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Together in community we share stories of surviving, dying, & the blossoms of grief that come in the times in between.

Courses

Death Care Training

 An 8-week online course for those who wish to learn & broaden their existing care practices to include practical end-of-life and death care skills. This death care training is a deep dive into the nonmedical physical, emotional, practical, and spiritual care of the living, dying, and dead.


Now enrolling: Fall 2025 Morning & Evening Cohorts

(click below for details)

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3-day DeathCare Workshop

A Sacred Passing invites you to join us in person in our home for a 3-day workshop to learn more about death care practices and options for end-of-life care.

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Medical Aid in Dying

This free course will teach you about Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD), and how you as a doula, volunteer, friend or caregiver can play a role in helping someone through the MAiD process. 


  • Section1: Introduction
  • Section 2: Eligibility in WA and Science of MAiD
  • Section 3: Carework and MAiD
  • Section 4: From medication to ingestion
  • Section 5: Working as part of a care team



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 A hands-on training in which participants learn how to wash, shroud, and move the body of a person who has died.  Join ASP to learn and practice how to shroud a body in preparation for a wake, funeral, celebration, or disposition. This workshop is open to all community members, death caretakers, physicians, funeral directors, midwives, doulas, and anyone who wants to learn! 

 

Course Topics Include:

  • Some History of Death Care
  • Current deathcare options and laws
  • Common Requests
  • Materials & Resources for Care
  • Tools for care team members 
  • Washing a Body (nonmedical)
  • Shrouding a Body



This course is scheduled with groups of 8 or more.  Please reach out to us to schedule yours today.  Groups of 8-15 are welcome to have their workshop at the community house, Asphodel. Larger groups require different accommodations. 

Course Outline:

  • Week 1: Welcome to Abortion Doula Training
  • Week 2: History & Nervous System Coregulation
  • Week 3: Bodies, Methods, & Options for Abortion 
  • Week 4: Abortion Stories & Storytelling
  • Week 5: Access & Planning an Abortion
  • Week 6: Growing Compassion in Care


Learn & Practice:

  • Body Sovereignty & Somatic Support
  • Legal & Historical Landscape
  • Barriers to Access
  • Medical Process of Abortion
  • Herbal Process of Abortion 
  • Spiritual & Religious Abortion Care
  • Community Storytelling & Listening
  • Practical Nonmedical Companionship
  • Conflict Holding & Deescalation Skills


Self-Paced Program is coming as soon as we finish the workbook.   It's taking way too long. Apologies 

Cost $100 for the self-paced


Facilitated Group Classes can be privately scheduled for groups of 15 pp or more. 

More Learning Opportunities

Private Workshops or Presentations

These offerings include various 1 - 3hr workshops cultivated and designed especially for the audience.

  • What is Community Deathcare?
  • Wakes, Vigils 
  • Advance Directive & Death Plans
  • Explaining Non-medical Community Support
  • Disposition Options
  • Discussing End of Life Choices 
  • ...and more!



Schedule a Group Workshop

Living Natural Burial Experience

 Join ASP crew and a small group (usually about eight people) to a site in the Olympic National Forest.


  • Immersive Experience in Nature
  • Learn about Natural Life Cycles
  • Intergenerational Community Groups
  • Retreat-style Learning - 3 days, 2 nights
  • Experience a Living Natural Burial
  • This is an in-person collaborative experience 
  • This event is for the living, not for death care after the loss of human life

Find out more

Death education with ASP is anti-racist & gender-inclusive. We prioritize learning and resourcing within relationships grounded in storytelling, history & present-day realities.


Photo by Shannon Macfarlane at ASP's Blooming with Grief

LEARNING WITH ASP

A Sacred Passing teaches from a community-centered framework in which all persons are witnessed and seen as valuable in their inherent worth and dignity. You are invited to come as you are with an open heart and open mind. We invite all person(s) to work together to push and expand on our shared understanding of creativity, justice, and inclusive community care. 


Our courses include discussion of dominant cultural norms, implicit bias, and integrating self-accountability and justice-based frameworks into death care and companionship (doulas, death workers, community members, cultural care workers, et al) during end-of-life and after.


Please click the link below more details about ACCESS & ASP EDUCATION, including more information about materials, environment, online & live curriculum, and cost of enrollment. 

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phone: (206) 494-0023

email: info@asacredpassing.org

listening line: 800-565-9731


EIN: 47-5676912

mailing address: 7832 S113th Street Seattle WA 98178



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