Conversations with a Death Doula – Walking with our Mortality with Wilka Roig
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Wilka Roig brings a broad perspective to her work in end-of-life wellness as a transpersonal psychologist, death doula, grief counsellor, dream worker, ordained minister, educator and facilitator. She holds a MA in Transpersonal Psychology and has trained with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés in Archetypal and Cross-Cultural Psychology, and with Dr. Gabor Maté in Compassionate Inquiry. We discuss the emerging role of the death doula and the overarching attitude towards death in Western culture. We consider how people come to work with a death doula, what may happen during the death transition and how preparing well for death actually enriches life. We also discuss how a person’s beliefs might inform their relationship to death and the knowing that guides the facilitation of transition. Wilka invites us to broaden our relationship to transitions, and emphasises living fully and dying gracefully. She explains how death is happening at many levels, much of the time, and how grief can be dealt with wisely. We also discuss death denial, how dreams inform life, altered states, and the possibilities for integrating Curanderismo, Tibetan Buddhism and other approaches to the death process. Ultimately, Wilka provides us with an expansive and integrative view of what a death doula is and can be.
Wilka is president of the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation branch in Central Mexico, deputy director of education of EKR Foundation Global, end-of-life doula educator and advisor of the International End of Life Doula Association, curriculum coordinator for the International Study of the Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath and Death, and Advisory Council member of Beautiful Dying Expo. She is also an affiliate of Death Cafe, and administrator of Death Café Mexico. Wilka additionally apprentices with medicine women in Mexico, where she resides, and trains in Curanderismo and Equine & Nature Therapies.
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