Course Curriculum: We utilize Deanna’s signature course, “Accompanying the Dying: A Practical Guide and Awareness Training” as our curriculum. Our CareDoula® Method is time tested (since 2010) with hundreds of hours of professional development and thousands of people utilizing it to change the face of dying around the world.
Certified CareDoula® Essentials teaches you:
Certified CareDoula® adds to your natural abilities and gifts. It provides additional deep learning and how to navigate all the issues you will be facing.
You can be great with your family and friends, but you must learn different and additional skills if you want to serve professionally (people you don’t know). And after that you must be found or you will be stuck in your living room and people are out here needing so much more help! It is ALL necessary and every bit of what you need is in Certified CareDoula® Essentials.
We make sure you’re not missing any of the pieces of the art of accompanying the dying—the power of CareDoula is in the comprehensive training, whether or not you need certification. Our extensive program will fill in any gaps in knowledge. It is an all-encompassing study.
Course Objectives
Establishing Rapport & Peace
Mastering the art of building trust and confidence in your service.
Exploring Types & Settings of EOLD Work
Awareness: serving your client expertly and correctly.
Providing Emotional & Spiritual Support
Awareness: the essence of our service, compassionate presence.
Spiritual Care of Self & Others
Mastering the journey into the great unknown with confidence.
Providing Practical Support
Mastering top End-of-Life Doula guidance skills.
EOL Doula Tools
Legacy, aroma therapy, vigil, planning, and more.
The Dying Body
Awareness: accompanying during the last days of life.
At the Bedside
Mastering physical and supportive care for person and family.
Special Topics in End-of-Life
Palliative sedation, home funerals, medical issues, green burials, and more.
Professional Issues
Creating a structure to support yourself, ethics, standards of practice, promotions.
Extended Support
You may continue to renew your CareDoula® Way Membership monthly or yearly after your year of free access.
More Course Details
So many topics, so much time to explore!
We discuss all of these topics within sessions and the membership.
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Hospice• What it is• Who Benefits• When Appropriate• Myths• Where Its Delivered• Continuity of Care Issues• Doula Role with Hospice Non-medical Interventions• Aromatherapy• Guided Visualization• Therapeutic Approach: Meaningful, Purposeful• Deep Listening• Touch Therapy• Presence• Music Therapy Public Awareness & Public Relations• Professional Image• Facilitating Meetings• Business Etiquette• The Written Message• How and Where to Connect with Community• The Written Message• Dealing with Challenging People• Stress Management• Community Relationships• Advocacy for Family• Customer Service Communication• Responding Skills• Listening Skills• Energy Awareness• Appropriate Sharing• Dealing with Difficult Situations Leadership• Self-Analysis• Time Management• Problem Solving• Record Keeping |
Interpersonal Relationships• Team Approach: Working Together• Coordination of Services• Peer Relationships• Family Relationships• Empowerment• Staff and Client Relationships• Consultant Relationships• Facilitating Healing• Managing Conflicts• Dealing with Difficult People• Appropriate Engagement Spirituality of Aging• Tasks of Life Review• Individuality of Spiritual Support• Death and Dying• Palliative Care• Issue of Honesty as Accompanying• Personal Growth• Respect for Family Process• Comparative Religions Individualized Care Planning• Family Needs• Professional Issues• Legal Issues• Boundaries of Private Practice• Confidentiality• Patient Involvement Compassion Fatigue• Self-Care• Boundaries• Support for Doula |
Sociology of Dying• Engagement and Isolation• Dependence and Independence• Honoring Culture• Long-Term Care Issues• Living Arrangements: Retirement Housing, Elder Assisted Living, Independent Living, Home Health, Home • Continuum of Care Biology of Dying• Changes: Physical & Sensory• Nutrition Awareness• Natural Dying Process• Body Decline• Non-medical Interventions• Understanding Pain Natural Advocate• Resource Building• Liaison in healthcare system• Spiritual Support Referral Professional Development• Structure of Doula Practice• Business Planning• Business Expectations• Professional Standards• Creating Your Service• Promotions• Pricing Your Service• Community Education Tools |
(what you’ll learn)
The Skills →
The Art of Accompanying
Know how to be there, for yourself as well as others. There is mystery in illness, healing and dying, NOT in showing up for it all. Know exactly what is most important.
Planning
To do anything worthwhile and feel secure, we must have a plan with actionable steps. We especially need a plan if we are inspired to serve people through serious illness and the dying time.
The Dying Time
Know what is happening so you can create the experience for yourself as best you can. Especially if you will be serving people, you cannot guide someone when you don’t know the terrain.
Professional Service
Do you want to become an end-of-life doula? Or do you want to add an end-of-life service to your already established holistic practice? Learn what is most important in putting a service together—what steps to take, how to build it, how to get the word out, pricing and packaging, serving and all that goes with it.
Community Empowerment
Talk to anyone who is interested in end-of-life issues and they will tell you they want to help others, share ideas and discuss how to have a better experience and know options. Sharing on the community level is how you do this. Learn the ins and outs here.
The Results?
“I hit the jackpot when I chose you to learn from; what you’re offering…it’s an absolute blessing!”
- Becky, Course Student
If you are still reading this right now,
what are you waiting for?
Do you doubt yourself?
Is one of your questions, “can I really do this?”
If so, take a moment and get into a quiet headspace. Tune into your sincere desire to serve people at the end of life. Do you have 5 minutes right now? Click here to start our 5 minute timer. Just breathe in deeply, and for the next 5 minutes, think of nothing other than how you feel when you imagine helping others during the dying time. A chime will ring when time is up.
Check in: Do you feel good? Does imagining serving others satisfy something deep inside you? Is this what you’d love to do with the rest of your life? If the answer is yes, it’s fear stopping you.
And we know that fear comes with every major move. So, if it’s YES! but you are afraid, then we have a fix for that–Deanna, our tried and true CareDoula® Method and the excellent training you will receive. You just need an experienced guide, committed to helping you get to where you want to go. You’ll be secure with us in our CareDoula® School.