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Funeral Celebrant Training
Officiating the Funeral & Memorial Service
This optional certificate program is open to those students wishing to train as a funeral celebrant.
AFTER THE LAST BREATH – March 14 & 15 2020 – New York
A module of the INTEGRATIVE THANATOLOGY CERTIFICATE PROGRAM – New York Open Center A Two-Day Workshop Saturday and Sunday, March 14 & 15 9:30 am – 5:30 pm $405 (Members & Nonmembers) Early Bird $370 Rev. Olivia Bareham demonstrates the role of the death midwife from the final breath through the 3-day home vigil and funeral until final disposition. Open to professional and non-professional end-of-life caregivers and anyone wishing to care for their loved ones naturally, at home, according to personal, religious and cultural traditions. Topics to be covered include: Unexpected death: holding space in the ER Completing health care and death care...
Read MoreFUNERAL CELEBRANT TRAINING – 2020 – Los Angeles
This certificate training is for those seeking a career as a funeral celebrant and anyone wishing to learn how to create a personal and meaningful ‘Celebration of Life’ ceremony for a loved one. Students write and produce powerful ‘mock’ funerals during the workshop. Topics include: writing the eulogy, prayers, rituals, readings, tributes and religious and cultural after-death rites from around the world. For more detailed information, please click below. 2020 dates TBD. Funeral Celebrant Training...
Read MoreStephen Jenkinson – Die Wise – July 29 & 30, 2016
STEPHEN JENKINSON brings DIE WISE teachings to Los Angeles! To Purchase tickets for Friday, July 29, please CLICK HERE To purchase tickets for Saturday, July 30, please CLICK HERE Don’t miss this extraordinary event! Limited seating. Early bird ends June 15. FRIDAY, July 29 7 – 9 pm $25 BUY NOW! SATURDAY, July 30 10 am – 4pm $120 BUY...
Read MoreAfter Life Conference Workshop with Rev. Olivia
Join us for the 2016 Afterlife Conference in St. Louis, MO. Rev. Olivia will present a 3-hour workshop on after-death care and home funerals on Saturday May 12, 9 am – 12 noon....
Read MoreThe Advance Death Care Directive
Lao Tzu
"Take care with the end
As you do with the beginning."
- Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching
Walt Whitman : Song of Myself
All goes onward and outward,
Nothing collapses
And to die is different from what anyone supposed,
and luckier…
- Walt Whitman : Song of Myself
Rumi
Death has nothing to do with going away.
The sun sets
The moon sets
But they are not gone.
- Rumi
Hermann Broch
"No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.”
- Hermann Broch
unknown Japanese poet
In times of grief
and sorrow
flowers bloom
even then
- unknown Japanese poet
Sir Francis Bacon
"Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home."
- Sir Francis Bacon
Rev. Olivia Rose
"Death invites you to fall in love…it’s the fragility of life that makes you weep with helplessness."
- Rev. Olivia Rose
David Searls
"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean."
- David Searls
Paramahansa Yogananda
“When I am gone, only love can take my place.”
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Sir William Gladstone
"Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead, and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of the people, their respect for the law of the land and their loyalties to high morals."
- Sir William Gladstone
Ram Dass
“We are all just walking each other home.”
- Ram Dass
Joseph Campbell
"The cave you most fear to enter contains the greatest treasure."
- Joseph Campbell