Intro
Intro
Crows in a Rows is an educational program that encourages participants to consider how death is inextricable from life, despite society’s masterful avoidance of mortality. Along with practical guidance for making tangible plans, lessons of impermanence are revealed as you find ways to integrate death into life. Scroll down to see the description of each module and our ritual offering.
We offer both public and private sessions that can be customized for your needs. Our upcoming public online presentations include:
October 20: Hospice Calgary’s Dying to Know Program- Advanced Care Planning (click the link below for tickets) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dying-to-know-advanced-care-planning-tickets-118309511935
November 17: Hospice Calgary’s Dying to Know Program -Funeral Planning (ticket link available soon)
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Pre-Plan Your Funeral
Module 1: Pre-plan your funeral. Imagine what it would be like if it happened tomorrow. Would it serve those who love you? Would it represent your life, beliefs, and culture? Would it honour grief? Would it allow others to be present in your permanent physical absence?
Pre-Plan Your Funeral
Module 1: Pre-plan your funeral. Imagine what it would be like if it happened tomorrow. Would it serve those who love you? Would it represent your life, beliefs, and culture? Would it honour grief? Would it allow others to be present in your permanent physical absence?
Body Disposition
Module 2: Identify your body disposition preference by exploring current and future options that consider the wishes of your loved ones along with environmental, cultural, and legal factors.
Body Disposition
Module 2: Identify your body disposition preference by exploring current and future options that consider the wishes of your loved ones along with environmental, cultural, and legal factors.
Beyond Your Personal Directive & Legal Will
Module 3: Create a plan for preparing or revising your personal directive and legal will to acknowledge your needs before death and those of your loved ones after your death.
Beyond Your Personal Directive & Legal Will
Module 3: Create a plan for preparing or revising your personal directive and legal will to acknowledge your needs before death and those of your loved ones after your death.
Digital Will
Module 4: Generate a digital will that assembles an inventory of your electronic accounts, directs the process for closing those accounts, and announces and/or memorializes your death through email and/or social media.
Digital Will
Module 4: Generate a digital will that assembles an inventory of your electronic accounts, directs the process for closing those accounts, and announces and/or memorializes your death through email and/or social media.
Ethical Will
Module 5: An ethical will is the wisdom passed down from generation to generation. It has been interpreted as something you write (or videotape) and hand off. However, we invite you to contemplate if it’s less about what you leave and more about what you live.
Ethical Will
Module 5: An ethical will is the wisdom passed down from generation to generation. It has been interpreted as something you write (or videotape) and hand off. However, we invite you to contemplate if it’s less about what you leave and more about what you live.
Obituary/Eulogy/Epitaph
Module 6: Practice bearing witness from the perspective of grief by writing, and/or receiving an obituary, eulogy, and epitaph. You might not end up using these, but capturing this moment in time, with the help of those close to you, can change the rest of time.
Obituary/Eulogy/Epitaph
Module 6: Practice bearing witness from the perspective of grief by writing, and/or receiving an obituary, eulogy, and epitaph. You might not end up using these, but capturing this moment in time, with the help of those close to you, can change the rest of time.
Ritual
Crows in a Row Ritual: this is a separate offering that can be done as a standalone or along with our educational program. The session includes:
The importance of marking endings with rituals. This can include moving, breakups, job loss, friendships ending, shifting life phases, etc.
Examples of rituals for endings through storytelling
How to create your own rituals for the endings in your life
Ritual
Crows in a Row Ritual: this is a separate offering that can be done as a standalone or along with our educational program. The session includes:
The importance of marking endings with rituals. This can include moving, breakups, job loss, friendships ending, shifting life phases, etc.
Examples of rituals for endings through storytelling
How to create your own rituals for the endings in your life
