Posted by julianspalding
Hosted by Facilitator team
Date: | Sept. 15, 2016 |
Start time: | 7:00 p.m. (Pacific) |
End time: | 9:00 p.m. (Pacific) |
To be held at a private location
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About Facilitator team
Ashland Death Cafe Facilitators:
Laurel Miller is passionate about working with people, young and old, around end-of-life topics. She completed the Anam Cara Program at the Sacred Art of Living Center. She volunteers with Compassion and Choices working with individuals and their families as they make their end-of-life choices. She’s a member of the Southern Oregon Hevre Kadisha. She leads workshops that support the participant’s desire to explore themselves and the mystery of life and death. Also a seasoned mediator, an independent coach and facilitator, Laurel is dedicated to supporting individuals and the conversations that they need to have before they are no longer able.
Selene Seltzer is a Clinical Healthcare Chaplain specializing in Palliative and End of Life Care. In private practice in Ashland OR, she offers psycho-spiritual counseling as well as mindfulness and somatic (body-based) support and training for those facing illness and injury, life transitions or loss. She works together with clients, their families, and healthcare providers to optimize emotional, social, spiritual wellbeing and quality of life. She is passionate about having a conversation about “What Matters Most?” and providing “whole-person” support and care to those wishing to live as well as they can, for as long as they can. You can find more info at SeleneSeltzer.com.
JulianSpaldingis a Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant© with CYCLES OF LIFE, conducting personalized ceremonies to mark life's milestones (www.cyclesoflife.biz). He serves on AARP Oregon’s Diversity Advisory Council, sits on the board of Ashland at Home and is co-founder of Rogue Rainbow Elders. He is an enrolled member of the Osage tribe of Oklahoma. He lives in Talent with his husband Terry Brown. Julian publishes poetry at http://julianspalding.wordpress.com.
PatFitzsimmonsiscurrentlythevolunteer"on-call"chaplainforAsanteAshlandCommunityHospiceandhasservedwiththe organizationforthelastsevenyears.Heisordainedasaninterfaithministerandspent18yearsliving,workingandteachingin intentionalspiritualcommunities.PathascontinuedhiseducationhereinOregoncompletingfourmodulesoftheRichardGroves,Anam Caratraining.Patsays:“Iseemyselfasananamcara,asoulfriendandcompanion.Iamineffablydrawntoabidinginthemysteryof themomentwiththoseinthedyingprocess(andaren'tweall).”
JenniferMathewsisawriter,consultantandlaughteryoginiwithapassionforupliftingthehumanspirit.Afterherlifepartnerdiedin 2011, she began sharing her experiences of death, grief, joy and optimism to support others on their journeys (JenniferMathews.com).Jenniferworkswiththecommunityoutreachandtrainingteamfortheaward-winningfilmDeathMakesLife Possible.She'sbeenfacilitatingconversationsaboutdeathandtheafterlifeinvariouscommunitiesaroundthecountry.Herhome baseisMountShasta,CA.
MichaelCecilwasborn1935,aCanadianfromBritishColumbia, movedtoAshland1998.An executivewithaglobalnon-profit
organizationformanyyears, is nowretired.He hascounseledmanypeopleduringlife’sfinalstages. His personalnear-deathexperiencebrought manyvaluableinsights.He serves as staffwithSchoolofLostBorderssessionsonthePracticeofLivingandDying, hasfacilitatedmanyworkshops,includingaseriesonElder Presence and is a EnergyHealingpractitioner.
JudyDolmatchisalicensedclinicalsocialworker,practicinginAshlandsince1988,withaspecialtyinlifepassagesandtrauma recovery.SheteachesandperformsPlaybackTheatre,improvisationaltheatrebasedonaudiencestories.ShefacilitatesZegg
Forum,agroupprocessthatvaluesauthenticityandaliveness.Withthedeathofhermotherlastyear,sheimmersedherselfina
processofexploringendoflifeissues,lossandgriefthroughliterature,mediaandritual.JudyattendedherfirstDeathCafethisyear.It wassomeaningfulthatshewasmotivatedtobecomeafacilitatorfortheAshlandDeathCafe.
JudithMilburnis a psycho-spiritual, Jungian oriented depth psychologist particularly concerned with making peace with one’s inner depths and learning to love ones self unconditionally, as the way to live fully and prepare for conscious dying. She says, “Death, has presented itself to me viewing my great grandmother lying in her casket in her darkened living room, hearing my grandfather before he died say he was hearing the angels sing, brushing my Mother’s hair moments after she had died, and sitting with my brother as he released his last breath. I am a student of this Great Mystery."
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