Our Training
How to Train as an End of Life Doula
If you are interested in becoming an End of Life Doula, we recommend training with Living Well Dying Well, the UK’s leading, recognised organisation specialising in quality assured and certified end of life doula education. Their training equips individuals with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to support people who are dying, as well as their families and those important to them.
To become a member of End of Life Doula UK, you must complete the Foundation Training with Living Well Dying Well and have received your certificate upon completion. This ensures that all our members have a solid grounding in end of life care and can offer quality support.
About the Training Programme
Living Well Dying Well has an established training programme in the UK that is designed to be practical, comprehensive, and accessible. The full training course is certified by Crossfields Institute and has been awarded the Crossfields Institute Quality Mark, recognising it as a high-quality education programme.
The training covers a wide range of topics, including:
- Understanding the needs of people at the end of life
- Providing emotional, practical, and spiritual support
- Navigating conversations about death and dying
- Supporting people important to the dying person
- Our own personal relationship with death, dying, and grief, and how to maintain professional boundaries
- Self-care and personal resilience as a doula
- Foundation Training – The essential first step towards becoming an end of life doula. Upon completion, participants receive a certificate, which makes them eligible to apply for membership with End of Life Doula UK.
- Diploma – For those looking to develop their practice further and practice as a certified end of life doula, ensuring they provide the best possible support to individuals, families, and communities.
How to Apply for Training
We believe that the right training is essential in providing compassionate, skilled, and meaningful support. If you are interested in becoming an end of life doula, we encourage you to explore the Living Well Dying Well website for further details on forthcoming training courses and booking information.
Course Availability and Booking
Training courses are available throughout the year and can be taken either in-person at locations across the UK or online.
For details on upcoming courses, locations, and how to book, please visit the Living Well Dying Well website. If you have any questions, we advise that you liaise with Living Well Dying Well directly, their contact information can be found here.
Professor Allan Kellehear had this to say about the Living Well Dying Well training and the way in which it delivers excellence:
“The Living Well Dying Well End of Life Doula Network is the premier UK learning centre offering experiential, classroom-based and field training that is professionally supervised and delivered, certified and diploma based. This End of Life Doula Network is the national leader in professional development of this pioneering approach. Our Doulas learn how to foster, harness and enhance the community’s own abilities to provide compassion and presence at the end of life and they do so in a tried-and-tested professionally guided programme.”
