Cohousing-L Mailing List: 🪷[Workshop] Reclaiming Death & Dying in Community Monday 5/1 & Tuesday 5/2 🪷

[Neil Planchon (neil]

Hello everyone

FIC presents…..

[Workshop] Reclaiming Death & Dying in Community Monday 5/1 & Tuesday 5/2
    • Pacific: 9-11am 
    • Mountain: 10am-12pm
    • Central: 11am-1pm
    • Eastern: 12-2pm

Register https://www.ic.org/event/death-in-community/
Donation levels: $20, $40, $60 and more if the spirit moves you!
Worshops will be recorded and shared with all who register.

Join end-of-life educator Lee Warren for a 2-part exploration of end of life 
literacy, death positivity, and the conscious dying movement.

Part 1: Befriending Death

Contemplating death, ours and others, is a deeply empowering practice that 
allows us to live more fully in the present and gives us access to an immense 
gratitude for the miracle of our own existence. There is no other mechanism 
quite as powerful in bringing us face to face with profound awe. Join Lee as 
she shares her recipe for internal and external processes that help us befriend 
death. External processes include an overview of the spectrum of end of life 
paperwork and preparations and after death options. Internal processes include 
discussions on how to nourish the components of our infinite selves in order to 
access and enhance our sacred journey with death and come to know that we 
already have everything we need for a positive and conscious death experience. 
We’ll also discuss how to create a death literate community wherever you live.

This workshop is for folks at all stages of age and health. Intentionally 
preparing for death is always time well spent and increases the likelihood of 
having a good death. Paradoxically and unsurprisingly, these principles and 
practices lead to a more ecstatic life. Expect educational components, 
discussion, contemplation exercises, real-life examples, resources, as well as 
active encouragement for practical next steps.

Part 2: The Art & Practice of Community Based Death & Dying

As a member of Earthaven Ecovillage, Lee Warren has been part of a team of 
folks gifted with the sacred opportunity to steward the death and dying process 
of many beloved community members. The collective sense of reverence, 
connection, and harmony that arose from these experiences offered a profound 
deepening of relationships and the creation of community-wide systems dedicated 
to this end of life process. For all involved, from the closest death tenders 
to the funeral attendees, these experiences have been life changing and heart 
opening.

Discover how this group navigates the dying process, tends to the dead, designs 
home funerals and home burials, supports the expression of grief, and cares for 
the caregivers. These beautifully emergent practices have been holistically 
learned through their humble service and a desire to reclaim the art of caring 
for our own at death. Specifically, they garnered this wisdom through the grace 
of the dying, the synergy of many traditions, really good mentors, and their 
own innate evolutionary intuition. We’ll discuss death preparedness, death 
literacy, and a whole new attitude of death philosophies that are possible 
within the context of community. Discover your own doorway to profound 
mysticism and magic as you embrace all that community-based end of life has to 
offer.

During these workshops you will:

    • Enjoy death related stories from an emerging ecovillage
    • Adapt end of life systems to your own life and community
    • Inquire into the resources already at hand in your group
    • Incorporate emergent death philosophies into your worldview
    • Understand the components of death literacy
    • Explore death preparedness for self and groups
    • Generate enthusiasm for having death based conversations
    • Implement small or large changes into your approach to death
    • Develop plans for more death positivity in your world
    • Experiment with new ways of thinking about death
    • Reflect on what traditions are at play in your community
    • Experience inspiration and motivation to discuss death preparedness
    • Choose systems that support death preparedness
    • Celebrate your inner wisdom, insight, and guidance

Lee Warren

Lee is a devoted community builder. She is delighted by community of all kinds, 
shapes, sizes, and intentions. Her life purpose is to provide leadership in the 
building of community in accessible, natural, and blissful ways.

To that end, she is committed to reweaving the cosmologies as well as 
regenerating the cultural wisdom that allows for us ALL to “return to the 
village.” The village is a metaphor for the collaborative approach to life that 
will repair historical damage and create a sense of coherence and unity. 
Cultural repair looks like conscious relating to self, to land, to dying, to 
living, and to other. As we return to the village, we create cohesive, 
supportive, inclusive, and life-giving systems that tend to the whole, most 
especially to the “more than human world”.
In the midst of this deep reverence, we will come to see the divine in all 
things. All aspects of life are sacred opportunities for presence and soulful 
engagement. sustainable economics, conscious dying, and community of all kinds.

Register https://www.ic.org/event/death-in-community/
Donation levels: $20, $40, $60 and more if the spirit moves you!
Worshops will be recorded and shared with all who register.


I look forward to seeing you “there”. 
Be well…

Neil 

Steering Committee. Cohousing Research Network (CRN)
Events Team Volunteer. Cohousing Association (Coho/US)
Co-Developer and Co-Founder. Swan’s Market Cohousing, Oakland CA

Head of Ads, Development, Help Desk and Partnerships
Foundation for Intentional Community (FIC)