What Matters In the End
A 7-week Online Course on
Death, Dying, & Grief
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. 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 one inevitable life experience, 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, but there’s a gift and rediscovery of awareness already within us as we come closer to our center, our Soul, our vulnerable yet powerful and divine core.
What is it?
- 7-week, Live Online Course
- 1, 2-Hour Class/Week
- Downloadable Recordings of Each Class for Future Learning & Use
- 1:1 Individual 1 hr. Soul Support Session with Laura
- Email Support
This program provides practical tools for caring for someone who is dying. By learning more skills for navigating the dying process with another, we in turn increase our personal awareness of our own death as well ~ on an emotional and spiritual level. It is structured using the 7 chakras of the body as they coincide with the conditions we go through as we face the dying process and any life transition. It is a program for those willing to courageously show up for integrating a sense of their impermanence. And it’s a rediscovery of what is dying to come alive within us to thrive in life.
Benefits of completing this course
- 1. Having more compassion and forgiveness for yourself and others
- 2. Discovering greater courage to face change, loss and transition
- 3. Increasing your confidence and flexibility
- 4. Experiencing more genuine gratitude and appreciation for the preciousness of life
- 5. Recognizing, identifying and beginning to let go of fear or anxiety about loss
- 6. Feeling more peace due to more acceptance of your mortality
- 7. Simultaneously building your relationship with ‘what’s not dying’ within you
- 8. Understanding the avoidance of death our culture has instilled in us
- 9. Clarifying your true priorities and being able to take steps towards them
- 10. Increased capability of handling the dying process
This course is for you if you’ve been experiencing
- 1. Fear or anxiety about future loss and/or death
- 2. Indecisiveness or low energy
- 3. Avoidance or procrastination
- 4. Difficulty moving forward with your purpose in life
- 5. Feelings of grief about past changes, losses, or deaths
- 6. Needing clarity about priorities in life
- 7. A greater understanding about advance care directives and their importance
- 8. Not having anyone to talk with about the dying process
- 9. Not knowing how to bring up your own or others’ wishes with loved ones
- 10. Wanting to know ways to be present for someone with a life-limiting illness
- 11. A need to get started on end of life planning for yourself or loved ones
- 12. A desire to know ways 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, 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
- 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.
I will gently guide you using experiential writing exercises, contemplation, guided meditation, and supportive dialogue to begin conceptualizing the dying process.
You will also be led through practical, action-oriented exercises for gaining clarity on how to skillfully support others’ dying process.
And 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, I embody an excitement and love for the trust, surrender, and peace I’ve 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.
There will also be no pressure whatsoever to speak or ask questions.
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 show up for themselves.
I sincerely look forward to making this journey with you!
Next 7-week Live Online Course Begins: Date/Time To Be Announced
