Course curriculum

    1. Zoom Link for All Classes

    1. Mutual Aid in Deathcare: Class One Recording

    2. Homework

    1. Mutual Aid in Deathcare: Week Two Class Recording

    2. Homework

    3. Resource: Radical Kinship

    4. Resource: Inelda Link on Seeding Deathcare Communities

    1. Mutual Aid in Deathcare: Week Three Class Recording

    2. Resource Links

About this course

  • $333.00
  • 9 lessons
  • 4.5 hours of video content

Bring dignity and meaning back to dying

Explore community needs, mutual aid, and your unique gifts in a 3-part workshop on end-of-life care and the call to deathwork.

It is apparent that our culture is reimagining death and dying. As we move beyond a broken system, a growing movement is bringing holistic, sustainable, and human-centered approaches to end-of-life awareness and care. Although death is a universal and unavoidable rite of passage, our personal fears lead us to avoidance, leaving the dying and their caregivers without the presence, care, and support they need most. Even seasoned professionals can struggle to face the concept of death directly and struggle to find the space between offering unrealistic options or scripted protocols.

Lead Instructor

Your Facilitator

Helen Stickney is a meditation instructor, grief companion, and end of life doula. She is a founding member of Pittsburgh Community Deathcare, and also works part time in hospice administration and green burial. In addition to a meditation practice that spans four decades, she has a PhD in Theoretical Linguistics, is a certified mindfulness instructor, and has certificates in integrative thanatology, somatic healing, and compassionate presence. She is the former director of the Three Rivers Free Clinic for the People and she has worked with various meditation communities throughout the Pittsburgh area. She is currently studying with the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition. When not working, teaching, or studying, Helen spends most of her time in the woods.

Helen Stickney

Pittsburgh Community Deathcare