WELCOME TO DOULAGIVERS WORLD TRAINING DAY
WHAT IT IS:
Doulagivers World Training Day— a worldwide training event where we will hold the Doulagivers Level 1 End of Life Doula Community Caregiver Training on the same day all over the world. Death is something that we all have in common no matter what culture, religion, or socioeconomic status.
We believe that this education to support people to have the most positive end of life experience is a human right, not a privilege. We invite you to participate and host a training event in your local community.
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
Nine out of ten people polled said they want to be kept at home at the end of life, yet half are dying in hospitals, nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. Many people do not know how to care for someone at the end of life. This is a skill that 100 years ago was handed down generation to generation.
We need to teach families how to once again care for their loved ones at this time in their lives. How is this achieved?Death is the number one fear in most places in the world. Death is something that we all have in common no matter what culture, religion, or socioeconomic status. The vision is to increase the availability and access to high quality education and end of life care for patients and families throughout the world.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Learn the Skill, Change the World
Join an Event
Attend an event and learn how to provide holistic support and companionship to individuals at End of Life.
Host an Event
Share this training with those in your community. Register to hold an event today.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
In the Doulagivers World Training Day 90-minute webinar, participants will learn how to care for someone who is dying from the time of terminal diagnosis all the way through until the end-of-life. Participants will learn the three phases of end-of-life and the interventions they can use to provide comfort and support to both the patients and their loved ones in each phase.
This workshop empowers family to have the skills to care for their loved ones and to help reduce the fear of death. Giving this training for free, embraces the concept of community taking care of community.
What you will learn:
The three (3) phases of end-of-life:
WHO IS THIS TRAINING FOR?
The information presented in this training is appropriate for everyone: family, caregivers, volunteers, and community members and is here to support people all around the world and in any setting.
Doulagivers World Training Day Event Calendar
Overview World Training Day. Click here for expanded version.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY:
The FREE End of Life Doula Training Level 1 webinar was absolutely amazing. I love online studies and opportunities for personal growth and this course definitely has to be one of the very best I’ve had the chance to partake of to date. It is such important knowledge that I believe it should be included in every high school /university curriculum. Suzanne engages learners in a personable, compassionate and practical manner. She takes serious subjects and makes them empowering through providing knowledge and a skillset that anyone can employ for a more positive end of life experience either for themself or when caring for those they love. I am forever grateful for this course and cannot recommend it highly enough.”
Susan D.
Thank you so much for all you do, Suzanne! For us and for global consciousness about death and dying.
Gail Q.
This transformation is amazing! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all that knowing that you are passing to all of us so lovingly!
Karine F.
Doulagivers Level 1 training was a Godsend for me and my friends. I found Suzanne’s class while researching how to support a friend who was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive, terminal brain cancer. The class is offered for free and provides all the helpful information we needed to support our friend during his end -of- life experience. I gained so much through this course, that I ended up going back and donating money for the class! Do yourself a favor and take this course, and if you can, donate! It’s more than worth it! Thank you Doulagivers and Suzanne for making a terrible loss a little less scary and much more profound.
Jana H.
Suzanne - I have taken many courses and I cannot tell you how much MASSIVE value I have received in this course. You are a LIGHT in the world and I am so grateful for you and your alignment in this beautiful work.
Michelle B.
“I had no idea how useful our little training last month would become. I just drove 600 miles with my 7 year old daughter to visit my sick grandmother over spring break.
In the 48 hours I was there, I helped her fill out a living will and health proxy. I helped arrange a transfer for her from the hospital to hospice, I helped her friend and caretaker understand that “it’s ok” because it’s what she wants in her end of life journey and that is ok to be sad. I was true to my grandmother and her wishes as family circumstances got dicey. I brought incredible joy to my grandmother by being there, honoring her wishes and giving her time with her great grand daughter. I gave my daughter the gift of understanding and honoring the end of life as a noble process.
And, I was able to, myself, be at peace, say goodbye and have no regrets.
The gift you have given me is absolutely priceless. I couldn’t have done all that a month ago.
I am very tired, but will sleep very well tonight knowing that I am honoring my grandmother in her very important process to the end of her life here on earth.
thank you so very much.”
Nancy W.
Join an Event
Attend an event and learn how to provide holistic support and companionship to individuals at End of Life.
Host an Event
Share this training with those in your community. Register to hold an event today.
MEET YOUR HOST:
SUZANNE B. O’BRIEN, RN
About Suzanne B. O’Brien, RN, Founder of International Doulagivers Institute
Suzanne B. O’Brien is a former Hospice and Oncology RN and creator of Doulagivers End of Life Doula Program. She is an educator, trainer and speaker and has been advocating and serving people with serious illness and the dying since 2003 and educating healthcare professionals and the public since 2008.
Suzanne is a founding member and former vice president of (NEDA) National End of Life Doula Alliance. Suzanne has trained professional End of Life Doulas in over 18 Countries and has given her Level 1 End of Life Doula Training for families and communities to over 50 thousand people worldwide.
In 2019, Suzanne founded “World Training Day” where she donates her Doulagivers Level 1 End of Life Doula Family Training for people to give all over the world on the same day every year in hopes to help educate and empower people everywhere so that they have the support they need to care for their loved ones at the end of life.
2019 WTD Highlights
2020 WTD Highlights
Montage World Training Day 2019
VISION
The Doulagivers WORLD TRAINING DAY webinar is meant to help empower families to have the skills to care for their loved ones so that they may have the most positive passing possible. Infused with real bedside stories, the training hopes to help reduce the fear of death and provide insightful and priceless wisdom from those ready to leave this world about how we can still make the most out of life’s journey. Giving this training for free, embraces the concept of community taking care of community.
