Everlight Academy · Path planner

First the foundations. Then your path. Then your practice.

Don't choose a path before you understand the practice. This page follows the order a beginner actually learns it: the shared foundation, the path you feel called to, and the breadth that shapes a broad or focused companioning route.

Quick match · 3 questions

Not sure which path fits you?

Answer three quick questions about your experience and calling and we'll suggest the best Everlight path to start with — then the full pathway below shows you every level in order.

The foundations — everyone starts here

Nobody chooses a path before understanding the practice. Everyone — including you — starts with the same Level 1 foundation: the landscape of grief, the companion's posture, reflective listening, ethics and consent. This is where complete beginners start. Supervised practicum is not currently operating and is not a foundation outcome.

Level 1 · Everyone starts hereCompanion in training

What you study first

·The landscape of grief
·Presence before solutions
·Listening without fixing
·Ethics, scope and referral
·Consent, privacy and safekeeping stories
·Trauma-aware companioning

Earliest earning · supervised work

You can begin earning here in supervised support roles — no credential required yet.

$Reflection practice
$Peer companioning pairs
$Community circle observation

“I am learning to hold space. Companioning is a practice of presence — clinical care is referred onward.”

Level 2

When does companion practicum begin?

Level 2 is after the companion-scope gate. Live companioning is not currently operating.

Kintsugi practitioner

Level 4

When do I earn my guide credential?

At Level 4, after passing the companion-guide review.

Story guide

Level 5

When is practice-building curriculum?

Level 5 is later-stage curriculum. Running a live practice is not currently operating.

Grief practice builder

Choose your path

This is the choice that drives everything below — the path you feel called to carry.

After the foundations, you choose the path you want to carry — Kintsugi, Spiritual, or Legacy. Your module-by-module route builds from here.

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The residency training each path opens into

The online modules build the mindset. Each path also opens into an optional in-person training — a Japan residency for Kintsugi, retreats for Spiritual, workshops for Legacy. All are optional, not a requirement to begin.

Artisan's hands mending a broken ceramic bowl with gold lacquer — the Japanese craft of kintsugi

Kintsugi Path · Japan

Seven days in Kyoto

An optional capstone residency in the home of kintsugi — watch a master mend with gold, sit in a temple garden, and mend a piece of your own.

7-day cohort · Kyoto, JapanSee the residency

A small group seated together in a chapel for Scripture meditation and prayer in a softly lit sanctuary

Spiritual Path · Retreats

Retreats & Scripture sits

Optional weekend residencies, weekly Scripture meditation, and remembrance evenings — practising Christ-centred presence in place and community.

Weekly sits to 3-day immersionsSee the residency

A small workshop group gathered around a wooden table sharing photographs and keepsakes

Legacy Path · Workshops

Memorial & story workshops

Optional in-person workshops where you gather a loved one's story, co-design a remembrance ceremony, and build the capstone Story Guide project.

Monthly workshops + capstoneSee the residency

Shape your route (advisory)

Now that the foundation and path are clear, your ambition helps us recommend a focused specialist route or a broader guide route. These selections refine your plan — they don't replace the foundation everyone must take.

Optional — it only shapes what gets suggested later.

Pick any combination. Suggested ones are labelled, not auto-selected.

Your full pathway

Levels

Gates to clear

Short courses

Endorsements

Where this ends

Choose an ambition above.

What you study

· The landscape of grief
· Presence before solutions
· Listening without fixing
· Ethics, scope and referral
· Consent, privacy and safekeeping stories
· Trauma-aware companioning

Paid-work curriculum (not currently operating)

· Reflection practice
· Peer companioning pairs
· Community circle observation

“I am learning to hold space. Companioning is a practice of presence — clinical care is referred onward.”

How to enrol

Your plan above is the route. Enrolling in it takes three steps, in this order — you never pay before an advisor has confirmed the pathway is right for you.

Step 1

Book a free orientation call

A 30-minute call with an Everlight advisor. You share your background and the market you picked above, and we confirm the route that fits — no payment at this stage.

Book my orientation

Step 2

Join the waitlist for your pathway

Cohorts open in small groups. Joining the waitlist reserves your place in the queue for the pathway you chose and gets you the enrolment invitation by email when the cohort opens.

Join the waitlist

Step 3

Accept your invitation and enrol

Your invitation email carries your enrolment link and the instalment plan. Tuition is paid by instalment, and your course access opens in step with the instalments you have cleared.

See tuition and instalments

Not sure which market or pathway to pick?

Send us your goal in your own words and an advisor will write back with the pathway that matches, before you commit to anything.

Ask an advisor

Save your plan

Choose a path above (section 02) to build your route and save the plan as a PDF.