Member Webinars

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Next Steps after Doula Training

Could you benefit from a guided discussion on how to move forward once you have completed doula training? This webinar focuses on your goals and discerning the next best steps, rather than the nuts and bolts of business set-up.

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Setting Your Fees as an End-of-Life Doula

How to value your work? Fee setting considerations include your cost of doing business, need for income, geographic location and population served, whether to charge by the hour or set a package rate for services, how to do market research, and more.

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Creating an Effective Client Contract (EOLDs)

Get your questions answered about doula contracts. What is the purpose of the contract? Will it hold up legally? What information should be included? What tone do you want to strike? Should volunteer doulas have a contract? And more!

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Business Planning & Goal Setting for Doulas

Do you ever feel daunted when considering your doula business development? In this webinar we focus on: identifying the challenges you are facing; setting realistic goals; and creating YOUR plan for success.

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SEO 101 for Doulas

When you understand the basics of SEO, your website has so much more potential to reach your ideal clients. Learn the basics of how to properly format a blog post to show up on google. We'll explore choosing keywords, keyword placement and more!

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SEO Strategies for Doula Business

Build it and they will come" (from Field of Dreams). Well, no, actually it doesn't work that way. It's not enough to create and launch your website. Next, the task is to drive traffic to your site so that it can start ranking with the search engines.

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Networking Tips for End-of-Life Doulas

This webinar reframes networking by bringing it back to its roots and authentic purpose: connecting with people. Attendees will gain a fresh perspective on networking, understand the critical importance of it and the skills needed to be successful.

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Staying Out of Trouble with the IRS

Webinar provides an overview of what is required for self-employed small business owners. Topics include: IRS forms needed; maximizing deductions; financial record keeping; setting up a system; options for paying taxes; and avoiding IRS red flags.

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Doulas Embedded within Hospice: A Successful Model

An end-of-life doula shares how she formed collaborative relationships with hospice care providers to better serve families and help fill several ongoing gaps in care within the health system.

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Role of the End-of-Life Doula in a Skilled Nursing Facility

Jane Whitlock has spent four years working as an end-of-life doula as part of a larger care team for long-term care residents. Learn how Jane forged her heart-centered path of service to families into gainful employment.

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Death Doula Versus the State

For the past four years, the State of Indiana has unsuccessfully been trying to shut down Lauren Richwine’s work as a death doula with Death Done Differently. Learn the steps that death doulas practicing anywhere can take to protect themselves.

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Doula Burnout & Compassion Fatigue

Are you feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, or drained in your doula work? In this session, we will focus on simple body-based practices and nervous system resets to help doulas stay grounded and steady on hard days.

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Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss

What does it mean to hold space? What does it mean to companion the bereaved? How can doulas feel both confident and compassionate in the event of a planned fetal demise or an unexpected and heartbreaking outcome? With Author Amy Wright Glenn

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Riding the Grief Rollercoaster

Webinar shares ideas on how doulas can support clients and families as they walk through their experience of grief. As we approach the holiday season, grief may be heightened as families come together for the first time without their loved one.

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Naturopathic Comfort Care at the End of Life

When Beth’s mom had a long home-hospice journey, it was natural to continue to support her with the holistic approaches she had cherished throughout her life. Homeopathy, botanicals, flower remedies, meridian holds, and more eased discomforts.

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Death Journaling

Join community doula and educator, Francesca Lynn Arnoldy, for an introduction to "Death Journaling," based on her new book, The Death Doula’s Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared.

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Fostering Agency in Times of Transition

This webinar discusses the role of the doula in fostering personal agency for our clients. Agency is defined as the human capacity to determine and make meaning from the environment through purposeful, conscious, reflective, and creative action.

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Shifting Away from Medicalized Death

The paradigm of medicalized death in our culture today is pervasive. In this webinar, we will strategize how EOLDs can be instrumental in returning death to its natural, sacred place in the circle of life.

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Weaving Willow Coffins & Green Burial

Join us for a conversation on sustainable after-death care, where Tamara shares her journey into weaving willow coffins and the role of handcrafted, biodegradable vessels in green burials.

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Sacred Comfort Care

In a society wrought with dehumanized, medicalized death care, Jacki Mann has created a comprehensive, therapeutic approach known as Sacred Comfort Care designed to restore humanity, natural methods, and the sacred to modern death care.

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Palliative Touch: Comfort Massage Basics at the End of Life

Massage can offer moments of wellbeing, beauty, and connection at the end of life. This session is aimed at building confidence to incorporate gentle techniques used by massage therapists into your end-of-life doula practice.

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Cultural, Religious, and Spiritual Practices at the End of Life

Webinar focuses on how culture, religious beliefs, and/or spirituality impact end-of-life experiences for clients and families. An overview of beliefs and practices from Judaism, Catholicism, and Islam is provided.

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End-of-Life Support for a Person with Dementia

In this webinar, Lori Smith shares practical tips for doulas and other caregivers in the art of end-of-life support for a person with dementia including communication around pain, creating a comfortable environment, and the four main stress triggers.

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Creative Care Ideas for Dementia Support

Improvisation techniques, adjusting our own concepts around time, and practicing the art of skillful presence can help us protect our own connection to reality, while holding space for clients suffering from dementia.

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How End-of-Life Doulas Help Families in Crisis

When a person enters hospice late or suddenly after unexpected bad news, families often spiral into crisis mode. This webinar shares strategies for helping patients, families, and friends find peace and clarity amid high emotions and uncertainty.

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Remember Me: The Work of Legacy

Colleen discusses five domains of life and creating a vision map for her clients as they work through the process of life completion. Very interesting presentation on how doulas might approach life review and legacy conversations with clients.

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Hospice Inclusion & Ongoing Care for Companion Animals

Family members be unaware of any arrangements made for the ongoing care of the animal(s) after their person dies. Judy Ramsey presents information and resources to share with clients to assure the well being of their companion animals.

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Why Trauma-Informed Care Matters at the End of Life

This webinar will explore key principles and practical strategies to recognize and address past traumas, enhancing the care and support provided to individuals and families.

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How to Navigate Families in Conflict: Tips for End-of-Life Doulas

Grey will share key learnings from their work on holding space for, and mediating groups, even when group members are all in different locations.

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Navigating the Healthcare System: Coaching Clients through the Maze

Helping clients navigate the healthcare system to ensure they receive the best health care possible is of utmost importance, especially when facing a life-limiting or life-ending condition. Doulas support and coach their clients through the maze.

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Key Aspects of Honoring the Dying

Ellie will share her techniques for honoring each patient’s unique experience of dying. Topics include: building trust; advocating for patients without alienating caregivers; the ever-changing stages of emotion; and common concerns.

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The Art of Balanced Caregiving

Ellie Atherton helps us understand how to give to others in a compassionate way while maintaining our own precious energy. She shares nurturing practices for self-preservation that ultimately help enhance the quality of care we offer to others.

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Member Webinars ~ Entire Collection

Bundle includes

Next Steps after Doula Training

Setting Your Fees as an End-of-Life Doula

Creating an Effective Client Contract (EOLDs)

Business Planning & Goal Setting for Doulas

SEO 101 for Doulas

SEO Strategies for Doula Business

Networking Tips for End-of-Life Doulas

Staying Out of Trouble with the IRS

Doulas Embedded within Hospice: A Successful Model

Role of the End-of-Life Doula in a Skilled Nursing Facility

Death Doula Versus the State

Doula Burnout & Compassion Fatigue

Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss

Riding the Grief Rollercoaster

Naturopathic Comfort Care at the End of Life

Death Journaling

Fostering Agency in Times of Transition

Shifting Away from Medicalized Death

Weaving Willow Coffins & Green Burial

Sacred Comfort Care

Palliative Touch: Comfort Massage Basics at the End of Life

Cultural, Religious, and Spiritual Practices at the End of Life

End-of-Life Support for a Person with Dementia

Creative Care Ideas for Dementia Support

How End-of-Life Doulas Help Families in Crisis

Remember Me: The Work of Legacy

Hospice Inclusion & Ongoing Care for Companion Animals

Why Trauma-Informed Care Matters at the End of Life

How to Navigate Families in Conflict: Tips for End-of-Life Doulas

Navigating the Healthcare System: Coaching Clients through the Maze

Key Aspects of Honoring the Dying

The Art of Balanced Caregiving