About IEOLCA.
IEOLCA is a heart-centered training organization providing flexible online education, practical tools, and compassionate guidance for end-of-life doulas, death doulas, care companions, and related helpers around the world.
Mission & Values.
IEOLCA’s work is rooted in the Platinum Rule: treat others as they wish to be treated. We believe education in deathcare should be practical, compassionate, inclusive, and grounded in the real needs of individuals, families, and communities.
Person-Directed Care
We teach students to listen deeply, respect autonomy, and support each person’s values, beliefs, culture, and preferences with care.
Flexible, Accessible Learning
Our online programs are designed to be self-paced and accessible for learners balancing work, caregiving, volunteering, or other responsibilities.
Whole-Person Support
Our approach recognizes that end-of-life care involves emotional, spiritual, relational, practical, and legacy-centered dimensions, not just physical decline.
What Shapes IEOLCA.
IEOLCA is more than a single course or a pair of instructors. It is a growing educational platform built around thoughtful curriculum design, values-led mentorship, practical resources, and a global learning community.
Educational Design
Our programs are structured to help students move from inspiration to confident application, with organized modules, written materials, assignments, and practical tools.
Mentorship & Feedback
Students are supported through gentle guidance, personalized feedback, and a learning experience designed to help them integrate both knowledge and presence.
Interdisciplinary Insight
IEOLCA’s educational philosophy is informed by hospice volunteering, spiritual care, healthcare systems knowledge, grief awareness, and community-based end-of-life support.
Global Learning Community
Our students come from many professional and personal backgrounds, creating a rich and expanding international community of people committed to compassionate care.
Practical Application
We focus on what helps in real life: communication, planning, boundaries, presence, companioning skills, and resources students can actually use in practice.
Ongoing Growth
We continue to refine and expand our offerings so the organization remains responsive to changing needs in deathcare, caregiving, grief support, and community education.
Meet Our Founding Leadership.
IEOLCA is led by Amy-Lynne Mahon and Perry Metheral, whose complementary backgrounds help shape the organization’s educational vision, student experience, and whole-person approach to care.
Amy-Lynne Mahon
Director & Educator
Amy-Lynne is an End-of-Life Doula, senior hospice volunteer, and long-time healthcare professional who understands how much a calm, organized presence matters.
Before founding IEOLCA, she spent 18 years in Postgraduate Medical Education at the University of Calgary, specializing in curriculum mapping and credentialing processes.
She helps ensure IEOLCA’s programs remain welcoming, well-structured, and learner-centered, while guiding the organization’s curriculum development and educational direction.
Perry Metheral
Co-Director & Strategist
Perry is a Spiritual Health Practitioner with 20 years of experience in acute care, mental health, and palliative care settings, with a focus on meaning, suffering, and spiritual distress.
He contributes to IEOLCA’s whole-person framework by bringing insight into reflective practice, ritual awareness, emotional presence, and the spiritual dimensions of serious illness and dying.
His work helps strengthen the depth and humanity of IEOLCA’s programs, supporting students as they learn to hold space with greater steadiness and compassion.
Our Global Community.
IEOLCA serves a diverse international student base through flexible online education, practical training resources, and a values-led learning experience centered on compassionate end-of-life care.
Explore Our Programs.
Choose from full certification, pet loss support, business-building education, and dementia support training.
Certified End-of-Life Doula Training
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Pet Death Doula Training Program
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Business Essentials for Doulas
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