
DEATH & DYING COURSES
🎉 Our Academy-wide rollout has begun! 2-5 new courses launch each week! We're releasing 150+ free courses across multiple topics in waves. Our Death & Dying Courses are scheduled to go LIVE BEFORE Christmas 2026!
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Everything IFS Academy is a free and low cost global multi-topic learning center designed to meet people wherever they are on the path to becoming their best selves. We believe financial barriers should never stand in the way of anyone's personal growth and spiritual development, so this is our gift to the community.
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Death is the one thing every human being shares, and the one thing we are least prepared for. This series speaks plainly about dying, grief, end-of-life decisions, and what different traditions believe comes next, written in plain, relatable language for everyday people, whether you are facing your own mortality, walking beside someone you love, or simply ready to stop looking away.
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Free Courses
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Open instantly to everyone
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150+ self-paced courses to choose from
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No tests, quizzes, or homework
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No account required
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No sign-up
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No email gate
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Take the course in sequential order or jump around according to your interest
Simply select a course below and begin.

Afterlife Models Across Traditions
Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Explore how major religions, spiritual traditions, and secular perspectives understand what may happen after death, offering a respectful overview of the world's most common beliefs about the afterlife.
Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Newly added: more info coming soon.
Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Ceremonies & Rituals for the Dying
Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Learn how ceremonies, prayers, blessings, music, meaningful objects, and personal rituals can bring comfort, dignity, and connection during the final chapter of life.
Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Death Anxiety
Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Understand why fear of death arises, what commonly fuels it, and practical ways to relate to mortality with greater clarity, compassion, and emotional steadiness.
Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Compare burial, cremation, green burial, body donation, alkaline hydrolysis, natural organic reduction, and other end-of-life options to make informed decisions with confidence.
Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Explore the most common regrets people express near the end of life and how these timeless lessons can help shape the choices you make while you are still living.
Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Prepare practical, legal, financial, digital, and personal affairs before death, helping reduce stress for yourself and the people you love during an already difficult time.
Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Learn the five stages of dying, where the famous model came from, its strengths and limitations, and how real people often move through dying in deeply individual ways.
Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Grief
Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Explore the grief that can arise while facing your own death, including the losses, unfinished hopes, relationships, and life changes that often accompany the dying process.
Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Dying at Home & Hospice
Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Discover the planning, medical support, caregiving resources, hospice services, and home preparations that can make dying at home a realistic option for many people.
Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Create meaningful gifts that outlive you through letters, recordings, memory books, ethical wills, family stories, personal reflections, and other lasting expressions of love.
Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Living Fully While Dying
Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Explore practical ways to find purpose, connection, joy, and meaning after a terminal diagnosis, making the most of the time that remains without denying life's realities.
Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Near-Death Experiences
Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Examine the research, common themes, scientific explanations, and personal accounts surrounding near-death experiences from both medical and spiritual perspectives.
Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Supporting Children Through Your Death
Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Learn age-appropriate ways to prepare children for your death through honest conversations, emotional support, memory-making, and ongoing sources of comfort and connection.
Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Explore the most common fears people have about dying and death, why they arise, and thoughtful ways to understand and relate to them with greater clarity.
Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Walking Someone Through Death
Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Learn how to support someone who is dying with practical care, compassionate presence, communication skills, and an understanding of the physical and emotional changes that may occur.
Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

Final Months of Life
Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
Understand the common phases, symptoms, behaviors, and emotional shifts that often unfold as death approaches, helping you recognize what is normal and meet this season with less fear.
Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)

When Dying Isn't Beautiful
Price: FREE Course
Written for Everyday People
An honest look at the harder side of dying, including pain, fear, family conflict, difficult symptoms, and unresolved endings, offered with compassion and without pretending.
Audio - listen to every lesson on the go. (coming soon)
Who Writes Our Free Courses
Our free self-paced courses are a genuine human-AI collaboration, roughly 50% human and 50% AI.
These courses are not someone typing a single prompt and publishing whatever comes out.
We do not use a free or entry-level AI. We invest in one of the most advanced professional-tier AI models available, because the depth and accuracy of writing at this level is in a different league from what most people experience with low-cost AI.
While AI models arrive with extensive training across these topics, we never rely on that alone. Before drafting a single lesson, the AI performs in-depth research on that specific topic, pulling from resources written by qualified experts in the field: published books, professional essays, clinical resources, and articles from practitioners and specialists with relevant credentials. Every draft is grounded in that expert-created material, not generated from thin air.
With that said, whether something is written entirely by humans, entirely by AI, or by the two working together, errors can occur. We encourage readers to verify important information and consult a qualified professional in the relevant area wherever appropriate.
For those who would like more specifics, here is the six-step process behind every course:
1. Humans design the courses and set the teaching standards and outlines
2. Humans shape the arc of each lesson
3. AI conducts deep, highly specific research on each individual lesson topic before drafting the lesson
4. Humans review, direct, and run multiple edits alongside AI
5. Humans approves every lesson before it's published
6. Each finished course then goes to Eleven Labs, where it's recorded by one of their AI voices
We have poured a tremendous amount of time, care, and love into these free courses, in the hope that they help you become your best Self.
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If you're looking for a social community, here are free live online support groups, recovery groups, healing circles, spiritual gatherings, book clubs, IFS demos, parts work practices, study groups, and more happening every day.
And starting later in 2027, Everything IFS Academy will be running free weekly live classes on a variety of topics.
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Disclaimer: Everything IFS Academy is an independent educational platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the IFS Institute. These courses, lessons, and practices are offered for educational and self-reflection purposes only. They discuss death, dying, grief, and end-of-life care openly and honestly, and some material may be emotionally heavy; please move at your own pace and step away whenever you need to. These courses are not medical, legal, or financial advice, and decisions about end-of-life care, hospice, advance directives, wills, or the care of a dying person should always be made with the appropriate qualified professionals. Courses exploring afterlife beliefs present traditions from many cultures without requiring you to adopt any particular belief system. These courses do not constitute therapy, grief counseling, mental health treatment, clinical training, or crisis support, and they should not be used as a substitute for professional mental health care.
Crisis Support: 🚨 If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, feel unsafe, feel at risk of harming yourself or someone else, or feel too overwhelmed to safely use self-directed practices, please pause this material and reach out for immediate support. Contact a licensed mental health professional, call or text 988 in the U.S. or Canada, or use your local emergency or crisis resources.
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