2025 Death Doula & Self-Awareness Certification & Mentorship Program

The Death Doula & Self-Awareness training is designed to educate you as an end-of-life practitioner and the various death doula offerings. You will learn how to prepare yourself, the space, your clients, and the dying for end-of-life transition, including grief and mourning support, and the afterlife.

This training is for you as well, to explore and expand self-awareness skills and presence, hone your intuition. Learn to create self-healing, align yourself with self-unconditional love, and deepen soul discoveries. Release the holding patterns and beliefs that hinder a clear compass for balance and heart-centered presence. Attune to limitless love.

The program requires a willingness to address the unseen, hold space for all sentient beings in all moments, and commit time and presence to yourself and the program materials and experience. This is a call to passion to help those at the most precious, last breath of their lives and hold patient, heart-centered consciousness and space for grief and transition. 

You will receive death doula training, self-awareness training, how to set up a small business, marketing, creative empowerment exercises to grow your business, self-confidence tools, and self-care protocol. This program includes what happens in the afterlife. 

2025 Program is open to 10 participants.

  • The program is available virtual by Zoom and in person.
  • Attend the program in Fort Collins, CO or remotely by Zoom nationwide and in Canada.
  • Not available for all the program dates? Connect with Erin Doty, the instructor to make arrangements to fulfill the program material for missed dates.
  • The program offers summer on-demand and self-study to integrate the material, work on assessments, volunteer, and catch up if needed. 
  • This is not a self-paced program. 
  • Flexibility of program schedule available, and 75% of program in person or Zoom dates attendance required for certification. 

2025 Dates & Times

Thursdays from 5:30-7pm MT (Denver, CO time zone)

February 6, March 6, April 10, May/June - On-demand, assessments and readings, July 10, July 17, August 14, September 18, October 9, November 13, December 4.

All Thursday dates are Zoom meetings. Check your time zone 

Saturday from 10am-2pm MT (Denver, CO time zone)

February 22*, March 22*, April 12, May 3, June - On-demand, assessments and readings, August 23*, September 20*, October 18, November 8, December 13*.

If you are local, you are encouraged to participate in person when dates allow.

If you are not local, Zoom meetings available for each date. This program is available entirely on Zoom for out of town/state participants.

Program Benefits

  • Transform the views of dying and death care - one person at a time
  • Contribute to bringing recognition to doulas as qualified end-of-life-support
  • Death doula + self-awareness curriculum over 400 pages
  • Lifetime access to online curriculum
  • Death doula beginner tools (valued at $550)
  • Online and in person community support
  • Build your death doula network
  • Reading list
  • Volunteer opportunities 
  • On-demand programming
  • Journaling & inquiry
  • Assessments
  • Four Retreats
  • 20% off HK products and services
  • Free one-month access to on-demand Fascia Yoga 
  • On-Demand Grief Meditation
  • Discount rates for HK Retreats + 5-Month Mediumship Program 
  • Private Facebook group
  • Ongoing access to curriculum and new materials added each year
    • Must complete program requirements in full
  • Ongoing quarterly death doula practitioner meetings
  • Continued mentorship with Erin Doty, program facilitator

Program Includes

  • Personal self-awareness exploration and expansion 
  • Death doula and end-of-life
  • End of life planning
  • Elders, senior care, terminally ill
  • Dementia
  • Respite care for caretakers
  • Legacy project, vigils, live funerals
  • Mourning, loss and grief
  • Surrender and forgiveness
  • Post death process
  • Respect for religions, traditions, cultures
  • Rituals and sacred ceremonies
  • Pet doula services and support
  • Educating family and clients about the dying process
  • Preparation as a death doula
  • Divinity, faith & light
  • Afterlife
  • Self-care protocol
  • Time management
  • Self-confidence and creative empowerment
  • Creating death doula niche
  • Small business management and success
  • Marketing, promotional tools, collaborations
  • Community Outreach

This is a training for all sentient beings. A training to learn and experience surrendering and accepting death. Embracing end-of-life transitions with grace and preparedness and embody a heart-centered presence for all of life’s moments.

"Death comes to us all." ~Robert Bolt

Self-Investment 

  • Application fee nonrefundable.
  • Enrollment fee applied to program total cost. 
  • Once you begin the program, the program is nonrefundable.
  • Transfer to the next program year is available (must be approved in advance with Erin Doty, program facilitator).
  • Cash and check payments do not include fees.
  • Credit card and Venmo payments include processing fees.
  • Payments due by the monthly Saturday meeting date.
  • See program rates on the product drop down menu.

*Scholarships available.

This program is led by certified Death Doula & Self-Awareness practitioner, Erin Doty.  Erin's journey as a death doula began in 2014.

This program is the culmination of her experience and expertise:

  • ERYT500 certified self-awareness, yoga, and meditation teacher
  • Certified death doula 
  • TAOMCHI crystal and energy balance practitioner
  • Working with seniors, memory and dementia care. chronic and terminal illness for over a decade
  • Senior dog care 
  • Pandemic death doula
  • Infant and child death support
  • Respite for caretakers and caretaker support
  • Vigils and live funerals
  • Legacy projects
  • End-of-Life rituals and sacred ceremonies
  • Post death support and grief support
  • Successful small business owner for 10 years

The HK Death Doula & Self-Awareness program is an 11-month commitment.

  • For yourself, self-awareness, and holding space for the dying and grieving
  • Time commitment to learn how to prepare yourself for death 
  • How to offer end-of-life and grief support as a death doula
  • Learn how to integrate grief and death into your life with grace and success

The HK Death Doula program is designed to support YOU and your client as an end-of-life support provider.

This program allows you to:

  • Become a successful death doula with a commitment to your heart healing along the journey.
  • Amplify your special talents as a death doula with integrity, long-term service, creativity, and success.
  • Whether you wish to open a business or not, there are parameters to consider when supporting others with death and grief.
  • Prepare for personal and professional grief with grace.
  • Expand self-awareness, compassionate presence, and intuition.
  • Own a successful and inspiring business.
  • Access to a community of other death doulas, caregivers, hospice volunteers, and experts in grief and death.

How to Apply for HK Death Doula Program:

  1. Schedule complimentary 20-minute inquiry call to discuss program. Call or text Erin Doty 970-214-1846.
  1. Submit enrollment application and waiver within 14 days of inquiry call.
  2. Pay enrollment fee.
    • Enrollment fee is applied to the total cost of mentorship or program.
    • Enrollment fee is due within two weeks of program acceptance.
  1. Receive custom schedule, program outline and payment plan agreement.
  2. Final invoice sent for program self-investment.
    • Due within 30 days of receiving invoice.
    • Payment arrangements and scholarships available.
  1. After final invoice or first payment arrangement is paid.
    • Program materials mailed to you, syllabus emailed, and access granted to the program Google drive.

Program Requirements:

  1. Complete the How to Apply steps above.
  2. Commit time for program material and experience.
  3. Participate and complete HK Death Doula Certification & Mentorship program in full.
  4. 75% attendance required in person/Zoom for program dates to complete program for certification.
  5. Submit all required emails and assessments by designated deadlines.
  6. Submit assessments by email no later than January 11, 2026 for review and feedback for certification completion.
  7. All assessments must be approved by Erin Doty, program facilitator.

Participant Testimonials

“Much more than teaching me to become a death doula, I am feeling like this course is bringing me much closer to being a fully enlightened human. Thank you for that.” ~ Susan I.

"I’ve greatly enjoyed Erin’s Death Doula training - it is highly self-guided and self-motivated, but still fosters a sense of community and engagement for the folks who are participating. The program has helped me to not only learn about what it means to be a death doula, but the wide variety of roles that a death doula may take part in, many of which I did not even realize existed. The program has taught me things about myself and has helped to normalize discussions about my relationship with grief, death, love, and especially my relationship with myself. Even if you are not interested in directly becoming a death doula as your full-time profession, I do recommend the program - it will stretch your mind and sense of self to consider new, scary, and vital topics about loss not just towards people, but animals, communities, places, and more." ~ Olivia J.