Hi everyone,
This fall, I'll be offering several workshops and courses. Read on to learn about building a casket, a retreat on community deathcare, and a brand new course offered at Vancouver Island University called "Reimagining Death in the 21st Century." In November, there will also be a workshop on natural burials (date TBD). A couple of these require registration and two are free.
I'll also be meeting with book clubs that are reading Seven Year Summer, and giving a talk at Salt Spring Island Hospice. Please get in touch if you are a part of a book club that would like to read Seven Year Summer together. Hope to see you this fall!
Building A Community Casket: A Family-Friendly Event
Friday, September 20, 10-4 pm & Saturday, September 21st, 10-4 pm.
Rotary Pavilion at Willingdon Beach
*Free, Drop-In
Come learn about and lend a hand in oiling, sanding, and finishing a wooden casket. A second finished casket will also be on display. As we work, we’ll have the opportunity to chat about community deathcare, natural burial options, and local end-of-life resources. This is a gentle way for folks of all ages to learn about the end of life. Drop by this informative and interesting event.
For more information, email csdqathet@gmail.com
Sponsored by Community-Supported Dying qathet and qathet ART Council as part of the Memento Mori Festival
Doing Death Together: Reclaiming End-of-Life Community & Care
Friday, September 27—Sunday, September 29, 2024.
Lund, BC.
$345
Registration ends Sept. 17th.
The Centre for Earth and Spirit invites you to a weekend retreat on a magical property nestled on the edge of the Salish Sea. This inquiry-based and somatically-sensitive gathering will weave together conversation, practical skills, and ceremony as we activate our capacity to tend to others through times of illness, caregiving, dying, and grief. This retreat is for you if you are interested in tending to the end of life with consciousness and care, feel called to reclaim dying and death as a personal and village process, care about an eco-friendly approach to death, or are inspired to be a community builder in end-of-life care.
Topics include: Advance Care Planning, natural burial and disposition options, home funeral practices, storytelling, creative expression, silence and ceremony.
To register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/doing-death-together-a-weekend-in-lund-tickets-950014337457?aff=oddtdtcreator
Reimagining Death in the 21st Century
Tuesdays, October 22 to November 5 | 6 to 8 pm
VIU tiwšɛmawtxʷ campus
$75
This 3-session course is a thought-provoking inquiry into contemporary death culture. The course is designed for those who are interested or employed in end-of-life topics.
Session 1 - Current Culture: We begin by locating ourselves within the current cultural story of death and dying. We’ll lend a critical eye to militarized language, media portrayals, the medical model, and major movements in death care in the West (e.g. Medical Assistance in Dying).
Session 2 - New Narratives: What stories do we long for to inspire and inform death culture? In this session, we will explore metaphors, myth, and meaning, with the intent to creatively dream new ways of engaging with death.
Session 3 - Community Connections: Together we explore how we can bridge the gap between the story we currently inhabit and the one we wish to invoke. How can we build community resources, connection, and resiliency in death care? What voices will be called on to invoke this new reality?
To register: https://pr.viu.ca/community-education-and-training
Natural Burial in qathet
Date TBD
qathet ART Centre
*Free
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