Some things are easier to talk about together.

Someone on your team will lose a loved one this year. Most people want to do right by them and freeze anyway: a card, an awkward hallway nod, a quiet hope that things get back to normal soon. This session gives the people in the room 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. Add the leadership planning block and we go further. I work with your managers to build a simple, no-cost system for supporting a grieving employee: what to say in that first conversation, what might actually help, who checks in and when, and how someone comes back to work without everyone pretending it didn't happen. I make it easy to get started with zero software to purchase, no subscription or line item - just a plan your team can reach for the next time this comes up.

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.

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Your phone holds years of photographs, messages, accounts and passwords. Would anyone know what to do with it if you died tomorrow? Having someone’s phone doesn’t mean having access to what’s on it. This session helps the people in the room work out which photographs and accounts matter most, what they want saved, shared or kept private, and what the people they love will need to know.

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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 practice 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.

This workshop introduces Döstädning, the Swedish practice of “death cleaning,” clearing out your own things while you’re still well enough to enjoy the deciding. Not a purge and not a minimalism pitch, it’s a start to thinking about our belongings with intention and what we want to leave behind. After a short introduction, a personal story behind the session, and a few best practices, we go room by room in our workbooks, no boxes to touch. We name what’s a gift and what could be a burden, make a plan for the burdens, and write the story of the few objects that carry one before nobody’s left who knows it.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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