FOCAgenda

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

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