Events

Currently we do not have any upcoming events scheduled.  Please keep checking as we will post future talk and workshop information here.

Thank you for your interest.

 
Locations of upcoming or past events
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Threshold: 2717 Atwood Ave, Madison, WI 53704
Goodman Community Center: 149 Waubesa St, Madison, WI 54704
Holy Wisdom Monastery: 4200 Cty Hwy M, Middleton, WI 53562

 

Here are the events that we’ve sponsored or provided in the past:

2016

Celebrating Day of the Dead: Creatively Exploring Home Funerals and Green Burials, November 1, at Threshold.  This was a lovely gathering that featured music from Women with Wings and green caskets made by Humble Crossings in Madison.

 

Home Funeral Workshop, an evening and a day workshop on the cultural, spiritual, legal and practical aspects of having a home funeral, February 26 & 27, at Threshold.  Here are pictures from that event.
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2015

Embracing Life’s End: An Intimate Look Inside Hospice, a narrated photographic journey by Rick and Audrey Langer.  November 1, at Threshold

Community Conversations about Death and Dying, in collaboration with the Great Circle, October 19 at Threshold

Write Your “Selfie” Obituary, with Sarah White, August 26 and September 2, at Threshold

Facing Our Dying: Love and Death a two day workshop with Flint Sparks, March 15-16, at Holy Wisdom Monastery

Green Burial film (“Dying Green”) and Discussion, with representatives from two local green cemeteries.  January 14 at the Goodman Community Center.  Approximately 100 people were in attendance.

2014

Home Funeral film (“A Family Undertaking”) and Discussion, with Charlene Elderkin of the Threshold Care Circle.  November 14 at the Goodman Community Center.  Approximately 40 people were in attendance

Facing Our Dying, a two day workshop with Flint Sparks, October 12 -13, at Holy Wisdom Monastery