Topic Choices

Most people aren't stuck because the paperwork is hard. They're stuck because of what comes up when they sit down to do it. This session names the thing that's actually in the way, then gets you moving.

Up to 2 hours

Before you fill out a single form, you figure out what you're planning around. You'll leave knowing your own values well enough to make every later decision faster.

Up to 2 hours

What you've already lived through with illness and dying shapes what you want for yourself, whether you've looked at it or not. This one brings that into the open and turns it into care preferences you can say out loud.

Up to 2 hours

Six prompts, five minutes, one person you love. You'll write an actual letter in the room, not a plan to write one later.

Up to 2 hours

A Heart Will^® isn't a legal document. It's the part that says who you were and what you meant, and writing it tends to change how you spend next Tuesday.

Up to 2 hours

You're building a legacy right now whether you're paying attention or not. This session has you look at what you're actually leaving, and whether it matches what you'd want.

Up to 2 hours

Why do we hold onto some people and let others go quiet? A look at how remembering works, what it does to us, and what you hope people will do with you.

Up to 2 hours

Departure Directions^® are your written instructions for how you want to be cared for after you die. Nine specific things to decide, so the people you love aren't guessing at three in the morning.

Up to 2 hours

People who compost and drive hybrids often haven't thought about the last thing they'll do on this planet. Here's what the options really are, including what's available close to home.

Up to 2 hours

You've tried to bring it up and been shut down. This one gives you the five steps that make the conversation land, whether it's about your plans or your mother's.

Up to 2 hours

The inward half. You'll define what dignity and comfort actually mean to you and leave with a first draft of your health and personal care wishes.

Up to 2 hours

Wishes become documents. Which forms matter, who speaks for you if you can't, and what you want done about life support before anyone has to ask.

Up to 2 hours

Your will and your financial power of attorney, plus choosing the people who'll carry them out. Then the conversation that makes the documents work.

Up to 2 hours

The full three-part arc from reflection to signed documents to the conversation that brings people along. Best for groups who want to finish something, not just think about it.

Three sessions, up to 2 hours each

Procrastination, values, and health and care wishes, in that order. The short version of the workbook.

Three sessions, up to 2 hours each

One session per exercise across all seven tools, plus a closing session on moving forward. This is the deep run, and it builds real relationships in the room.

Eight sessions, up to 2 hours each

Three sessions of writing. You'll leave with letters and a Heart Will^® draft in hand, not a list of things to write someday.

Three sessions, up to 2 hours each

Your after-death care instructions, your green options, and how to talk about both. Can run as two sessions or three.

Two or three sessions, up to 2 hours each

Everything above in one day. You go home with your Departure Directions^® written.

Full day, roughly 6 hours with breaks

Someone on your team is going to lose a parent this year. Most managers freeze, send a card, and hope it passes. This session gives supervisors and HR the actual words, a realistic sense of what the first six months look like, and a bereavement approach that doesn't quietly punish people for grieving on their own timeline.

90 minutes, or 3 hours with a leadership planning block

Every form you fill out is a decision your daughter doesn't have to make in a hospital corridor. This talk reframes end-of-life planning as something you do for the people you love rather than something you do about your own death, and it's built to move a room that came for the free lunch.

45 minutes, or 60 with questions

When you hand a crying person a tissue, you think you're being kind. What they often hear is "wrap this up." That box is a small instruction to stop, and most of us pass it without meaning any of that. This session takes apart the reflexes we reach for around someone who's grieving, sick, or dying, and replaces them with the harder, better thing: staying put, saying less, and letting the crying go on as long as it goes on. You'll practise sitting in a room where nothing is being fixed. It's the most useful two hours I can give a family, a care team, or a group of volunteers.

2 hours, or 3 hours with role-play practice

Döstädning. The Swedish practice of clearing out your own things while you're still well enough to enjoy the deciding. Not a purge and not a minimalism pitch. You go room by room, name what's a gift and what's a burden, and tell the story of the few objects that carry one before nobody's left who knows it. Your kids will thank you, though probably not out loud and probably not for years.

2 hours, or a half-day with a working session

I lost my mother without warning, and then I spent two decades writing letters to my daughter in case the same thing happened to me. A story about what we leave behind, why we put it off, and what changes when you stop. Works as a keynote or as the opening for a longer planning session.

40 minutes