
- In the second session in February 2025, you’ll be part of Dr. Deerheart’s study group that discusses your assigned books, films, and other media.
- In the third session in April 2025, beloved assistant mentor-teacher Dr. Tom Daniel will host part two of the study group as the discussion of Dr. Deerheart’s recommended books, films, and other media continues.
- In the fourth session in June 2025, you’ll join Dr. Deerheart for a final study group and final preparation before the course orientation with your full cohort in August 2025.
3 On-Demand Workshops with Dr. Deerheart:
Workshop #1:
Making Space for Love, Grief & Loss During the Holidays: How to Honor the Complexities of the Holiday Season and Nurture Self-Care All Year Long
In this 2-hour on-demand workshop, Dr. Deerheart shares easy-to-use tools to help you not just cope with your grief, but harness its full transformative potential — to empower yourself, cultivate peace, and find authentic joy in this life.
Workshop #2:
Healing Rituals for Transformation, Grief, Loss & Love
In this 90-minute long on-demand workshop, Dr. Deerheart guides you through several ancient and modern rituals and practices to honor the Summer Solstice and support your own transformation and healing.
Workshop #3:
Leaving a Legacy: Exploring Eco-Conscious Practices & Green Burial Options
Dr. Deerheart welcomes special guest Brienna Smith from Return Home for this 60-minute on-demand event all about green burial options and other eco-conscious practices to honor our loved ones — or celebrate your own life by leaving a legacy that honors the Earth.
12 Intimate Q&A Educational Groups with Deerheart — Learn to Lead Your Own Educational Events
In the months leading up to the official start of the ELP course, you’ll gather for an exclusive Q&A session with Dr. Deerheart directly following each of her free events, Yoga Nidra (a guided practice held on first Thursday of every month), and Death Cafe (a discussion group held on the last Monday of every month).
During these post-event Q&A-debrief education sessions, Dr. Deerheart will guide you to reflect on the events, dig deeper — and receive training and mentorship so you can eventually lead your own educational events.
Upon completion of this certification and training, you’ll embody the skills you need to provide holistic, heart-centered ELP and Death Doula Services — with confidence.
This extraordinary training experience empowers you to face your own fears around mortality. By helping others do the same, you’ll make a significant contribution to the evolution of your own being — and help others embrace life through honoring death.
This ELP Training program is designed for:
- Front-line nurses
- Social workers
- Clinicians
- Clinical leaders
- Educators
- Home and family caregivers
- Healing arts professionals
- Hospice and palliative care volunteers
- And all who are called to embrace life thru honoring death
This Comprehensive, Foundational Curriculum:
- Module I: End-of-Life Historical Perspectives
- Module II: Understanding Death thru Life Span and Historical and Cultural Perspectives in Western and Eastern Culture
- Module III: Religious/Spiritual Beliefs, Philosophies, and Attitudes
- Module IV: Mythologies of Death
- Module V: End-of-Life Infrastructure
- Module VI: Laws and Patient Rights
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Meet Dr. Andrea Deerheart
Andrea Deerheart, PhD, is the founder of The HeartWay, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to embracing life through honoring death. Her pioneering work draws on her wisdom gathered over decades spent providing loving care and healing to those on the journey of conscious living and dying. Andrea’s primary work and teaching focus on issues related to aging, radiant well-being, cultural mythology, death and dying, and living a more compassionate life — as well as grief, loss, and mindful, compassionate care.
The author of the recording Yoga Nidra: Graceful Transitions, Andrea is also a 500hrRYT yoga instructor (the highest international standard for yoga teachers), a Certified Yoga Nidra Instructor, and a sought-after consultant, educator, writer, and poet.Â
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