Welcome
Do you want to feel more confident dealing with death and dying in your professional role? Want to better equip your team to provide high quality end-of-life care? Want to ensure that your colleagues can support others after a bereavement?
Offering bespoke training, consultancy and support groups - we're here to help.
About Us
Our Founder
Our Approach
Our Approach
The Centre for Death Competency Development was founded by Dr Emma Clare. As a Chartered Psychologist with 12 years of experience in end-of-life care, a PhD focusing on the development of death competency in healthcare professionals and an MSc in the effects of death anxiety in hospital healthcare professionals, Emma has developed a uniqu
The Centre for Death Competency Development was founded by Dr Emma Clare. As a Chartered Psychologist with 12 years of experience in end-of-life care, a PhD focusing on the development of death competency in healthcare professionals and an MSc in the effects of death anxiety in hospital healthcare professionals, Emma has developed a unique approach to supporting those who deal with death and dying as part of their professional role.
Our Approach
Our Approach
Our Approach
We believe that training which focuses purely on teaching health and social care professionals the 'how to's' of death and dying misses a vital piece of the puzzle - teaching professionals to be aware of and manage their own relationship with death and dying. The CDCD approach helps our clients cultivate self-awareness of their own attitu
We believe that training which focuses purely on teaching health and social care professionals the 'how to's' of death and dying misses a vital piece of the puzzle - teaching professionals to be aware of and manage their own relationship with death and dying. The CDCD approach helps our clients cultivate self-awareness of their own attitudes and feelings regarding the end-of-life, identify their own barriers to having conversations about death and dying with those they support, and create actionable steps towards improving their death competency. This in turn means that our training can have lasting benefits for the individuals and organisations who work with us. Our ethos is that of human-ness - respecting that you are experts of your own experience and know best what will work for you, your colleagues, and in turn those you care for.
Our Services
Our Approach
Our Services
With your knowledge of your staff team, and our knowledge of how to support death competency development, our services are designed to be a partnership. We offer a range of training and consultancy services for health and social care professionals and organisations, including one-on-one sessions, workshops, tailored consultancy to help se
With your knowledge of your staff team, and our knowledge of how to support death competency development, our services are designed to be a partnership. We offer a range of training and consultancy services for health and social care professionals and organisations, including one-on-one sessions, workshops, tailored consultancy to help services foster death competency development within their staff teams, and support groups. Our offerings can be adapted to be setting specific - for example our workshops are each specifically designed for professionals working in hospital, hospice, care and nursing home, and community care settings.