End-of-Life University Ep. 510 Training Death Literacy Educators with Francesca Lynn Arnoldy
Learn about an exciting new training to become a Death Literacy Educator and teach in your community.
My return guest Francesca Lynn Arnoldy is a doula and a published researcher with the Vermont Conversation Lab and she runs a program for Death Literacy Educators. She is the author of The Death Doula’s Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared, My Death Journal, The Map of Memory Lane, and Cultivating the Doula Heart. Today she discusses the importance of training educators who can help our communities grow in knowledge, understanding, and awareness of death. Learn more at her website:
This episode includes:
- What is death literacy
- Why Francesca created this program
- Training includes curricula and also tools for running a workshop and market it
- Who might be interested in becoming a Death Literacy Educator
- Why this movement needs space holders and not exclusively people who are dealing with death and loss themselves
- What students experience during this training
- Importance of sharing stories about death and grief
- How the training helps students find clarity in their teaching and determine the content they prefer to teach
- Tutorials and tools offered during the training
- Grant created with Compassion & Choices to provide special training
- The value of “attentional listening”
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