*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* 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. […]
*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 […]
The Final Curtain: A Virtual Open-Mic on Death, Dying, & Grief
Virtual Event
The Final Curtain is a death, dying, and grief themed open-mic night. In supportive company we’ll explore how creative expression uplifts those of us who live with experiences of death […]
*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* Take Charge! Advance Care Planning Movie and Panel Discussion
Virtual Event
This one-hour filmed presentation of our popular workshop – “Take Charge! Advance Care Planning Tips” – is presented by Mary Matthiesen of Mission Hospice, Christina Irving of Family Caregiver Alliance, […]
*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* Movies@Mission Hospice: Lives Well Lived
Grab your popcorn and beverage of choice and join us for a screening of the documentary Lives Well Lived! This award-winning film celebrates the incredible wit, wisdom, and life experiences […]
*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* 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 […]
Dane Potter Memorial Bike Ride for Brain Cancer Awareness
In memory of Dane, we'll ride a scenic 35-mile route along Monterey's 17-Mile Drive to raise awareness of and funds for brain cancer research and hospice care. Ride map on […]
*VIRTUAL* Caregivers Caring for Themselves – A panel discussion
Virtual Event
Caregiving can be physically and emotionally demanding and exhausting. Additionally, COVID-19 has resulted in many caregivers caring for someone at home, without their pre-pandemic support networks. Whether you are taking […]
*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* Movies@Mission Hospice: Prognosis – Notes on Living
Virtual Event
Grab your popcorn and beverage of choice and join us for a screening of the documentary PROGNOSIS – notes on living! Stick around after the screening for a film discussion. […]
That’s Amore!
Peninsula Italian American Social Club 100 N. B Street, San Mateo, CA, United StatesWe’re going live with a tribute to the King of Cool himself! Ticket sales are now closed, but you may add yourself to the waitlist by calling Cathy McDermott at […]
*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* Offering Meaningful Consolation: Moving beyond fix-it style condolences
Virtual Event
Join author Dana Lacy Amarisa as she starts us off with her kind, insightful, and straightforward presentation on the practical yet heart-centered steps to saying helpful condolences to a friend, […]
*VIRTUAL* Offering Meaningful Consolation: From pep talks to compassion and empathy
Virtual Event
Join author Dana Lacy Amarisa (Condolences Pocket Guide) as she takes us on a compassionate tour of our culture’s most commonly said unhelpful condolences—using them as a helpful roadmap to […]
*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* Offering Meaningful Consolation: Deep listening for misunderstood losses
Virtual Event
So much grief goes unseen and unhealed because of life events that are not understood by us as losses. Then the griever feels misunderstood, creating a second loss for them—the […]
*VIRTUAL* Take Charge! Guided Advance Care Planning (two-part workshop) with BACC
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? Planning for your future […]
*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* Take Charge! Guided Advance Care Planning (two-part workshop) with BACC
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? Planning for your future […]
*VIRTUAL* Death over Drafts with Hospice Nurse Gabby Jimenez
Virtual Event
Join this interactive & informal community, hosted by Reimagine, to spark compassion, curiosity, & connection with special guest: Gabrielle Jimenez, LVN, CHPLN. Gather for inspired conversation & support around end […]