Tending Descent

Your relationship with Sacred Death is one of the most important in your living and deathly journey.

Tending Descent:

Spiritual Death Worker Training & Mentorship

Applications for the fall 2023 cohort are Closed.

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Tending Descent Death Worker Training is for those who feel the call of death work. For those who want to deepen their spiritual path while examining their relationship to mortality and the essences of life. It is for those who are willing to look at the parts of themselves and the systems at large that ignore the needs of people, ready to examine grief and death & rebirth work as normal + inevitable parts of human existence. Students will gain tools to connect to their spiritual teams, guides + ancestors, learn the foundations of spiritual work and death work, examine their relationship to death and the afterlife, and explore their own personal gifts they have to offer this world.

PLEASE NOTE: This is not a death doula or death medical aid training. This training is based in spiritual death work, witchcraft, and spirituality/spiritual practitioner work. Students are not required to practice death work or work with clients after Tending Descent. A training option is available as an extra to the mentorship to cover and discuss with working with clients + community.

Open to Folx interested in anti-racist, inclusive death work, witchcraft, and spiritual work.

In this Training we will be:

  • Calling in the Ancestors

  • Deepening our spiritual practices

  • Learning who our deathly guides are

  • Using guided journeywork to connect and journey through the Veil

  • Celebrating where we’ve been and where we are going

  • Sharing our gifts with the greater community

  • Creating ritual and offerings to deepen our experience

  • Delving into your own personal spiritual evolution through

    one on one sessions with Hannah

Students who engage in this journey will be:

  • Willing to question and grow their relationship with death and mortality

  • Willing to move through fear for growth

  • Committed to the full financial exchange

  • Comfortable with nonlinear thinking

  • Curious and open to learning about spiritual death work and exploring ones own personal magic

  • Deep listeners who speak up with their questions

  • Disciplined to the curriculum, homework, and live calls

  • Embodied & Ready to Show Up for themselves + others

curriculum:

Month one:

Intro to Death Work + Spiritual Foundation + Soul Work

Who is the Witch?, Death Worker/Witch Roles, Honoring Samhain, Your Ancestry: Altars + Guides + Offerings

month two:

Grief Work, Intuition, Mediumship, Psychic & Empathic Skills

Self Care + Boundaries + Protection Magic

Graveyard Walk + Sacred Places of the Dead

month three:

Underworld Discussion + Deities + Conversations around Appropriation, Responsibilities, and Social Justice Work

Herbal Allies + Herbal Medicine

Tending and holding space + Clearing + Cleaning Up

Discovering who you are as a Death Worker

Initiation

extra week:

2-hour Check In + Final Call with Hannah and the Cohort virtually together

Weekly class time: Saturdays 10am-12:00pm Mountain Time. {Day has been changed for 2023 cohort, it was originally on Fridays. Time has stayed the same}.

Office Hours: TBD

***NOTE: If you cannot make the Saturday morning class time, please include this detail in your application.***

Class topics possible to change order and other topics or information may be added.


students will:

💀 Create their own unique offering to the world

💀 Learn how to engage in ritual, ceremony + practice in death work

💀 Gain tools to honor, respect, and work with Spirit, Guides, Ancestors + The Dead

💀 Contemplate their own mortality and relationship with Death

💀 Explore their own gifts and talents {spiritual + otherwise!}

💀 Get to know others in our deathly + spiritual community

Mentorship Enrollment Includes:

• Weekly 2 hour live group calls

• Weekly office hours availability with Hannah

• Lifelong recordings of classes made available to revisit throughout the program and beyond

• Monthly + Weekly Homework Assignments, Rituals, and Soul Work

• Private group for 24/7 class discussion, updates, and announcements

• Individual 30-minute class closure meeting

  • Individual 30-minute call with Hannah each month

  • Initiation + Certificate of Completion

*Initiation happens virtually.

Mentorship & Training add on includes:

All of the above that is including in Tending Descent plus an extra 30 minute call each week with curriculum regarding working with clients.


Involvement & Time commitment:

2023 Cohort: Tending Descent Death Training starts September 30th and ends December 22nd or 23rd depending on class discussions, with one added Saturday in January 2024.

All classes will meet virtually, with an opportunity for group learning including a graveyard visit together for Colorado locals. Those who cannot meet in-person will have an equivalent to meet course needs.

Note: {In-person learning and initiation will depend on Covid-19 requirements +}

2023 Tentative Dates: Meeting Dates: Weekly, every Saturday from 10:00am-12:00pm. The last day + initiation will be on Friday, December 22nd or 23rd depending on student needs.*

2023: One extra week & 2-hour call with Hannah and the 2023 Cohort together, virtually to connect, process, + digest closure, future plans, and wrap up any questions or needs. This will partake in January of 2024.

Each student will have a 30 minute call with Hannah each month.

Weekly Office Hours will be available: TBA @ 15-20 minute intervals.

***Students should plan on anywhere from 2-4+ hours outside of class time for completion of homework, 1:1 calls, projects, ritual, reading etc. each week.***

Attendance of all classes/ rituals is required, however if one cannot attend live it is okay. Recordings must at least be watched and homework completed if possible.


Exchange/Investment

3-month Intensive + Initiation + Certificate of Completion:

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mentorship options and training add on available!

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Payment Plans or One Time Payment options available. A $300 non-refundable deposit will be required to hold your spot and is due upon application acceptance. Note that payment plans will be taken automatically from your credit/debit card each month. Payment plan options: Made in 3 or 6 month installments. Longer payment plans are possible if needed. Cost includes supplies and shipping costs which are sent out to students before training begins.

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After this course you will:

• Have a solid foundation and understanding of Death Work

• Have a better understanding and more intimate relationship with self

• Have an idea of what Death Work means to you personally

• Have an abundance of rituals, spells, and prompts in your toolbox

• Have created your own deathly offering to share with the world

• Have a beginning foundation on how to support others within this work

• Have spent time getting to know other community members

***NOTE: Although you will be learning a lot of material, ultimately there are no guarantees that you will get what you desire out this course and outcomes of your work are up to you solely, not by way of Hannah Haddadi, Mourning Light Divination, LLC or the Tending Descent training, teachings, and materials.*** In no way is the information presented to be reproduced, sold, or copied without the permission of Hannah Haddadi.

It goes without saying that Hannah is accomplished and knowledgeable in her craft. But, beyond that, Hannah brings a deep empathy and compassion to her work. This makes collaborating with her an especially deep and meaningful experience. I use the word "collaboration" intentionally. Hannah is more than a coach or a guide, she's walking the path along with you. She's doing the work with you. She's living the process of rebirth and transformation next to you. She understands that it's not always glamorous. Sometimes, it's downright painful and ugly. She makes it okay to be your authentic self and live your truth. She makes it safe to peel back layers of shame and grief.

When you're working with Hannah, you have her full focus and attention. When she is making something for you, she's putting her heart and soul into it. Her passion informs her work. It adds a layer of depth to the fact she has done the work to become one of the most exemplary practitioners in her field. - Steve



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Many people feel the call of death work but do not know where to start. This training was created as a foundational tool that provides support to the budding death worker and teaches how to safely provide death work for others while protecting and tending to oneself in the process. Tending Descent is a culmination of what I have learned during my journey of becoming a death worker, by way of my own experiences and the wild witches + other brilliant, magical teachers I have learned from. This training will ask you to do deep reflection, dedicate to your practice and the work required of this program, and to be honest with yourself about your feelings about death, shadow work, grief, and other sensitive parts of self.

After this training it is my hope that you will have gone through a transformation of death and rebirth within yourself, your spiritual practice, and your love for death work and serving others. Your spiritual toolbox will be filled with rituals, spells, self care, ceremony, teachings, and new ways of looking at life and the ultimate promise of mortality. You will understand your role as community death worker and what you have to offer with your unique gifts and special magic. You will be grounded in your conviction and dedication to death work as community medicine.

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When I first started my death work journey, I couldn’t find someone who necessarily practiced the practitioner work in the way that I envisioned and craved, and the way that I envisioned myself doing in the future. I have worked with many magical wise women, witches, and spiritual workers, don’t get me wrong, but a good deal of my own journey has been becoming my own teacher. I hope to be this kind of support to you that I was looking for in my foundation, so that you don’t have to feel alone in becoming the great worker in these liminal spaces that you are truly meant to be.

In so, I am honored and so thrilled to do this work with you.


My work with Hannah has been essential to my growth. She is like the strong breeze I never knew I needed in my sails, always gently pushing me along towards connection with my ancestors and healing. Working with Hannah, I found a deeper spiritual purpose to my fiber work. She introduced and taught me about death work, which has provided me the ability to turn toward the great deaths in my life, such as the loss of loved ones, past versions of myself, and our decaying society and planet, and tend to my grief. I don’t think I could possibly weather the storms we are riding out without the tools she taught me. - James


Offered By: Hannah Haddadi is a Death Witch, Medium, Intuitive, Spiritual Worker, Community Herbalist, Writer & Poet. Based in Colorado, Hannah runs Mourning Light Divination in-person and remotely. She derives much of her knowledge and death work through her Persian, Swedish/German/English ancestry, personal experiences, and teachings she has learned by way of working with wise women, witches, and spiritual workers in the United States and England. Hannah has been seeing and working with the Dead since she was a child & has been deepening her own spiritual practices for over 10 years. She also graduated from Metropolitan State University with Honors in May of 2019 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Integrative Health Care and Human Services + Counseling.

Tending Descent Training will be taught class style, with required homework and reflection from its students. It will offer growth and connection within this community and a chance to get to know other folx interested in practicing as a spiritual death workers. This training involves setting up your own spiritual practice, devoting to your practice and growth of self, learning foundational tools of spiritual work and death work, as well as curating your own spiritual/deathly offering to the world.

Are you ready?

Death Work is no joke. It is beautiful and serious work with the power to open ones heart and soul to the complexities of life. I take this work very seriously and tenderly, and I hope that as you dive into this work with me, you will honor our work together and the work you are going to do so brilliantly after your initiation. Know that this work isn’t often easy, but I believe if you are feeling the call of death work, you are meant to hold it and give space + life to it.

I can’t wait to work with you.

~ With Love, Hannah Haddadi


Hannah is someone who is extremely well adept in her work. Whether it be having a metaphorical funeral, spiritual coaching, energy work, or ordering her specially curated herbal products, Hannah delivers with exceptional love and intention. 

 I am deeply moved after each session I have had with Hannah. Her work encompasses a variety of services that all work to ignite her clients’ highest good. I have received many products. Some of my favorites being her clearing spray, Samhain witch box, protection oil and teas. Hannah has helped me develop self-ceremonies and learn to ground myself. Her spiritual coaching has been such a blessing.  Hannah has helped me through many meta-physical cycles. I am deeply grateful to regard Hannah as a trustworthy and longterm coach in my spiritual journey. - Olivia


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