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SUMMARY:DEATH IMMERSION A 3-Part Journey Into Mortality\, Meaning & Rebirth
DESCRIPTION:🌙 Death Immersion: A 3-Part Journey Into Mortality\, Meaning & Rebirth \nGuided by Paige Haviland — Death Midwife\, Grief Guide and Trauma-Informed Reiki Master Teacher \nWinter is the season of stillness\, reflection\, and truth-telling.\nYou are invited into a rare and intimate experience: a full-day immersion exploring death not as an ending\, but as a threshold — a place where clarity\, healing\, and renewal awaken. \nThis workshop is tender\, profound\, creative\, and deeply human.\nIt is designed to meet you exactly where you are. \nTogether we move through three transformative rites of passage: \n⸻ \n✨ PART I — Guided Interactive Death Practice \nA contemplative journey where you gently explore your personal relationship with death and dying. \nThrough guided visualization\, reflective writing\, and supported inquiry\, you will uncover: \n• the stories you inherited about death\n• the fears or numbness you carry\n• the wisdom hidden beneath your resistance\n• what death reveals about how you’re living \nThis practice is grounding\, clarifying\, and often life-shifting. \n⸻ \n✨ PART II — The Death Box Ritual \nDuring this portion\, light food and refreshments will be served as you create your Death & Legacy Box — a sacred container representing you\, how you see your funeral\, final messages\, and the truths you wish to be remembered for. \nThis segment includes: \n• a guided death-awareness visualization\n• journaling + meaning-making\n• creating a personal Death Box\n• decorating it with materials that reflect your story\n• a gentle letting-go ritual\n• reflection while sharing food in community \n🥗 Light Lunch + Refreshments Provided \n(Vegan and gluten-free options available upon request.) \n⸻ \n✨ PART III — The Living Funeral Ceremony \nThe day concludes with a deeply moving symbolic death and rebirth ritual. \nParticipants are invited (never required) to:\n• write their last reflections or final words\n• be guided through a symbolic “death” journey\n• release what is ready to be released\n• “return” with clarity\, gratitude\, and renewed purpose \nThis ceremony often becomes a turning point — a moment of profound awakening. \n⸻ \n🌿 Integration Circle \nWe close with grounding\, journaling\, and gentle conversation to integrate the experience and settle your nervous system. \n🎟 Investment: $188 \nIncludes:\n• All materials\n• Your personal Death & Legacy Box\n• Full guided immersion\n• Food and refreshments\n• Integration circle \n⸻ \n❤️ Who This Is For \nThis workshop is ideal for those who are:\n• curious about their relationship to death\n• navigating grief or major life transitions\n• seeking clarity\, release\, or renewal\n• drawn to ceremony\, ritual\, or reflective work\n• ready for deeper self-understanding \nNo prior experience is needed. This is gentle\, inclusive and deeply transformative.
URL:https://talkdeath.com/event/death-immersion-a-3-part-journey-into-mortality-meaning-rebirth/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260207T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260207T163000
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SUMMARY:The Grief Space
DESCRIPTION:A one day workshop providing the opportunity to have your loss seen\, heard and honoured. A small group where you be safely and gently supported to begin to process your grief. A combination of simple ritual\, working in pairs and letter writing along with somatic work. We will explore concepts of grief and grieving and what is costs us when we don’t know how to actively grieve\, something we’re expected to know intuitively but have becoming disconnected from. The intention is that you leave carrying your grief more lightly.
URL:https://talkdeath.com/event/the-grief-space/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260210T183000
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CREATED:20260109T194953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260225T172826Z
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SUMMARY:Monthly Wailing Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:This is a monthly offering\, happening on the second Tuesday of every month. This offering is designed to support somatically moving our shared and personal grief.\nWe begin to build our container through brief sharing and connecting and then move into movement\, vocalizing\, wailing\, praying\, and drumming. We are building community through acknowledging and exploring the shared human experience of grief and loss.
URL:https://talkdeath.com/event/monthly-wailing-ceremony/2026-02-10/
LOCATION:Awakenings Wellness Center\, 1061 SE 12th Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grief Group,Grief Release,Peer-Led Grief Support,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rosecity Grief Tenders":MAILTO:Meganjcoppock@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260214T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260214T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T074455
CREATED:20260105T201739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260105T201739Z
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SUMMARY:Dyeing before Dying: A Return To Indigenous Wisdom on Death
DESCRIPTION:In summer 2025\, I was in Benin and went to my paternal grandmother’s grave\, visiting it for the first time since she died some years ago. Her grave is not just a stone in the ground of a cemetery\, but a room within her family’s house\, a place where life continues to unfold with death resting beneath us. With my brother\, my aunt and my grand mothers’s siblings\, we settled in the room\, removed the dust\, sat\, chatted and performed rituals and prayers for her soul to continue resting in peace and wisdom. There\, in the presence of her spirit\, we shared foods and drinks that are specially made for death rituals\, we laughed and told stories about her and us\, not only beautiful ones\, but also painful ones. \nThe room and the entire family compound filled with memory\, with sound and silence\, with the feeling that she was still among us. We stayed the whole afternoon until dusk. The light dimmed; the air thickened with memory\, and I felt how thin the line between life and death truly is. How in our ways\, death is never separate from life but part of its ongoing rhythm. It was there\, sitting in that room together with everyone\, repeating the same ritualistic gestures\, being in silence and patient\, that I remembered that dying \, like dyeing is a slow process\, a transformation\, a return. \nIt is from this experience that the workshop Dyeing before Dying: A Return to Indigenous Wisdom on Death was born. An invitation to sit with death\, not as an abstract or frightening idea\, but as a teacher\, a companion; and a mirror. \nIn this weekend workshop\, we will explore what it means to prepare for death while we are still living: To reflect\, to make peace\, to organise\, to imagine our departure\, and to reconnect with the ancestral and Indigenous ways that hold death as a continuation of life. We will then begin thinking and writing our own Death Journal\, a gentle space to gather our reflections\, memories\, unfinished conversations\, and visions for what we wish to leave behind. \nTo dye is to steep. To soak. To sit with something long enough for it to leave a mark. It is a slow\, deliberate act. It transforms what is plain into something layered\, stained\, changed. \nI borrow this image of dyeing to speak about the process of preparing for dying. \nIn many Indigenous worldviews death is not the end. \nIt is a return. A passage. A continuation. \nThis workshop is an invitation to reconnect with those ways of knowing and to reflect on: \n• What kind of death do I long for? \n• What needs to be closed\, spoken\, or reconciled? \n• What rituals do I want to accompany my departure? \n• How do I imagine my afterlife\, not only in spirit\, but in memory\, in legacy\, in land? \nWe will sit with these questions as a slow dye bath allowing them to seep in\, mark us\, and guide the way we live and prepare to leave.
URL:https://talkdeath.com/event/dyeing-before-dying-a-return-to-indigenous-wisdom-on-death/2026-02-14/1/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Death Cafe,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260214T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260214T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T074455
CREATED:20260105T201739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260105T201739Z
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SUMMARY:Dyeing before Dying: A Return To Indigenous Wisdom on Death
DESCRIPTION:In summer 2025\, I was in Benin and went to my paternal grandmother’s grave\, visiting it for the first time since she died some years ago. Her grave is not just a stone in the ground of a cemetery\, but a room within her family’s house\, a place where life continues to unfold with death resting beneath us. With my brother\, my aunt and my grand mothers’s siblings\, we settled in the room\, removed the dust\, sat\, chatted and performed rituals and prayers for her soul to continue resting in peace and wisdom. There\, in the presence of her spirit\, we shared foods and drinks that are specially made for death rituals\, we laughed and told stories about her and us\, not only beautiful ones\, but also painful ones. \nThe room and the entire family compound filled with memory\, with sound and silence\, with the feeling that she was still among us. We stayed the whole afternoon until dusk. The light dimmed; the air thickened with memory\, and I felt how thin the line between life and death truly is. How in our ways\, death is never separate from life but part of its ongoing rhythm. It was there\, sitting in that room together with everyone\, repeating the same ritualistic gestures\, being in silence and patient\, that I remembered that dying \, like dyeing is a slow process\, a transformation\, a return. \nIt is from this experience that the workshop Dyeing before Dying: A Return to Indigenous Wisdom on Death was born. An invitation to sit with death\, not as an abstract or frightening idea\, but as a teacher\, a companion; and a mirror. \nIn this weekend workshop\, we will explore what it means to prepare for death while we are still living: To reflect\, to make peace\, to organise\, to imagine our departure\, and to reconnect with the ancestral and Indigenous ways that hold death as a continuation of life. We will then begin thinking and writing our own Death Journal\, a gentle space to gather our reflections\, memories\, unfinished conversations\, and visions for what we wish to leave behind. \nTo dye is to steep. To soak. To sit with something long enough for it to leave a mark. It is a slow\, deliberate act. It transforms what is plain into something layered\, stained\, changed. \nI borrow this image of dyeing to speak about the process of preparing for dying. \nIn many Indigenous worldviews death is not the end. \nIt is a return. A passage. A continuation. \nThis workshop is an invitation to reconnect with those ways of knowing and to reflect on: \n• What kind of death do I long for? \n• What needs to be closed\, spoken\, or reconciled? \n• What rituals do I want to accompany my departure? \n• How do I imagine my afterlife\, not only in spirit\, but in memory\, in legacy\, in land? \nWe will sit with these questions as a slow dye bath allowing them to seep in\, mark us\, and guide the way we live and prepare to leave.
URL:https://talkdeath.com/event/dyeing-before-dying-a-return-to-indigenous-wisdom-on-death/2026-02-14/2/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Death Cafe,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260217T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260217T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T074455
CREATED:20260109T141430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T141430Z
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SUMMARY:Teeth Become Weapons: Trans Grief and Rage
DESCRIPTION:Queer Death Salon is a community space for all 2SLGBTQIA+ people to come together to discuss death\, dying and grief. It is a facilitated drop-in discussion space\, with the purpose of building connection\, skill\, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities. \nOur bodies\, lives\, and very beings are increasingly politicized.\nOur stories and histories are flattened\, made palatable for the sake of survival.\nOur unique grief becomes increasingly buried and unheard\, unshared.\nWhat makes it unique?\nWhat do we grieve?\nHow does that grief affect us?\nWhat prevents us from engaging with that grief?\nHow does our grief connect us and bring us together?\nFacilitator Imogen Reid is the last of the feral trans women\, a proud dirtbag\, degenerate\, and fuck up. She is a harm reduction advocate and educator\, a former founding member of Communities Organizing for Harm Reduction\, one of the first organized groups in Ottawa doing harm reduction before there were any safe sites. Imogen is a recovering drug addict\, survivor\, fighter\, activist\, shoplifter\, parent\, story teller\, and the holder of the memories of her dead. \nQueer Death Salon takes place over Zoom\, in English\, with Automatic Closed Captioning
URL:https://talkdeath.com/event/teeth-become-weapons-trans-grief-and-rage/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Cornelius\, NC\, 28031
CATEGORIES:Grief Group,LGBTQ,Peer-Led Grief Support,Virtual,Webinar,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260228T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260301T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T074455
CREATED:20260112T222124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260112T222229Z
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SUMMARY:Tending The Hearth - Winter Grief Ritual Weekend
DESCRIPTION:A two-day communal grief ritual weekend\, held in the Sóme tradition. \nWe will be cooking the ritual through many opportunities to connect with one another as well as ample time for introspection and quietude. \nWe are building community through tending to our shared and personal human experience of grief and loss. \nThis is not a residential weekend it will run Saturday 10-9 and Sunday 10-6. Afternoon and evening meals will be provided.
URL:https://talkdeath.com/event/tending-the-hearth-winter-grief-ritual-weekend/
LOCATION:Pause Meditation Studio\, 133 SW 2nd Ave #300\, Portland\, OR\, 97204\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Grief Group,Grief Release,History,Peer-Led Grief Support,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rosecity Grief Tenders":MAILTO:Meganjcoppock@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260228T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260228T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T074455
CREATED:20260210T152952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T152952Z
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SUMMARY:Support for our Grieving Community - Guided Discussion & Educational Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Grief isn’t only something we experience after a death. We grieve relationships\, careers\, dreams\, and a changing sense of safety\, and many of us are also grieving the state of the world itself. These everyday griefs are often unspoken\, yet they shape how we navigate life and care for one another. Many of us are wondering how to stay engaged with what’s happening in the world while also caring for our own mental and emotional well-being. \nThis 90-minute interactive\, donation-based grief workshop explores grief as a life skill – one that helps us adapt to unwanted change\, understand what we need to cope\, and remain open to compassion for others during times of distress and communal grief. \nThis workshop offers grief education\, guided sharing\, community connection\, and a grounding practice to support living well and caring for others during times of communal grief. The Death Network was founded with community\, curiosity\, and connection at its core\, and this workshop with grief coaches Wendy Kessler and Claudia Faerber reflects that intention — creating space to be honest\, present\, and human together. \nThis workshop is for those seeking helpful\, practical ways to understand and navigate everyday grief as it shows up in daily life. Whether your grief feels clear or hard to name\, you are welcome here — to learn\, reflect\, and be in community with others who are also finding their way. \nCreated for those looking for helpful ways to navigate everyday grief as it weaves through daily life\, this space welcomes both the named and unnamed losses we carry. Come to learn\, reflect\, and sit in community with others walking a similar path. \nThis workshop is offered by donation to keep it accessible to all. Your support helps us continue creating community spaces like this. Venmo: @thedeathnetwork\nThanks so much!
URL:https://talkdeath.com/event/support-for-our-grieving-community-guided-discussion-educational-workshop/
LOCATION:South Park Yoga & Wellness\, 2985 Beech St.\, San Diego\, CA\, 92102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Meet Up,Education,Grief Group,Grief Release,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Death Network":MAILTO:hello@dodeathdifferent.com
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