In this experiential class, we will honor Pine as a grief walker through story sharing, tree sitting / meditation, poetry, song, identification, folklore, medicine, & magic. We will explore Pine as a grief ally throughout time & explore ways to walk with Pine ourselves. We will co-create with Pine, each bringing home Pine medicine & will offer as a group to this dear Tree Ally.

we live in a world of interwoven mythologies. for centuries, one mythology has been working to pretend that it is the only “truth,” and this hyperfocus has weakened our solidarity, as divine, human beings. healing from this inherited hyperfocus involves the conscientious exploration, critical analysis, reseeding, and tending our own mythologies and mythological power. our mythologies shape our perceptions and interactions, not just in the present and the future, but also back and forward across Time. In this guided conversation, estephanie will help us explore how our relationship with Time can become more interactional and dynamic in ways that expand our mythological worlds in holistic and life-giving ways. they will help us identify and navigate pitfalls and roadblocks in this work.

Majestic, solid Oak offers such support, relation & solace for many folx, human & beyond. In this experiential class, we explore ways to work with & honor Oak through story sharing, tree sitting/meditation, poetry, song, identification, folklore, medicine, magic. We will co-create with Oak together, bringing home Oak medicine, as well as giving back as a group to this dear Tree Ally.

Come learn about what green burial is, how to arrange a green burial, facts on home funerals, resources for DIY funerals, some history of the funeral industry, burial practices today, and the many options for burial. Mary weaves willow coffins for green burial and will be telling stories about her work and process in this craft.

“The Living Funeral Ceremony offers an experiential, transformative opportunity for people to contemplate their own mortality. Participants are led through the rich mystery of their life by meditating upon their past, present, & unfurling future.

In this roughly two hour ceremony, each participant is led to contemplate their own memorial as they imagine letting go of their earthly selves. They are guided to write their last words & desires and be gently led through a death meditation using guided imagery. Many have found this experience to be transforming, life-affirming & even life-redirecting.

Some reasons a person may wish to experience a Living Funeral Ceremony include wishing to overcome fears of death, facing changes in their lives that feel final, feeling curious about death and/or tending to the intensity of this last year. This ceremony is for anyone who feels prepared to experience their own mortality. I feel honored to be able to lead people through this intimate, compassionate experience of meeting their own impermanence. ” - Suzanne

This class will be an introduction to tending the trees where you live, both as individuals and also as a part of a vibrant and unique community. We will discuss some of the different elements of tree communities you're likely to encounter here, and we'll talk about what tending to those communities looks like. We'll also talk about balancing the needs of humans with the needs of trees, and about using resources with reverence. Bring your own examples of tree communities where you live, and we'll wrap those into our conversation.

“This course is founded on gentle inquiry: What happens when we honor our grief, rather than shutting it out? What are the ways we have been taught to hold grief, and the ways we have not been taught to hold it? What do we miss when we wall off a portion of our own - and other's - emotional experiences? What does grief teach us about what we hold as precious, dear, tender life? What does grief teach us about death and transition?

Encased in a threshold nook of the year, this course aims to help us rewrite the collective narrative about grief - offering it a soft & responsive place to land, shift, and inform our meaning-making processes. We will address community resilience in times of grief-full turmoil and how to create spaces of care rooted in a framework of radical mental health and models of peer support & crisis intervention. A gentle container for exploration, we begin by cultivating our own awareness around holding & tending to our grief as a model for how we can hold the grief of others. ” - Catelynn

“In this course, we will be tapping into an abundant resource for surviving & thriving through times of trouble: the animate world.

Exploring herbal allies through their various methodologies & systems, this course aims to help you build a toolkit of plant medicine for personal & collective resilience. We will work at building a framework to understand differing situations, stimuli, and emotional needs, along with ways to facilitate appropriate containers of response for them. This practice is rooted in self-knowledge, deep and care-ful listening, and compassion, rather than creating concrete solutions of intervention. Rather than management, this is a process of facilitating more embodiment, integration, and tolerance.” - Catelynn

“After my dear friend Ruth’s death and the sudden death of my mom, Suzann, my world was bent and rearranged. Since those deaths my art has taken on a world of spirit, ghosts, and multiple dimensions. My drawings and painting mostly take on the idea of being lovingly haunted by what we cannot see. I make painting as prayer.

Currently, I am in the process of finishing a book about death and grief. For the three hours we are together I plan to read from my death & grief newsletter project as well as the book. I will also talk about my experience of making art about death and open up the space to questions and conversations about artmaking & grief. ” - Chelsea

“Being in deep conscious relationship with our ancestors can change our perspective on many aspects of life, including death. I will share some of what I've learned from my ancestors over the last 7 years of living and learning through the deaths of some of my dear ones, as well as how my perspective on belonging and living and dying have shifted through this learning. There will be a component of embodied practice and lots of space for discussion and sharing.” - Jillian

Come learn about what green burial is, how to arrange a green burial, facts on home funerals, resources for DIY funerals, some history of the funeral industry, burial practices today, and the many options for burial. Mary weaves willow coffins for green burial and will be telling stories about her work and process in this craft.

“The Living Funeral Ceremony offers an experiential, transformative opportunity for people to contemplate their own mortality. Participants are led through the rich mystery of their life by meditating upon their past, present, & unfurling future.

In this roughly two hour ceremony, each participant is led to contemplate their own memorial as they imagine letting go of their earthly selves. They are guided to write their last words & desires and be gently led through a death meditation using guided imagery. Many have found this experience to be transforming, life-affirming & even life-redirecting.

Some reasons a person may wish to experience a Living Funeral Ceremony include wishing to overcome fears of death, facing changes in their lives that feel final, feeling curious about death and/or tending to the intensity of this last year. This ceremony is for anyone who feels prepared to experience their own mortality. I feel honored to be able to lead people through this intimate, compassionate experience of meeting their own impermanence. ” - Suzanne