Communication Skills Lab: Role-Playing Difficult Dialogues
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025, 7pm – 8:30pm ET
Our February webinar is open to all INELDA members as part of membership benefits.
Please login to your INEDLA Account to access the recording:
Webinar Guests:
Amanda Marie Ellis King, CFSP | Embalmer and Funeral Director, INELDA Trained-Doula
Jackie Naginey Hook, MA | Spiritual director, Celebrant, and INELDA_trained End-of-life Doula at Koch Funeral Home
Webinar Moderator:
Kimberly Stravers | INELDA Educator, Celebrant, and Former Funeral Attendant
Webinar Guest(s):
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Zeyneb Sayilgan, Ph.D. | Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS)
Please note that due to the Christmas holiday, our webinar schedule for December has been moved to the third week of the month. (This event typically meets on the final Wednesday of the month.)
Our September webinar is open to all INELDA members as part of membership benefits.
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025, 7pm – 8:30pm ET
Webinar Guests:
Erin Whalen | Founder and CEO, Compassionate Coaching
Elizabeth Jernigan, Role player
Webinar Moderator:
Greg Hedler | INELDA-educator
Webinar Guest(s):
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Zeyneb Sayilgan, Ph.D. | Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS)
This April’s webinar Communication Skills Lab: Role-Playing Difficult Dialogues will be an active role playing workshop to improve your doula skills! Compassionate Coaching founder, Erin Whalen and a member of her team, role player Elizabeth Jernigan will act out scenarios that you may have experienced supporting the dying. If you have a scenario that you hope to learn from, bring your story, and workshop the situation with these professional actors. This will give you the opportunity to recreate and practice alternative outcomes. Utilize tools to become confident in your approach when supporting others at end of life. Come experience this professional team that trains medical staff around the country to handle difficult conversations and scenarios.
You will have the opportunity to practice having difficult conversations with the role players, try new approaches to see how things land, and—most importantly—hear the insights from the role player themselves. Don’t have a scenario, come learn by watching others. We will have the opportunity to role play 3-4 scenarios during the evening. Come prepared to share and grow together.
Additional details: If you are open to sharing your scenario, you will act in the role of the doula with the actors to practice your communication approach. This is a judgement-free zone and all are encouraged to learn from each situation.
A note for Tier 1 members: This April webinar is included free in your membership. We look forward to seeing you!
Guest Speaker Bios:
Erin Whalen is the Founder and CEO of Compassionate Coaching. She and her team make it easier for people to talk about grief with their creative and compassionate approach using Grief Improv Theatre. Before founding Compassionate Coaching in the fall of 2020, Erin spent 14 years as a professional actress and role player, particularly in medical education. She uses that background — as an actor, trainer, facilitator, and Playback Theatre practitioner — to develop highly interactive, cathartic, and memorable programming that centers around giving and receiving empathy. Erin uses her own experiences with grief, particularly her sister, Gina’s, death in 2016, and her lifelong relationship with anticipatory grief, to infuse her work with empathy and compassion.
Elizabeth Jernigan, Role player
The recording of this webinar is available to Tier 1, Tier 2, & 3 members as part of their INELDA membership benefits. Non-members who purchased access to the webinar may also view the recording.
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ALL members can view this webinar as part of the INELDA membership benefits. [Members Register Here]
Non-members can purchase access to attend this webinar for $15 and will receive a link to view the recording following the event.
Tier 2 & 3 members can view this webinar at no cost as part of the INELDA membership benefits.
Tier 1 & Non-members can purchase live access to this webinar for $15 and will be able to view the recording following the event.
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.
Sign in to your INELDA Account to access a recording of this webinar [CLICK HERE]
