*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
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*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* End-of-Life Care in the Age of COVID, with Barbara Karnes, RN
Virtual Event
Barbara Karnes, RN, has been providing clear, easy to understand, and wonderfully insightful information about the dying process, end-of-life care, and how to navigate the needs of the dying for […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Author Talk: Charles Fontenot, In Search of My Soul
Virtual Event
Part of our FREE series of readings, workshops, and discussions to help explore what it means to live and die well. Charles M. Fontenot, In Search Of My Soul: just […]
*VIRTUAL* Understanding Complicated Grief with Dr. Katherine Shear
Virtual Event
Founder of Columbia University’s Center for Complicated Grief, Dr. Katherine Shear will lead this workshop about complicated grief for community members and professionals. A natural response to loss, grief is […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café with Bay Area Cancer Connections
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Movies@Mission Hospice: Departures
Virtual Event
Part of our FREE series of films about how we live and die. Departures Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Departures follows a young man who returns to […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Exploring Endings with Frank Ostaseski
Virtual Event
"Tenderly, I now touch all things, knowing one day we will part" - St. John of the Cross How do you meet endings in life? Do you go unconscious around […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café with Coastside Adult Day Health Center
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café with Seniors at Home
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Winter Solstice Sound Bath
Virtual Event
To commemorate the first day of winter, and the return of the light, Mission Hospice invites you to join us for some music to warm the heart. We are grateful […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people – often strangers – gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
Conversation with Ken Ross: How it all began
Virtual Event
Our first Community Conversation of 2021 will take us back to the beginnings of the hospice movement, and the work done by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross to change the way people […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Redefining Hope at the End of Life
Many health care professionals and laypeople equate hope at the end of life with hope for a cure, and some physicians don’t discuss end-of-life care for fear patients will lose […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
NEW DATE: *VIRTUAL* The Five Invitations, discussion #1: Don’t Wait
Virtual Event
This study group, based on Frank Ostaseski’s The Five Invitations will be a facilitated exploration of what death can teach us about living fully. Each month we will discuss one […]
*VIRTUAL* Take Charge! Two-part Advance Care Planning workshop
Virtual Event
Take Charge! Advance Care Planning 2-part workshop What matters most to you? If you were facing serious illness, what kind of care would you want? If you couldn’t speak for […]
*VIRTUAL* Author Talk: Claire Willis, Opening to Grief
Virtual Event
All of us, at some time, experience heartbreaking loss. Alone, shocked, and confused, we are no longer tethered to the life we had, and do not yet recognize a new […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Spiritual and Emotional Concerns at the End of Life, Hank Dunn
Virtual Event
In his many years as a chaplain in a nursing home, a hospital, and with hospice, Hank has learned valuable lessons about living while navigating a serious illness. As difficult […]
*VIRTUAL* Take Charge! Two-part Advance Care Planning workshop
Virtual Event
Take Charge! Advance Care Planning 2-part workshop What matters most to you? If you were facing serious illness, what kind of care would you want? If you couldn’t speak for […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Symbolic Language at the End of Life, Wilka Roig
Virtual Event
In our progression through grief and toward the end of life, dreams, visions, and the symbolic therein reveal what needs to be explored, considered, tended to, and healed. Understanding and […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* The Five Invitations, discussion #2: Welcome Everything
Virtual Event
This study group, based on Frank Ostaseski’s The Five Invitations will be a facilitated exploration of what death can teach us about living fully. Each month we will discuss one […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Author Talk: Dale Larson, PhD, The Helper’s Journey
Virtual Event
The power of empathy and compassion is revolutionizing our approach to person-centered counseling and caregiving. Drawing from the field of positive psychology, The Helper's Journey explores the brighter side of […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Conversation with Dr. BJ Miller and Ladybird Morgan, RN
Virtual Event
BJ Miller, MD, is co-founder of Mettle Health, a company that provides personalized, holistic consultations for any patient or caregiver who needs help navigating the practical, emotional and existential issues […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* The Five Invitations, discussion #3: Bring Your Whole Self
Virtual Event
This study group, based on Frank Ostaseski’s The Five Invitations will be a facilitated exploration of what death can teach us about living fully. Each month we will discuss one […]
*VIRTUAL* End-of-Life Care and Letting Go, Teepa Snow
Virtual Event
This workshop will teach us how to recognize a person’s progression into the final stages of dementia and provide the best care using Teepa Snow’s hands-on, disease-level appropriate techniques. In […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Author Talk: Barbara Karnes, RN, Gone From My Sight
Virtual Event
We are excited to welcome back Barbara Karnes, RN, who will be reading to us from an assortment of her books geared to support those navigating end-of-life issues, care, experiences. […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Hospice and Palliative Care 101
What is the difference between hospice and palliative care? What is the right choice for a situation? When and how can you get a Palliative care consultation? Our expert speakers […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Conversation with Barbara Karnes & Gabby Jimenez: Navigating End-of-Life Care
Barbara Karnes' work over the last 30 years as a hospice nurse and end-of-life educator has made the world a better place. Her "little blue book" is a staple for […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* The Five Invitations, discussion #4: Find a Place of Rest
Virtual Event
This study group, based on Frank Ostaseski’s The Five Invitations will be a facilitated exploration of what death can teach us about living fully. Each month we will discuss one […]
*VIRTUAL* Author Talk: Mirabai Bush, Walking Each Other Home
In Walking Each Other Home, Mirabai Bush and Ram Dass explore the ways in which we can be present with dying, and help ourselves and others leave this world consciously. […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Conversation with Christopher Kerr, MD, PhD: Death is But a Dream
Death Is But a Dream validates the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears, and it is an important contribution to our understanding of medicine's and humanity's […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* The Five Invitations, discussion #5: Cultivate Don’t Know Mind
Virtual Event
This study group, based on Frank Ostaseski’s The Five Invitations will be a facilitated exploration of what death can teach us about living fully. Each month we will discuss one […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Author Talk: Renshin Bunce, Love & Fear, Stories from a Hospice Chaplain
Renshin Bunce is a Zen Buddhist priest who works as a chaplain at Mission Hospice. Through a series of stories about people she has met, we see that every death […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Conversation with Christina Irving, LCSW: Caregiving 101
The goal of this class is to identify what a caregiver is, the importance of being identified as a caregiver, and to provide the participant with an understanding of the […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* The Five Invitations, discussion #6: Closing Review
Virtual Event
This study group, based on Frank Ostaseski’s The Five Invitations will be a facilitated exploration of what death can teach us about living fully. Each month we will discuss one […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Author Talk: Elizabeth Boatwright, The Last Things We Talk About
Virtual Event
The Last Things We Talk About gives readers and their loved ones the opportunity as death approaches to affirm, celebrate, and remember the people and experiences they cherish in life. […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Conversation with Connie Borden, NP: Body Movement to Enhance Caregiving
Virtual Event
Connie Borden has worked professionally as a Nurse Practitioner in hospice and palliative care for 26 years. She is also a 4th Dan Shintaido Instructor with 35 years of study […]
*VIRTUAL* Hospice 101 – Everything You Need to Know About End-of-Life Care
Virtual Event
Hospice has been part of the medical system in the US since the mid 1970s, yet there is still so much misinformation and misunderstanding about hospice and its role in […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
CANCELED: *VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
*The Sept. 7 Death Cafe is canceled. Please join us for the next Death Cafe on Sept. 14.* At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink […]
*VIRTUAL* Take Charge! Tips for Advance Care Planning
Virtual Event
What matters most to you? If you were facing serious illness, what kind of care would you want? If you couldn’t speak for yourself, who would? Taking charge of your […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Author Talk: Gabby Jimenez, At the Bedside
Virtual Event
This book invites you into the heart of a hospice nurse and end-of-life doula. For every patient visit, she brings with her a collection of tools that she has acquired […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, anyone can participate! We gather in a virtual environment, to openly and tenderly talk about death and dying. The conversation is facilitated and is a completely […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, people - often strangers - gather to drink tea, enjoy snacks, and discuss death. Death Café offers everyone a chance to share ideas, opinions, and questions […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, anyone can participate! We gather in a virtual environment, to openly and tenderly talk about death and dying. The conversation is facilitated and is a completely […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, anyone can participate! We gather in a virtual environment, to openly and tenderly talk about death and dying. The conversation is facilitated and is a completely […]
*VIRTUAL* Jon Seskevich, RN: Navigating Uncertainty for Professional and Family Caregivers
Virtual Event
For many, 2020-2021 will be remembered as one of the most uncertain times in our lives. For family and professional caregivers, our capacity to navigate and sustain us through uncertainty […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, anyone can participate! We gather in a virtual environment, to openly and tenderly talk about death and dying. The conversation is facilitated and is a completely […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, anyone can participate! We gather in a virtual environment, to openly and tenderly talk about death and dying. The conversation is facilitated and is a completely […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, anyone can participate! We gather in a virtual environment, to openly and tenderly talk about death and dying. The conversation is facilitated and is a completely […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, anyone can participate! We gather in a virtual environment, to openly and tenderly talk about death and dying. The conversation is facilitated and is a completely […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, anyone can participate! We gather in a virtual environment, to openly and tenderly talk about death and dying. The conversation is facilitated and is a completely […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, anyone can participate! We gather in a virtual environment, to openly and tenderly talk about death and dying. The conversation is facilitated and is a completely […]
*VIRTUAL* Author Series: Maryanne O’Hara, Little Matches
Virtual Event
Maryanne O’Hara is the author, most recently, of LITTLE MATCHES, A MEMOIR OF GRIEF AND LIGHT, published by HarperCollins in April. LITTLE MATCHES is inspired by a blog that Maryanne […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, anyone can participate! We gather in a virtual environment, to openly and tenderly talk about death and dying. The conversation is facilitated and is a completely […]
*VIRTUAL* Death Café
Virtual Event
At a Death Café, anyone can participate! We gather in a virtual environment, to openly and tenderly talk about death and dying. The conversation is facilitated and is a completely […]
*VIRTUAL* Conversation with Wendy Figone: Extreme Self-Care
Join Wendy in this conversation about extreme self-care through the lens of self-compassion and embodiment work (self myofascial release). Wendy will offer tools and ideas that people can use immediately. […]