Francesca Arnoldy is the developer and Program Director of the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine’s End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate Program. She is author of Cultivating the Doula Heart: The Essentials of Compassionate Care and leads in-person workshops about doula approaches and end-of-life wishes. She founded Contemplative Doula as a resource to help people to prepare for birth, death and life with the doula heart.