CareDoula® Way Membership
Our CareDoula® Way Membership, is a full spectrum end-of-life literacy training ground and membership community for anyone wanting a relaxed environment to study. Whether you are the caregiver, go-to person in your circle, volunteer, professional, business owner in a field that serves the seriously ill or elderly, or an experienced healthcare professional–there is something for you here. Everyone has a different reason for wanting to know the ins and outs of supporting someone when treatments begin to stop working through early bereavement. You will know what to do and learn how to be powerfully present–from an end-of-life doula perspective.
End-of-Life Doula Certificate Program
Certified CareDoula® (End-of-Life Doula Certificate Program) is for the person who wants an all-encompassing, formal End-of-Life Doula education covering all aspects of end-of-life care. This includes a deep study of the issues, palliative care, options, letting go of treatments, self-care, skills and planning. Receive intensive training on the art of accompanying the dying and the professional aspects of creating your own end-of-life service. Take your natural abilities to be with dying to the next level and transform your own life as you serve.
Why CareDoula® Education is here.
CareDoula® Education’s mission is to equip and empower people to receive quality care so they do NOT suffer as they are living with serious illness (especially the latter stages). It is in the latter stages of serious illness when most suffering is likely to occur–as a person is approaching their dying.
And herein lies the struggle. This time period from ‘when-treatments-begin-to-stop-working (WTBTSW)’ to entering hospice service can be such a nebulous time between life and death. When you ask a person about their death journey with a family member, this is the time period about when you hear the most awful stories.
It can be a literal nightmare. This is the time period about which physicians like Dr. Atul Gawande, Dr. Ira Byock, Dr. Jessica Zitter are writing their books. They are agreeing that as a society (and within healthcare) we are not dealing with a person’s decline towards their death appropriately and that is resulting in so much suffering—physically and in every other way.
CareDoula® Education’s focus is this time period from WTBTSW to hospice entry, and it is one of the messiest times of life with so many reasons why this is so. Everything we do at CareDoula® Education is to make people aware about all ways to address each of the reasons and the steps to take for it.
And we want to get our CareDoula® approach to as many people as possible to relieve as much suffering as possible. Deanna’s entire strategy is to either serve you herself and/or teach you how to help your own family and the people in your own circles, and teach you how to advocate for others, and teach your employees the best hospice hacks in their first year of hospice employment. We have a program for each one of these end-goals.
Learn and then share in your conversations in your communities. Spread the word. We are here to support you as you support others where you live and work. We are all affected by the dying of those we love, it’s part of life. For most of us, this is usually shocking and grievous, even though we know it’s coming. There is pain surrounding it that will never go away.
And there is a layer of fear, pain and suffering that is needless. This is 100% true. And THAT is what we are here to address, so that way you can deal with the important matters of what is in front of you. Needless suffering should be removed as quickly as possible. We know how to do that.