Here is an overview of the Workshop’s five sessions. All sessions share the same format. They are book-ended by a brief meditative moment and conclude with a poem. Each session will illuminate a different aspect of the end of life and the choices we may have. While participants receive a folder with printed material, booklets, videos, and images, the main focus of the workshops is on conversations and the sharing of ideas, experiences, and reactions.
Session A Why are You Here?
Getting to know each other.
Have you experienced the death of a person?
How do you imagine your own death?
Session B Getting your Affairs in Order
Conversation starter guides
MOLST, Health Care Proxy, Advance Directive
Ethical Will
Session C The Long Goodbye
What matters to you, not what’s the matter with you.
Dealing with dementia
Session D Finishing Strong
What happens before death? Signs of approaching death
Where to die? Hospital, nursing home, hospice, home.
Medical aid in dying, VSED
After the last breath: burial or cremation, body donation
Session E Grieving
Write your own obituary
Grieving, loss, and the rest of the world
Workshops are forming for the Winter and Spring 2024
To sign up, please contact us.
Fee: $100 (includes a working folder with resources, hand-outs, and extensive links to relevant websites).
Thank you for your interest of talking and thinking about the end of our lives.
No one will be refused for inability to pay. All welcome, regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ethnicity, and national origin, range of abilities, sexual, and affectional orientation, financial means, education, religion, and political perspective.