Hospice End-of-Life Doula Training

A focus on developing and enhancing skills to collaborate within care provider teams in providing support at end of life. 

Doulas play an important role in end-of-life care within a care team setting by bringing focus and attention on providing non-medical, emotional, informational, spiritual, and at times physical support for dying persons, their “family” and caregivers. The doula role enhances care team effectiveness in communication, presence, and a holistic approach to end of life care. This training has been specifically designed for hospice, palliative care, and clinical care team end-of-life doulas in care provider organizations. The emphasis is on identifying, applying and strengthening doula principles while navigating within an existing organization model. 

As end-of-life care evolves, so does learning

Using the documentary Prognosis: Notes on Living, you’ll have an opportunity to practice compassionate and deep listening, empathy, explore meaning, physical transitions in dying, non-medical techniques to aid in anxiety and pain release, spiritual pain, the importance of symbols and rituals and grief from the time of diagnosis to after physical death occurs. 

Is Hospice End-of-Life Doula Training right for you?

This training is designed for care provider organizations seeking to have current staff or volunteers trained as end-of-life doulas to enhance their care teams and services. 

This training is smaller in size than our end-of-life doula training, and the focus is on applying skills in a care team model as opposed to independent practice. Participants will learn as one cohort and in pairs and small groups, with discussion and interactive exercises to experience and practice doula skills that are designed around inpatient and in-home hospice care.