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Join Christa Ovenell (Death’s Apprentice) and CBC North by Northwest guest in an 8-part series that will help you be ready for *anything* related to death, dying and more!
Join all or some of these workshops as we explore what we might need in place for death, dying, leaving and legacy and living! Fun, conversational and packed with great information. Join Christa Ovenell (AKA Death’s Apprentice) in an 8-part series that will help you be ready for *anything*. Christa is a funeral director and death education specialist who has intimate knowledge of how chaotic things can get when folks don’t plan for the inevitable every day. Making complex decisions while numb with grief just isn’t a good idea–but living in a death-denying society makes it hard to think about, talk about, or prepare for life’s only certainty.
Session 1: Legal, Administrative & Financial documentation part 1: three key components of estate planning.
Session 2: Legal, Administrative & Financial documentation part 2: what are the bare essentials when it comes to having your “affairs in order?”
Session 3: Medical & Philosophical decision-making, part 1: making sense of medical options and caring for comfort at end of life.
Session 4: “It’s your funeral”, part 1: exploring green disposition options in BC & beyond.
Session 5: “It’s your funeral”, part 2: why ceremony matters more than ever now (possible co-presentation with Megan Sheldon, co-founder of Be Ceremonial, the world’s first ceremony creation platform).
Session 6: “It’s your funeral”, part 3: new trends in memorials, living wakes and hybrid celebrations (co-presentation with Christina Andreola of New Narrative Events, Canada’s first Celebration of Life events specialists)
Session 7: The “most important paperwork”: legacy projects and emotional heirlooms.
Session 8: Medical & Philosophical decision-making, part 2: dealing with sudden serious illness (co-presentation with ICU and Internal Medicine specialist Dr. Daren Heyland of Queens University–creator of the Planwell Guide)
