Re-imagining End-of-Life and Death Care

YOUR WEEKEND INCLUDES:

A weekend of inquiry-informed, somatically-sensitive, mindfully-based practices and practical applications. Topics include: Advanced Care Planning, encouraging & strengthening our relationships in life to consciously meet death – our own and others, home funeral options and practices, natural burial and recent options for body disposition, changing narratives around death and dying, opportunities for creative expression, contemplation, silence and ceremony. _____________________________________________________________________________

EVENT DETAILS:

This year, Living Well Dying Well, a program of Centre for Earth & Spirit, celebrates 10 years of offering these types of community gatherings. We invite you to join us for a weekend gathering in a private warm, welcoming home overlooking the Salish Sea. The nearby nature trails and sweeping ocean views call us into a container with kind folks – a space where we can activate confidence, agency, connections and community in re-imagining 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. It takes a village!

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.

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, March 21, 7:00pm – Sunday, March 23 3:00pm

Daily Hours of Gathering:

Friday, March 21rst: 7 pm – 9 pm

Saturday, March 22nd : 9 am – 4:30 pm

Sunday, March 23rd: 9:30 am – 3 pm

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

Accommodation:

Please contact us if you are from out of town and may need accommodation

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REGISTRATION

Early Registration Special! $295 (before March 1, 2025)

Regular Registration fee: $345 per person

Registration closes after March 15, 2025

We gratefully accept contributions to support those who can’t afford full registration costs from anyone inspired to contribute. It truly takes a village! Please contact us in advance if funds are a barrier.

For any inquiries, please contact [email protected] or

[email protected].

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FACILITATORS

Join Penny Allport, Renate Ringer & guest 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 individuals as well as multi-generational classes and retreats, combining Continuum Movement, perceptual inquiry, writing, painting and dream processes, also incorporating the work of mentor Angeles Arrien (1940-2014), Cross Cultural Anthropologist/Author/Teacher. See more at www.movingceremonies.com. Penny has been an Advisor, Facilitator and Collaborator 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. Initiatives that strengthen community health have long been a passion of hers having managed urban agriculture programs, food sustainability projects, social enterprise endeavors and creative arts projects. She continues to explore additional healing arts such as: music, dance, poetry, storytelling, herbology, dreamwork, and spirituality. Renate has been a Facilitator and program collaborator of the Living Well – Dying Well program through The Centre for Earth and Spirit since 2018