Doing Death Together – a weekend in Lund

YOUR WEEKEND INCLUDES:

A weekend of inquiry-informed, somatically-sensitive and mindfully- based experience. Topics include: Advanced Care Planning, natural burial and recent options for disposition of body, home funeral practices, storytelling, opportunities for creative expression, silence and ceremony.

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EVENT DETAILS:

The Centre for Earth and Spirit invites you to join us for a weekend gathering in a private warm, welcoming home nestled on the edge of the Salish Sea. This magical property, on the threshold of Powell River and Lund, has forest paths, a pond, and sweeping ocean views that call us into a container with kind folks – a space where we can activate confidence, agency, connections and community in reclaiming end-of-life care. Our interest is to weave connections, cultivate the sacred and remember our innate capacity to tend one another in and through this potent transitional time.

This invitation includes an opportunity to immerse ourselves in meaningful inquiry and dialogue to illuminate unique issues and challenges for each participant. In a safe and welcoming environment understanding, compassion and belonging can blossom into significant, impactful and embodied action.

We can do death together!

This weekend is for you if you:

• wish to be more informed around choices in tending end-of-life with consciousness and care
• are called to reclaim dying and death as a personal, familial and village process
• care about an eco-responsible approach to dying and death
• are inspired to be a community builder in kinship with all of life
• are a caregiver
• are human!

Upon registration you will receive an email with more information about location, break schedules, and other workshop event details.

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Friday, September 27, 7:00pm – Sunday, September 29, 3:00pm

Daily Hours of Gathering:

Friday, Sept 27th: 7 pm – 9 pm

Saturday, Sept 28th : 9 am – 4:30 pm

Sunday, Sept 29th: 9:30 am – 3 pm

Tea and snacks will be provided throughout the weekend. Please bring your own lunch on Saturday and Sunday.

Accommodation:

If you live out of town you are encouraged to seek your own accomodation . Here are some places you might consider:

Heartwood Cabins https://www.heartwoodcabins.com/

The Laughing Oyster https://www.oysterbeds.ca/

The Lund Hotel https://lundresort.ca/

Desolation Sound Resort https://desolationsoundresort.com/

The Old Courthouse Inn https://www.oldcourthouseinn.ca/

Island View Lodge https://www.islandviewlodge.ca

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REGISTRATION

Early Registration Special! $295 (before Sept. 1, 2024)

Bring a friend and pay $575.00 (before Sept. 1, 2024)

Registration fee Sept 1 – 17th : $345.00 per person

Registration closes after Sept 17, 2024

We are gratefully accepting contributions to subsidize those who can’t afford the full registration costs.

Please contact us in advance if funds are a barrier.

For any inquiries, please contact pennyallport@gmail.com or

info@centreforearthandspirit.ca.

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FACILITATORS

Penny Allport

A long-time lover of world wisdom traditions, participant in ceremonies honouring the life-death-life cycle from Mexico to Bali, Africa and the Amazon, informs Penny’s work as a Life-Cycle Celebrant. Fueled by a deep interest in our potential for being human’s kind, Penny facilitates multi-generational classes and retreats, combining Continuum Movement, Yoga, writing, painting and dream processes, also incorporating the work of mentor Angeles Arrien (1940-2014), Cross Cultural Anthropologist/Author/Teacher. See www.movingceremonies.com. Penny has been an Advisor and Facilitator of the Living Well – Dying Well program through The Centre for Earth and Spirit since 2016.

Renate Ringer

Earth walker, star gazer, wild food forager, ocean swimmer, and a continuing student of nature’s wisdom with the cycles of life & death. Renate has a degree in nursing and many decades working with diverse aspects of health including: nursing in acute care, long term care, neurodiverse care, and nursing research projects. As well she supports initiatives that strengthen community health and has managed urban agriculture programs, food sustainability projects and social enterprise endeavors in the non profit sector in addition to facilitating community strengthening activities . She continues to explore additional healing arts such as: music, dance, poetry, storytelling, herbology, dreamwork, and spirituality. Renate has been a Facilitator and program co-creator of the Living Well – Dying Well program through The Centre for Earth and Spirit since 2017.

Anna Byrne

A certified teacher, Anna holds a combined BA in Psychology and Gerontology, and a Master of Theological Studies degree. She is a volunteer with Four Tides Hospice Society and co-founder of Community-Supported Dying qathet. Anna’s memoir,Seven Year Summer, explores her experience living with cancer while in her 30s, and was named a Finalist for the Whistler Independent Book Awards. You can find her work at: annambyrne.com.

Krista Manuel

Krista Manuel is a death doula, funeral director, embalmer, hospice board member and volunteer, a daughter, a mother and a friend. She is an Advance Care Planning educator, a grief and bereavement group facilitator and an advocate for community death caring and green disposition options.
She is passionate about engagement, living and dying authentically and dreaming with community into big possibilities. You can find out more: www.consciouscrossings.ca.

Sue Muirhead

Sue Muirhead lives on and honours the lands of the Tla’amin people. She is a lover of deep connections with others, creative expression of all sorts, the wild, the wind.… At the age of 71, she has spent much of her younger years living and working in Indigenous Communities. She credits the people in these communities with much of her knowledge about what it means to do death together. She has seen the deep connections and the honouring of grief that is possible when families and communities gather and ‘do death together’. Sue works with much heart as a Registered Clinical Counsellor in BC and has worked with individuals, couples, families, and groups for more than 25 years.

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