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Soul Passages

Death Doula | Death Midwife Training | Death Healing Rituals

With Sarah Kerr, PhD, Death Doula and Ritual Healing Practitioner
  • Doing Death Better

Online courses for family, friends, and practitioners

Facing big loss is hard, but it’s even harder if you’re not prepared.

There are ways to meet death that bring more love into the world. Learning to do this is a gift to yourself, your family, and your community.

Learn to face mortality with grace and confidence


Meeting death well is a learned skill, but most of us have never been taught it.

I developed this program to help you face the end of life with more ease and healing. These courses will deepen your knowledge and strengthen your skills for meeting death well.

I hope you find the teachings useful, and thanks for helping do death better.

With much love,
Sarah

Sarah Kerr, PhD
Death Doula and
Ritual Healing Practitioner


“Sarah is a very passionate person and it comes through in her teaching. When you can see the instructor truly loves what they’re doing it’s so much easier to gather the information from it.”
~Micheala C.

 

A Quick Overview

Who This is For

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I'm excited to welcome you to this death education series, called Doing Death Better. I'm thrilled to be offering it, and I really hope that it's useful for you.

I get asked by a lot by people if they can train with me to become a death doula. That's something that I'm definitely interested in doing, but I find that most of us are so lacking in basic knowledge about death to begin with. We need to learn the basic skills and get the basic information before we can learn how to apply it appropriately when we're supporting dying people and their families. That's part of what these courses are designed to do.

Doing Death Better courses offer a grounding in the kind of information every human being should know about how to meet death. They are designed for a wide spectrum of people:

Ordinary folks, who might be facing your own death, or the death of someone you love right now, or you may just want to be prepared because you know it's coming.

You may be an aspiring death doula, who wants to find your way into the field, explore if this is right for you, and develop your skills.

You may be a death doula who's currently practicing, and you might need a quick primer on a topic that's particularly relevant to a family you're working with. Maybe there's something that wasn't covered in your training. This course is designed to be kind of a reference library you can go to when you need just to go directly to what you need.

The course is also of value to other practitioners who work with dying people and their family, whether you're a nurse or in palliative care, or a social worker, a counselor, or a lawyer or a teacher. We all come into contact with people who are facing mortality, and this course is designed to help you with all of that.

A Soul Approach

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In my work as a death doula, I bring a certain approach to what I do, and that's reflected in these courses. My interest, and my way of engaging with death, is to meet it as a soul process. Dying is the process of leaving our bodies, so while we need to care for those bodies, we also need to learn how to be fluent in those realms that aren't physical, the realms of the soul, of the heart, of the interrelationships in community.

When I'm teaching these courses, the angle I bring is around looking at those (sometimes unseen) forces that are at play: the energetic forces and the spiritual forces. I help you understand the principles and the dynamics behind those, so you understand why things are happening.

I find when people understand those things, something lands. It's like they have a map for the process. Then they can find their own way into it.

That's my approach, it’s soul-focused and spiritual, but spiritual from the largest sense of the word, whatever your spiritual values are, in the sense of there being more than just our us.

How This Works

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In terms of the structure of the series, there are two kinds of courses. There are Fast Classes, which are 20 to 30-minute videos that laser dive into one particular aspect of a topic.

Then there are longer classes, called Core Skills Courses. Those are deeper. They'll have five or so lessons in them. They're a fuller exploration.

Even in the longer courses, you can choose how deep you want to go. You could just listen to the lessons and get what you need. Or, if you want to take a more transformational approach, you can go deeper into the exercises, and the reflective prompts, and the meditations, and really look at shifting who you are and how you are around death. Again, that's up to you, and the depth you want to go at any time.

Because these lessons are available in an ongoing way for you, you can come back to them whenever you want. If a new situation arises, come back and check and see what you need to know to face that.

As I said, I'm so excited about these programs, and I really hope that they are helpful, and that they help us all grow a better culture around death.

Introductory courses

Fast Classes: Focused 20-30 minute videos, to give you a quick and comprehensive understanding of important deathly topics

Core Skills Classes: Deeper courses (with multiple lessons and supplemental materials) to give you confidence in foundational deathly skills

Fast Class #1

Learn practices for heartful connection.
Step beyond awkwardness into compassion. 

$19 CAD (~$14 USD)
Or FREE with Core Skills Course #1,
How to Talk About Death

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Core Skills Course #1

Be confident talking about what really matters.
Support your family, friends, or clients.

$169 CAD (~$124 USD)
Includes FREE access to Fast Class #1,
Offering Meaningful Condolences

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"Sarah is an eloquent ambassador for the pioneering work being done in this field. She is so well spoken and well researched. I’m very grateful for the information I received from her.”
~ Angela B.
"Sarah altruistically shares her personal learnings and expertise, giving practitioners a solid foundation of knowledge."
~Deb S.

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