A guided journey into our own dying process to help us view the full arc of our lives in a realistic way and promote greater compassion towards others who are going through the end of life experience.
Instructor: Amanda Coggin
$155 Benefactor / $130 Standard / $90 Student/Accessibility
Zen Caregiving Project’s Open Death Conversation Daylong Course is a guided journey into our own dying process. It is a wake-up call to the reality of death and serves to make more intimate our relationship with our own mortality. These practices help us view the full arc of our lives in a realistic way. They also promote compassion towards others who are going through the end of life experience.
In this course, we get in touch with the final stage of life. Doing so enables us to more completely prepare for our eventual end of life experience, from emotional reactions to practical considerations. Like dying, the topics we’ll be discussing are not easy but it is necessary. This course incorporates guided meditations and experiential exercises that in turn guide the discussion. Conversation remains the vital element of class. After each exercise, we sit, integrate, and share our experiences one-on-one, in small groups, and together as a whole. As the day progresses, our discussions get deeper and our connections grow stronger. Before the course, closes we address Advance Directives and practical issues around end of life care. We consider what we may want for ourselves, how to assist others in receiving the care they prefer, and tools to get prepared.
The Open Death Conversation Daylong Course is special in serving as a peaceful retreat, a chance to deeply bond with like-minded people, and an opportunity for profound personal growth.
Topics explored include:
- Preparing for Death Meditation
- Loss Exercise
- Walking with Mortality
- Guided Death Contemplation
- Advance Directives
- Group Meditation