Walking Beside Death

Walking Beside Death

Online
Monday, March 9, 2026 - 19:00 to Monday, March 23, 2026 - 20:30
Personal Growth
Spiritual
Wellbeing
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Soften your relationship with Death with Felicity Warner
Description: 

This 3 part online course invites you to soften your relationship with Death – not by confronting it forcefully, but by walking alongside it as a quiet companion. Through reflection, conversation, simple practices, and storytelling, Felicity Warner will explore how awareness of Death can deepen aliveness, meaning, and tenderness toward life.

This is a course for exploration, curiosity and inspiration...it is not a therapy group.

Week 1 – Mon 9 March

Curiosity instead of fear – our first memories of Death
Death as a companion, not an enemy
What feelings arise when we hear the word Death
Re-framing Death as something we already walk with
Noticing life because Death exists

Week 2 – Mon 16 March

What Death teaches us about how to live
How impermanence may be a teacher
Everything changes
Why knowing this can make life more precious
How avoidance of Death often numbs joy as well as pain
Short visualisation

Week 3 – Mon 23 March

Walking with Death into Life – integrating Death awareness into everyday living
and carrying the practice forward
Befriending Death over a lifetime
Death as a quiet guide, not a constant focus
Learning to “walk alongside” rather than obsess or avoid
How do I want to live differently knowing Death walks with me?

About the speaker, Felicity Warner

Felicity Warner, founder of the global Soul Midwives Movement, lectures both nationally and internationally and runs The Soul Midwives’ School, based in Dorset. Its unique training programme teaches holistic and spiritual care for the end of life.

She has won many awards for her work with the dying and created the idea of soul midwifery after sitting with many hundreds of people at the end of life. Her pioneering work has brought a new dimension to holistic and spiritual palliative care, both in the UK and abroad (there are now soul midwives working in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa).

She was named “End of Life Care champion” by the National Council for Palliative Care and also in “End of Life Doula”in 2017 as well as being of the year and was named an Inspirational Woman of the Year by the Daily Mail.

She is author of four acclaimed books – Gentle Dying and A Safe Journey Home, The Soul Midwives’ Handbook and Sacred Oils- 20 Precious Oils to heal Spirit and Soul and was made an honorary knowledge exchange fellow of The University of Winchester in 2014 .

She explains: ‘My aim is to have a Soul Midwife in every hospital, care home and hospice within the next five years in the UK. We now have over 800 Soul Midwives in the UK"

Soul midwives employ sophisticated knowledge of the dying process to ease the passage towards death and bring relief from fear and suffering. Felicity is a passionate campaigner for raising standards of care at the end of life.

From volunteering in local hospices and working one-to-one with dying people in the last days of life, she developed the Gentle Dying method( now called TLC) which offers comfort when medicine has reached its limits. It can be learned and used by any one, in any care setting, to make death a peaceful and dignified experience.

She runs large workshops at public events including the Mind, Body and Spirit Festival in London, Alternatives, the College of Psychic Studies, London, Universities and hospitals including the Royal Marsden in London.

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7pm
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8.30pm
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