Self-Study Course

Understanding the Deathwalker's Path

A guide to the journey — for ordinary mortals, death doulas, and helping professionals. 

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Self-Study Course

Understanding the Deathwalker's Path

A guide to the journey, for ordinary mortals, death doulas, and helping professionals. 

REGISTER

Wondering why you’re drawn to death? 

If you feel pulled to support dying and grieving people, the archetypal pattern of the Deathwalker is likely active in you.

This healing energy is yearning to be met, validated, and expressed in service of your community.  

Take heart. You’ve come to the right place.

Wondering why you’re drawn to death?


If you feel pulled to support dying and grieving people, the archetypal pattern of the Deathwalker is likely active in you.

This healing energy is yearning to be met, validated, and expressed in service of your community.  

Take heart. You’ve come to the right place.

Step into the role you were built for

Make sense of yourself and your deathly experiences.

Validate your intuition about death and the afterlife.

Begin to ground and embody your Deathwalker identity. 

There’s a name for what you feel:
 it’s the path of the Deathwalker.

It has roots, lineage, purpose, and meaning.

What is a Deathwalker?

A Deathwalker is someone who is drawn to offer soul-support to dying people and their families.

Being a Deathwalker is about who you are, not what you do, or what you have done. 

Perhaps you have a lot of experience, or perhaps very little, it doesn’t matter.   

If you feel an inner impulse nudging you towards this path, you are a Deathwalker.  

✤ You may have deathwalked a loved one, but didn’t have a name for what you were doing.  

✤ You may support dying or grieving people in your work, and feel an affinity with the more spiritual aspects of the journey. 

✤ You may simply feel pulled to support people at the threshold, without knowing how that will play out in your life. 

What is a Deathwalker?

A Deathwalker is someone who is drawn to offer soul-support to dying people and their families.

Being a Deathwalker is about who you are, not what you do, or what you have done. 

Perhaps you have a lot of experience, or perhaps very little, it doesn’t matter.   

If you feel an inner impulse nudging you towards this path, you are a Deathwalker.  

✤ You may have deathwalked a loved one, but didn’t have a name for what you were doing.  

✤ You may support dying or grieving people in your work, and feel an affinity with the more spiritual aspects of the journey. 

✤ You may simply feel pulled to support people at the threshold, without knowing how that will play out in your life. 

Signs the Deathwalker Archetype May Be Active in You:  


✤ You have a sense that death is part of your life’s path, even if you don’t exactly know what that looks like yet. 

✤ You’re the one people turn to when there’s been a death, and you know what to do, even if you don’t know how you know it.

✤ You may be sensitive to spiritual energies, or have had mystical experiences around death or dead people. 

✤ You might have been initiated by your own grief and significant losses and now you want to turn your pain into purpose.

✤ You know that death doesn’t have to be as hard as we make it in dominant culture, and you want to help change that.

Signs the Deathwalker Archetype May Be Active in You:  


✤ You have a sense that death is part of your life’s path, even if you don’t exactly know what that looks like yet. 

✤ You’re the one people turn to when there’s been a death, and you know what to do, even if you don’t know how you know it.

✤ You may be sensitive to spiritual energies, or have had mystical experiences around death or dead people. 

✤ You might have been initiated by your own grief and significant losses and now you want to turn your pain into purpose.

✤ You know that death doesn’t have to be as hard as we make it in dominant culture, and you want to help change that.

Common Challenges for Emerging Deathwalkers:


✤ Not knowing if your experiences around death mean something, or if the impulse you feel is valid. 


✤ Feeling alone in your sensitivities and intuition, perhaps even wondering if you’re making it all up. 


✤ No language to explain—to yourself or to others—what you feel and understand about death. 

✤ Doubting your skills, capacity, legitimacy or qualification, and then dismissing or hiding your gifts. 


✤ Worrying that your interest is “too much”, “too strange”, or that you may cause harm.  


✤ Being judged by family, friends, or coworkers for your interest or experiences around death. 


✤ Yearning for peers and mentorship, and a lineage that feels trustworthy, ethical, and inclusive. 

Common Challenges for Emerging Deathwalkers:


✤  Not knowing if your experiences around death mean something, or if the impulse you feel is valid. 


✤ Feeling alone in your sensitivities and intuition, perhaps even wondering if you’re making it all up. 


✤ No language to explain—to yourself or to others—what you feel and understand about death. 

✤ Doubting your skills, capacity, legitimacy or qualification, and then dismissing or hiding your gifts. 


✤ Worrying that your interest is “too much”, “too strange”, or that you may cause harm.  


✤ Being judged by family, friends, or coworkers for your interest or experiences around death. 


✤ Yearning for peers and mentorship, and a lineage that feels trustworthy, ethical, and inclusive. 

When you name and claim your Deathwalker medicine, your whole life will begin to align.  

 What you feel is real

Find your next steps

The Deathwalker energy can be emotionally potent but unformed when it arises.  

To be put into practice, your healing gift needs to be given structure and direction.

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 What you feel is real

Find your next steps

The Deathwalker energy can be emotionally potent but unformed when it arises.  

To be put into practice, your healing gift needs to be given structure and direction.

REGISTER

"My mind, body, and spirit have been longing for this depth of reflection my whole life."

– Gretchen P.

"When I heard about the archetype of the Deathwalker, I said, This is me! This is the name of what I could not name!"

– Susanne R.

"It feels like coming home to what has always been a part of me, but I didn't know how to access."

– Priya L.

"When I heard about the archetype of the Deathwalker, I said, This is me! This is the name of what I could not name!"

– Susanne R.

"My mind, body, and spirit have been longing for this depth of reflection my whole life."

– Gretchen P.

"It feels like coming home to what has always been a part of me, but I didn't know how to access."

– Priya L.

Course Content

Module 1

Welcome and Orientation  

  •  Validate what brings you here and why it matters 
  • Realize you’re not alone in your draw to deathcare  
  • Understand the transformative nature of this path  
Module 2

The Deathwalker Archetype 

  •  Understand the archetypal pattern of the Deathwalker  
  • Learn how this pattern can explain your experiences 
  •  Locate yourself in a lineage of ancestral healers 
Module 3

Challenges on the Path

  • Understand why this journey often feels unsupported 
  • Separate personal doubt from cultural dysfunction 
  • Release stories that frame a draw to death as “wrong” 
Module 4

 Imposter Syndrome

  • Understand the patterns of self-doubt in deathcare 
  • Soften your concerns around legitimacy and visibility 
  • Begin to quiet the voices that say you’re not enough 
Module 5

The Gift of Sacred Deathcare 

  • Find a new lens for life, death, and the afterlife 
  • Discover the power of a soul-based approach 
  • Celebrate ritual as a pragmatic healing modality 
Module 6

The Path of Initiation 

  • Reframe your deathly journey as initiatory 
  • Explore grief and loss as powerful teachers 
  • Choose your path with consciousness and intention 
Module 7

 Everyday 
Deathwalkers 

  • Understand that Deathwalker is not a job title 
  • Affirm the value of supporting family and friends 
  •  Validate your unique expression of this gift
Module 8

Practicalities for Practitioners 

  • Differentiate Deathwalkers and Death Doulas 
  • Learn about training, certification, and legalities 
  • Understand payment and career opportunities 
Module 9

Moving Forward From Here 

  • Explore options for further learning and mentorship 
  • Learn to recognize aligned teachers and programs 
  • Map your own personal path for learning and service   

Translate your feelings into grounded knowing and service.   

$227 USD

PAY IN FULL $227 2 PAYMENTS OF $117

Translate your feelings into grounded knowing and service.   

$227 USD

PAY IN FULL $227 2 PAYMENTS OF $117

9 Video teaching modules 

A Record of Completion 

Downloadable workbook   

Lifetime access to recordings 

The Sacred Deathcare Learning Journey

We offer two courses to help you bring structure and direction to the Deathwalker energy inside you.

1. Understanding the Deathwalker’s Path is this self-study, 9-module course to ground and orient you on the journey. It will validate and help you better understand the medicine you carry.

2. The Sacred Deathcare Guide Certification Program is our 6-month initiatory immersion into soul-based healing, where you can grow your healing gifts from potential into practice.

Wondering where to start?

We recommend beginning with Understanding the Deathwalker's Path.

Starting here is risk-free — 100% of the tuition from this course can be applied towards the Certification Program if you choose to continue your learning.

your teacher

Sarah Kerr, PhD

Sarah is a Death Doula, Sacred Deathcare Educator, and Systemic Constellation Facilitator.

With a PhD in Transformative Learning and a focus on ritual and rites of passage, Sarah’s approach blends the spiritual with the pragmatic. Sarah has almost three decades of hands-on training in spiritual and shamanic healing practices. She offers a clear roadmap for students and clients who are called to meet death and loss in a soul-based way.

As an experienced teacher and trainer, Sarah has helped thousands of students validate their intuitive knowing that death is a soul-journey, not just a physical experience.

In addition to creating the Centre for Sacred Deathcare’s library of courses and programs, Sarah lectures and teaches internationally.

your teacher

Sarah Kerr, PhD

Sarah is a Death Doula, Sacred Deathcare Educator, and Systemic Constellation Facilitator.

With a PhD in Transformative Learning and a focus on ritual and rites of passage, Sarah’s approach blends the spiritual with the pragmatic. Sarah has almost three decades of hands-on training in spiritual and shamanic healing practices. She offers a clear roadmap for students and clients who are called to meet death and loss in a soul-based way.

As an experienced teacher and trainer, Sarah has helped thousands of students validate their intuitive knowing that death is a soul-journey, not just a physical experience.

In addition to creating the Centre for Sacred Deathcare’s library of courses and programs, Sarah lectures and teaches internationally.

"It feels amazing to know there is so much support and structure for this path in the spiritual realms. "

– Nia W.

"Nothing has ever spoken so clearly and concisely to this part of me, or answered so many questions I didn’t know I had."

– Taron A. 

"From your first sentence to the very last, I felt such relief that there are words that express the journey I feel I am on."

– Jocinta W.

"It feels amazing to know there is so much support and structure for this path in the spiritual realms. "

– Nia W.

"Nothing has ever spoken so clearly and concisely to this part of me, or answered so many questions I didn’t know I had."

– Taron A. 

"From your first sentence to the very last, I felt such relief that there are words that express the journey I feel I am on."

– Jocinta W.

Give your soul’s
knowing a home.

Validate what you intuitively know about death and loss. 
Step onto your path of healing, learning, and service. 

REGISTER

Give your soul’s
knowing a home.

Validate what you intuitively know about death and loss. 
 

Step onto your path of healing, learning, and service. 

REGISTER