Events and Opportunities

Here are some of the events, topics and workshops available with Good Heart Companion

Join me for a Death Cafe

At a Death Cafe people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death.
Our objective is ‘to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives’.
A Death Cafe is a group directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counseling session.
  • Death Cafe at Whitehall Public Library – Third Mondays Monthly  June 15  6:30 pm  (All Times Eastern)
  • Virtual Death Cafe with Carole – on ZOOM  Third Wednesdays Monthly  June 17  7:00 pm  (All Times Eastern)
  • Virtual Death Cafe with Carole – on ZOOM  Thursday Morning (after Wednesday ZOOM) Monthly  June 18  11:00 am  (All Times Eastern) 

Join me for a Death Cafe

At a Death Cafe people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death.
Our objective is ‘to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives’.
A Death Cafe is a group directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counseling session.
  • Death Cafe at Whitehall Public Library – Third Mondays Monthly  June 15  6:30 pm  (All Times Eastern)
  • Virtual Death Cafe with Carole – on ZOOM  Third Wednesdays Monthly  June 17  7:00 pm  (All Times Eastern)
  • Virtual Death Cafe with Carole – on ZOOM  Thursday Morning (after Wednesday ZOOM) Monthly  June 18  11:00 am  (All Times Eastern) 

Let’s schedule a time for me to speak to your group or organization! 

Five Wishes – a walk through this End of Life planning document. Advanced Care Directives (ACD) for not only the legal and medical things, but also how we’d like to be treated, what we’d like around us when dying, and what our legacy will be – how we are remembered.  Five Wishes is a creative and caring way to start opening the uncomfortable conversations.
 
  
What Is A Doula, And Why Will I Want One? – a brief overview of how working with an EOLD will support and enhance the experience both planning and living at the end of life.
 
Death Over Cards – The Death Deck is a versatile deck of cards with all kinds of topics, questions and prompts. Sometimes funny, always relatable, time spent over these cards can really open your eyes. 
 
The Wind Phone –
 

What subjects would you like to explore? Let’s Talk!

“Loving, Dying, and Letting Go”
Workshop Description
What does it mean to love? What does it mean to die? And how can we “let go”? 
The three questions above are central to human life. Philosophers and spiritual leaders throughout time have reflected upon them. Wise ones across all ages and cultures have offered up their own insights into answering these perennial queries. And, of course, all of us ~ all who know birth, breath, and death ~ wrestle at times with what it all means. What does it mean to love, die, and “let go”? 
The Loving, Dying, and Letting Go workshop is designed to create a safe space for heartfelt inquiry into these questions. People of all philosophies and faith traditions are warmly welcomed to gather together to listen, learn, and ~ most importantly ~ personally reflect upon the questions above. For those who have experienced grief due to death or the loss of an important relationship, for those who are caretaking or working with the bereaved, or for anyone wondering it means to face one’s own death, or the death of those we love ~ this workshop will be particularly moving/beneficial. Letting Go is not forgetting, it can be how we integrate our loss into our life.
Loving, Dying, and Letting Go is a 3-hour workshop based upon the work/writing of Amy Wright Glenn, founder of the Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death. 
Amy is the author of  Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go published by Parallax Press in 2017.
Call to schedule this workshop for your group.