Workshops, education & Healing Circles
Advance Care Planning
A 3½-Hour Workshop in Living and Leaving Well
You know planning matters—but knowing where to begin can feel overwhelming.
What documents do you need? Who would speak for you? How do you tell the people you love what you want?
You don’t have to figure it out alone. This welcoming workshop breaks advance care and end-of-life planning into understandable, manageable steps.
Clarify what matters most, learn about your options, and begin a plan that preserves your voice and honors your choices.
What We’ll Explore:
- Your Healthcare Wishes: Advance directives, living wills, and choosing a healthcare decision-maker.
- Care and Comfort: Understanding palliative care, hospice, and your personal care preferences.
- Final Arrangements: Body disposition options, rituals, and funeral or memorial wishes.
- Essential Information: Organizing important documents, digital information, and your end-of-life checklist.
- Putting Your Plan into Practice: Choosing a healthcare decision-maker, communicating your wishes, and making your documents accessible.
- Essential Legal Documents: Learning the purposes of advance directives, living wills, healthcare and financial powers of attorney, wills, and trusts.
Includes a planning workbook with reflection questions, worksheets, and practical next steps to continue at your own pace.
No prior knowledge is needed.
Planning now empowers your voice and those who'll support you.
$150
Palliative Care, Hospice Organ Donation
Understanding Care and Donation Choices
When facing serious illness, unfamiliar terms and uncertainty can make decisions feel overwhelming. Understanding your options can help you ask questions, express your wishes, and prepare with greater confidence.
This welcoming workshop explores:
- Palliative Care and Hospice: What they offer, how they differ, and when to ask about support.
- Comfort and Quality of Life: Understanding care that supports physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs.
- Donation Options: Exploring organ, eye, and tissue donation, as well as whole-body donation for medical education and research, including questions to ask and how to document your wishes.
Designed for community groups, faith communities, senior living communities, organizations, individuals, families, and caregivers.
No prior knowledge is needed.
$35 per person
Becoming Your Own Ancestor™
2 Hours with Donna Marie
Honoring Life • Embracing Transition • Preserving Legacy
Becoming Your Own Ancestor™ is a mindset, a practice, and a framework that invites you to give your whole life the attention it deserves.
Through meaningful conversations, storytelling, guided reflection, and practical activities, you’ll clarify what matters most and begin putting that awareness into practice. Advance care planning and end-of-life planning are woven into this whole-life journey.
Includes: In this two hour healing circle, there will be reflection prompts, option to purchase the Whole Life Planning Workbook, and invitations to practice between sessions.
You’ll leave with: Greater clarity about your values and wishes, practical steps toward your whole life care and a personal practice you can continue as life changes.
For adults at any stage of life. No prior planning experience is needed.
One day, you will die. Until then, how do you want to live, and how can you prepare today?
Register to begin your journey.
$150
Becoming Your Own Ancestor™
A Seven-Week Journey in Living and Leaving Well
Honoring Life • Embracing Transition • Preserving Legacy
Your future self inherits the choices you make today.
What are you creating?
It’s easy to move through life tending to responsibilities without pausing to consider your own needs, wishes, and becoming.
Becoming Your Own Ancestor™ is a mindset, a practice, and a framework that invites you to give your whole life the attention it deserves. With awareness of our mortality, we’ll explore how we live, care for ourselves, nurture relationships, prepare for the future, and create our love legacy every day.
Through meaningful conversations, storytelling, guided reflection, and practical activities, you’ll clarify what matters most and begin putting that awareness into practice. Advance care and end-of-life planning are woven into this whole-life journey.
Includes: Seven weekly, 90-minute gatherings, reflection prompts, planning worksheets, Whole Life Planning Workbook, ancestral ritual, Bonus: 1:1 Whole Life Session and invitations to practice between sessions.
You’ll leave with: Greater clarity about your values and wishes, practical steps toward your whole life care and a personal practice you can continue as life changes.
For adults at any stage of life. No prior planning experience is needed.
One day, you will die. Until then, how do you want to live, and how can you prepare today?
Register to begin your journey.
$350