What Matters In the End
A 7-week Online Course for
Navigating the Physical, Emotional, & Spiritual
challenges of end-of-life care
Exploring Death & Celebrating Life
“If we can learn to reintroduce death into our lives so that it comes not as a dreaded stranger but as an expected companion to our life, then we can also learn to live our lives with meaning.”
– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Many of us have a feeling knowing more about the dying process would be good for us, but in our culture the immediate perception of death is negative. Yet death is a natural part of life. By keeping it removed from our everyday consciousness, we take away from fully living.
I invite you to . . .
learn more about your one inevitable experience. Our lives are already interwoven with it. Exploring ways to navigate endings, uncertainty, and eventually our dying are key to discovering healthy ways of living. We each have an inner awareness that is intimately involved with ‘dying daily’ – as we die to old concepts of ourselves in order to adopt new ones and make powerful, lasting changes.
When we look at life with a 360 degree viewpoint we understand this circle, this cycle of life from birth to death to rebirth, around and around we go in this Divine dance and integration of living and dying. Integration is making things whole. We feel a wholeness and a beautiful sense of the miracle of life when we are present at a birth. Death can be just as life affirming and help us feel more whole.
When we grow our understanding of our mortality, there’s a relief. It’s not easy. It’s sometimes quite scary. It takes our breath away. It can be painful and emotional to consider the loss and the loss of our loved ones, but there’s a gift and rediscovery of awareness already within us as we come closer to our center, our vulnerable yet powerful and divine core.
What is it and what’s included?
- 7-week, Live Online Course
- 2-Hours of Class Each Week
- 1:1 Individual Session
- Email Support Between Classes
- Recordings of Classes for Future Learning & Use
- Membership in the online ‘Rising Through Grief’ Community
This course provides tools and skills for showing up compassionately for someone who is dying if and when we find ourselves at the bedside.
By learning pragmatic ways to prepare for, support and navigate another’s death, we also increase our personal awareness of our own ~ on an emotional and spiritual level.
It is structured using the 7 chakras of the body as they coincide with important topics and challenges we encounter as we face death.
It is for those willing to courageously begin integrating a sense of their mortality, their loved ones’ mortality, and rediscover an ancient knowing that can serve as vital guidance and an increased quality of life.
(See the list below of the topics covered each week.)
Benefits of completing this course
- 1. More compassion for yourself and others
- 2. Greater courage to face change, loss and transition
- 3. Increased confidence and flexibility with facing life
- 4. More genuine gratitude and appreciation for the preciousness of life
- 5. Recognition of and the ability to begin to let go of fear or anxiety surrounding loss
- 6. More peace due to more acceptance of your mortality
- 7. Simultaneously building your relationship with your immortality and ‘what’s not dying’
- 8. Greater understanding of the avoidance of death our culture has instilled in us
- 9. Clarification of your true priorities and steps to take to develop them
- 10. Increased skills for handling the dying process
This course is for you if you’ve been experiencing
- 1. Fear or anxiety about a loved one’s aging or pending death
- 2. Avoidance or procrastination around preparing for death – your own or a loved one’s
- 3. Difficulty moving forward with your purpose in life
- 4. Indecisiveness or low energy in general
- 5. Grief about past losses and/or deaths
- 6. Lack of clarity about priorities in life
- 7. Incomplete advance care planning
- 8. Not having anyone to talk with about death, dying, and grief
- 9. Not knowing how to bring these topics up with loved ones
- 10. Needing skills on supporting someone with a life-limiting illness
- 11. Not having started on advance care directives & a will for yourself or loved ones
- 12. A desire to know how to better serve someone who is approaching death
- Week 1: Red / Root Chakra
Mobilizing & Taking Steps on What Can be Done Now Vs. death denial
Advance healthcare directives, hospice, death doulas, navigating end-of-life care and the medical system
- Week 2: Orange / Reproductive Chakra
Emotional Agility & Creativity Vs. emotional rigidity
Regrets, emotional courage and honesty, defusing fears & accepting some as natural
- Week 3: Yellow / Solar Plexus
Clarity, Confidence & Listening to our Gut Vs. worry & ruminating
Cycle of life guided meditation, activities of daily living, medical aid in dying, pain vs. suffering
- Week 4: Green / Heart Chakra
Ability to Grieve & Self-Compassion Vs. unable to grieve & lack of compassion
Grief and love, companioning ourselves and others who are grieving, legacy building projects
- Week 5: Blue / Throat Chakra
Speaking One’s Truth & Authentic Self-Expression Vs. inauthenticity & sacrificing integrity
Grief & loss ritual, end-of-life care wishes & after-death wishes, nearing death awareness
- Week 6: Indigo / Third Eye
Soul Qualities Vs. mind & ego
Signs of approaching death, holding vigil, resistance, form vs formlessness, psychadelics’ role
- Week 7: Violet / Crown Chakra
Spiritual Practice, Self-discovery & Sense of Place in the Universe Vs. separation
Near death experiences, honoring beliefs, mystery and one’s sense of what comes after
Anyone . . .
- with a natural desire to grow and evolve
- with a tendency to look at life through a creative and spiritual lens
- who senses knowing more about their dying, an unavoidable experience in life, may have an incredible power to inform and improve their living
- interested in working in end-of-life care field, hospice volunteering, grief work, or as a death doula
- who has experienced the death of a loved one and has a desire to more fully integrate it
This course is an experiential program meant to move you towards greater awareness of loss and death.
Laura will gently guide you using experiential writing exercises, guided contemplation, and supportive dialogue for beginning to conceptualize the dying process.
You will also be led through pragmatic, action-oriented exercises for gaining clarity on how to skillfully support others’ dying process.
By learning to be with others’ death and grief, you will be facing your own, and discovering how this leads to more wholeheartedly embracing living.
Similar to how one feels after having broken a bone and healed, the journey of learning more about mortality brings a newfound appreciation for your life – clarifying your priorities, purpose and how to make more quality use of the time you have now.
Although a tender topic, Laura embodies an excitement and love for the trust, surrender, and peace she has witnessed others gain by touching the mystery that’s at the center of death and the part of us that lives on.
It is a naturally emotional topic and becoming attuned to feelings is part of the learning process. A supportive group setting is created. One thing that helps is that we are all equally vulnerable to the mystery and unknowns that surround our death. Grief can naturally arise as a result of discussing it. This is an opportunity to support one another through deep listening and compassion. The group setting and times of discussion are not meant for advice or fixing one another, but rather curiosity, learning and exploration of big topics.
There will also be no pressure whatsoever to speak or ask questions. Turning on your camera during the classes and being as present as possible does indeed help others feel more comfortable to ask questions and participate.
Join Us!
Whether you have . . .
- a natural desire to grow and evolve
- a tendency to look at life through a creative and spiritual lens
- been thinking more about the dying experience and sensing its power to inform your living
- an interest in pursuing work in end-of-life care, hospice volunteering, grief-work, or as a death doula
- been through death with a loved one and want to more deeply integrate it into your life
Enjoy the incredibly positive and inspiring effects from showing up for this experiential 7-week online program. Be deeply moved as you rediscover and enliven your joy and what has been dying to live. And be inspired by other like-minded, powerful individuals who are willing to do the same.
Looking forward to the journey!
The Next 7-week Live Online Course Begins: Tuesday, October 1st, 2024 @ 4pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern
Price: $495
