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Sacred Passage Online End-of-Life Doula & Funeral Celebrant Training
It is truly wonderful to welcome you to Sacred Passage and to this deeply meaningful learning journey.
Our Online End-of-Life Doula Training (Modules 1–8) and Funeral Celebrant Training Course have been thoughtfully designed to work beautifully together, offering you a complete and professional pathway into end-of-life care, planning, and ceremony.
Sacred Passage Online End-of-Life Doula Training
At the completion of Tutorial 8, you will receive a “Certificate of Attainment”, recognising the knowledge, skills, and personal growth you have achieved through our intensive End-of-Life Doula programme.
Created by an experienced educator, this online course provides a safe, nurturing, and supportive learning environment. You will be guided every step of the way, with your educator available by email and phone support (almost 24/7!).
This training is ideal for those who feel called to become end-of-life doulas, as well as health and care professionals seeking to deepen or expand their end-of-life practice.
You will have up to 12 months to complete the course and receive your Certificate of Attainment, or you may move through the 8 modules at your own pace, fitting study comfortably around your life.
Funeral Celebrant Training Course
Our Funeral Celebrant Training Course is delivered as a comprehensive downloadable PDF and includes six assessment tasks. Upon successful submission and completion of all assessments, you will receive a “Certificate of Attainment”.
This course will fully prepare you to plan, perform, and evaluate funeral and memorial services to industry standard, ensuring you are recognised as a professional within the funeral industry. It includes a wide range of sample services and readings for both adult and children’s services, providing you with practical tools and confidence from day one.
Throughout your training, your educator will be available to support you at all times, ensuring a rich, supported, and empowering learning experience.
Together, these two courses offer a powerful and compassionate foundation for those wishing to serve individuals, families, and communities at the most sacred moments of life.
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Please note you will receive an “Order Received” registration confirmation email and your link to download the Funeral Celebrant Online Training Course and relevant Assessment Tasks will be available in the “Order Complete” email. Your ‘order number’ is your ‘participant number’ and will be required for your EoL Course ‘check ins” at the end of each Tutorial and Assessment Cover Sheets for the Funeral Celebrants Course, please take note of it!
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ONLINE END-OF-LIFE DOULA & FUNERAL CELEBRANT COURSE OVERVIEWS
Tutorial 1: Cultivating Compassionate Presence
- Cultivating Compassionate Presence
- Summary of Key Concepts
- Advanced Learning Tools
Tutorial 2: Compassionate Support for the Dying
- Holistic and Inclusive Approach to Care
- Compassionate Support for the Dying
- The Challenges of Family Caregiving
- The Physiology and Process of Dying
- Summary of Key Concepts
- Advanced Learning Tools
Tutorial 3: Respecting Personal Choices at Life’s End
- Care Models: Palliative and Hospice Services
- Holistic and Inclusive Care Approach
- End-of-Life Care and After-Death Considerations
- Summary of Key Concepts
- Advanced Learning Tools
Tutorial 4: A Doula’s Skills, Roles and Responsibilities
- Who Needs Us, and How Do We Help?
- Providing Support During Grief
- Specialised Support for the Dying
- Inclusive Care Approach
- Summary of Key Concepts
- Advanced Learning Tools
Tutorial 5: Expanding Your Expertise
- Create a thoughtful community resource and action plan.
- Reference Videos
- Identify meaningful strategies and supportive modalities tailored to client needs.
- Understand and articulate key care considerations when supporting LGBTQI+ older adults with sensitivity and respect.
Tutorial 6: Sustainable Self-Care
- This Tutorial is about tending to you.
It’s a space to take stock of what you’ve learned so far, to reflect on your motivations, and to reconnect with the parts of yourself – your values, your soul, your inner knowing – that brought you to this path. - Reference Videos
- Summary of Key Concepts
Tutorial 7: Care Planning
- Living Will | Advance Directive
- Reference Material & Literature
- Planning: Your Experience
- Summary of Key Concepts
- Advanced Learning Tools
Tutorial 8: Developing Your Practice
- Bringing it all together
- Literature
- Designing your practice framework
- Training Evaluation
- Additional resources
ONLINE FUNERAL CELEBRANT COURSE
Our Online Funeral Celebrant Course instructs students to be able to prepare for and perform a funeral ceremony with the needs of the client family in mind and in a professional and respectful manner.
Some of the topics that will be covered are as follows:
- Client Communication techniques – accurate written and verbal instructions. Listening skills, grief awareness, empathy, confidentiality and respect will be highlighted.
- Designing a service that reflects the wishes of the family, with required elements of ritual and symbolism. Including writing and selecting appropriate material for presentation. Writing the service and writing a eulogy.
- Appropriate resource selection – words, poems, symbols and music
- Ability to relate to people from a range of social, cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds
- Working with funeral directors and other associated professionals within the required protocols.
- Adherence to professional dress standards. Ability to display dignity and solemnity.
- The order of service.
- Dual services – Chapel/Home and graveside.
Each participant will be given a Case Study to write a service for and then will be required to perform that ceremony for assessment via Zoom with your trainer.
ASSESSMENT TASKS
- Assessment 1 Grief Exercise
- Assessment 2 The Five Stages of Dying
- At this stage your Funeral Case Study will be sent
- Assessment 3 The Client Interview
- Assessment 3.1 Client Interview Questions
- Assessment 4 Composing the Service
- Assessment 4.1 Composing the Service Questions
- Assessment 5.1 & 5.2 Interviewing a Funeral Director
- Assessment 6 Evaluation Survey
