Mentorship for Deathworkers

There are hundreds of death doula training programs providing a broad spectrum of depth in education. But what happens if a doula is fully trained and still desires extra support or additional education? Where do death doulas go to continue to grow their skills, their businesses, and their personal relationship with foundational elements of death work?

Jade designed mentorship options with these death doulas in mind. In one-to-one conversation, Jade focuses her expertise on your specific opportunities to growth, whether you’ve trained in the Farewell Apprenticeship or another program.

  • Find Community

    Death care is community care and it is essential to death doula self-care to have support from other end-of-life workers.

  • Unlock Potential

    By putting an experienced doula’s attention on your unique craft, together we can explore how it will grow.

  • Focus & Direction

    Target your values and navigate the clearest path to actualizing a death care practice that focuses on your purpose.

  • Cultivate Gifts

    Build confidence in your gifts and expand them - death invites us all to play in the mystical & enchanted.

“Jade is an incredibly perceptive, inspiring, and compassionate guide. As a new Death Doula, mentor sessions with her have been transformative, helping me focus my efforts and prioritize my time effectively. Her ability to be present and grounded while offering practical advice has had a major influence on my journey. In particular, her insights on marketing and creating an online presence have significantly shaped how I approach my practice.

Despite her extensive expertise, Jade approaches mentorship with genuine curiosity and humility, making the space feel inviting and accessible. She also has a really wonderful ability to recognize and celebrate people’s unique talents. I wholeheartedly recommend Jade to anyone seeking guidance in this field; her mentorship is truly invaluable!”

-Breana Clark, MSW - Eclipse Into Harmony


 FAQs

  • Honestly, anyone who needs coaching from an experienced death doula. While I blend my marketing & philosophy backgrounds, this is 1:1 personalized coaching to offer you targeted support on crafting a death doula practice that showcases your unique offering. Mentorship can flesh out a basic training, it can be focused on business development, we can use our time building community education opportunities, or we can dig into your intuitive gifts and how to bolster confidence in them.

  • Every mentorship session is offered virtually and is $100/75-minutes. Farewell Apprenticeship graduates are always welcome to book sessions at a discounted rate. A 6-session package can be purchased for $500.

  • Your mentorship is what you make of it. Most people find our sessions to be so dense they need time to unpack all we cover. I’ll rec

  • I believe that deathwork should be accessible. I’ve also found that we have various degrees of background preparing us for our work as death doulas. Some folks may need classic coursework to train them in death midwifery or bolster their existing skillset. This would be my course catalog. Other people may desire in-person, hands-on learning in a 1:1 format, this is my apprenticeship. The mentorship is a middle ground between the two and is designed to fill in the gaps in end-of-life education for doulas and midwives.

  • Some ideas that mentorship is perfect for:

    • Social media marketing plan

    • Business establishment

    • Website development

    • Marketing tools creation

    • Community offering support

    • Planning sessions for year end goals

    • Content creation for website

    • Streamline of services

    • Establishing intake paperwork, contracts, client tools

    • Developing intuitive skills to support your practice

    • Professional & energetic boundaries

    Ultimately, this time you purchase can be used on the death work topic that you need additional support with.

Book an appointment.

There are a lot of options here. If you aren’t sure which to book, start with a Meet Jade and we can figure it out together.

“Perhaps this knowledge of death, as a force that impinges on the individual, the community, and the cosmos, is what marks our species as, potentially, wise.”

-Dr. Carol Zaleski, Scholar of Religions