INELDA Update – NOVEMBER 2021
CARE PARTNERS | BEAUTIFUL DYING EXPO | INELDA IN THE NEWS | STAFF NEWS
Care Partners Class
Today, November 11, launches our first Care Partners Class. In this three-session class, participants will learn how to be a compassionate and knowledgeable guide to loved ones when they enter the dying process. Although some of the skills covered are grounded in the approach used by end-of-life doulas, being a Care Partner is different.
Care Partners generally continue the emotional engagement with the dying person that is part of what it means to be a loved one. It isn’t necessary to maintain the dispassionate boundary a doula would at the bedside.
Our instructors create an environment for learning and skill-building that will help participants learn how to imagine and curate end-of-life experiences in which a loved one feels safe, valued, and in control of his or her end-of-life care.
Join us in December for our second class series starting Monday, December 6, continuing Friday, December 10, through Monday and Friday of the following week. Feel free to share this link with anyone you know who may be interested in learning more about the Care Partner role at the end of life.
INELDA at the Beautiful Dying: Dying & Death Expo
The Beautiful Dying: Dying & Death Expo is a collaboration of a heart-centered and compassionate team of community leaders connecting with people worldwide to expand awareness, encourage meaningful conversations, and illuminate the process of dying and death. With a growing global community seeking answers, the event helps create action plans for life, celebration, dying, death, and grief using virtual educational sessions, exhibits, and social networking opportunities.
On Friday, November 12, from 2:00–3:30 p.m. (ET), please join to hear INELDA instructors in a panel discussion on the value and benefits of doula services. Our panelists will also share their voices and experiences in a conversation on how they chose to become doulas.
On Saturday, November 13, at 8:30 p.m. (ET), Dr. Jamie Eaddy Chism, INELDA’s director of program development, will give the evening’s keynote address.
INELDA in the News
INELDA’s director of program development, Dr. Jamie Eaddy Chism, appeared on Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal last month in a segment about the death positivity movement. Go Jamie!
INELDA-certified doula Mary “Bones” Nelson was interviewed on News Center Maine by Beth McEvoy about her doula work in Maine.
Staff Updates
Ami Alston joined us this week as our new operations and finance coordinator. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Ami will be managing registrations, transfers, and cancellations for all trainings and classes, as well as serving as the main point of contact when you reach out to us.
Ami was born and raised in the Queen City and attended University of North Carolina at Greensboro and University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has over 10 years of logistics and project management experience. Nonprofit organizations and servant leadership have long been her passion. In college she was part of a community sorority group, which inspired her to create a youth mentoring group, Rhythm Phi Soul, specializing in step/drill exercises and education. She is the mother of two children, Jayden (11) and Aubrey (4 months), and a Panther fan. In her spare time she watches anime with her son, creates vegan dishes, and dances like no one is watching! We’re glad to have her on board!