There are six live lessons held weekly on Zoom with the instructor and other students. Classes are 2 hours long with a short break included. There are additional on-demand videos, some of which are required watching before the course starts.

Classes meet Sundays from 1:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern (10:00 am Pacific, 12:00 noon Central). You'll receive a link to the zoom meeting before your first class begins.

During our time together, you’ll build an end of life ceremony from start to finish using one of our challenging case studies. Week by week you'll add skills: creating an outline, to writing parts of the ceremony, to crafting rituals, to writing the eulogy, and finally adding music and readings. The final assignment is a written version of the completed ceremony and a short committal ceremony. Students who want more confidence and skills in presenting ceremonies may want to add our Public Speaking and Presentation Skills course to their calendar.

Our courses have fixed start and end dates. Final assignments for the End of Life Ceremonies course are due a week after the last class. The class syllabus will spell out this information, and you can ask the instructor if you're in doubt.

Yes! Be prepared to do between 1-4 hours of work outside of class, depending on the week’s assignment. We put the most challenging assignment in the middle of the course so you're moderately grounded in the material, yet still have time to get feedback for improvement. The first week and second-to-last week tend to be lighter on work outside of class.

We intentionally have a 12 student maximum in our courses. This allows our instructors to get to know you and your goals better. They also have more time available to give feedback and field questions. We also like to have a minimum of 5 students. Ceremonies are so unique that it helps students significantly to see how their classmates interpret the assignments and to hear feedback on other work.

Course materials and assignments are available on our learning platform. After enrolling in the course, you'll receive instructions on how to access and navigate the platform to find course resources. If you haven’t received this information at least one week before the start of the class, please contact us so we can make sure you’re registered and we have your correct contact information. 

With an intimate class size, we interact with the material, pause where there’s interest in going deeper, raise questions, role play, and have discussions. We encourage students to be active participants. Outside of class time, instructors are usually available by email or have standing office hours where you can ‘drop in’ for questions, guidance, feedback, and encouragement. Occasionally students connect outside of class to role play and brainstorm.