Upcoming & Past Events
Other Past Events
Did you join us for our April 28th (2024) “The Death Deck: Game and Conversation with a Death Doula“ event and you're looking for related info? Or perhaps you missed us and want a taste of what went down? Check out the event page for links and goodies!
Stay tuned for more in 2025
Previously offered at the Sunnyvale Public Library
South Bay Death Cafe
I co-led several Death Cafes with Ka Yun Cheng in 2024, with the Sunnyvale Public Library as a generous location sponsor. A new set of volunteers has offered to continue this Death Cafe into the future, providing space for discussions of death over tea and cake.
At a Death Cafe, people—often strangers—gather to discuss death. The objective is to increase awareness of death with a view towards helping people make the most of their (finite) lives. The experience tends to be a group discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. It is a place to talk and explore, rather than a grief support or counseling session.
See a previous listing on the global Death Cafe site.
Death Cafes help people in ALL phases of life talk about death and dying in a supportive, unstructured way. Death Cafe is a concept that originated in the UK, and are currently held in over 88 countries. Read more about Death Cafes on the global Death Cafe website. The site is a great resource for finding upcoming Death Cafes near you, some virtual, and many in-person.
Death Cafes are always:
- Free
- Open to, and respectful of, people of all communities and belief systems.
- In an accessible, respectful and confidential space
- With no intention of leading people to any conclusion, product or course of action
In-person Stanford Continuing Studies course,
WELL 29: Design Your Departure - A Creative Approach to End-of-Life Planning
This was a 6-week, in-person class in the Stanford Continuing Studies Program, designed to be a non-scary, thought-provoking, and design-informed approach to End-of-Life planning, for young and old. The class was very popular, and I’ve continued to evolve the content and offer it in small-group settings. If you have a community that would be interested in running this course, or a subset of this course, please contact me.
Summer 2024
Stanford Continuing Studies
Class met on Stanford campus
Palo Alto, California, Monday evenings 6:30—8:20 pm (PT)
