At ESFIM, education is the foundation upon which we build a new quality of being human. We are dedicated to offering programs of excellence that inspire and guide our members on their journey towards personal and collective growth

Wilka Roig, Chief Executive Officer

We are part of the first global collaborative network of institutions with endorsement to train and certify non-medical professional companions in transition processes of life, death and grief.

At ESFIM, education is the foundation upon which we build a new quality of being human. We are dedicated to offering programs of excellence that inspire and guide our members on their journey towards personal and collective growth

Wilka Roig, Chief Executive Officer

We are part of the first global collaborative network of institutions with endorsement to train and certify non-medical professional companions in life, death and grief transition processes.

ESFIM is a training space that was born in 2020 within the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross México Centro Foundation. In 2024, after a deeply transformative journey, it takes its own shape and strength due to the growth of interest in themes linked to transition processes associated with life and death, both physical and symbolic.

ESFIM is the nucleus from which we train Compassionate Companions and Life, Death and Transition Doulas who collaborate voluntarily with the EKR México Centro Foundation.

We invite you to browse our site with a cup of tea or coffee in hand and time as someone who wishes to delve into a book full of fascinating concepts that invite reflection and debate consideration.

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What do we offer?

All of our long courses, short courses, workshops, retreats and webinars have a guiding objective : to learn to accompany in a compassionate way physical in life and death transition processes of life and death.

Who is it for?

For a broad public with a vocation of service, for any person interested in these topics, for caregivers, care aides, nurses, therapists, alternative therapists, medical doctors, palliative care providers, among others.

We invite you to plan your path through our TRAININGS

Long courses

Compassionate Accompaniment

From the heart: the purpose and practice of compassionate accompaniment.

Reimagining Death

Healing our concept of dying through ancestral and intuitive wisdom.

Aspects of Mental Health

Supporting the totality of the human experience, honoring the health and wholeness of mind and heart..

Short courses

Symbolic Language in Accompaniment

Explore symbolic messages emerging from transition processes

The art of a good death

Work on your relationship with your mortality to embrace life fully.

Holistic Care

Consider all aspects of being for holistic care during transition processes

Fundamentals of Accompaniment

Cultivate compassionate accompaniment as a source of healing and transformation

Intensive Courses

The Magic in Dying

Explore the hidden magic in the death process.

Cultivating the Care Team

Building bridges of connection and support in community.

Workshops

Living Grief: Your Growth Curriculum

Discover the life lessons that your unique process of grief teaches you.

Healing Through Grief in Community

We hold and support our process of transformation discovering we are not alone.

Webinars

Monthly educational series that consciously, intentionally ,and responsibly explores themes around death from different perspectives, offering analysis and profound reflections by those devoted to the field.
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Every death, physical or symbolic., is an opportunity to deepen our conscious personal development.

Pedagogical Approach

WE FOCUS ON THREE FUNDAMENTAL PILLARS TO ACCOMPANY IN A COMPASSIONATE AND CONNECTED WAY

Death and Transformation
Connection and Inner Wisdom
Oneiric and Symbolic Exploration

Do you being to feel like death is always present and that this is exciting?

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ESFIM is for you if...

You are willing to find comfort in discomfort.

As you consciously collaborate with transition processes, you find a sense of calm in the uncomfortable, a familiarity with the unpredictable and a confidence beyond the illusion of control.

You want to explore your fears.

Acknowledging fears and reflecting on their origins, you cultivate your willingness to explore the unknown, and become readily able to experience your present experience more fully.

You want to live an authentic life

Recognizing and honoring your individual forms of joy, your needs and desires, you respond to the call to free yourself from what you have learned and give way to your own ways of being.

You seek to evolve in your personal sphere.

Recognizing that grief and death are portals for growth and evolution, you take these opportunities to question who you want to be and what meaning you want to give to your life.

You want a genuinely experience.

Being honest with yourself and others is a way to create and exist in a reality that is truly yours, allowing yourself to experience life with passion and awe, moved and inspired by the whole range of your human experience.

You value the importance of learning to accompany.

By training as a compassionate companion, you develop the quality of compassion and the ability to accompany others at the same time that you accompany yourself, to deepen in personal development, driven by the very processes of transition. in life and death transition processes.

Who we are

WILKA ROIG

Co-founder
Chief Executive Officer and Academic Director.
Responsible Institutional Relations.
Specialist in processes of transition.

JESS MIRAMONTES

Co-founder
Director of Operations.
Specialist in processes of transition.

FÉLIX CHANCELLOR

Chief Academic Advisor
Curriculum Developer
Specialist in processes of transition.

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Who we are

WILKA ROIG

Co-founder
Chief Executive Officer and Academic Director.
Responsible Institutional Relations.
Specialist in processes of transition.

SANDRA REYES

Co-founder
Director of Operations.
Specialist in processes of transition.

JESS MIRAMONTES

Co-founder
Director of Communication.
Specialist in processes of transition.

C. FÉLIX CHANCELLOR

Chief Academic Advisor
Training content creator.
Specialist in transition processes.

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IF YOU PAY ATTENTION TO YOURSELF,
YOU´VE ALREADY CONNECTED
WITH DEATH.

We experience death more concretely when someone close to us dies, when we see ourselves near it by some circumstance. But death is simultaneous to life , manifested in every change we experience, in every significant movement throughout life, and every night as we go to sleep.

This is why, by integrating death, the process of personal development and transformation is fueled for those who are willing to traverse it consciously.