FREE educational event that includes a resource fair, lunch, and pampering. Kim Mooney and Megan Carnarius will keynote the event, and during the day there will be break-out sessions on […]
11th Annual Caregiver Conference
WHEN FAMILY TIES ARE BROKEN
Each person in a family may feel shattered when a loved one dies, but death can also shatter a family. People grieve very differently. Some may be highly emotional. Others […]
The Facts of Life and Death: Fact One: They’re Not Separate
We each want our personal values to be honored throughout the story of our life until the very end. But dying is complicated, and that may not happen at the […]
Benefits of online course: Grief for Professionals
The upcoming Lunch and Learn Series provides excellent focused professional education that will challenge you, that is respectful of your time, and that creates an exciting cross-pollination of ideas from […]
Ongoing Study of Grief
Why should we turn an eye to grief as a formal study? Grief is the most universal human experience, and we live with it every day in many forms. You’ll […]
Death Cafés bring surprising lightness to heavy topic
What is a Death Café? I’m honored to be quoted in the Considerable.com article, How to die the way you want, by Randi Hutter Epstein. What is a death café, you ask? Death […]
Coping With The Holidays Checklist
Coping with the holidays. Although the holidays can demand a lot of us, we do have the right to make decisions about how we cope with those demands. We can […]
THE ASSOCIATION FOR DEATH EDUCATION AND COUNSELING (ADEC) COMMUNITY EDUCATOR AWARD
I was thrilled to be able to meet with other death educators, all using different modalities and innovative practices with different audiences. ADEC has been my professional home since 1994. […]