Australian Sacred Deathcare Series 2024
Australian Sacred Deathcare Series 2024
Maps, Myths and Meanings:
A spiritual geography of death and loss
An Evening Talk with Dr Sarah Kerr
Ritual Healing at the Deathbed:
Soul-support for immediately before, during, and after the last breath
1-day Practical Skills Training
Across the Veil Constellations:
Transformative ritual for healing and learning
Experiential Weekend Workshop
| Syd | | | Thu 16 May 7pm – 9.30pm |
| Melb | | | Thu 23 May 7pm – 9.30pm |
| Syd | | | Fri 17 May 9am – 4.30pm |
| Melb | | | Fri 24 May 9am – 4.30pm |
| Syd | | | Sat 18 May 9am – 5pm Sun 19 May 9am – 4.30pm |
| Melb | | | Sat 25 May 9am – 5pm Sun 26 May 9am – 4.30pm |
The Evening Talk & 1-day Practical Skills can be purchased together for a discounted fee of $230.
Numbers limited to 35 for Weekend Workshop.
Maps, Myths and Meanings:
A spiritual geography of death and loss
An Evening Talk with Dr Sarah Kerr
Death is more than just a physical experience. It’s a transformational soul-journey, for the dying person and for those who love them.
Dominant culture primarily views death as the end of the physical body, and dying as a medical event. This approach ignores the very real, non-physical, spiritual and relational dynamics that unfold as body and soul separate.
No wonder we have trouble navigating death well: we’re operating from an incomplete map.
If we had a better map for the process of death, dying, and being dead, we could develop better practices for meeting those experiences.
In this dynamic talk, filled with rich storytelling, Sarah offers a pragmatic soul map of death and loss that’s rooted in nature-based spirituality, modern consciousness research, and ancient wisdom traditions.
Ritual Healing at the Deathbed:
Soul-support for immediately before, during, and after the last breath
1-day Practical Skills Training
In times of grief and loss, rituals help people connect with themselves, with each other, and with the healing powers of nature, love, and lineage.
Meaningful rituals can help dying people and their families navigate the difficult changes that happen at end-of-life. Death reconfigures the relationships between the living, the dying, and the dead, and rituals help our souls integrate these changes so we can move forward in the new reality.
This participatory workshop is for anyone interested in gaining more skills to support the soul’s journey through death and bereavement. Sarah will outline the foundational principles of ritual healing, and introduce rituals for different stages of the deathbed experience.
Sacred deathcare rituals are rooted in a spiritual-but-not-religious framework, and can be easily adapted to fit other spiritual or secular value systems.
Participants in the day-long workshop can receive a Certificate of Completion, suitable for submission for CE’s or CEU’s (licensure dependent.)
Across the Veil Constellations:
Transformative ritual for healing and learning
Experiential Weekend Workshop
Join us in an intimate setting, limited to just 35 participants, ensuring a high level of support and care.
This deeply experiential ritual practice is for those struggling with a past or upcoming death, deathcare practitioners of all sorts, and anyone called to explore the mysteries of living and dying. Space is limited for the event, please register early to guarantee yourself a spot.
For Dying and Grieving People
Across the Veil Constellations are an intuitive, somatic, group ritual practice for bringing peace and resolution to your relationships with death and dead people.
They are a forum to find insight and healing around unresolved grief, estrangement before death, abortion or miscarriage, pet death, questions around Voluntary Assisted Dying, and many other deathly questions and situations.
For Practitioners
If you support dying people and their families, part of what you bring to the process is your own embodied familiarity with the dying process. This deep relationship with death and loss is an energetic, rather than intellectual quality. People feel it, and it’s part of the healing gift you offer.
Participating in Across the Veil constellations will deepen your relationship with the dying process and give you a bone-deep confidence that will resonate as a sort of tuning fork in a healing space.
For Everyone
If you’ve wondered what happens after we die, Across the Veil Constellations can give you a felt experience of the afterlife.
If you’re struggling with death anxiety, Across the Veil Constellations can bring you ease and reassurance.
If you have an intuitive awareness of the dying process, Across the Veil Constellations can help you validate that knowing in a community of like-minded peers.
For a full explanation of Across the Veil Constellations, see this YouTube playlist.
Please note:
Across the Veil Constellations can bring deep healing, but attending may not be appropriate if you’re in acute grief. If you’ve experienced a significant death in the last year, please contact Sarah before registering.