Grieve in the Eve is an in person monthly gathering to be together in community with our various forms of grief - this month's is being held for queer + trans people specifically. Because these gatherings are peer-support format, they are currently for attendees age 18 and up. Bring your care, your grief, and anything that helps you feel comfortable. Masks encouraged and provided - verbal participation not required.
Embracing the Shadow gathering returns this Fall and Winter. On Monday, September 22nd at 5:30p PT/8:30p ET, we’ll embark on a virtual grief journey to navigate all the forms, layers, and shapes that grief takes. Together we’ll tend to our grief through holistic and creative practices, the medicine of nature, and the presence of a caring community. With the support of Shadow, our flower essence grief potion, we’re invited to soften and expand as we practice letting go. Our journey begins with a somatic release meditation, expressing our insights, storytelling, and closing with a baci blessing ritual. The grief potion […]
🌿 Our Bodies Are Designed to Return to the Earth 🌿 Join our Zoom to learn what a Conservation Cemetery is… permanently protected natural land where burials restore habitat. We'll take a deep dive into how a conservation cemetery differs from modern burial practices, and how it compares to green burial. Here in California, we’re a community that thrives outdoors! From beaches to deserts to mountains, yet when it comes to our final rest, our options are far removed from the natural rhythms that reflect our lifestyle. Modern burial practices - concrete vaults, metal caskets, and toxic embalming chemicals - […]
THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLORE AND SHARE GRIEF TOGETHER THROUGH POETRY, FREE WRITING, SHARING, WITNESSING, AND SILENCE. EVERYTHING AS AN INVITATION. PARTICIPATE IN WHATEVER WAY FEELS RIGHT FOR YOU. All grief welcome - past, present, and future. Death and non-death grief.
The Lotus Center Death Cafe is open to the public and typically consists of an agenda-free discussion of death . Our objective will be to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives. Dinner will be served. All ages welcome. This is a safe, judgement-free, no-fixing zone. Every belief is welcome.
Whether you are a long-time griever or new to the experience, join us for an evening of creative clay work. You will have the chance to connect with others who are navigating their own grief as well. In this workshop we will create ceramic grief jars, or grief urns. Colleen from "Death Doula Does," will guide grievers in building a personal grief self-care ritual, and teach them how to hold space for their journey with grief. Two evenings are available: September 24th, 6-9pm and October 22nd, 6-9pm All clay materials and firing are included, and all participants will receive a […]
Cheers! Please join me, Stefanie Elkins, Death over Drafts Founder, as well as Family Caregiver Consultant and EOL Doula with Be Present Care, along with Lisa Pahl, LCSW, The Death Deck and Jamie Thrower, The Queer Grief Club, as we are buzzed to be offering this quarterly Death over Drafts via Zoom in addition to our physical locations. This DoD Zoom's special guest along with Lisa and Jamie is the introduction of The Dementia Deck!!! Death over Drafts are community gatherings where end-of-life conversations are being "tapped" at breweries nationwide and in Canada. These events are hosted by Crafters aka […]
Throughout human history, art has played an important role in the ways that we memorialize loved ones in death and express our grief. Join us at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a meaningful exploration of how art can illuminate and validate our personal experiences with loss. Led by creative grief professional, Melanie Wilson, and arts educator, Deborah Chi, this intimate group gathering will invite participants to view and discuss several carefully selected works of art that speak to different aspects of the mourning process. Through reflective exercises and thoughtful conversation, participants will have the opportunity to explore their own […]
In this webinar, hosted by The Grief Hub, Grief and Bereavement Educator and Researcher , Dr. Kimberly Rich, will share ways that grief may show up in the workplace and will share resources to help participants meet organizational expectations in the face of grief. Dr. Rich will also provide guidance on how participants can advocate for themselves when returning to work while grieving, and help participants support their coworkers when they are grieving.
Join author Amy Shea at Memorial Mausoleum at Ararat Armenian Cemetery for the launch of her debut book, Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins. Through intimate essays and fieldwork, Shea brings to light the stories of those who pass unnoticed, unhoused, unclaimed, and underserved. The afternoon will include a reading, conversation, and book signing with the author, accompanied by a live bagpiper, a brief memorial honoring those buried in the county cemetery, and a reception with baked goods alongside coffee and tea. Books sold by Judging by the Cover bookstore. In the spirit of […]
Love reading? Love eating? Morbidly curious, or curiously morbid?Join us for the launch of Eating Our Feelings, a book club for readers and grievers. We will meet on Sunday, September 28 at Mr Cookbop in New Haven CT from 1 - 2:30PM. Here's how it works: we all read the same book, then share food based on what we read. We will chat for two hours and eat our feelings. This month, we are reading Crying in H Mart. This bestselling memoir is about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American—“in losing her mother and cooking to bring […]
What makes a good death? Join us at the Mill Valley Public Library for a special conversation between three accomplished local authors whose recent works explore the profound theme of death and dying from unique and powerful perspectives, including choosing when to die, managing parents' deaths, and disparities in end-of-life and death care for unhoused and unclaimed people. Featuring authors Katy Butler, Mark Dowie, and Amy Shea, and moderated by Dr. Dawn Gross.
