Community Educational Offerings

  A wake provides a place, a time, and an organic way to experience death for all involved. 

Learn exactly what you can do with your body! Join us in conversation about the history of vigils and wakes, and to explore how a wake helps integrate the body, mind, and spirit of both the deceased and the people left behind. In this interactive workshop, we will talk about how and why we would revisit this tradition. 

This workshop explains what the options are in Washington State.  Options are expanding for all aspects of death and dying- from personal care to body disposition. We will discuss the important roles of companion, ally, and advocate 

through the entire end-of-life process. A death doula provides care that is particularly suited identifying, planning for, and supporting individual needs regarding: medical choices, legal  & financial documents, social & and emotional care.  Access to all the options though education is the goal of this presentation. 

 Gather people in your life for a sweet treat or two.  Plan a working lunch meeting, snag a picnic bench at the park, reserve a room at the library, or invite friends over to your home and we will  facilitate a rich conversation. Talking about death can be difficult for people, and food well, it can certainly makes things easier.  Together we will complete an Advance Health Care paperwork or a Death Plan outline. .  

No One Dies Alone is a volunteer program that provides the reassuring presence of a trained volunteer companion to dying people who would otherwise be alone.  

A Sacred Passing supports the administration of this program in south Seattle with program volunteers as well as our Death Doula apprentices are vigil coordinators.  We are working to grow a strong web of trained community volunteers. 

Enjoy some coffee, eat some care and talk abut death. We will facilitate regular Death Cafes.  We can come out and show you how to run one of our own.  It's often fun to pair an activity before or after your cafe to encourage fun and creative conversation. 

 Crew leads a group of eight people to a site in the Olympic National Forest, for three days and two nights, to immerse themselves in an experience designed around the natural cycle of life. We take from the earth as we dig, and we learn from the land. We give back by completing a service project on the grounds, and we give forward by creating a natural installation for those yet to come. Together we experience a natural burial, free of the actual loss of a human life. That freedom can create space to explore our thoughts in a truly profound way