Shared Lessons from Doula Collectives
Recorded January 29, 2024
Our September webinar is open to all INELDA members as part of membership benefits.
Webinar Guest(s):
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Jose Hernandez | Artist and Co-founder of Inner Immersion, Inc.
Webinar Moderator:
Wilka Roig | INELDA Educator and Certification Program Manager
Recorded January 29, 2025
Our September webinar is open to all INELDA members as part of membership benefits.
Members and Founders from:
Ki’inaniokalani Kaho’ohanohano and Mariah Strong | Pacific Birth Collective
Nina Guertin and Michelle Kolling | Minnesota Death Collaborative
Tammy McNary | Death Collective North Texas
Webinar Moderator:
Shelby Kirillin| INELDA Educator
This May we will hear from three doula collectives about the ways in which practicing togethere has shaped their experience of providing deathcare. Join our discussion to learn lessons from these three different models: the statewide Minnesota Death Collaborative, the regional Death Collective North Texas, and the Pacific Birth Collective in Maui that is steeped in a multitude of services and advocacy work.
The guests will discuss how they support in various capacities to practice together, share knowledge with each other, and advocate for the work they do. Doula collectives can take various forms, with the foundation of them being that working together can provide various benefits to both doulas and the people they support. This webinar will introduce you to three collectives at different stages of growth and offer insights to starting your own.
The evening will be moderated by Shelby Kirillin a neurotrauma nurse in the intensive care unit for more than 20 years. She is a certified EOL doula with her own practice in Richmond, Virginia, and has been an educator with INELDA since 2017. She is currently a founding member of a new collective launching soon!
You can learn more about Jose and the work he is doing at:
Website: josehernandezfineart.com/gallery
Email: [email protected]
Guest Speaker Bio(s):
Nina Guertin is an INELDA trained Death Doula, a trained and certified Interfaith Spiritual Director and Grief Support Specialist, a Death Educator and End-of-Life-Doula Mentor, a Ritualist / Celebrant, Aromatherapist, Angel Artist / Ceramicist, and Chaplain and Spiritual Support Team Member with Sholom-Johnson Hospice.
Nina is a co-founder and Sage Member of The Minnesota Death Collaborative, a member of the International End-of-Life Doula Association (INELDA), The Minnesota Threshold Network, The National End-of-Life Doula Alliance (NEDA), The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death, Sacred Ground Center for Spirituality, Spiritual Directors International (SDI), and the Minnesota Enneagram Association, and holds a Proficiency Badge with the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance.
Nina has been practicing death, grief, and bereavement work since 2017. She lives in NE Minneapolis with her spouse and their Great Dane, Frances, who has been certified as a Therapy Dog through Alliance of Therapy Dogs.
Ki’inaniokalani Kaho’ohanohano
Director of Advocacy and Cultural Programs at Pacific Birth Collective and Founder of Mālama Nā Pua o Haumea
Ki‘i Kaho’ohanohano is a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner of lomi lomi, la’au lapa’au, ho’oponopono and pale keiki. Ki’i is the last practicing pale keiki incorporating Native Hawaiian traditional and customary bathing practices. Having received many of her teachings while serving as a caretaker of kupuna before their passing, her work is deeply informed by the dualities between birth and death and the practices and protocols surrounding both. She is passionate about healing multi-generational trauma, reproductive justice, and the rights of indigenous peoples worldwide.
Michelle Kolling is an end-of-life doula, grief relief coach, death educator, and founder of Held. While serving as a caregiver to her husband during the end of his life, she came to understand the transformational possibilities that exist when being deeply present to the dying and grieving experience.
Whether planning for the end of life while healthy or because of a life-changing diagnosis, facing your own mortality often brings up issues of identity, meaning, hope, and fear. Michelle created Held with the intention of creating a safe and sacred place to explore and honor all that arises. It is her belief that we are the creators in our own lives, and she helps guide her clients to authentically live as fully as possible for as long as possible.
Michelle has served on the Steering Committee of the Minnesota Death Collaborative since 2021 and is a member of the International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA), where she completed training in 2019. In addition, she is a Certified Life Coach, SpirtitualNLP™ Practitioner and Hypnotherapist (IntraAwareness), and Certified Grief Educator (David Kessler Training). To learn more about Michelle and schedule a Discovery Session, go to www.heldoula.com
Tammy McNary is a Dallas-based artist, death doula, and the founder of True Death Experience, an initiative focused on providing compassionate end-of-life support, guidance, and advocacy to individuals and families. She co-founded Death Collective North Texas, a community of deathcare practitioners dedicated to fostering connections within the field and providing death and dying education to the broader public. DCNTX works to create a supportive, inclusive space for deathworkers and for individuals seeking to engage in open discussions about mortality.
Tammy trained with INELDA in 2022. She also volunteers with a local nonprofit hospice, supporting adult patients and their families, as well as pediatric patients and their siblings through photographic art projects.
Mariah Strong|Co-Founder and Director of Programs and Communications at Pacific Birth Collective
Born and raised in Haiku, Maui as the daughter of a traditional midwife and respected elder, Mariah Strong has spent the entirety of her life surrounded and deeply influenced by the world of birth. She is passionate about the rites of passage that are initiated around pregnancy, birth and the postpartum periods and active in supporting the education of reproductive health, rights and advocacy within communities. Mariah has served as a full spectrum doula in Hawaii, California, and Nevada for the last 15 years and will graduate as a Certified Professional Midwife this coming fall after a decade of studies. Mariah can be reached at [email protected]
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The recording of this webinar is available to Tier 2 & 3 members as part of their INELDA membership benefits. Tier 1 and Non-members who purchased access to the webinar may also view the recording.
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The recording of this September 2023 webinar has been made available to all members as part of your INELDA membership benefits. Non-members who purchased access to this webinar may also view the recording.
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