DEATH DOULA TRAINING 2024
What a beautiful time to dive deep into your heart and mind to serve others...
UPCOMING ONLINE TRAININGS:
ONE DAY ONLINE DEATH DOULA TRAINING RETREAT SUNDAY JULY 21st 2024
VILLAGE DEATHCARE CITIZEN COURSE 90 HOUR ONLINE CERTIFICATE AUGUST 25- OCTOBER 20, 2024
HOME FUNERALS 21 HOURS-- optional add on to the certificate course NOVEMBER 10 - 23, 2024
GRADUATION NOVEMBER 24, 2024
It is crucial, now, that deathcare be revived as a healthy part of community. Deathcare is ancient and belongs to no one and belongs to everyone- but we have lost our way. Through examining our own mortality, fears and aspirations, and discovering the challenges of today's complexities of caring for our own dying and dead, we will begin to understand the great importance and urgency of reviving community deathcare. There are many courses to train you within a system of professional care to be a Death Doula (I can recommend some) this training is for deepening the roots of healing within yourself, your home and your community whether that community be physical, virtual or that moves along with you wherever you find yourself. Graduates are changed for life after this course and are well prepared to begin the path of the death doula. Apply by submitting a one page summary of why you would like to be a a village deathcare citizen to strengthen your community and bring deep loving healing into your own life.
UPCOMING IN-PERSON RETREATS:
APRIL 2024 COSTA RICA (filled)
OCTOBER 2024 IRELAND (filled)
DECEMBER 2024 VERMONT (open)
ONLINE INTENSIVES 2024
FULL DAY ONLINE DEATH DOULA INTRO INTENSIVE FOR ADVANCED PRACTITIONERS
FULL DAY ONLINE DEATH DOULA INTRO INTENSIVE FOR ADVANCED PRACTITIONERS
FULL DAY ONLINE DEATH DOULA INTRO INTENSIVE FOR ADVANCED PRACTITIONERS
Sunday July 21st, 2024
10 am to 4 pm with break for lunch
For therapists, experienced energy workers, medical professionals, social workers, lawyers & those who are solidly established in their line of caring for others.
This option is for those who wish to have a thorough understanding of what a death doula is and does. I will be offering my best insights and practices for deathcare.
Excellent death doulas have done years or decades long introspective work as one can learn the basics intellectually but only time can integrate and offer wisdom.
This retreat is a wonderful option for those who do not intend to become a death doula but see the value in the skills and companionship. It can also be a helpful sampling of the work that we go into in the full 111 hour Village Deathcare Citizen Course if you are considering that
Please apply by emailing: annemariekeppel@gmail.com
$230 One Day Death Doula Intensive
TWO WEEK 50 HOUR CERTIFICATE
FULL DAY ONLINE DEATH DOULA INTRO INTENSIVE FOR ADVANCED PRACTITIONERS
FULL DAY ONLINE DEATH DOULA INTRO INTENSIVE FOR ADVANCED PRACTITIONERS
Coming soon- dates TBA
In this accelerated course you will glean all of the basics for an incredible foundation in death doula care.
This course will cover much of what the 111 hour course does-- but condensed. We will go over hard and soft death doula skills, grief, animals & children, obituaries, death & dying around the world and racism and bias in EOL care. Be prepared to put in five hours of work per day Monday thru Friday. Most of this time commitment will be able to be done on your own time. There will be schedule zoom calls which you'll be expected to attend.
This training will not include: ancestry, home funerals, psychedelics in EOL care or near death experiences. For the full experience and education register for the 111 hour Village Deathcare Citizen Course
In Person & Online APPRENTICESHIP
In-person and online Hybrid
Online with In-Person Retreat Option
Online with In-Person Retreat Option
Carefully crafted, individualized death doula training. These sessions include regular in-person and online meetings and may include sitting in on client sessions and/or burials and active volunteering. In-person meetings can be held in coffee shops, in the forest or at a relevant community event.
Prior graduation from the Village Deathcare Citizen Course or equivalent required. Apprenticeship options start at a three month commitment.
Use the button below to start a correspondence. You will have a response within 3 business days- please follow up if you have not had a reply.
Currently filled. Next apprenticeship opens late spring 2024
Online with In-Person Retreat Option
Online with In-Person Retreat Option
Online with In-Person Retreat Option
Carefully crafted, individualized death doula training. This option allows for long distance learning online with an option to assist at in-person retreats in the US and elsewhere. (Upcoming retreats in Vermont and Costa Rica 2023 and 2024)
Prior graduation from the Village Deathcare Citizen Course or equivalent required. Apprenticeship options start at a three month commitment.
Use the button below to start a correspondence.You will have a response within 3 business days- please follow up if you have not had a reply.
Currently filled. Next apprenticeship opens late spring 2024
Services- more at annemariekeppel.com
Death Doula Care/Green Burial, Home Burial & Funerals
Anne-Marie is a trained nurse assistant, former Hospice volunteer and active death doula. She offers assistance teaching family and caregivers about bedside care, sitting vigil, open gentle conversation, scheduling, errands, establishing a "flow" in the area of care and other care. Please inquire directly for more details.
Anne-Marie writes eulogies, obituaries and ceremonies and offers consulting on Family Directed Home Funerals in Vermont. She has hands-on experience with home funerals, home burial and green burial. Please inquire for more details.
Anne-Marie Keppel
Writer * Educator * Mother * Doula * Founder of Village Deathcare 501c3 nonprofit.
An advocate for those whose voices are unheard, weak or forgotten, Anne-Marie believes Community Deathcare and open conversation about life and death is crucial for the health of individuals and the planet. With gentle timing, and an uplifted manner, she believes conversation about death makes our own lives and the lives of those around us more precious.
A childhood of magical play in faery forests, a barn full of animals, and teenage years in the circus formed an independent and reflective spirit. At the age of 19 Anne-Marie gave birth to her first child which only deepened her inner love and patience for herself and her wee one. Today, Anne-Marie has three children ages 27, 22 and 8 and has held fast to her circus days by teaching tight wire as a form of body/mind awareness practice.
Experience and Training
After two decades of professional event coordination for weddings, fashion shows, concerts, festivals and conferences, Anne-Marie halted everything to work with the elderly. Propelled by her work with the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers and her love of an elderly homeless man, she became a Hospice volunteer in 2013. She continued her path of care as a licensed nurse assistant from 2013-2016 and worked with the elderly in residential care and as a private duty nurse. She was the only full time over-night "nurse" and cared for a home of 12 elderly residents. During this time she also studied herbal healing and received a certificate from Mandala Botanicals' 9 month training in Community Herbalism.
When working as the Director of Meals on Wheels in Montpelier her understanding of how often the elderly struggle living on their own with loneliness, physical ailments, embarrassment and confusion only deepened her desire to engage the able bodied in assisting the elderly. She believes that the more conversations and hands on deathcare (neighbor to neighbor and family to friend) that springs forth in communities, the more empathy will be generated, and the better the chance the elderly, sick and dying will have companionship and a feeling of value at the end of life; this is the core of Community Deathcare.
Anne-Marie is an award-winning published author and international speaker. She is a Reiki Master Teacher, meditation and basic goodness instructor and has 12 years training in Shambhala Buddhist teachings. She has completed Level I Dying With Confidence training in Phowa with Anyen Rinpoche, completed "This Sacred Journey: Living Purposefully and Dying Fearlessly" with Pema Chodron and has completed a year long Feeding Your Demons® certification course (Buddhist track) with Tsultrim Allione. Anne-Marie has passed the National Home Funeral Alliance Proficiency test.
Death Doula & Celebrant Training
Anne-Marie is a graduate of the BEyond Yonder School of Death Midwifery (Community Deathcare). This four month course of intensive death care training (6 days per week with an average of 20 hours of work per week) covered pre-death needs to post mortem care and disposition. She is qualified to guide families in home funerals and is familiar with Vermont's laws.
After an 8 month training in the fundamentals of celebrancy, ceremonies and ritual, Anne-Marie received her certification as a Life-Cycle Celebrant with a certificate in funerals and memorials. She is a graduate of the Celebrant Foundation and Institute.
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