I held my first public + in-person Death Doula event with friend Madeleine Domingue at Red Sandcastle Theatre and I really enjoyed it! We decided to do a hybrid event where the first half was us presenting what we agree is a Death Doula’s role is (as it’s not exactly a strict definition at this time… will it ever be?), and then introduced how and why we were called to death work.
I presented my journey, much in the same way that it was shared in the recent Canadian Business article:
A Wave of Start-ups Are Disrupting the $2-Billion Funeral Industry
By Rosemary Counter
Then we went into an Q + A and open discussion around death, inspired by Death Cafés. Sharing resources and stories is a helpful act in my humble opinion! I added more resources to my Death Doula page here on my website inspired by what we discussed. I’m looking forward to hosting another event like this one in the future at Red Sandcastle Theatre! I like the format we used with a topic exploration then open discussion and room to field general thoughts and queries around death and dying.
Here is the presentation on What even IS a Death Doula? (PDF)
And the video of the presentation I made: https://youtu.be/D9SvPysO9GY