Courses in Death & Grief Care

Pre-recorded and live courses designed for targeted learning, from foundational skills to advanced death doula practices. Explore core, supplemental, and introductory topics to support your ongoing education.

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A sacred first step for the curious and called.

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Death Doula 101 is a 90-minute virtual mini-course designed to gently illuminate the path ahead. You’ll learn the foundations of the doula model of care, the evolving roles death doulas play today, and the most common ways people step into this sacred work. Whether you’re feeling a quiet pull or a loud calling, this is your place to begin.
Includes 5 essential book recommendations to deepen your death literacy.

Where Reverence Meets Rigor

At Farewell Fellowship, we offer comprehensive death doula training and hands-on mentorship for those called to serve the dying and their families. Whether you're seeking personal transformation, end-of-life doula certification, or advanced bedside experience, our paths are grounded in storytelling, cultural reverence, and community care. Based in Nashville, with national virtual offerings.

Learn at your own pace.

Deepen your skills.

Serve with presence.

Originally part of a full Farewell apprenticeship, these courses are now offered individually — for those exploring a single topic or expanding their practice.

Each course is created by a working death doula and includes video lessons, reflective exercises, and curated resources to guide your learning and presence at the bedside.

Foundational Courses to Companion the Dying

  • Winding forest path representing the journey of death, grief, and end-of-life care for death doulas and caregivers.

    This Mortal Terrain: Discerning Your Call

    Explore the realities of dying today and deepen your own relationship with death while learning how to support others with clarity and presence.

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  • Exposed tree roots and soil, symbolizing grounding, growth, and the foundations of grief and end-of-life care for death doulas.

    Sacred Ground: Honoring Your Grief

    To serve others at the end of life with presence and compassion, death doulas must first understand and work with their own grief to tend it into fertile soil.

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  • Mystical starry night sky representing grounding, energy work, ritual, co-regulation, and maintaining boundaries for death doulas at the bedside.

    Between Worlds: Energy Work for Doulas

    Learn to ground and regulate yourself, use ritual and energy work to support the dying, restore your energy, and maintain healthy boundaries as a death doula.

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Cornerstone Courses for Essential Death Doula Skills

  • Hand holding a compass with fairy lights at sunset, symbolizing guiding families through advance care planning, end-of-life conversations, and meaningful legacy projects.

    Mapping the Farewell: Advance Care Planning

    Learn to guide families through advance care planning, document healthcare wishes, facilitate meaningful vigils, and create legacy projects that honor a life well-lived.

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  • Cloud-dappled landscape evoking the mystical and sacred journey of the dying, with physical and spiritual transitions for death doulas.

    Vessel + Veil: Physical & Spiritual Dying Process

    Witness the body’s final transformations and the unseen threshold of dying, tending to both sacred physical signs and mystical experiences at life’s edge.

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  • Jagged stalagmites evoking the sharp, intense nature of grief, representing trauma-informed and dignity-centered care for death doulas.

    This Grief Has Teeth: Supporting Complicated Loss

    Support families through sudden, traumatic, and complex losses while practicing trauma-informed, dignity-centered care and ethical death doula skills.

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Supplemental Courses for Expanded Death Doula Skills

  • Spiral within a leaf representing a death doula navigating and understanding hospice systems to educate, coach, and advocate for clients.

    Circling the System: Doula's Guide to Hospice

    A death doula’s guide to understanding the hospice system, equipping you to feel confident as you educate and advocate for clients across the end-of-life care system.

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  • Hands tending a shrouded body in a home setting, symbolizing sacred after-death care and family-led rituals for death doulas.

    Resting Rites: the Art of After-Death Care

    Learn practical and sacred after-death care, supporting families with home rituals, personal farewells, and ecological or traditional practices while respecting professional boundaries.

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  • Feather held to a setting sun, representing a death doula supporting grief across the dying, bereaved, caregivers, professionals, and communities with ritual and presence.

    Where Grief Gathers: Doula Support

    Study how to offer grief support as a death doula, holding space for the dying, bereaved, caregivers, professionals, and communities with ritual, presence, and compassionate care.

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