Welcome to Dying Kindness Essentials!

This online group coaching program will include information-rich live classes and other resources — plus much more than that. The entire cohort will be involved in practicing hard conversations, holding each other accountable, and offering each other support.

My goal is that by the end, everyone in the cohort will feel more ease in talking about death and have made key decisions, completing what they need to in order to make things easier for the loved ones they’ll (eventually) leave behind.

In short, it’s a course that encompasses all aspects of "a dying kindness.”

If you’re one of the many people I talk with who intend to do the essential end-of-life planning but for one reason or another never seem to get it done, this is the course for you.

Format:

• Live sessions on Zoom including "classroom sessions" and "labs." Classroom sessions will focus on information and learning through presentation and discussion. Labs are co-working sessions where you can get questions answered while you get things done.
• Worksheets to accompany the course that can be referenced later when working with estate lawyers, financial planners, doctors, funeral directors, and other end-of-life professionals (integrated with the Death Binder)
• Pre-recorded video library of deep-dive information to go at your own pace
• Accountability pods
• Ongoing support through private Discord group

Topics will include:

• How to have conversations about aging, disability, dying, and death
• Options for final arrangements including DIY options like home funerals
• Completing the paperwork: wills, trusts, advance directives, powers of attorney
• How to think about where your physical stuff and other assets will go
• Financial considerations for aging, disability, dying, and death
• What can be done to prevent dementia, loneliness, dying alone
• How to think about "aging in place" aka staying in your home
• Making environmentally conscious decisions
• Topics often left out of mainstream conversations: No kids, no partner, multiple partners, LGBTQIA+, family in multiple countries, estranged family, blended families, etc.

Who needs to do death planning?

Everyone over the age of 18.

Schedule

We will meet via Zoom on Tuesdays from 7p-9p PST (10p-Midnight EST, 4p-6p Hawaii)

• Jan 27: Kickoff
• Feb 3: Wills, Trusts, Distributing our stuff
• Feb 10: Co-working Lab
• Feb 17: Final Disposition for our Bodies
• Feb 24: Co-working Lab
• Mar 3: Advance Directives
• Mar 10: Co-working Lab
• Mar 17: Organizing Circles of Support, Having Hard Conversations
• Mar 24: Co-working Lab
• Mar 31: Open Questions, Closing
  
  
  
  

Tiered pricing, choose which level applies to your situation:

Standard: $700 — Choose this level to support the amount of research and work it takes to distill the information for you and to run the class.

Gratitude: $900 — Choose this level if you are or will be working with end-of-life professionals like an estate lawyer, financial planner, doctor, or funeral director and you recognize that doing this course will save you time and money with them.

Helping Hand: $500 — Choose this level if finances are keeping you from working with professionals like financial planners or estate lawyer, but you still want to get the essentials done.

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FAQ

How will these classes work? Is it all lecture or will it be interactive?

The course will include more structured “main” classes as well as “labs.” Main classes will include presentation and have time for Q&A. Labs are primarily time set aside to work on your documents together while I’m there to answer questions and provide any needed clarification.

10 weeks?!? Why so long? That’s intimidating.

I know it’s a lot. Death is a lot. Shorter classes haven’t been enough to get through the complexities so this time I’m slowing down the discussions and setting time aside to actually do the work. You may also need to do work outside of class, and the multi-week format is set up to support that.

Do I have to attend every class? Will I fall behind and/or be confused if I miss one?

While I think you'll get the greatest benefit if you attend all the classes and labs, I realize life may interfere so I've planned for that. The first class is foundational and really shouldn’t be missed. After that, classes are standalone, focused on particular topics.

Will I screw things up for other people if I miss a class?

You will be assigned to accountability partners, and you should talk with them if you end up missing a class, but an absence here or there will not be impacting the general cohort.

I want to do my death planning together with another person(s). Do we buy separately or together?

Every individual should have their own ticket to this so that they have individual access to the videos and other materials. In addition to the times you'll work together, there will also be times when I will ask you to work separately.

Will this be entirely online?

Yes, the entire course will take place online, primarily via Zoom. There will also be recorded videos for all the information sessions.

Will it be recorded?

There will be two main types of sessions: Classroom and Lab. The Classroom sessions will be recorded and will be available to everyone in the course for the duration. The Lab sessions will be interactive and operate like coworking time, and will not be recorded.

What's your refund policy?

I am happy to do full refunds (minus platform fees) until a week before we start. In the first session, we'll go over everything that will be happening in the coming 4 months. If you decide at that point not to continue, you have until the next class to cancel for a 50% refund.

I don't think I need to do death planning yet. Why would I?

I firmly believe that everyone over the age of 18 should have their paperwork in order. None of us knows when we're going to die, and there is no guarantee that we'll live until we're old enough to feel done.