Funeral director, end-of-life doula, and community educator Christa Ovenell is the founder of Death’s Apprentice Education & Planning. As the founder of Death’s Apprentice, she helps individuals and organizations navigate the practical and emotional realities of death and other significant periods of transition. With deep roots in the education field, Christa is widely known for her grounded, compassionate, and profoundly connecting approach to death literacy.

About Death’s Apprentice

Christa (Death’s Apprentice) and Megan (Be Ceremonial) bring a ‘head and heart approach’ to navigating grief and loss that extends far beyond end-of-life concerns. They recognize that personal losses have profound implications for organizational culture and have created integrated programming that addresses a full spectrum of loss experiences in both personal and professional contexts.

Their programs combine advance care planning concepts, organizational wellness strategies, and ceremonial design methodologies to teach forward-thinking business leaders how to handle grief and loss in the workplace as skillfully as they handle budget projection and strategic development. By sharing practical knowledge and providing tools to foster honest dialogue about major life transitions, their workshops help organizations create more supportive, grief-literate workplace cultures.