- Advanced Training
- Art of Dying
- CEUs
- Death Awareness
- Death Education
- End of Life
- Holistic Education
- Living & Dying
- Palliative Care
- Thanatology
About the Program
January 15 – June 27, 2021
See complete schedule below
SOLD OUT – Click HERE and be added to the waiting list.
Today more than ever there is a clear call to understand and work with death and dying in new and more open ways. This time of increased mortality and suffering drives home to us that we urgently need more innovative and holistic approaches to living, dying and death.
Our Integrative Thanatology certificate program is intended to do just that—to reframe our current conception of dying and to reclaim lost wisdom and helpful cultural practices. It provides health care practitioners and those with a profound interest in the energetics of living and dying with a unique set of skills to deepen their understanding of the spiritual, psychological, social and physical aspects of the dying experience.
The Association of Death Education and Counseling® has deemed this program as counting towards the continuing education requirements for the ADEC Certification in Thanatology. Continuing Education Units (CEU’s) are available for many of the workshops in this training.
Topic Highlights Include:
- How to work more compassionately and intelligently with the dying
- Tools for caregiving and caregivers
- Alternative approaches to understanding life and death
- How to restore a sense of sacredness to the dying process
- How to promote wise relationships in accompanying the dying
- Special tools and techniques for end-of-life doulas
- How to nurture the potential for psycho-spiritual transformation in the dying process
- The effects of compassionate presence at the end of life
- End of life planning
- Cross cultural rituals of grief and loss
- Skills in attending those in the death, dying, loss and bereavement processes
Who Should Attend
The Art of Dying certificate program can be of great benefit to those working in hospices, nursing homes and other health-care settings, as well as for students, counselors, social workers, teachers, clergy members, psychologists, end of life doulas and others who want to enter or broaden their work in the burgeoning field of death and dying. It is also appropriate for anyone with a sincere interest in this profound topic.
Students in the Integrative Thanatology program will complete their coursework entirely online. With personalized instruction, students will be supported throughout the program by our faculty and staff to not only deepen and expand their personal understanding of death and dying but also to forge connections and create networks that could be of great help in their professional lives going forward.
Faculty Include:
Program Facilitator & Faculty Member – Catharine DeLong
The Integrative Thanatology Facilitator will offer student support and counsel and offer community building ideas and creative collaborations. She will develop assignments and practices throughout the program including mid-term and final assignments. The facilitator will also be available for online/telephone advice and mentorship as well as creating opportunities for group meeting and creative collaborations outside the class—including music gatherings and study groups.
CLASS SCHEDULE:
2021
- Introduction to Integrative Thanatology – Catharine DeLong
Friday, January 15, 7:00 – 9:00 pm EST
- The Inner Path of Dying – Jan Booth, MA, RN
Saturday, January 16, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
- Mapping the Journey: Re-Envisioning Decisions About the End of Life
Leslie Blackhall, MD
Sunday, January 17, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
- A Buddhist View of Death – Dr. Andrew Holecek
Thursday, January 28, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST
- After-Death Care and Home Funerals – Olivia Bareham
Saturday – Sunday, February 6-7, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
- Inviting the Wisdom of Death Into Life – Frank Ostaseski
Wednesday, February 24, 7:00 – 9:00 pm EST
- The Last Great Act of Love: End of Life Planning – Alua Arthur, JD
Wednesday, March 10, 7:00 – 9:00 pm EST
- Cultivating the Doula Heart – Francesca Arnoldy
Friday, March 12, 7:00 – 9:00 pm EST
Saturday, March 13, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm; 2:00 – 4:00 pm EST
- The Effects of Compassionate Presence: Being with Non-Communicative Patients – Jeanne Denney
Sunday, March 14, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
- Exploring the Grief Journey: Cultural, Familial and Personal Dimensions
Rabbi Simcha Raphael, PhD
Friday, April 16, 7:00 – 9:00 pm EST
Saturday, April 17, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST; 2:00 – 4:00 pm EST - Transition by Design: Planning an Inspired & Intentional Funeral
Amy Cunningham
Sunday, April 18, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
- Psychedelics for Palliative Care and the Treatment of End-of-Life Existential Distress – Anthony Bossis, PhD
Thursday, April 22, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST
- The Dying Child: End of Life Issues in Pediatrics
Kat Kowalski MDiv. BCC; Emily Johnson MSN, CRNP; & Cora Welsh, CCLS, MA
Saturday, May 15, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
- African American Grief and Loss – Tashel Bordere, PhD, CT
Sunday, May 16, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
- Music as Medicine at the End of Life – Catharine DeLong
Saturday, June 12, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
- Surviving the Aftermath of Suicide – Karen Wyatt, MD
Sunday, June 13, 9:30 am – 12:00 pm EST
- The Many Paths of Grief – Karen Wyatt, MD
Sunday, June 13, 2:30 – 5:00 pm EST
- Student Capstone Weekend
Saturday & Sunday, June 26 – 27, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
WHAT YOU’LL NEED FOR THIS COURSE
- Prerequisites: No
- Supplies for this class: NA
- Zoom Software Requirements: This is an online course which requires Zoom webinar software. Zoom is easy to use. Click HERE to make sure your computer is set-up correctly.
REGISTRATION & FEES
Full Payment: $1995
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Payment Plan: $2250
$750 due at registration. 3 more payments of $500 each due on February 22, March 29, and May 3
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SOLD OUT – Click HERE and be added to the waiting list.
*Call to register for the payment plan: 212-219-2527 x 2
Integrative Thanatology Certificate Training | An Art of Dying Education Program
20FAOD43SA- 18 Session(s)
- Jan 15 2021 07:00 PM EST
Members
$1,995Non-Members
$1,995
Catharine DeLong is a Music-Thanatologist who delivers music vigils to individuals who are approaching the end of life. Catharine is a graduate of the Chalice of Repose Project and the Music Thanatology Association International.
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