FOCAgenda
The global agenda of The Festival
of Consciousness community
All events
Death Preparation & Integration Course (online)
Carla & Fred | Taozen
3 months · 12 live classes (All recorded and weekly) For anyone ready to transform their relationship with death — whether you're navigating grief, watching parents age, facing your own mortality, or simply done half-living. - Reframing death — from failure to initiation, from taboo to integration - What do the deathwise mystics say? Diving into Ancient Egypt, Tibet, India, Amazon, Mexico, and other ancestral death traditions - Learning from near-death experiences (NDEs) & past-life memories - Understanding the dying process — physically, energetically and spiritually - Set and setting: preparing inner and outer environments for threshold navigation - Designing epic and memorable funerals, last wills, legacy expressions, and ceremonies for conscious dying and grieving - Tools, rituals and practices for death preparation and integration - Alchemising grief: diving deeply into the pain, no longer running away from it - We're all Death Doulas: introduction to the history and role of death doulas and end-of-life care - Introduction to plant medicine and psychedelic-assisted exploration of death and ego dissolution - Recognising and dismantling the Death Industrial Complex - Ecology and death
Death Doula Certification Training (online)
Carla & Fred | Taozen
6+ months · Certification For those called to hold space for others at the threshold. Advanced training that goes beyond personal transformation and into the art and ethics of death work — culminating in full certification and the option to receive the final ordination in the Amazon Jungle with indigenous elders. - History and philosophy of death care across cultures - The role of the psychopomps, archetypes, and death gods/goddesses in myth and psyche - Types of death doulas — legacy, 11th hour, grief, post-mortem, abortion and reproductive loss, pets - The art of holding space — presence, attunement, nervous system regulation - Designing and facilitating rituals and ceremonies for death preparation + integration - Plant medicine and psychedelics as the ultimate death doulas - Dreamwork, sound healing, energy work, and other grief facilitation tools - Ethics and scope of practice - The dying process and how to support the different stages — physically, energetically, and spiritually - Working with the dying and their beloved ones - Building your path as a death doula — creating your own practice and offerings - Practicum: getting real-world experience in deathwork
How to get there
Bus
Lines: H16, V29, V31, V33, 7, 136, B20, B23
Every day: de 6:30 am to 23:15 pm
Tram
TRAM (Line T4): Fòrum and Maresme stops
Monday to Thursday: 5:00 am to 12:00 am
Fridays, Saturdays, and holiday eves: 5:00 am to 2:00 am
undays and holidays: 5:00 am to 12:00 am
Metro
L4 – EL MARESME-FÒRUM STATION (EXIT RAMBLA PRIM)
The festival venue is just 150 meters away
L4 – SELVA DE MAR STATION
Hours:
Monday to Thursday: 5:00 am to 12:00 am
Fridays and holiday eves: 5:00 am to 2:00 am
Saturday: continuous service
Sunday: 5:00 am to 12:00 am
Bicycles
BICYCLES PARKING
Available at Plaza Leonardo da Vinci.
Free service, subject to capacity. Users must bring their own lock.
BICING
Nearest stations (within a 500-meter radius of the festival exits):
(35) C/ Sant Ramon de Penyafort, 1
(67) C/ Josep Pla, 67
(157) C/ Llull, 451
(158) Rambla Prim, 19
(159) Avda. Diagonal, 26
(160) Avda. d’Eduard Maristany, 1/ Fòrum
(168) Selva de Mar/Pssg. Taulat
(178) Pssg. Garcia Fària, 85
(451) C/ Pallars, 504