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Final Passages is an organization based in Northern California run by Jerrigrace Lyons. She holds courses throughout the year.
June 24th – 27th, 2011 – Honoring Life’s Final Passage With Love and Compassion, Sebastopol, California
Level 1 & 2 offered in Sebastopol, California as two individual seminars taught back to back.
Each seminar is two days and one evening. Alll meals and our complete guidbook Creating Home Funerals is included in the fee.
CEUs for Nursing and Behavioral Science Professionals are available.
Level 1, Friday/Saturday, June 24th – 25th, 2011
Friday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm /Saturday: 9:00 am to 5:00
Level 2, Sunday/Monday, June 26th – 27th, 2011
Sunday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm /Monday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
*Level One is a Prerequisite for Level Two
Level One Topics:
• Planning ahead, learning new & ancient customs and exploring our own wishes
• Focusing on death as a sacred time and natural cycle of life
• Social, economic, ecological and spiritual benefits of caring for our own
• Care and honoring of a body while keeping a loved one at home
• Legalities and other components of home and family funerals and green burials
• Clips from a PBS documentary, films, slides and storytelling from over
• 300 personal family ceremonies, home funerals, wakes and green burials
Level Two Topics:
• Interviewing families concerning a person dying or deceased
• What to have in your home funeral midwifery kit
• Care for the midwives
• Use of essential oils for personal care, anointing and healing properties
• Forms for agencies and families in your community
• The funeral industry in our country today and multi-cultural perspectives
• Hands-on techniques of moving and carrying a body
• Films on death in other cultures, green burials and more home-based funerals
Course Fee: $395 PER Level if paid by June 1st; $415 after. You may take Level One or both Level One and Two together.
Discount of $40 for those enrolled for Level 1 and 2 and FULLY PAID by June 1st.
Fee includes Final Passages’ Guidebook for Creating Home Funerals and meals.
Non-refundable deposit of $125 for Level One or $250 for both due by June 1st to hold your space.
Enrolling only for Level One (Friday and Saturday) is allowed.
* If you need lodging you may inquire about staying at the seminar site or at local hotels with Final Passages.
16 CEU’s available per Level for $2 per unit. More Information
For more information contact Final Passages: 707-824-0268
Space still available
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