Seminars/CEUs

The following courses are offered on-going as in-service trainings and community workshops. Continued Education Units are given for health care professionals. You may inquire about scheduling a workshop for your organization or check our upcoming events page for courses being offered locally.

• Creating a Loving Passage
  An Introductory Course Offered in 2 - 6 Hour Formats
  
  What are Home Funerals, Natural Death Care, Green Burials and why should you care?

  Explore with new eyes and an open mind the special time surrounding a loved one's passage. Learn options that allow families and caregivers meaningful participation following a death that could replace some or all of the services offered by mortuaries. Join Jerrigrace Lyons, nationally known leader and visionary in the arena of death and dying, as she shares stories that help reduce fears, support the grieving process and allow for more healing through creative expression and community support.
  
  CEU’s Available

  During the course we will explore:

  • Personal fears and pre-planning a final passage
  • Social, economic and spiritual benefits of naturally family-directed arrangements.
  • Traditional customs and learning new rituals
  • Bereavement benefits for family and community
  • Legalities and other components of home and family funerals and green burials
  • PBS documentary clips and slides from 250 personal family ceremonies

• Honoring Life's Final Passage With Love and Compassion –
  Midwiving Level 1 and 2 Offered in Weekend and 4-Day Seminars
  
  Families Caring for Their Own

  Imagine the opportunity to transform our own views of death, diminish our fears and re-frame our relationship to living and dying. Through heart sharing, rituals, writing, quiet space, music and visuals you will discover little known options for after death care, ones that will benefit all individuals and professionals and help create a graceful and personalized final passage.
  
  CEUs Available

• Some topics we will explore in Level One:

  • Planning ahead, learning new and ancient customs and exploring our own wishes
  • Focusing on death as a sacred time and natural cycle of life
  • Social, economic, ecological and spiritual benefits of caring for our own
  • Care and honoring of a body while keeping a loved one at home
  • Legalities and other components of home and family funerals and green burials
  • Clips from a new PBS documentary, slides and storytelling from over
    250 personal family ceremonies, home funerals, wakes and green burials

  Some topics we will explore in Level Two:

  • Interviewing families concerning a person dying or deceased
  • What to have in your home funeral midwifery kit
  • Care for the midwives and energy work discussion and demonstration
  • Challenges and obstacles to overcome in your community
  • Forms for agencies and families in your community
  • The funeral industry in our country today and multi-cultural perspectives
  • Hands-on techniques of moving and carrying a body
  • More slides, videos and storytelling.