SACRED CIRCLE TRAINING CO. CIC
Like birth, we want to bring death back where it belongs; in the hands and hearts of loved ones,
in the home and community, in sacred space.
As a Community Interest Company (CIC), we are a 'Non Profit' Company which values are closely centred around social and community benefit. Any assets our company acquires flow back into the community towards exciting and groundbreaking projects such as the Earth Hospice.
Our Team is growing! This section of the website is a work in progress...
The Social Enterprise has three directors, Su Barber, Alexandra Derwen and Nicky van Woerden. Nicky is leading on the development of Continuing Professional Development, Alexandra remains lead facilitator for the Death Doula and Community Death Educators course and Su supports Alexandra by co-facilitating Journey with Death.
A group of 12 facilitators followed a 2 year preparation between 2021 and 2023 to ready themselves to hold the Death Doula courses and we have facilitators in Ireland, UK, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain and speaking English, Spanish, German, Dutch and Slovak.
In Sept and Oct 2024 for the first time (with the exception of Slovakia where Jana Gorst established a sister school) the Death Doula courses ran without Alexandra: led by Tanya Bryan and Teresa O'Brien in Ireland and Yemaya Rodriguez and Marcela Scarpellini in Glastonbury. This was a tremendous milestone in the growth and scaling of the Work.
In 2025 the Death Doula course is running in Sweden with a facilitator team consisting of Alexandra Derwen, Willow Aislinn, Rebecca Tiger (Swedish) and Melina Pyykkönen (Finnish) and plans are afoot for Alexandra and Huia Takau to travel to Aotearoa in early 2026.
We are working to pull together the 2026 programme of courses, to allocate faciliators, to update their bios and photos to give you a rounded reflection of our amazing community. Watch this space!
