For lay people and professionals
ONLINE
Saturday and Sunday at 9:30-5:30 pm
Part 2 of a 3-part certificate program
ONLINE – Saturday – Sunday, December 13-14, 2025
Learn how to help family or friends exercise their legal right to create uniquely designed end-of-life ceremony, how to support natural death care of a body and other home funeral arrangements such as paperwork, transportation and other logistics. Discover the many benefits of home funerals and why people choose the ancient ways of our ancestors. Explore green burial and other forms of releasing the body after death that are environmentally friendly. Discuss caring for ourselves while practicing this deep work with others.
This training is part 2 of a 3-level certificate program. After Level 1, continue your training as a Death Doula/ Midwife in this course.
Even if you are not considering becoming a Death Doula/Midwife, our Level 2 training is a profound experience. We invite you to join us.
Join us in Level 2 as we explore:
- Care and honoring of a body during a home funeral
- Legalities and logistics for family-directed home funerals
- Facts and films about home funerals and green burial
- Ecological, economical, social, spiritual benefits of home funerals and green burial
- Guest speaker on a personal home family funeral
- Consulting with families to prepare for death
- Forms for families and agencies in your community
- What to have in your home funeral midwifery kit
- Use of therapeutic essential oils for anointing
- Self-Care for death doulas, midwives and guides
COST:
Regular Price$625
Special 30th Anniversary Price $535
Pay just $495 by Friday, November 28, 2025 (11:59 PM Pacific Time) to get the additional Early Bird savings of $40 – automatically applied.
Work/trade discounts are available. Contact us to discuss ways we can make it possible for you to attend.
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or click here to register for all 3 Levels to save $600.
To register by mail: Mail a note that you are registering for Level 1 Online November 2025, along with a check for deposit or full amount, payable to Final Passages at: Final Passages, PO Box 1721, Sebastopol, CA 95473
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Instructor
Jerrigrace Lyons, Founder of Final Passages
Jerrigrace is a minister, death midwife, Reiki Master, and a renowned pioneer of the home funeral movement since 1994. She is the Founder and Director of Final Passages. She created a 3-tiered certificate training program, guided nearly 500 family-directed home funerals to date, and pioneered a new field of “home funeral guidance.” Jerrigrace is featured in the acclaimed PBS documentaryA Family Undertaking,The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
Jerrigrace consults with individuals who wish to plan for their end of life at anytime in their life stream. She specializes in home funeral planning and is a certified MAiD (Medical Aid in Dying) Doula, supporting those who choose this option and those who are present to witness and hold space.
Jerrigrace is also a member of the SoCoElda (Sonoma County End of Life Doula Alliance).
What Students Are Saying
I really loved the breakout sessions and the ability to intimately connect with others, even though we were online. I got a lot out of the practices requiring us to examine ourselves and go through the self-inquiry and decision-making processes that we expect future clients & their families to do. Healer heal thyself! — Kirra
I thought the training was well-balanced between the practical “clinical” aspects: terminology, paperwork (AHCD), vital statistics, etc. and the personal and spiritual components like grappling with loss, considering our own death, when someone is afraid of dying, etc. All of the videos helped synthesize these teachings. I also appreciated that people were entering at all levels of experience. Listening to other people’s experiences and stories is so enriching.– Lisa
It was an honor to receive your sharing and teaching us about your work, your calling to it, and of yourself. For myself, I think most of all I appreciate your realness and being just plain comfortable with not only this work, but your place in it all. Thank you for that. The sense of ease you and Mark model is perhaps the best lesson of them all. With gratitude to you both — Sheila