Amy Silva is a proud Indigenous woman, a devoted wife, and a loving mother of three. She is also the Founder of The Collaborative Doula Collective, a growing and vibrant community of doulas supporting individuals and families. Amy is a Birth & Death doula who brings warmth, wisdom, and unwavering presence to every aspect of her work. From pregnancy, birth and postpartum, to loss, grief, and end-of-life and death care, she supports people through the full cycle of Birth, Breath, and Death.

Amy’s approach is rooted in the belief that everyone deserves to be seen, heard, and held—especially in life’s most tender, complex, or sacred transitions. She brings a calm, grounded energy and a deep reverence for the individual path each person walks. As a grief and healing companion, Amy specializes in holding space for families and individuals navigating life’s big transitions, loss, trauma, death and dying, and other forms of complex grief. She gently weaves ritual, cultural awareness, and compassionate listening into her practice, creating spaces for integration, remembrance, and transformation.

Beyond her work with families, Amy is a passionate mentor and community builder. Through The Collaborative Doula Collective, she has created a brave, inclusive space for doulas from all walks of life to learn, grow, and collaborate. Her mentorship programs emphasize real connection, cultural humility, and heart-centered leadership, helping doulas feel more confident, supported, and aligned in their own work.

Amy carries the spirit of an Auntie—offering guidance, humour, fierce love, and a deep capacity to hold both joy and sorrow. Whether she’s witnessing the power of birth, facilitating healing rituals after loss, or guiding a group through reflection and reconnection at a retreat, her work is rooted in presence, purpose, and community.

As a retreat facilitator, Amy brings her full self—storyteller, teacher, healer, and witness—to create spaces where participants can soften, reflect, and reconnect with their own inner knowing. Her presence invites others to feel safe, supported, and part of something bigger.

Erin Merelli is a death doula, educator, ceremonialist, and retreat facilitator who brings her deep reverence for life’s sacred thresholds to every space she holds. Based in Colorado, Erin’s work is rooted in the belief that death—like birth, like love—deserves intention, presence, and care. Through her grounded and heart-led facilitation, she creates safe and transformative spaces where participants can explore grief, mortality, healing, and connection with courage and compassion.

Erin is the co-founder of Deathwives and founder of Death Ed with Erin, through which she has created over 20 immersive educational programs and trained more than 1,000 death doulas. Her retreats and teachings center around the reclamation of death as a meaningful and communal rite of passage. She blends ritual, education, storytelling, and somatic practices to guide individuals in tending to grief, honoring their ancestors, and finding beauty in what it means to be mortal.

As a retreat facilitator, Erin offers a unique presence—part educator, part guide, part ceremonial anchor. Her background as a former birth doula and wedding officiant gives her a rare perspective on the full spectrum of human transition. She has officiated over 100 ceremonies and understands how sacred space—when tended with care—can offer healing and remembrance in profound ways.

Erin’s personal experiences with loss have shaped the way she shows up: tender, honest, and unwavering. From losing her first love in high school to the heartbreaking suicide of her sister in 2022, she walks the grief path not as a concept, but as lived truth. Her facilitation is an invitation to soften, to be held, and to find shared humanity in our most vulnerable places.

When she isn’t holding space, Erin finds her own renewal in the mountains of Colorado or the healing waters of the Caribbean. She is the proud mother of two nearly-grown children, who continue to teach her about love, loss, and the art of letting go.

At retreat, Erin invites each person to meet themselves more fully—to turn toward the truths we often avoid and discover that grief, too, can be sacred. Through ceremony, conversation, and shared stillness, she helps people remember that we are not meant to carry it all alone.