BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.6.4.4//EN TZID:Australia/Sydney X-WR-TIMEZONE:Australia/Sydney BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1146@naturaldeathcarecentre.org DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE:20260116 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney;VALUE=DATE:20260119 DTSTAMP:20260103T232107Z URL:https://www.naturaldeathcarecentre.org/events/2026-byron-shire-1-death walker-training/ SUMMARY:2026 #1 Byron Shire Deathwalker Training DESCRIPTION:THIS TRAINING IS NOW FULL. Due to demand we are offering 1 more Training in MAY.\n\nThe in-person Deathwalker Trainings with Zenith Virag o are a comprehensive and transformative experience. She has taught versio ns of this Training for over 25 years\, and has worked as a pioneer in mor e contemporary and holistic death care practices for over 30 years.  This Training includes aspects of death doula work\, but is much more comprehe nsive in its content\, as it also includes Ceremony creation and delivery. \n\nThe Deathwalker Trainings are highly regarded and have been delivered to people for their personal\, professional or complimentary use\, they ar e applicable to everyone.  They are an invaluable body of work to help st art you off\, wake you up\, or to enhance your already rich personal or pr ofessional experience. For many\, they are unexpectedly lifechanging.\n\nZ enith is an acknowledged\, respected Elder and pioneer practitioner in the profound work of hands-on end of life and after-death care.  She has bee n teaching\, pre-need\, end of life\, after-death care and powerful ceremo ny.  She delivers everything with an embodied openness\, honesty and a ca ndour that allows you to go deeper than you thought possible.  Check out her website\, TEDX talk and many video/audio links.\n\nOur definition of a Deathwalker is:-\n\n a person who walks their own journey towards their death as openly\, courageously and as best they can.\n a person who walks with or accompanies others\, in their death or bereavement journey to enc ourage and empower them to be as open\, courageous and the best they can. Offering guidance to encourage and empower everyone.\n\nZenith is trying t o offer the learnings from 30 years of experience in to this 3 day non-res idential Training. It is nearly everything you need to know about death\, dying &\; ceremony\, covering social\, legal\, practical\, emotional an d many other aspects of the journey. It is deep\, authentic work and inclu des\, but is much more than just death doula work. Check out her website a nd many video links.\n\nThis is an intensive\, informative and intimate wo rkshop.  Enabling you to explore your relationship to your own death\, af firming what you may intrinsically know deep down\, caring or working with others\, and preparing you by sharing and explaining multiple aspects of the death\, dying\, loss and ceremony process\, and so much more.\n\nShe b rings a wealth of lived experience\, a hybrid of generosity\, for you to t ake what you need\, into a new\, richer place to do this work personally o r professionally.  As a bonus it will help you face your own death with m ore awareness and grace.  Listen to your heart\, find the experienced tea cher that sings to you and opens you to a deeper awareness of life\, death \, yourself and humanity.\n\nThis exceptional Training covers the whole s pectrum from wellness to bereavement\, it’s about knowing what your opti ons are\, considering them\, and making the decisions that are right for y ou.  It is interactive between participants and Zenith\, amongst many oth ers things it includes:\n\n Exploring and reframing more useful language\ n Sustainable self-care in caring or working with the dying &\; bereav ed\n Pre-need legal information\, preparation and advocacy\n Transitioni ng from illness into dying\n Care for the dying and after-death body-care \n Expected and sudden death\n Shrouding &\; Body disposal options\n Understanding Ceremony structure and content\n Working with trauma throu gh ceremony\n Healthier bereavement and loss.\n\nCombining a hybrid of an cient and more contemporary ways of being present\, real and beneficial at a challenging time\, appropriate for everyone – for your own personal j ourney\, to accompany a family member or friend\, to increase professional skills or if you feel you have a calling to some or all aspects of this w ork.\n\nClasses comprise up to 24 people\, allowing an intimate alchemy to arise\, which encourages personal exploration\, growth and questions to a lso occur within the collective experience.\n\n*In some locations\, there is basic overnight accommodation so please contact us if you want to explo re that option.\n\nOn completion of Deathwalker Training\, participants re ceive a Certificate of Attendance.  After careful consideration\, the NDC C chose not to become an RTO\, and not to offer accredited Training. Curre ntly it is not possible to describe yourself as a Qualified or Certified D eathwalker.  If it was a certifiable course\, it would need to be much l onger than 3 days\, and would require competency tasks and assessments.\n\ nWe decided to deliver this body of work\, universal knowledge and practic al information for people\, so they could add to or enhance their existing knowledge and experience. Their inherent capacity to do death well.  Rat her 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 in the most beneficial way for each person and their communities.\n\nThere is a minimum requirement of 15 people to go ahead\, and to make the group fire together. If the minimum number is not reached 1 month out\, the Tra ining will be cancelled.  This has never happened so far.\n\nSee Training section for more detailed content info. LOCATION:Private Venue\, Main Arm Road\, Mullumbimby\, NSW\, 2482\, Austral ia X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Main Arm Road\, Mullumbimby \, NSW\, 2482\, Australia;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Private Venue:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Sydney X-LIC-LOCATION:Australia/Sydney BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20251005T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR