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FEATURED GUESTS:

Olivia Bareham

Founder of Sacred Crossings – The Institute for Conscious Dying and Sacred Crossings Funeral Home
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Olivia is a Death Midwife, Home Funeral Guide, Celebrant and facilitator of The Art of Death Midwifery certificate training program
 
Rev. Olivia Bareham, founder of Sacred Crossings and Sacred Crossings Funeral Home is a certified Death Midwife, Home Funeral Guide and Celebrant. She holds bachelors degrees in Education and Natural Theology and Sacred Healing and is an ordained Inter-faith Minister.  Olivia’s experience as an auxiliary geriatric nurse, hospice volunteer and hands-on-healer inspired her to create Sacred Crossings in 2005 with the vision of changing the culture of death and dying through education, death midwifery and home funerals.  Currently Olivia counsels bedside with the dying in Los Angeles; manages the Sacred Crossings Funeral Home offering green and conscious alternatives to conventional funeral practices and facilitates classes and workshops in conscious dying and a certificate training program in  ‘The Art of Death Midwifery’ ​
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Workshop A: Home Funeral 101 - Basic Body Care

Sunday, 9:00am
A home funeral conference staple, this session walks participants through natural death care of the body for an expected death at home:  setting features, bathing and dressing, hygiene; use of cooling agents; what you need to have on hand; what role home funeral guides play and what the family is responsible for; and ceremonial aspects of the experience. Learn from the best, Jerrigrace Lyons of Final Passages, Olivia Bareham of Sacred Crossings, and Claire Turnham of Only with Love.

Workshop C: Home Funeral 201 - Advanced Body Care Practices

 Sunday, 10:45am
Building on the basics of BodyCare 101, in this session Jerrigrace Lyons, Olivia Bareham, and Claire Turnham take a deeper dive into care of the body; how to move the body; casketing and shrouding; and the role of the home funeral guide following complicated situations (sudden death, stillbirth after autopsy/organ donation repair, pacemaker removal, etc.)

Other Featured Guests


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BARBARA McAFEE
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CLAIRE TURNHAM
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ANNE MURPHY
DINA STANDER
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RON BARRETT
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AMY CUNNINGHAM
HEIDI BOUCHER
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REV. JOY CAIRES
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SARAH KERR
JERRIGRACE LYONS
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ELLEN HUFSCHMIDT
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PIA INTERLANDI

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  • Home
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  • Resources
    • About Home Funerals >
      • What Is A Home Funeral?
      • Body Care & Cooling
    • State Requirements
    • Books, Videos, Podcasts, and More
    • NHFA Webinars
    • A Path Home Podcast
  • About
    • History of the NHFA
    • Our Board of Directors
  • Join
    • Become a Member
    • Community Chats
  • Support
    • Donate
    • NHFA Merch Store