Autumn Updates

Death Cafe

Northside Death Cafe is on hiatus through the end of the year. Thank you so much for a year and a half of meaningful conversations! It’s been an honor and a joy to normalize conversations about death. It is a sacred transition that we will all face.

Enneagram

The Enneagram aspect of my work has been busy and fruitful, and I am enjoying it so much. This summer my dad and I facilitated workshops for the Executive Directors of Color Institute and Lideramos: Toledo, both wonderful organizations doing important work. Last week I facilitated for the Women’s Community Leadership Initiative in Colorado Springs, an excellent program aimed at helping women become community leaders.

Please be in touch if you or your organization are interested in learning more. I am available for individual and couples’ coaching, as well as facilitating team building and leadership development workshops for businesses, nonprofits, and government. Aephoria recently released a new Couples Report, that is full of useful info about how to grow in your connection with your partner, improving communication, empathy, compassion, and understanding.

Death Work in Community

I am excited to be a community partner for Unsent Show: Death Edition, happening October 25 in Denver. Unsent is a live storytelling event where brave souls get on the mic to share messages they wrote but never sent. Hosted by writer and End-of-Life doula, Brittany Ballard and produced by her husband, rap artist Old Man Saxon, Unsent is a safe, cathartic, fun and surprising space for connection, release and healing. 

This will be our first annual Death Edition and we hope to include voices from the end-of-life doula, hospice and death care communities on stage. We want to invite all folx who work in death care to join us in the audience. We expect over 150 people to attend our Death Edition and we plan to host this event every October going forward. We are looking for community partners and sponsors so please be in touch if you’d like to be involved. I am sponsoring 4 tickets for a giveaway, so look to social media to enter.

Soul Work in Community

In exciting personal news, I have been chosen as one of eight parents of adult trans people for a storytelling project with Motus Theater in Boulder, called What Love Requires. We will perform December 6, and I believe the performance will be available virtually in addition to the in-person show.

“The mission of Motus Theater is to create original theater to facilitate dialogue on critical issues of our time. We aim to use the power of art to build alliances across diverse segments of our community and country.”

Parenting was and is a transformative journey, and it is deeply meaningful for me to be able to share some of that journey with the world, and to be engaging in my love of writing and storytelling.