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Soul Education - Memento Mori
The Soul Memento Mori is an educational space dedicated to exploring the sacred intersection of life, death, grief, and transformation through both evidence-based practice and holistic care. Rooted in compassionate, integrative education, our workshops and courses bring together contemporary end-of-life and grief research with mindfulness, ritual, somatic awareness, spirituality, and reflective practice.
Designed for deathcare professionals, caregivers, helping practitioners, and individuals drawn to deeper conversations around mortality and meaning, our offerings provide practical knowledge alongside soulful exploration.
Through a balanced approach that integrates evidence-informed education with holistic perspectives, participants gain the tools, confidence, and insight needed to support individuals and families with compassion, integrity, and care through life’s most profound transitions.
Helping Children Understand Death
Two-Day Comprehensive Grief Training
Helping Children Understand Death
Talking to children about death can feel overwhelming for parents, caregivers, educators, and professionals — especially while navigating grief themselves. This compassionate and practical webinar is designed to help participants better understand how children process death, grief, and loss at different developmental stages, and how to co
Talking to children about death can feel overwhelming for parents, caregivers, educators, and professionals — especially while navigating grief themselves. This compassionate and practical webinar is designed to help participants better understand how children process death, grief, and loss at different developmental stages, and how to communicate with honesty, sensitivity, and emotional safety.
This 3-hour webinar explores age-appropriate approaches to discussing death, supporting grieving children, responding to difficult questions, and creating spaces where children feel seen, supported, and included in grief and mourning experiences.
Participants will learn:
- How children understand death at different ages and developmental stages
- Common grief responses in children and teens
- Language to use — and avoid — when talking about death
- How to support emotional expression and regulation
- Ways to include children in rituals, funerals, and memorialization
- Supporting children after sudden, traumatic, or complicated loss
- How schools, caregivers, and communities can provide ongoing support
- Practical tools, books, activities, and resources for grieving children
This webinar is ideal for:
- Parents and caregivers
- Death doulas and grief practitioners
- Educators and childcare professionals
- Healthcare and social service professionals
- Funeral professionals
- Anyone supporting grieving children and families
Participants will leave with greater confidence, practical communication tools, and a deeper understanding of how to support children through grief with honesty, compassion, and care.
Grief and the Nervous System
Two-Day Comprehensive Grief Training
Helping Children Understand Death
Grief is not only emotional — it is deeply physical and neurological. Loss can profoundly impact the nervous system, affecting how individuals think, feel, respond, sleep, connect, and move through daily life. Understanding the relationship between grief and the nervous system can help individuals and professionals approach grief with gre
Grief is not only emotional — it is deeply physical and neurological. Loss can profoundly impact the nervous system, affecting how individuals think, feel, respond, sleep, connect, and move through daily life. Understanding the relationship between grief and the nervous system can help individuals and professionals approach grief with greater compassion, regulation, and awareness.
This 3-hour webinar explores how grief, trauma, stress, and loss are experienced within the body and nervous system. Participants will gain a foundational understanding of how the body responds to overwhelming experiences and learn supportive, body-based approaches that can help create safety, grounding, and emotional regulation during grief.
Topics explored include:
- The connection between grief, trauma, and the nervous system
- Understanding fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and shutdown responses
- How grief impacts the body, sleep, memory, energy, and emotions
- Somatic and body-based approaches to grief support
- Regulation, grounding, and resourcing practices
- Supporting individuals experiencing overwhelm, numbness, anxiety, or dysregulation
- Compassionate approaches to holding space for grief
- The importance of pacing, safety, and consent in grief support
This webinar is ideal for:
- Death doulas and grief practitioners
- Therapists, social workers, and healthcare professionals
- Caregivers and support workers
- Educators and community leaders
- Individuals seeking a deeper understanding of their own grief experiences
Participants will leave with a greater understanding of the body’s response to grief and practical tools to support nervous system awareness, emotional regulation, and compassionate grief care.
Two-Day Comprehensive Grief Training
Two-Day Comprehensive Grief Training
Supporting Limited or No-Contact Relationships in Deathcare
Grief-Informed Practice: Supporting Individuals, Families, and Communities Through Loss
This comprehensive two-day continuing education training is designed for professionals who support individuals experiencing grief, loss, trauma, and bereavement.
Led by a Certified Thanatologist, the program provides participants with practical, evid
Grief-Informed Practice: Supporting Individuals, Families, and Communities Through Loss
This comprehensive two-day continuing education training is designed for professionals who support individuals experiencing grief, loss, trauma, and bereavement.
Led by a Certified Thanatologist, the program provides participants with practical, evidence-informed, and trauma-responsive approaches to grief support across healthcare, mental health, education, community, hospice, and crisis response settings.
Participants will explore contemporary grief theories, complicated grief, trauma-informed care, the relationship between grief and the nervous system, cultural considerations, communication skills, and grief across the lifespan. The training combines clinical knowledge with experiential learning through case studies, reflective exercises, group discussion, and skill-building activities.
Participants Will Learn How To:
- Recognize common and complex grief responses
- Apply grief-informed and trauma-responsive interventions
- Support grieving children, adolescents, adults, and older adults
- Communicate effectively with grieving individuals and families
- Identify risk factors for complicated or prolonged grief
- Understand how grief impacts the nervous system, stress responses, and emotional regulation
- Integrate culturally responsive and inclusive grief practices
- Strengthen professional resilience and prevent compassion fatigue
Ideal For:
- Counsellors and therapists
- Social workers
- Nurses and healthcare providers
- Death Doulas and EOL Workers
- Educators and school support personnel
- Clergy and spiritual care providers
- First responders
- Community support workers
- Peer support professionals
Training Format
- Two full training days
- Interactive and experiential learning approach
- Case studies and practical application
- Reflection and discussion activities
- Certificate of Completion provided
Delivery Options
Available in-person or virtual for organizations, agencies, healthcare teams, educational institutions, and professional conferences. Inquire about group rates.
Supporting Limited or No-Contact Relationships in Deathcare
Supporting Limited or No-Contact Relationships in Deathcare
Supporting Limited or No-Contact Relationships in Deathcare
July session - Now Full
Upcoming Session Sept 2026
Families and relationships are often far more complex than the traditional narratives surrounding death and grief. Estrangement, limited contact, family conflict, abuse histories, ambiguous relationships, and complicated emotional dynamics can deeply impact how individuals experience illn
July session - Now Full
Upcoming Session Sept 2026
Families and relationships are often far more complex than the traditional narratives surrounding death and grief. Estrangement, limited contact, family conflict, abuse histories, ambiguous relationships, and complicated emotional dynamics can deeply impact how individuals experience illness, dying, caregiving, grief, and mourning.
This training explores the nuanced realities of supporting individuals and families navigating deathcare within the context of limited, fractured, or no-contact relationships. Participants will learn how to provide compassionate, non-judgmental, trauma-informed support while recognizing that grief can coexist with relief, anger, guilt, confusion, resentment, love, or unresolved pain.
Through discussion, reflection, and practical guidance, this course examines communication, boundaries, family systems, ethical considerations, and the emotional complexities that arise when relationships are strained or absent at end of life.
Participants will gain tools to:
- Support clients experiencing estrangement or family conflict
- Navigate difficult family dynamics during illness, dying, and after death
- Hold space for ambiguous and disenfranchised grief
- Recognize trauma responses and emotional triggers
- Maintain professional boundaries and neutrality
- Support chosen family structures and non-traditional relationships
- Provide inclusive, compassionate deathcare without assumptions or judgment
This course is ideal for death doulas, grief practitioners, healthcare professionals, funeral professionals, social workers, spiritual care providers, and anyone supporting individuals through grief, loss, and end-of-life experiences.
1 Day- 8 Hours via Zoom
Certificate of Completion Included
Death Doula Certificate Program
Supporting Limited or No-Contact Relationships in Deathcare
Death Doula Certificate Program
I am proudly working in Partnership with CHEN - Canadian Healthcare Education Network to facilitate my custom
Death Doula Certificate Course.
This is recognized as an education program by the
End of Life Doula Association of Canada
Step into one of the most meaningful roles in the caring professions. This comprehensive certificate progra
I am proudly working in Partnership with CHEN - Canadian Healthcare Education Network to facilitate my custom
Death Doula Certificate Course.
This is recognized as an education program by the
End of Life Doula Association of Canada
Step into one of the most meaningful roles in the caring professions. This comprehensive certificate program offers a pathway into the field of end-of-life support as a Death Doula.
Designed to equip learners with the practical skills, emotional preparedness, and business insight essential for this sacred work, the program guides participants through three progressive modules: Foundations, Advanced Care, and Business Development. Students complete a capstone business plan and graduate with the confidence and competence to launch or grow a professional practice.
Ideal for those drawn to support individuals and families through the dying process—whether through personal calling, professional care, or spiritual service—this program blends compassion with purpose. It prepares students for impactful work in one of the most profoundly human and essential areas of care.
Summer 2026 currently in session
Upcoming Fall Schedule-
Module One- Sept 29,30 Oct 6,7
Module Two – Oct 13,14,20,21
Module Three-Oct 27,28 Nov 3,4
EELM Week of Nov 9-13
* Please note: This certificate course provides comprehensive training and practical skills; however, it is a certificate of completion, not a formal certification or professional designation.
There is currently no regulatory body that issues a formal certification or professional designation in Canada.
Pet Loss Doula Training
Supporting Limited or No-Contact Relationships in Deathcare
Death Doula Certificate Program
Next Session Fall 2026
Honour the Bond. Heal the Heart.
Pet Loss Doula Training is a compassionate educational program designed for those who wish to support individuals and families navigating the grief of losing a beloved animal companion. Rooted in both evidence-based grief education and holistic, heart-centered care, this training exp
Next Session Fall 2026
Honour the Bond. Heal the Heart.
Pet Loss Doula Training is a compassionate educational program designed for those who wish to support individuals and families navigating the grief of losing a beloved animal companion. Rooted in both evidence-based grief education and holistic, heart-centered care, this training explores the emotional, spiritual, and practical aspects of pet loss support.
Participants will gain the knowledge and skills to hold space for anticipatory grief, euthanasia support, memorialization,
after-death care conversations, and the unique bond between humans and animals.
The program also explores communication, ritual, compassionate presence, and trauma-informed approaches to grief support.
Ideal for death doulas, grief practitioners, veterinary professionals, counselors, holistic caregivers, and animal lovers, this training offers meaningful tools to support others through one of life’s often overlooked yet deeply significant losses.
Upon successful completion of this 4-week program, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion in Pet Loss Doula Training. This certificate recognizes foundational education in compassionate pet loss support, grief-informed care, and holistic approaches to supporting individuals and families through the loss of an animal companion.
Infant & Pregnancy Loss Doula Training
Infant & Pregnancy Loss Doula Training
Infant & Pregnancy Loss Doula Training
Winter 2027
Our Infant & Pregnancy Loss Doula Training is a compassionate, trauma-informed program designed to prepare doulas, birth workers, healthcare professionals, and holistic practitioners to support individuals and families experiencing miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, neonatal death, and other forms of reproductive grief.
This
Winter 2027
Our Infant & Pregnancy Loss Doula Training is a compassionate, trauma-informed program designed to prepare doulas, birth workers, healthcare professionals, and holistic practitioners to support individuals and families experiencing miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, neonatal death, and other forms of reproductive grief.
This training blends evidence-based education with emotional, practical, and relational support skills to help participants provide grounded, heart-centered care during some of life’s most devastating experiences. Students will learn how to hold space for grief with sensitivity, navigate complex family dynamics, understand medical and legal considerations, and support memorialization, rituals, and ongoing bereavement care.
The course recognizes that pregnancy and infant loss impacts the whole person — emotionally, physically, spiritually, and socially — and equips participants to offer support that is compassionate, informed, and non-judgmental.
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Caregivers play a vital role in supporting loved ones through serious illness, end-of-life care, and other life transitions, yet their own emotional and practical needs are often overlooked. This Learning Institute session focuses on caregiver wellness and bereavement, exploring the unique challenges, grief, and stress that caregivers experience before, during, and after caregiving.
Participants will learn about the different types of grief caregivers may face, strategies to support their mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being, and practical tools to prevent burnout and promote resilience. The session emphasizes trauma-informed care, cultural humility, and spiritual responsiveness, helping participants recognize and honour diverse caregiving experiences while building supportive communities.
This session is designed for caregivers, healthcare professionals, hospice and palliative care providers, social workers, volunteers, and anyone who works with or supports caregivers.
Attendees can expect to leave with practical strategies, reflective tools, and actionable ideas to support and empower themselves and others through the grief and caregiving journey with awareness, compassion, and cultural humility.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify common types of grief experienced by both personal and professional caregivers, including anticipatory, ambiguous, and disenfranchised grief.
- Apply trauma-informed and culturally responsive approaches when supporting caregivers through grief and bereavement.
- Recognize signs of caregiver burnout, stress, and emotional distress, and implement strategies to address them.
- Use practical tools and techniques to promote caregiver wellness, resilience, and self-care during and after caregiving.
About the Learning Institute
The Learning Institute is CHPCA’s national professional education program, designed to strengthen workforce capacity in hospice palliative care.
Grief, Compassion Fatigue, and Self-Care: Building Resilience for Massage Therapists
Massage therapists often work closely with clients navigating illness, chronic pain, caregiving responsibilities, loss, and major life transitions. While supporting others can be deeply meaningful, ongoing exposure to emotional stress and client suffering can take a toll on a therapist’s own well-being.
This evidence-informed webinar explores the impact of grief, loss, compassion fatigue, and burnout within massage therapy practice. Participants will gain insight into how both personal and professional experiences of grief can influence emotional regulation, therapeutic presence, and long-term career sustainability.
Through practical, somatic-informed approaches, attendees will learn strategies to support nervous system regulation, strengthen resilience, and enhance emotional well-being. This session provides actionable self-care tools that can be integrated into daily practice, helping massage therapists maintain professional effectiveness while prioritizing their own health and wellness.
Participants will gain a deeper understanding of:
- The connection between grief, compassion fatigue, burnout, and professional well-being
- How personal and professional losses can affect therapeutic practice
- Signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue and cumulative stress
- Somatic-informed self-care strategies to support resilience and nervous system regulation
- Practical tools to promote emotional well-being and sustainable practice
Join us to explore how intentional self-care and resilience-building practices can help you continue providing compassionate care while protecting your own well-being.
Registration: Registration for this session will be available through the Registered Massage Therapists' Association of Ontario (RMTAO). Registration link coming soon
Customized Webinar Options: If you are part of an organization, healthcare team, professional association, or community group that supports individuals, customized webinars and educational sessions are available. Sessions can be tailored to meet the unique needs of your staff, members, volunteers, or community, with a focus on grief literacy, compassion fatigue, self-care, resilience, and emotional well-being. Contact me to discuss a program designed specifically for your organization. Email info@soultransition.ca
Understanding Pet Loss & Compassionate Support Info Session
Pet loss touches everyone—pet parents, veterinary teams, and caregivers alike. This free introductory webinar offers a supportive, educational space to explore the emotional impact of losing an animal companion and to learn the foundational skills needed to support grieving clients with confidence and care.
This session provides a meaningful preview of the tools, insights, and practices featured in the full training, The Heart of Pet Loss -
Pet Loss Doula.
This webinar is ideal for veterinarians, technicians, assistants, client care professionals, pet parents, and anyone interested in the work of
Pet Death Doulas.
This webinar is a powerful starting point for anyone seeking to better understand pet loss and provide compassionate, informed support. Participants will also have the option to continue their learning in the full workshop for a more in-depth, hands-on experience—perfect to explore as we look ahead to 2026.
Cancellation Policy
I understand situations arise when you may need to cancel or reschedule your appointment. To do so, I request you notify me at least 24 hours in advance. This allows me time offer your appointment slot to another client on our waiting list.
Cancellations or rescheduling requests made less than 24 hours before your appointment or service will not be refunded. No-shows will not be refunded.
I appreciate your understanding and cooperation with this policy, as it helps me maintain efficient scheduling and service quality for all clients. In case of emergencies or unforeseen circumstances, please contact me directly to discuss your situation.
Grief, Grace & Growth
Individual and Group Sessions Available