Monthly Death Cafe in New York City

Hosted by Jane Hughes Gignoux

Date:	Nov. 12, 2013
Start time:	6:00 p.m. (Eastern)
End time:	8:00 p.m. (Eastern)

To be held at a private location

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About this Death Cafe

You’re Invited to a Death Café

Join us for an informal gathering where you can safely share with others your questions, concerns and/or experiences regarding any of the many aspects of deathour birthright.

We provide coffee, tea and goodies, an accessible, respectful and confidential space, free of discrimination, where people can express their views safely.

There’s no intention of leading participants towards any particular conclusion, product or course of action. All are welcome.

The objective of a Death Café is "To increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their precious and finite l

About Jane Hughes Gignoux

Jane Hughes Gignoux, a native New Yorker, is the author of Some Folk Say: Stories of Life, Death, and Beyond, a collection of stories and poems from cultures around the world and throughout time, with commentary and original color illustrations. She has offered her workshops: "Embracing Life, Death and Beyond," “Is Death My Enemy?”, “Stories that Heal” and "Visions and Stories for the Afterlife: Remapping the Journey" widely throughout the USA, in Federal Prisons, as well as in San Paulo, Buenos Aires and Bali.

Her new book, “An Insistence on Life: Releasing Fear of Death to Fully Live,” will be published in the Fall of 2013. It is a collection of non-fiction anecdotes that she was either a part of, witness to or was told by one of the principals.

She was an advisor for the Viewer's Discussion Guide accompanying the PBS series that aired in September of 2000 – “On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying”. Her book, Some Folk Say, is listed as a resource in that Guide.

Ms. Gignoux has a background in theatre with a BA in Theatre from Smith College. She has been on the faculty of Wheaton College, Norton, MA, St. Mary's School, Peekskill, NY, and the New York Open Center. She has spent the last thirty years studying healing and consciousness in many forms. In the eighties she studied with the energy healer, Barbara Brennan. She also studied with the Ehama Institute, learning some of the traditions of the indigenous peoples of North America. Over the years, she has helped found a number of on-going dialogue groups.

Starting in 1984, she was a volunteer play therapist with the HIV pediatric patients at Harlem Hospital for eighteen years. She is a co-founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences’ (IONS) Member Council and past president of the Friends of IONS based in NYC.

In 2006 she was a charter member of the Coalition for OneVoice and two years later, founded TreeFriends: Using the Arts to Transform Our Relationship to the Natural World. She is a member of the MillionTreesNYC Educational Committee, offering TreeFriends programs at NYC schools and environmental organizations.

Ms Gignoux is an ordained certified Celebrant, working with couples, families and groups to offer ceremonies of all kinds. She is an active member of the Anti-Racism Alliance.

A whitewater canoeist and sailor, Gignoux has four children and five grandchildren.

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