Our 2025 Calendar

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Written By Cole Imperi

Our operating dates for 2025 are ready to be shared!

2025 School Seasons

Winter Season 2025
Monday, January 6, 2025–Friday, March 28, 2025

Spring Season 2025
Monday, April 7, 2025–Friday, June 27, 2025

Autumn Season 2025
Monday, September 1, 2025–Friday, November 28, 2025

The School is in Rest the months of July, August, and December.

As a reminder, The School of American Thanatology runs on a 3-season calendar offering courses in the Winter, Spring, and Autumn. Courses running within each of our seasons may be self-paced, or run from 7–11 weeks long. Some courses have prerequisites. In the months of July, August, and December we support a rest period for our staff and students. Self-paced courses run during these months, but courses with live components (mostly) do not.

Cole Imperi

Cole Imperi is a triple-certified thanatologist, a two-time TedX speaker, and one of America’s experts on death, dying and grief. She is best known for her work pioneering the fields of Thanabotany and Deathwork (which includes Death Companioning) and through her development of Shadowloss, Shadowlight and Dremains. Cole is the founder of the School of American Thanatology, which has students from 20 countries across 12 timezones. Cole has worked as a chaplain-thanatologist in a jail, mortuary college professor, crematory operator, hospice volunteer, grief support group leader for children as young as 3 to adults, and served on the board of a green burial startup. Cole served as the first female Board President of the 178-year-old Historic Linden Grove Cemetery & Arboretum in Covington, Kentucky, works with death-related businesses through her consulting firm, Doth, and publishes death and loss-related content. Her forthcoming book, A Guide to Your Grief, will be published by Kids Can Press in 2024.

https://coleimperi.com
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