A Quarterly Storytelling Event
Sunday, Apr 9, 2017 1 – 3:30 PM:
This gathering’s topic is Advanced Directives and Living Wills. We will imagine, question and discuss with a Home Funeral Guide, Jenny Bingham, and a Notary will be available for finalizing dying time plans…….
An open discussion about Death, Dying, and Grief
with A COMMUNITY OF LIKE MINDED FOLKS • SEPT 11, 1 PM – 3:30 PM:
During this event, we’ll have an open, organic discussion on home death, family led ceremony and burial. We will visit a family cemetery set in the woods of Sparkroot Farm. Bring your stories, poems, griefs, sorrows, joys, tears, jokes, questions…. bring it ALL. We’ll listen as a community. Let’s keep this conversation alive. And yes – cupcakes will be served.
An open discussion about Death, Dying, and Grief
with A COMMUNITY OF LIKE MINDED FOLKS • JUN 5, 1 PM – 3:30 PM:
During this Death Cafe style event, we’ll have an open, organic discussion on anything relating to death. Bring your stories, poems, griefs, sorrows, joys, tears, jokes, wills…. bring it ALL. We’ll listen as a community. Let’s keep this conversation alive. And yes – cupcakes will be served.
An open discussion about Death, Dying, and Grief
with A COMMUNITY OF LIKE MINDED FOLKS • Mar. 13, 1 PM – 4 PM:
During this Death Cafe style event, we’ll have an open, organic discussion on anything relating to death. Bring your stories, poems, griefs, sorrows, joys, tears, jokes, wills…. bring it ALL. We’ll listen as a community. Let’s keep this conversation alive. And yes – cupcakes will be served.
A Conversation Space
with Community • Sunday, JAN 10, 1:30 – 3:30 PM:
At a Death Cafe people gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death with an objective ‘to increase awareness of death with a view to help people make the most of their (finite) lives’. It’s a group directed discussion with no agenda, objectives or themes. A discussion group rather than a grief support or counselling session…
A Daylong Workshop
with Stephen Jenkinson • Saturday, Dec 12, 9 AM – 4 PM:
Die Wise – A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul, is Jenkinson’s new book about grief, and dying, and the great love of life. This teaching is for people who wish to live deeply and to die well. It teaches the dying time as a place to learn our humanity and the noble, courageous skills of village-making for those we will not live to meet. Chief among these are the willingness to remember sorrow, to start with cultural poverty, to grieve together, and to gather the dead into your village….
A Film Screening & Discussion
with Stephen Jenkinson • Friday, Dec 11, 7 PM – 9:30 PM:
SOLD OUT! JOIN THE WAITING LIST Griefwalker weaves an illuminating picture of a remarkable man and leaves us with a deeper understanding of how our deaths could be held as a ‘prized possession;’ as the foundation of our love of life and the means by which we create true community, culture and meaning…
