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:1145@naturaldeathcarecentre.org DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne;VALUE=DATE:20260424 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne;VALUE=DATE:20260427 DTSTAMP:20260104T073650Z URL:https://www.naturaldeathcarecentre.org/events/2026-melbourne-deathwalk er-training/ SUMMARY:2026 Melbourne Deathwalker Training DESCRIPTION:THIS TRAINING IS NOW FULL. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING ON TH E WAIT LIST\, PLEASE SEND AMN EMAIL. OFTEN THINGS CHANGE.  ALSO LOOK AT T HE OTHER TRAININGS IN CASE YOU CAN ATTEND ANOTHER ONE.\n\nThe in-person De athwalker Trainings with Zenith Virago are a comprehensive and transformat ive experience. She has taught versions of this Training for over 25 years \, and has worked as a pioneer in more contemporary and holistic death car e practices for over 30 years.  This Training includes aspects of death d oula work\, but is much more comprehensive in its content\, as it also inc ludes Ceremony creation and delivery.\n\nThe Deathwalker Trainings are hig hly regarded and have been delivered to people for their personal\, profes sional or complimentary use\, they are applicable to everyone.  They are an invaluable body of work to help start you off\, wake you up\, or to enh ance your already rich personal or professional experience. For many\, the y are unexpectedly lifechanging.\n\nZenith is an acknowledged\, respected Elder and pioneer practitioner in the profound work of hands-on end of lif e and after-death care.  She has been teaching\, pre-need\, end of life\, after-death care and powerful ceremony.  She delivers everything with an embodied openness\, honesty and a candour that allows you to go deeper th an you thought possible.  Check out her website\, TEDX talk and many vide o/audio links.\n\nOur definition of a Deathwalker is:-\n\n a person who w alks their own journey towards their death as openly\, courageously and as best they can.\n a person who walks with or accompanies others\, in thei r death or bereavement journey to encourage and empower them to be as open \, courageous and the best they can. Offering guidance to encourage and em power everyone.\n\nZenith is trying to offer the learnings from 30 years o f experience in to this 3 day non-residential Training. It is nearly every thing you need to know about death\, dying &\; ceremony\, covering soci al\, legal\, practical\, emotional and many other aspects of the journey. It is deep\, authentic work and includes\, but is much more than just deat h doula work. Check out her website and many video links.\n\nThis is an in tensive\, informative and intimate workshop.  Enabling you to explore you r relationship to your own death\, affirming what you may intrinsically kn ow deep down\, caring or working with others\, and preparing you by sharin g and explaining multiple aspects of the death\, 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 what you need\, into a new\, rich er place to do this work personally or professionally.  As a bonus it wil l help you face your own death with more awareness and grace.  Listen to your heart\, find the experienced teacher that sings to you and opens you to a deeper awareness of life\, death\, yourself and humanity.\n\nThis ex ceptional Training covers the whole spectrum from wellness to bereavement\ , it’s about knowing what your options are\, considering them\, and maki ng the decisions that are right for you.  It is interactive between parti cipants and Zenith\, amongst many others things it includes:\n\n Explorin g and reframing more useful language\n Sustainable self-care in caring or working with the dying &\; bereaved\n Pre-need legal information\, pr eparation and advocacy\n Transitioning from illness into dying\n Care fo r the dying and after-death body-care\n Expected and sudden death\n Shro uding &\; Body disposal options\n Understanding Ceremony structure and content\n Working with trauma through ceremony\n Healthier bereavement and loss.\n\nCombining a hybrid of ancient and more contemporary ways of b eing present\, real and beneficial at a challenging time\, appropriate for everyone – for your own personal journey\, to accompany a family member or friend\, to increase professional skills or if you feel you have a cal ling to some or all aspects of this work.\n\nClasses comprise up to 24 peo ple\, allowing an intimate alchemy to arise\, which encourages personal ex ploration\, growth and questions to also occur within the collective exper ience.\n\n*In some locations\, there is basic overnight accommodation so p lease contact us if you want to explore that option.\n\nOn completion of D eathwalker Training\, participants receive a Certificate of Attendance.  After careful consideration\, the NDCC chose not to become an RTO\, and no t to offer accredited Training. Currently it is not possible to describe y ourself as a Qualified or Certified Deathwalker.  If it was a certifiabl e course\, it would need to be much longer than 3 days\, and would require competency tasks and assessments.\n\nWe decided to deliver this body of w ork\, universal knowledge and practical information for people\, so they c ould add to or enhance their existing knowledge and experience. Their inhe rent capacity to do death well.  Rather than create a much longer more co mplex 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 p erson and their communities.\n\nThere is a minimum requirement of 15 peopl e to go ahead\, and to make the group fire together. If the minimum number is not reached 1 month out\, the Training will be cancelled.  This has n ever happened so far.\n\nSee Training section for more detailed content in fo. CATEGORIES:Deathwalker Training LOCATION:The Michael Centre\, 37A Wellington Park Drive\, Warrenwood\, Aust ralia GEO:-37.776974;145.244171 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=37A Wellington Park Drive\, Warrenwood\, Australia;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The Michael Centre:geo: -37.776974,145.244171 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Melbourne X-LIC-LOCATION:Australia/Melbourne BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20260405T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR