Place- Death Midwife Certification Class
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For Information call 224-501-5443.
For lodging call (602) 661-3160
Friday December 2 - Sunday December 4, 2022
For the last 100 years the care of our dead has gradually been turned over to businesses. The recent decade has seen resurgence in families providing end-of-life care to loved ones through home hospice care. As a natural extension of hospice more and more families are choosing to care for their loved ones — before and after death – in their homes.
The work of Death Midwives and home funeral guides does not duplicate the work of professionals such as nurses or funeral directors, we work alongside them. Our skills are not medically oriented, they are community, spiritually, traditionally, hands and heart-oriented. We use the ancient and time-proven techniques of an open and compassionate heart, touch, and our voices. This work can be done in any setting, whether in a hospital, nursing facility or a home.
When a loved one’s death is dignified, peaceful and meaningful, it can be a sacred experience for those left behind. Often an event such as this heals family rifts and enables people to reconnect with each other in ways that are life-changing for everyone involved. When families are able to participate in the ending of a loved one’s life it can be very empowering.
Earth Traditions; is offering a Death Midwife Certification Training in intensive fashion. This workshop is intended to focus and sharpen our natural skills and to give confidence, credibility and certification to those skills, building community and inspiring us as we embrace the most sacred threshold in the spiral of life, our final rite of passage.
This training encourages participants to work with people before and after death. There is also a strong personal commitment component of this training that encourages community volunteering, especially with Hospice, elder or end-of-life environments such as Children’s Hospitals, AIDS Housing or senior living environments.
In this training you will:
• Learn tools and techniques for midwifing the dying.
• Consider family dynamics that occur as someone dies.
• How to determine if a family is a good fit for a home funeral.
• Learn tools for creating a sacred space for transition, before and after death.
• Legal paperwork required - how to research state laws and build bridges with others presently working in the funeral industry and other interdisciplinary professions..
• Awareness of the many on-line issues of after death and social networking.
• Will receive certification as a Death Midwife through Earth Traditions.
Who will benefit from this training?
• Patients facing a terminal illness.
• Friends and family caring for someone who is dying.
• Those who want to accompany a loved one through this process.
• Professionals working in hospices, hospitals, nursing homes who are seeking to expand their skills and effectiveness in assisting with death and dying.
• Healers and therapists who want to learn more.
• Celebrants, Chaplains and Community Activists or Educators.
• Hospice volunteers or those wishing to become volunteers.
• Anyone who wishes to learn more about cultivating presence and personal awareness in death, dying and living well.
• Those who want to prepare gracefully for their own journey through dying into death.
• Those who want to embrace the mystery of death, and educate others as well as participate in what can be the most sacred and deeply moving experience of their life.
The Schedule is:
Friday: 9am-8pm
Saturday: 9am-7pm
Sunday: 9am-6pm
In order to receive the certification you must be present, on time, and participate in class activities and discussions for the duration of the class each day. By nature, this work requires an ability and willingness to use compassionate touch with other human beings as they complete their final rite of passage. With an eye toward this, class activities may require some human contact among students.
Instructor Angie Buchanan ~ Trained and certified as a Certified Death Midwife by Nora Cedarwind Young, one of the founders of the Death Midwife movement, Angie is also a Rite of Passage Officieant, Earth Traditions Minister, Emeritus Board Member of the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions, Pagan Student Advisor at the University of Chicago, and member of the National Association of Certified Death Midwives, the National Home Funeral Alliance, and the National Chaplains Association. Angie lives and works in the Chicago area of Illinois, and in Wisconsin. She teaches a variety of workshops internationally. She creates and facilitates ceremonies for all of life’s passages, from birth through the grave.
Angie says; Death is the only guarantee we have in life and it is a sacred Rite of Passage deserving of as much thoughtful care and planning as any other life event. I envision individuals and families acknowledging and respecting death by adequately preparing for their own, and by being available for loved ones who find themselves in this threshold." Angie is committed to educating individuals, small groups, families and entire communities or church groups to proudly reclaim family directed choice at end of life.
Payment Terms
Please make checks payable to Earth Traditions
PO Box 510562, New Berlin, WI 53151
We also accept Paypal:Info@EarthTraditions.org
Early Rate - Until October 1, 2022 $700.00
Rate After October 1, 2022 $750.00
Deposit Installment $350.00
Balance Due 11/25/22 $400.00
Installments $160.00 X 5 ($800.00) $800.00
Payment in Full For Installments is Due by November 25, 2022
Meals and accommodations are not included. Please call the venue to make arrangements. (602) 661-3160
This class is an intensive session. In order to receive the certificate, it is mandatory that students arrive promptly, stay for the duration of each class day, participate in all class activities, and complete the exam with a passing grade.
Due to the production expenses of this training, there are no cash refunds. If you are currently registered for a class, and that class needs to be unavoidably postponed, (Think covid or cancelled flights) you are guaranteed a seat on the new date, and/or will be issued a class credit good for any class, anywhere in the country, for up to one year.
Registration and payment for any class implies a contractual understanding of the above.