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: Spring 2025 Evening Cohort
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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.
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
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!
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