BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Australia/Sydney X-WR-TIMEZONE:Australia/Sydney BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1149@naturaldeathcarecentre.org DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland;VALUE=DATE:20250509 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland;VALUE=DATE:20250512 DTSTAMP:20250424T102355Z URL:https://www.naturaldeathcarecentre.org/events/2025-christchurch-2-deat hwalker-training/ SUMMARY:2025 Christchurch #2 Deathwalker Training DESCRIPTION:This Training is now also full. If you want to take one of the two pending places please contact Zenith directly: zenithvirago@gmail.com or if you want to be on the standby list incase of a cancellation.\n\nThe Deathwalker Trainings with Zenith Virago are highly regarded and applicabl e to everyone.  They are an incredible\, invaluable and comprehensive bod y of work to start you off\, or to enhance your already rich personal or p rofessional experience. Simply\, for many people\, they are unexpectedly l ifechanging.\n\nZenith is an acknowledged\, respected Elder and pioneer pr actitioner for over 30 years in this profound work of hands-on experience with people.  She has been teaching\, pre-need\, end of life\, after-deat h care and powerful ceremony. She delivers everything with an embodied ope nness\, honesty and a candour that allows you to go deeper than you though t possible. Check out her website and many video links.\n\nOur definition of a Deathwalker is:-\n\n a person who walks their own journey towards th eir death as openly\, courageously and as best they can.\n a person who w alks with or accompanies others\, in their death or bereavement journey to encourage and empower them to be as open\, courageous and the best they c an. Offering guidance to encourage and empower everyone.\n\nThis 3 day non -residential Training is everything you need to know about death\, dying & amp\; ceremony\, covering social\, legal\, practical\, emotional and many other aspects of the journey.    This deep\, authentic work includes\, but is much more than just death doula work. Check out her website and man y video links.\n\nThis is an intensive\, informative and intimate workshop .  Enabling you to explore your relationship to your own death\, affirmin g what you may intrinsically know deep down\, caring or working with other s\, and preparing you by sharing and explaining multiple aspects of the de ath\, dying\, loss and ceremony process\, and so much more.\n\nShe brings a wealth of lived experience\, a hybrid of generosity\, for you to take wh at you need\, into a new\, richer place to do this work personally or prof essionally.  As a bonus it will help you face your own death with more aw areness and grace.  Listen to your heart\, find the experienced teacher t hat sings to you and opens you to a deeper awareness of life\, death\, yo urself and humanity.\n\nThis exceptional Training covers the whole spectru m of the well ness to bereavement journey its\, about knowing what your op tions are\, considering them\, and making the decisions that are right for you.  It is highly interactive\, amongst many others things it includes: \n\n Exploring and reframing more useful language\n Sustainable self-car e in caring or working with the dying &\; bereaved\n Pre-need legal in formation\, preparation and advocacy\n Transitioning from illness to dyin g\n Care for the dying and after-death body-care\n Expected and sudden d eath\n Shrouding &\; Body disposal options\n Really understanding Cer emony structure and content\n Working with trauma through ceremony\n Hea lthier bereavement and loss.\n\nCombining a hybrid of ancient and more con temporary ways of being present\, real and beneficial at a challenging tim e\, appropriate for everyone – for your own personal journey\, to accomp any a family member or friend\, to increase professional skills or if you feel you have a calling to some or all aspects of this work.\n\nClasses us ually comprise up to only 24 people\, allowing an intimate alchemy to aris e\, which encourages personal exploration\, growth and questions to also o ccur within the collective experience.\n\n*In some locations\, there is ba sic overnight accommodation so please contact us if you want to explore th at option.\n\nOn completion of Deathwalker Training\, participants receive a Certificate of Attendance.\n\nAfter careful consideration\, the NDCC ch ose not to become an RTO\, and not to offer an accredited Training. Curren tly it is not possible to describe yourself as a Qualified or Certified De athwalker.  If it was a certifiable course\, it would need to be much lo nger than 3 days\, and would require competency tasks and assessments.\n\n We decided to deliver this body of work\, universal knowledge and practica l information for people\, so they could add to or enhance their existing knowledge and experience. Their inherent capacity to do death well.  Rath er than create a much longer more complex and expensive course\, we trust each person will take this Training and allow it to evolve and grow them i n the most beneficial way for each person and their communities.\n\nSee Tr aining section for more detailed content info.\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Deathwalker Training LOCATION:Union Church\, 40 Winchester Road\, Lyttleton\, New Zealand\, New Zealand GEO:-43.602881;172.717872 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=40 Winchester Road\, Lyttle ton\, New Zealand\, New Zealand;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Union Church:ge o:-43.602881,172.717872 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Pacific/Auckland X-LIC-LOCATION:Pacific/Auckland BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20250406T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1300 TZOFFSETTO:+1200 TZNAME:NZST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR