Death Literacy

We fear what we don’t know. Through education, contemplation, and personal reflection, we are invited to become more death literate so we can move beyond fear and nurture an honest and healthy relationship with our mortality.

Stephanie has been facilitating conversations and workshops in the Bay Area since 2021. A sample of offerings can be found below.

Conversations for Mortals Series

Based on the death café model, Conversations for Mortals is a group-led discussion that explores and normalizes conversations around death and dying. This is not an educational presentation and there is no agenda. It is simply an opportunity to commune around the topic of death, with a side of tea and cookies. By opening up the conversation around mortality, we hope to cultivate acceptance, compassion, and connection with one another as we ponder our inevitable fate. 

Exploring Our Mortality Workshop

Dying is a part of life, yet society goes to great lengths to help us deny our inevitable fate. Rather than continuing to run away from this topic, we can turn toward it and gain deeper insight for how to start living with more gratitude and presence. Through group discussion, writing prompts, and a guided death meditation we will learn how awareness of our own mortality can actually change the way we live. 

Death Education 101 & 102

This 2-part presentation series covers basic death education topics like: 

  • Brief history of death care

  • Hospice vs. palliative care

  • Death doula role

  • Advanced care planning

  • Burial options

MAID & VSED Informational

Learn more about Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) and Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED), legal options for those with terminal illness and decision-making capacity to hasten death. 

Other Education Topics

  • Death Anxiety

  • End of Life Symptoms and Bedside Care

Testimonials

  • "Each session is rich, powerful, and not found in other arenas of people's life, with both the subject matter shared and the level of depth of conversation. I greatly treasure Stephanie's ability to collaborate and her willingness to experiment with what we hear the need is, to go places that we haven't gone before, to talk about our morality and all that surrounds it."

    Sarah K.

  • "I looked forward to every session, and they've always provided me with much more than I expected."

    V.H.

  • "Stephanie has such an easy, open, and loving spirit which invited sharing and connection for the group. She graciously suspended her agenda whenever the group needed to talk more. I hope she offers this class again. I will happily sign up!"

    S.R.

  • "Stephanie has a natural ability to make contemplating mortality more accessible and enjoyable."

    E.F.

  • "Stephanie holds such wonderful and sweet space around a topic that can feel quite scary, what a gift!"

    S.S.

  • "Super interesting and well presented, with a non judgmental and heartfelt approach to delivering very sensitive information."

    A.A.