Upcoming events.
All of our public-facing events are listed here, as well as events hosted by Friends of Your Morbid Friends (FoYMF).
Fall 2025 Death Doula Training with IDLM
Overview
At IDLM, we prioritize thorough learning and equipping our students with the necessary skills to become professional doulas in their respective communities. Our program caters to those who wish to assist their loved ones or pursue a career as a doula, and we provide support not only during the course but also after. As a part of our doula community, you will forge meaningful connections and receive the assistance you require to be a successful doula in your community.
The live Death/End of Life Doula Specialist Certification program will walk you through what you need to know in order to become a doula from a practicing standpoint and introduce you to ways to run a business and get your first clients. At IDLM, becoming a specialist as a Death/end of life doula involves training in various areas such as companion doula, contemplative doula, life planning, and end-of-life doula.
Topics Covered:
A Doula’s Guide to Personal Safety and Boundaries
Doula 101
Code of Ethics/Scope of Practice of a Doula
Inclusivity Practices LGBTQ+
Contemplative Doula
Contemplative Exercise and Care for the Doula and Caregiver
Getting in Touch with Your Own Mortality
Holding End of Life/Death Discussions
End of Life/ Death Discussions Tools
Introductions to Stages of End of Life
Part 1 & This How People Die by Barbara Karnes
Part 2 & 3 This How People Die by Barbara Karnes
Doula Apprenticeship – Stages of End of Life Care
Odonata Care:The Hospice Care Plan
Obituary and Eulogy/ Hospital and Vigil Planning/ Medical Aid & Dying/VSED
Coping with Grief and Loss For Doulas
Common Disease & Infection Control/PPE
Pedi Hospice and Parents Loss
Client Care, Safety,& Bedside Support
Companion Doula/Communication/ Tele Doula
Doulado & IDLM: Streamlining Your Doula Practice
Doula Paperwork, Agreements, & Forms
Doula Apprenticeship #2
IDLM Case Study Planning
Home Wakes / Cremation/Funerals/Green Options Celebrations and Ceremonies
Life Planning Doula/ EOL Paperwork/Planning
Caring for Clients and Their Pets at End of Life
Making Memories, Legacy
Religions/ Course Overview
In-Class Case Study Presentations
Presenting to your Community and Hospices
I am a Doula Practitioner
Free NEDA Prep & Free Business 101-7 Self-Pace Modules, with Workbooks.
Students receive updates for FREE.
Your morbid friends are eager to curate spaces to discuss topics around death and loss in accessible, integrated, and creative ways. Incorporating elements of mindfulness, embodiment, and community care, we aim to facilitate a space where people can recontextualize their mortality/grief with a healthy perspective.
We will meet every other week, virtually on Tuesday and in-person on Thursdays in Crown Heights, Brooklyn (with a fully virtual option).
In-person: $2500
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Virtual: $1500
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Spaces are limited, admission is on a rolling basis. If cost is a barrier, please reach out— we will offer a limited number of scholarship spots.
For more info, visit the International Doula Life Movement’s website, schedule a consult call, or send us an email.
Death Cafe for Psychonauts - with BPS
A Death Cafe is an open, respectful, and confidential space for people to gather, salon-style, to talk about death. This is not a support group or a counseling session. We meet as equals, as human beings, as mortals, sharing a slice of time and cake on our inexorable march towards death.
Pre-Inauguration Grief Circle
The political shift we’re experiencing has left many of us grappling with fear, doubt, and uncertainty about what’s ahead. As inauguration day approaches, the weight of these concerns feels heavier, and many of us are mourning what feels lost—stability, hope, and the vision of a more just future.
Led by Your Morbid Friends—two eldest daughters turned death doulas—this event offers a space to hold that grief together. In community, we can acknowledge the heaviness of this moment while finding solace in connection. While we’ll share gentle practices to ease anxiety and ground ourselves, the heart of this gathering is creating space for collective grief, reflection, and support.
Care for End-of-Life Carers
Calling all palliative and hospice care workers in NYC: join us at Sparrow: A Contemporary Funeral Home for an evening of community care via mini-workshops.
We know the emotional and physical effects of being close to death can place heavy demand on the mind/body/soul— making self and community care absolutely essential. Let us offer some decompression and integration for you on November 14th at 6:30.
We’ll have Cassandra from Your Morbid Friends to teach some movement for stress; Robin, the other half of YMF, for a guided meditation; and Jenine from Light Your Fire for reiki.
The evening will end with a community mixer led by Eva Ting from Here to Honor and Erica Hill of Sparrow.
Free event.
Register on Eventbrite
Spooky Speed Friending
Celebrate the spooky season with us and your new friends at our Spooky Speed Friending Event at Crossroads Cafe in Bushwick 🎃✨
We’ll have intentional questions around mortality and altered states of consciousness for you to use to inspire conversation and celebrate the season 🍄🟫👻🍂
This event is in collaboration with Queering Existentialism and the Psychedelic Sisterhood. We cannot wait to introduce you to our wonderful collaborators and hang with old & new friends.
Tickets are sliding-scale $15-25 and as always, email us if the cost is prohibitive- we want this to be an accessible event 🤍
Costumes encouraged!
Summer Death Picnic Series: Central Park Edition
No gimmicks, no agenda, just a desire to come together and face the future of what it means to be alive. This is not a support group or a counseling session. We meet as equals, as human beings, as mortals, sharing a slice of time and cake on our inexorable march towards death.
Eco-Grief Workshop at Green-Wood Cemetery
In a world increasingly defined by the climate crisis, the profound effects on our environment can stir deep feelings of fear, grief, and uncertainty. How do we address these emotions and honor our connection to the natural world?
Join us for Mourning for Nature, an interactive workshop set in the serene and reflective space of the Cemetery. Come together with others to explore and express the complex emotions associated with the changing environment. Through group activities like writing letters to extinct species, we will foster a deeper connection to nature and transform these feelings into meaningful action.
Price: Free. Registration required.
The workshop will take place outside and is a part of Climate Week at Green-Wood.
FoYMF: Death Cafe at Green-Wood Cemetery
The Death Cafe is a simple concept. Bring strangers together to discuss one of the great universal truths: death. With thousands of chapters in over 26 countries around the world, Death Cafes are informal gatherings that aim to “increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their lives.” There is no set agenda, but small group conversations might include thoughts on burial versus cremation, green burials, what music you want played at your funeral, or a personal experience you had dealing with grief.
Mindfulness of Death: Therapeutic Group Ketamine Session with Cardea and Your Morbid Friends
Your Morbid Friends is joining forces with Cardea, a therapeutic ketamine clinic in Manhattan, to offer an opportunity for participants to grow comfortable with the inevitable fate that unites all living beings: death. We hold space for you in an adapted practice of maraṇasati (mindfulness of death), found in Therevada Buddhism, which is when one contemplates the unpredictable and ever-present possibility of death. Through this practice, it is believed the practitioner can more fully embrace and appreciate what it means to be alive. There will also be somatic and creative exercises to help us explore.