Caring for Our Crowns 

8-Hour Hands on EOL & Death Care Professional Development

📅 February 27, 2027
⏰ 9:00 AM–5:00 PM ET
🏫 In-Person | Classroom + Salon Setting (Beaufort, South Carolina)                      🍽️Breakfast, Lunch & Snacks Included

When a loved one is entrusted to a death-care professional, their care extends beyond embalming and dressing. It includes the details that make their final presentation recognizable, familiar, and reflective of who they were in life. 

For professionals serving families with textured hair, developing the knowledge and skills to properly care textured hair is an important part of culturally responsive care. Cultural competence requires both awareness and the practical skills to honor each person's unique needs.

This immersive, 8-hour in-person experience combines classroom theory, demonstrations, hands-on practice, professional tools, and real-world death-care application.

 Your registration includes:

8 Hours of Professional Development

Classroom instruction, demonstrations, hands-on practice, discussion, and application.

Textured Hair Care Starter Kit 

Every participant will receive a Textured Hair Care Starter Kit as part of registration. The kit is designed to complement the training and provide tools, products and supplies that you can continue using as you develop and apply your textured hair care skills.

Hands-on Training 

An opportunity to practice techniques ... not simply watch them.

Textured Hair Care + Death Care Application

Training specifically designed with the embalming, preparation and presentation of the deceased in mind. 

Your Meals Are Covered

We’re taking care of the food so you can focus on the learning. Breakfast, lunch, and snacks are included with your registration.

This training is designed for:

• Funeral directors

• Embalmers

• Mortuary students

• Funeral service apprentices

• Preparation-room professionals

• Funeral home owners and managers

• Death-care professionals responsible for presentation

• Hair and makeup professionals working with funeral homes

• Death doulas interested in understanding textured hair care within death care 

   

This is an opportunity to build a skill. 

Throughout the day, you will learn the principles behind textured hair care, observe professional techniques, practice those techniques, and explore how they can be applied to the preparation and presentation of the deceased.

Come learn what to do, how to do it, what tools to use, and why it matters.

 What You'll Learn:

🫧 Shampooing

Explore proper cleansing techniques for textured hair and considerations for different textures, densities, and conditions.

💧 Conditioning 

Learn how to properly condition textured hair to support moisture, manageability, softness, and overall hair integrity while preparing the hair for styling and presentation.

🪮 Detangling

Learn techniques for safely detangling textured hair while minimizing unnecessary manipulation, breakage, and hair loss—and understand how to approach hair that is severely tangled, matted, or compromised.

🖤 Properly Caring for Locs

Learn how to approach cleansing, conditioning, drying, grooming, and preparing locs while respecting their structure and integrity.

🔄 Reinstalling Lost Locs

Explore techniques and considerations for recreating or replacing locs that have become detached, damaged, or lost.

🧔🏾 Grooming Textured Facial Hair

Learn practical techniques for working with textured beards, goatees, mustaches, sideburns, and other facial hair.

👤 Recreating Hairlines

Learn techniques for creating or enhancing a natural-looking hairline when hair loss, recession, trauma, or other circumstances affect the person's appearance.

🪢 Removing Braids & Other Extensions

Learn appropriate techniques for removing braids, twists, extensions, sew-ins, and other protective styles while considering the condition of the natural hair.

🧰 Tools & Products for Textured Hair 

Learn about the tools, products, and supplies that can make textured hair care more effective—and how to determine what to use and when.

💄 Melanin Makeup Tips & Tricks

Explore practical considerations and techniques for creating a natural, balanced presentation on melanated skin.

And More...

We'll address common challenges, bedside and preparation-room considerations, troubleshooting, and real-world situations that don't always come with a textbook solution.

Whether you're highly experienced with textured hair or you've never been formally trained, there is something here for you.

Limited Seating

This is an intentionally intimate, hands-on professional development experience, so seating is limited. Registration is available on a first-come, first-served basis and does not include travel and lodging. Once the seats are filled, registration will close.

Bring This Training to Your Team

Interested in bringing culturally responsive death care and grief education to your students, staff, members, or professional audience? Use this link to schedule a 20 minute consultation.