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.
New to Death Work? Start Here.
A sacred first step for the curious and called.
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.
Beyond the Basics: Death Doula Expansion Cohort
A 6-week mentorship-based cohort for death doulas ready to step into real-world practice with support.
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Live Teaching + 1:1 Mentorship
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Community Integration + Practice Space
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In-Person Skill Building Retreat
Foundational Courses to Companion the Dying
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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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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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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.
Cornerstone Courses for Essential Death Doula Skills
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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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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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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.