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Home Funeral Practicum
For many who are dying their preference is to be at home versus a hospital.
The Home Funeral Practicum provides experience, knowledge, and skills to help you legally and confidently care for someone after death.
This training suits everyday folks, emerging death doulas, anyone regardless of their background who seek practical, in-depth knowledge and training in the legal, logistical, ethical, health, and multi-cultural/spiritual aspects of this humane, grass roots work.
We'll have live models for you to practice moving, washing, dressing, casketing, and vigiling. There will be 3 levels of body care instruction as well as 'death plan' counseling sessions. As participation fosters healing you'll paint, as well as a provide a lining to a cardboard casket, and of course take part in meaningful rituals (eg. reading and singing to the mock deceased) as well as creating and performing a home funeral ceremony.
Whether you design and perform a home funeral by yourself, with a guide and/or a licensed funeral director, by taking this training you'll gain a thorough understanding of home funerals.
We believe reviving old-fashioned, family directed, home vigils/wakes has far-reaching, positive benefits for our children, ourselves and the culture at large: greater peace, enhanced connectivity to, and appreciation for life!
For more information please visit the HFPracticum website.
Instructor: Don Morris, M.Ed founding director of the HFP is a retired funeral director, cemeterian, and counselor in Victoria, BC. A pioneer in the field of death and dying Don brought the Green Burial Council to Canada in 2010, consulted to CINDEA, opened Canada's first Death Cafe and co-created Community Deathcare Canada. He is an active member of Victoria's Chevra Kaddisha (Holy Burial Society) and was a faculty member at the Beyond Yonder Virtual School for Community Deathcaring in Canada (Nova Scotia).
Organizers: Jackie Avent, Pamela Cavers, Chris Cross and Laura Donatelli.
(For additional information please contact Chris Cross - 204.851.2166).
The organizers are interested and committed to reclaiming deathcare practices in this day and age. The home funeral practicum is an educational opportunity that they are very excited to bring to Manitoba. Raising awareness about the issues and legalities surrounding end of life care and after death care is important to them as they strive to create positive community deathcare models in their respective areas of Manitoba.
Jackie Avent is interested in bringing the conversation about holistic death and dying home in Manitoba. Primarily interested in helping people define what "a Good Death" means for them, Jackie works with friends, family members and her community to normalize "death talk" and help people be prepared for the inevitable in the best way possible. With a Certificate of Completion from the 12-week program of the Beyond Yonder Virtual School for Community Deathcaring, and years of experience visioning and planning with groups and individuals, Jackie is excited to share the Home Funeral Practicum with others!
Laura Donatelli is interested in building comfort with the inevitability of death as part of the cycle of life, and in developing less-harmful-to-the-environment options for body disposition. She has helped facilitate a number of Death Cafes over the past few years and is involved with green burial advocacy efforts.
Chris Cross believes in the power of embracing death as one of the most important parts to living a full life. Chris is passionate and committed to supporting friends, family members, and her community in conversations and education in all aspects of death and dying. With over 30 years of nursing experience and a certificate in Contemplative End of Life Care from the Institute of Traditional Medicine Chris is dedicating her next chapter to advancing deathcare practices that are environmentally, emotionally, and financially sensitive and practical.
Pamela Cavers has played an active role in helping to break down our death phobic society since taking the Beyond Yonder Virtual School for Community Deathcaring
course a few years ago. Living rurally she has taken on numerous death cafes as well as death over dinner events, provided reading lists to many locals on death and dying, and taken palliative care training with the local health district. She has a keen interest in green burials and home funerals and what that looks like for rural people.
Cancellation Policy:
If you cancel 3 or more weeks before the workshop (September 14th or before), your deposit will be 100% refunded through contacting brownpapertickets.com. Tuition may be transferred to another person if you are unable to attend.
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LocationOrganized by Jackie Avent, Pamela Cavers, Chris Cross, and Laura Donatelli (View)
129 Grove Street
Winnipeg, MB R2W 3K9
Canada
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