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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation Online Learning
Self-paced online courses built from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s own books, recordings, and workshops, taught by the Foundation and by people who worked beside her. Available worldwide, with lifetime access.
COURSES
On Death and Dying
The book that changed how the world talks about dying, taught chapter by chapter. Learn what Dr. Kübler-Ross’s patients taught her, how the model developed, and how it holds up against challenges of today’s medicine. For clinicians, chaplains, nurses, death doulas, students, and readers of the book.
20 modules · 36 lessons · Self-paced · Taught by Ken Ross, the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation
Enroll — $79
The Five Stages of Grief®
The Five Stages as Dr. Kübler-Ross taught them, and how to use them with a person in front of you without turning them into a checklist. Learn how the stages evolved from 1968–1974. For death doulas, nurses, social workers, hospital staff, and anyone going through grief.
6 modules · 30 lessons · 4 knowledge checks · Self-paced · Taught by the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation
The Universal Laws of Kübler-Ross
The principles Dr. Kübler-Ross taught in her Life, Death, and Transition workshops, drawn from the material of workshop leader Larry Lincoln. For workshop alumni and anyone seeking her broader teaching.
13 laws · 43 lessons · Self-paced · Taught by Larry Lincoln, former head of the Life, Death, and Transition Workshops, from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s original teaching
The 4 Quadrants
Dr. Kübler-Ross’s map of the whole person: physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual. A framework for seeing where a patient or mourner is being cared for and where they are being missed. For clinicians, chaplains, and anyone in a caring role.
Unfinished Business
The concept Dr. Kübler-Ross returned to more than any other: the unspoken words, unresolved conflicts, and unlived parts of life that surface at the end. How to recognize unfinished business in patients and families, why it drives so much of the fear and struggle around dying, and how to help people complete it while there is still time. For hospice and palliative staff, counselors, chaplains, and family caregivers.
Grief and Bereavement in Childhood
How children understand death at each age, how their grief differs from adult grief, and how to support a grieving child at home, at school, and in care settings. For parents, teachers, school counselors, and pediatric staff.
The Trauma of Loss
An introduction to grief for everyone. Seventeen short lessons on what loss does to a person and what actually helps, grounded in Dr. Kübler-Ross’s work. For the bereaved, their families, and those who support them.
COMING SOON
Introduction to Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Her life and work, told with firsthand recollections from her family and the people who worked beside her.
Kübler-Ross on Symbolic Language: The Verbal Language of the Dying
How dying patients and children signal what they know and need, in words that families and staff too often miss.
Listening to the Dying
Her interview method: how she got patients to speak, what she did with silence, and what she learned to hear.
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COMMUNITY OUTREACH
The Foundation also offers live events on grief, loss, and Dr. Kübler-Ross’s work, led by Susan Barber, our Community Outreach Manager. Talks, workshops, and community gatherings, online and in person, open to everyone.
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Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s Legacy
The Foundation’s courses are drawn from the seven areas of Dr. Kübler-Ross’s work outlined below. Courses now available are listed above; others are in development.
I The Wheel of Life
– Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Model of Inspiration
– Lessons from EKR’s Life
– Her Firsthand Legacy: Family, Colleagues, and Students
II On Death & Dying
– Lessons from the Dying / The Patient as Teacher
– EKR Speaking to Dying Patients
– The Stages of Dying
– How the Stages Evolved, 1968–1974: From the First Interviews to the Model We Know
– Truth-Telling and the Conspiracy of Silence
– The Family as Patient
– Children and Death
– Bioethics
– Hospice and Palliative Care
– The Four Quadrants: Caring for the Whole Person
III On Grief & Grieving
– The Five Stages of Grief
– The Kübler-Ross Change Curve
– The Trauma of Loss
– Children and Grief
– Grief and Bereavement in Childhood
IV Unfinished Business
– Unfinished Business at the End of Life
– Completing Unfinished Business with Patients and Families
– The Living Funeral and Saying Goodbye
V Life, Death, and Transition
– The LDT Workshops and Externalization
– The Universal Laws of Kübler-Ross
– Countertransference
– Facing and Understanding Death
– Challenging Your Fears and Perspective
– Care of the Caregiver
– Death: The Final Stage of Growth
VI The Language of the Dying and the Grieving
– Symbolic Language: Verbal
– Symbolic Language: Nonverbal
– Spontaneous Drawings
– Listening to the Dying
– Life After Death
– Loss and Spirituality
VII Unconditional Love
– Inner Hitlers / Mother Teresas
– Listening
– Compassionate Care