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:1150@naturaldeathcarecentre.org DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland;VALUE=DATE:20260328 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland;VALUE=DATE:20260331 DTSTAMP:20250929T092257Z URL:https://www.naturaldeathcarecentre.org/events/2026-nelson-aotearoa-nz- deathwalker-training/ SUMMARY:2026 Nelson\, Aotearoa NZ Deathwalker Training DESCRIPTION:The in-person Deathwalker Trainings with Zenith Virago are a co mprehensive and transformative experience. She has taught versions of this Training for over 25 years\, and has worked as a pioneer in more contempo rary and holistic death care practices for over 30 years.  This Training includes aspects of death doula work\, but is much more comprehensive in i ts content\, as it also includes Ceremony creation and delivery.\n\nThe De athwalker Trainings are highly regarded and have been delivered to people for their personal\, professional or complimentary use\, they are applicab le to everyone.  They are an invaluable body of work to help start you of f\, wake you up\, or to enhance your already rich personal or professional experience. For many\, they are unexpectedly lifechanging.\n\nZenith is a n acknowledged\, respected Elder and pioneer practitioner in the profound work of hands-on end of life 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 than you thought possible.  Check out her websit e\, TEDX talk and many video/audio links.\n\nOur definition of a Deathwalk er is:-\n\n a person who walks their own journey towards their death as o penly\, courageously and as best they can.\n a person who walks with or a ccompanies others\, in their death or bereavement journey to encourage and empower them to be as open\, courageous and the best they can. Offering g uidance to encourage and empower everyone.\n\nZenith is trying to offer th e learnings from 30 years of experience in to this 3 day non-residential T raining. It is nearly everything you need to know about death\, dying & \; ceremony\, covering social\, legal\, practical\, emotional and many oth er aspects of the journey. It is deep\, authentic work and includes\, but is much more than just death doula work. Check out her website and many vi deo links.\n\nThis is an intensive\, informative and intimate workshop.  Enabling you to explore your relationship to your own death\, affirming wh at 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 brings a we alth of lived experience\, a hybrid of generosity\, for you to take what y ou need\, into a new\, richer place to do this work personally or professi onally.  As a bonus it will help you face your own death with more awaren ess and grace.  Listen to your heart\, find the experienced teacher that sings to you and opens you to a deeper awareness of life\, death\, yourse lf and humanity.\n\nThis exceptional Training covers the whole spectrum fr om wellness to bereavement\, it’s about knowing what your options are\, considering them\, and making the decisions that are right for you.  It i s interactive between participants and Zenith\, amongst many others things it includes:\n\n Exploring and reframing more useful language\n Sustain able self-care in caring or working with the dying &\; bereaved\n Pre- need legal information\, preparation and advocacy\n Transitioning from il lness into dying\n Care for the dying and after-death body-care\n Expect ed and sudden death\n Shrouding &\; Body disposal options\n Understan ding Ceremony structure and content\n Working with trauma through ceremon y\n Healthier bereavement and loss.\n\nCombining a hybrid of ancient and more contemporary ways of being present\, real and beneficial at a challen ging time\, appropriate for everyone – for your own personal journey\, t o 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 work.\n\nCl asses comprise up to 24 people\, allowing an intimate alchemy to arise\, w hich encourages personal exploration\, growth and questions to also occur within the collective experience.\n\n*In some locations\, there is basic o vernight accommodation so please contact us if you want to explore that op tion.\n\nOn completion of Deathwalker Training\, participants receive a Ce rtificate of Attendance.  After careful consideration\, the NDCC chose no t to become an RTO\, and not to offer accredited Training. Currently it is not possible to describe yourself as a Qualified or Certified Deathwalker .  If it was a certifiable course\, it would need to be much longer than 3 days\, and would require competency tasks and assessments.\n\nWe decide d to deliver this body of work\, universal knowledge and practical informa tion for people\, so they could add to or enhance their existing knowledge and experience. Their inherent capacity to do death well.  Rather than c reate a much longer more complex and expensive course\, we trust each pers on will take this Training and allow it to evolve and grow them in the mos t beneficial way for each person and their communities.\n\nThere is a mini mum requirement of 15 people to go ahead\, and to make the group fire toge ther. If the minimum number is not reached 1 month out\, the Training will be cancelled.  This has never happened so far.\n\nSee Training section f or more detailed content info. CATEGORIES:Deathwalker Training LOCATION:Le Cren Room\, The Broadgreen Centre\, 276 Nayland Road \, Stoke\, \, Nelson\, South Island\, New Zealand GEO:-41.308935;173.228873 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=276 Nayland Road \, Stoke\, \, Nelson\, South Island\, New Zealand;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Le Cren Room\, The Broadgreen Centre:geo:-41.308935,173.228873 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Pacific/Auckland X-LIC-LOCATION:Pacific/Auckland BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250928T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1200 TZOFFSETTO:+1300 TZNAME:NZDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR