Doorway Into Light’s 5th International Death Doula Training
April 3-8, 2023
‘Showing Up For Death, Nourishing Life’
Our 6-day program encompasses the logistical, emotional/psychological, and spiritual care of the dying and their families, and the care of the dead.
Doctors, nurses, hospice staff, ministers, chaplains, social workers, therapists, artists, those in the healing professions and lay people have attended our trainings.
Some to add to their professional work, some who are considering ‘death doula’ as their calling and profession, some who are caring for or will be caring for a loved one, and those wishing to educate themselves about their own approaching death.
- How do we each prepare for our own dying time The ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ work for completing one’s life and ‘leaving in peace’
- The many possible roles of a death doula Educate / Counsel / Support / Care / Advocate / ‘Community placeholder’
- What is ‘spiritual care’: Death Doula as ministry
- Care of those with Dementia and Alzheimer’s
- Care for families who’ve experienced stillbirth, miscarriage, abortion
- Psychedelics in the care of the dying
- When someone wants to end their life
- Body care for the dead
- Home funerals
- Honoring, supporting and encouraging grieving
- Guiding a ceremony Suicide, death of a child, a violent death, a chosen death, a beautiful death
- Designing and starting a profession
- Showing up for what’s dying in the world
-Beautiful Private Maui Location with Sweeping Views of the Ocean
-Outdoor venue in a natural setting
-Workshop & Discussion with 8 Presenters
-All Course Materials
-Community Networking Time
-5 Vegan Lunches and 1 Dinner with optional dairy; predominantly local and organic
-Secret handshake
Camping is available for an additional $700 per person. Includes 5 nights camping and 5 breakfasts
The Teachers
Reverend Bodhi Be is an ordained interfaith minister and teacher in a Sufi lineage. He is the founder and Executive Director of Doorway Into Light, a nonprofit organization on Maui. Bodhi is an independent funeral director; end-of-life and bereavement counselor; hospice volunteer; a teacher and trainer of death doulas; a speaker and workshop leader in the fields of wholehearted and sacred living and dying.; and a ceremonial guide.
Bodhi hosts a podcast: Live at The Death Bodhi is the founder and president of The Death Store, an educational resource center and store on Maui. He is a Notary Public, Coffin Maker, Reiki Practitioner and, together with his wife, children and grandchildren, are off-the-grid organic homesteaders on Maui.
www.doorwayintolight.org
Lei‘ohu Ryder is a Hawaiian spiritual leader, visionary, singer/songwriter, healer, and educator. Along with her partner Maydeen ‘Iao, they are Kumu Aloha (emissaries of aloha) and advocates for the indigenous soul in all people. Their love and knowledge of Hawai‘i, help us connect with our selves, with Spirit, and the essence of Aloha.
Lei'ohu offers her gifts to you on Maui, in Hawai'i and throughout the world, through blessings, music, public speaking, intensives, counseling, healing work, wedding ceremonies, and funeral services... all with aloha. Lei’ohu has received the Gandhi-King Peace Hero Award, the Peace Educator Award from the United Nations, the Woman of Honor award from Women's History Month, the Educator Award from the Peace Corps, and the Malama Ka'Aina Award from the Sierra Club. She has shared her gifts all around the world through out Asia Pacific, Middle East, Europe and North America.
https://www.leiohuryder.com
Jerrigrace Lyons is a Minister, death midwife, educator, home funeral guide and Reiki Master. She founded the educational non-profit organization, Final Passages in 1995 to inform people about little known funeral options, natural death care rights and practicalities, green burial and the benefits of bringing funerals back into the home and family care.
As a pioneer in the new field of home funeral guidance, Jerrigrace has facilitated hundreds of family-directed home funerals, offering choices
that specifically address, social, environmental, spiritual and financial needs. She co-authored a complete guidebook, Creating Home Funerals and has appeared on radio, television and in worldwide publications including The Wall Street Journal (front page), USA Today, the NY and LA Times and The London Telegraph. Jerrigrace is featured in the acclaimed POV/PBS Documentary entitled, “A Family Undertaking” and she has also created and developed a 3-tiered certificate program in the field of conscious dying and home funeral guidance called, “Honoring Life’s Final Passage”. She is a board member emeritus of the National Home Funeral Alliance. https://finalpassages.org
Amy Wright Glenn is the founder of the Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death. Amy is the author of Birth, Breath, and Death: Meditations on Motherhood, Chaplaincy, and Life as a Doula and the author of Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go.
Amy leads Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss trainings that are specifically geared for birth/postpartum doulas, bereavement doulas, therapists, midwives, ministers, OBs, prenatal yoga teachers, bereaved parent activists, and end-of-life care professionals She is a Kripalu Yoga teacher, Birthing Mama® Prenatal Yoga and Wellness Teacher Trainer and a Hospice Chaplain.Amy earned her MA in Religion and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She taught for eleven years in the Religion and Philosophy Department at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey earning the Dunbar Abston Jr. Chair for Teaching Excellence.
Her writings have been published widely, including regularly in the newspaper, PhillyVoice and in the magazine, International Doula.
www.birthbreathanddeath.com
Deanna Cochran, Hospice RN, Amazon bestselling author of “Accompanying the Dying”, and creator of the 1st End-of-Life Doula Certificate Program in the US, has been serving families since 2000 and privately as a doula since 2005. Currently, Deanna’s program is the 1st to enter a Graduate Chaplaincy School, within which she began teaching this year. She is a founding member and 1st VP of the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance and was Chair for the 1st 2.5 years of the End-of-Life Doula Advisory Council within the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Her private school, CareDoula School of Accompanying the Dying, funds her work with trailblazers around the world in underdeveloped areas to build pathways for end-of-life care. Her CareDoula colleagues in Latin America are responsible for the explosion of end-of-life doula care models there. Her book, published this year in Spanish, is reference to what is possible. www.CertifiedCareDoula.com
Bart Windrum is a citizen end-of-life reform advocate working to empower all of us civilians and providers, by clarifying what it really takes to die in peace. He presents nationally to both lay and professional audiences.
Stimulated by the inadequate terminal hospitalizations of each of my parents (January 2004, April-May 2005), my unique end-of-life lexicon focuses on identifying and mitigating the range of everyday practical obstacles that ensnare many, if not most, of us in the type of peace-less dying we claim to reject. The lexicon is called Dying in Peace: Our Rights of Passage. Bart is the author of The Promised Landing: A Gateway to Peaceful Dying. http://axiomaction.com
Dream Mullick
Mayanna Anderson
TESTIMONIALS
The moment I walked into the Doorway into the Light's International Death Doula Conference, I felt a coming home to a vital, compassionate group of individuals ready and capable to be of service to the dying and grieving. It was by far the best 5 days of knowledge I have ever received in my life! Do yourself and family members a favor and come to the next one! Your life will forever be transformed!
- Katie Knoche Mendocino, California
I am deeply moved by the realization of how engaged you are in the phenomenal service you offer of helping people die, and helping families grieve, and deal with dying and with death. I share your passion for how important this work is.
I left this class supercharged with my own history in relation to grief, and to death and I honor this charge as a deepening, an opening. I recognize the love, care, and openheartedness
that you bring to this work, and I honor you in this.
Abraham Sussman
For reference, I was in your death doula training in 2018. I was an ICU nurse at the time. I wanted to let you know I’ve been working as a hospice nurse at North Hawaii Hospice (on Big Island) since the end of 2019. We do home care and it has been such a blessing to help people die well in their homes. Thank you for the inspiration and mentorship. Your training helped me learn how to show up for the dying with more presence, gentleness, and love. And to move from a state of doing to a state of being with them. It’s great to see the training is going to meet again in person this year!
Lauren Kish
Reverend Bodhi Be’s open-heart loving presence served as a solid rock foundation for this profound and depth-filled course. Through his love, he helped create a space where we felt safe to explore our deep vulnerability and profound emotional feelings about death. No questions were off-limits. No judgment ever felt. Through his love, we knew that we all mattered.
Our journey took us down many paths~A few were:
* We are all going to die. We don’t know when
*Why and Ways to prepare for death
*How to care for the dying (What matters the most)
*Small and large group sharing where carrying bonds were formed
*Powerful Rituals held
*Countless profound thoughts on living and dying
This is a course not to be missed!
Cathy and Richard Larson
Elementary and preschool educators for over 40 years
I am so grateful for Bodhi Be and Doorway Into Light. Bodhi has brought the concept of death and dying into the light with education, compassion and even humor. He has helped me, and so many, to relax our fears about dying and be more accepting and prepared about our own death. I donate regularly to Doorway into Light so that they will be here for me and others when we need them..... And because i feel good when I remember to feel my gratitude.
With so much love, Joy and Herb Cherry
We contribute to Doorway Into Light because of our appreciation and gratitude for the work and compassion spread into the world by this organization as they help our brothers and sisters make the transition out of this world.
Alima and Karim John Friar
Cancellation & Refund Policy
We understand that plans change and you may need to cancel your registration for our event. Please know that we appreciate your interest and efforts to attend. To help us keep our events affordable and accessible to all, we have the following cancellation and refund policy:
- Cancellations before March 1st are subject to a $100 Non-Refundable Registration Fee.
- Cancellations After March 1st are eligible for a 50% refund.
- Cancellations after March 31st are Non-Refundable.
- In the event that we are forced to cancel the event due to unforeseen circumstances, participants will receive a full refund.
For more information email us at doorwayintolight@gmail.com
Doorway Into Light is a nonprofit educational and charitable organization in Hawaii, which, since 2006 has been providing conscious and compassionate care to the dying and their families. We offer community education programs and trainings in awakened living and dying, the care of the dying and the dead, and the skills for showing up for what’s dying in the world. We operate Hawaii’s only nonprofit funeral home and only certified green funeral home as well as a community educational resource center, The Death Store. We have been training and certifying death doulas since 2017.
www.DoowayIntoLight.org
www.ipuka.org
info@doorwayintolight.org
Doorway Into Light’s 5th International Death Doula Training
April 3-8, 2023
‘Showing Up For Death, Nourishing Life’
Our 6-day program encompasses the logistical, emotional/psychological, and spiritual care of the dying and their families, and the care of the dead.
Doctors, nurses, hospice staff, ministers, chaplains, social workers, therapists, artists, those in the healing professions and lay people have attended our trainings.
Some to add to their professional work, some who are considering ‘death doula’ as their calling and profession, some who are caring for or will be caring for a loved one, and those wishing to educate themselves about their own approaching death.
- How do we each prepare for our own dying time The ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ work for completing one’s life and ‘leaving in peace’
- The many possible roles of a death doula Educate / Counsel / Support / Care / Advocate / ‘Community placeholder’
- What is ‘spiritual care’: Death Doula as ministry
- Care of those with Dementia and Alzheimer’s
- Care for families who’ve experienced stillbirth, miscarriage, abortion
- Psychedelics in the care of the dying
- When someone wants to end their life
- Body care for the dead
- Home funerals
- Honoring, supporting and encouraging grieving
- Guiding a ceremony Suicide, death of a child, a violent death, a chosen death, a beautiful death
- Designing and starting a profession
- Showing up for what’s dying in the world
-Beautiful Private Maui Location with Sweeping Views of the Ocean
-Outdoor venue in a natural setting
-Workshop & Discussion with 8 Presenters
-All Course Materials
-Community Networking Time
-5 Vegan Lunches and 1 Dinner with optional dairy; predominantly local and organic
-Secret handshake
Camping is available for an additional $700 per person. Includes 5 nights camping and 5 breakfasts
The Teachers
Reverend Bodhi Be is an ordained interfaith minister and teacher in a Sufi lineage. He is the founder and Executive Director of Doorway Into Light, a nonprofit organization on Maui. Bodhi is an independent funeral director; end-of-life and bereavement counselor; hospice volunteer; a teacher and trainer of death doulas; a speaker and workshop leader in the fields of wholehearted and sacred living and dying.; and a ceremonial guide.
Bodhi hosts a podcast: Live at The Death Bodhi is the founder and president of The Death Store, an educational resource center and store on Maui. He is a Notary Public, Coffin Maker, Reiki Practitioner and, together with his wife, children and grandchildren, are off-the-grid organic homesteaders on Maui.
www.doorwayintolight.org
Lei‘ohu Ryder is a Hawaiian spiritual leader, visionary, singer/songwriter, healer, and educator. Along with her partner Maydeen ‘Iao, they are Kumu Aloha (emissaries of aloha) and advocates for the indigenous soul in all people. Their love and knowledge of Hawai‘i, help us connect with our selves, with Spirit, and the essence of Aloha.
Lei'ohu offers her gifts to you on Maui, in Hawai'i and throughout the world, through blessings, music, public speaking, intensives, counseling, healing work, wedding ceremonies, and funeral services... all with aloha. Lei’ohu has received the Gandhi-King Peace Hero Award, the Peace Educator Award from the United Nations, the Woman of Honor award from Women's History Month, the Educator Award from the Peace Corps, and the Malama Ka'Aina Award from the Sierra Club. She has shared her gifts all around the world through out Asia Pacific, Middle East, Europe and North America.
https://www.leiohuryder.com
Jerrigrace Lyons is a Minister, death midwife, educator, home funeral guide and Reiki Master. She founded the educational non-profit organization, Final Passages in 1995 to inform people about little known funeral options, natural death care rights and practicalities, green burial and the benefits of bringing funerals back into the home and family care.
As a pioneer in the new field of home funeral guidance, Jerrigrace has facilitated hundreds of family-directed home funerals, offering choices
that specifically address, social, environmental, spiritual and financial needs. She co-authored a complete guidebook, Creating Home Funerals and has appeared on radio, television and in worldwide publications including The Wall Street Journal (front page), USA Today, the NY and LA Times and The London Telegraph. Jerrigrace is featured in the acclaimed POV/PBS Documentary entitled, “A Family Undertaking” and she has also created and developed a 3-tiered certificate program in the field of conscious dying and home funeral guidance called, “Honoring Life’s Final Passage”. She is a board member emeritus of the National Home Funeral Alliance. https://finalpassages.org
Amy Wright Glenn is the founder of the Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death. Amy is the author of Birth, Breath, and Death: Meditations on Motherhood, Chaplaincy, and Life as a Doula and the author of Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go.
Amy leads Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss trainings that are specifically geared for birth/postpartum doulas, bereavement doulas, therapists, midwives, ministers, OBs, prenatal yoga teachers, bereaved parent activists, and end-of-life care professionals She is a Kripalu Yoga teacher, Birthing Mama® Prenatal Yoga and Wellness Teacher Trainer and a Hospice Chaplain.Amy earned her MA in Religion and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She taught for eleven years in the Religion and Philosophy Department at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey earning the Dunbar Abston Jr. Chair for Teaching Excellence.
Her writings have been published widely, including regularly in the newspaper, PhillyVoice and in the magazine, International Doula.
www.birthbreathanddeath.com
Deanna Cochran, Hospice RN, Amazon bestselling author of “Accompanying the Dying”, and creator of the 1st End-of-Life Doula Certificate Program in the US, has been serving families since 2000 and privately as a doula since 2005. Currently, Deanna’s program is the 1st to enter a Graduate Chaplaincy School, within which she began teaching this year. She is a founding member and 1st VP of the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance and was Chair for the 1st 2.5 years of the End-of-Life Doula Advisory Council within the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Her private school, CareDoula School of Accompanying the Dying, funds her work with trailblazers around the world in underdeveloped areas to build pathways for end-of-life care. Her CareDoula colleagues in Latin America are responsible for the explosion of end-of-life doula care models there. Her book, published this year in Spanish, is reference to what is possible. www.CertifiedCareDoula.com
Bart Windrum is a citizen end-of-life reform advocate working to empower all of us civilians and providers, by clarifying what it really takes to die in peace. He presents nationally to both lay and professional audiences.
Stimulated by the inadequate terminal hospitalizations of each of my parents (January 2004, April-May 2005), my unique end-of-life lexicon focuses on identifying and mitigating the range of everyday practical obstacles that ensnare many, if not most, of us in the type of peace-less dying we claim to reject. The lexicon is called Dying in Peace: Our Rights of Passage. Bart is the author of The Promised Landing: A Gateway to Peaceful Dying. http://axiomaction.com
Dream Mullick
Mayanna Anderson
TESTIMONIALS
The moment I walked into the Doorway into the Light's International Death Doula Conference, I felt a coming home to a vital, compassionate group of individuals ready and capable to be of service to the dying and grieving. It was by far the best 5 days of knowledge I have ever received in my life! Do yourself and family members a favor and come to the next one! Your life will forever be transformed!
- Katie Knoche Mendocino, California
I am deeply moved by the realization of how engaged you are in the phenomenal service you offer of helping people die, and helping families grieve, and deal with dying and with death. I share your passion for how important this work is.
I left this class supercharged with my own history in relation to grief, and to death and I honor this charge as a deepening, an opening. I recognize the love, care, and openheartedness
that you bring to this work, and I honor you in this.
Abraham Sussman
For reference, I was in your death doula training in 2018. I was an ICU nurse at the time. I wanted to let you know I’ve been working as a hospice nurse at North Hawaii Hospice (on Big Island) since the end of 2019. We do home care and it has been such a blessing to help people die well in their homes. Thank you for the inspiration and mentorship. Your training helped me learn how to show up for the dying with more presence, gentleness, and love. And to move from a state of doing to a state of being with them. It’s great to see the training is going to meet again in person this year!
Lauren Kish
Reverend Bodhi Be’s open-heart loving presence served as a solid rock foundation for this profound and depth-filled course. Through his love, he helped create a space where we felt safe to explore our deep vulnerability and profound emotional feelings about death. No questions were off-limits. No judgment ever felt. Through his love, we knew that we all mattered.
Our journey took us down many paths~A few were:
* We are all going to die. We don’t know when
*Why and Ways to prepare for death
*How to care for the dying (What matters the most)
*Small and large group sharing where carrying bonds were formed
*Powerful Rituals held
*Countless profound thoughts on living and dying
This is a course not to be missed!
Cathy and Richard Larson
Elementary and preschool educators for over 40 years
I am so grateful for Bodhi Be and Doorway Into Light. Bodhi has brought the concept of death and dying into the light with education, compassion and even humor. He has helped me, and so many, to relax our fears about dying and be more accepting and prepared about our own death. I donate regularly to Doorway into Light so that they will be here for me and others when we need them..... And because i feel good when I remember to feel my gratitude.
With so much love, Joy and Herb Cherry
We contribute to Doorway Into Light because of our appreciation and gratitude for the work and compassion spread into the world by this organization as they help our brothers and sisters make the transition out of this world.
Alima and Karim John Friar
Cancellation & Refund Policy
We understand that plans change and you may need to cancel your registration for our event. Please know that we appreciate your interest and efforts to attend. To help us keep our events affordable and accessible to all, we have the following cancellation and refund policy:
- Cancellations before March 1st are subject to a $100 Non-Refundable Registration Fee.
- Cancellations After March 1st are eligible for a 50% refund.
- Cancellations after March 31st are Non-Refundable.
- In the event that we are forced to cancel the event due to unforeseen circumstances, participants will receive a full refund.
For more information email us at doorwayintolight@gmail.com
Doorway Into Light is a nonprofit educational and charitable organization in Hawaii, which, since 2006 has been providing conscious and compassionate care to the dying and their families. We offer community education programs and trainings in awakened living and dying, the care of the dying and the dead, and the skills for showing up for what’s dying in the world. We operate Hawaii’s only nonprofit funeral home and only certified green funeral home as well as a community educational resource center, The Death Store. We have been training and certifying death doulas since 2017.
www.DoowayIntoLight.org
www.ipuka.org
info@doorwayintolight.org
