Workshops
I am available to present workshops in person or via Zoom on a variety of topics. If you don’t see one listed here that you are hoping for, be in touch. I love creating new presentations! I work sliding scale. Let’s come up with a fee that works for your group or organization.
Unsure about which presentation might answer questions on your mind? Let’s have a free consultation.​​​​
Join end-of-life doula Lindsey Warren for “Reclaiming Traditions" on September 20th from 1:30-5:30pm at the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Burlington, VT.
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This 4-hour in-person workshop is an overview of green burial, home funeral and shrouding options. Explore at-home death care as an active form of grief processing. Begin to develop your own green burial and end of life care plans based on your values and priorities. Gain information to make fully informed decisions and share reclaimed skills with your community. This workshop is for anyone curious about expanding their knowledge base.
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Schedule:
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Gathering welcome and introductions
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Circle Song and Meditation
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Slide Presentation exploring different types of green burial options including important things to know about home burial.
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Break
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Slide Presentation continues: Learn how to care for family and friends at home with after death body care tips and techniques.
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Break
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Explore the history of shrouding through arts, music and pictures. Then examine shrouding from a modern perspective as a part of a green burial plan. Learn tips and techniques for how to shroud your loved ones at home.
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Q&A
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Hands-on practice portion: body care, transfers, rolls, different shrouding styles, ritual, community.
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​Closing Circle, Reflections, Music and Grounding
Participants receive emailed PDFs:
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Home funeral steps
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Supplies checklist
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Body care and shrouding tips
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Poems/lyrics from the workshop
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Source and Supply links
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Northeast Green Cemeteries
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Northeast Home Funeral Links
Admission: $60
Need-based discount: $30
Upcoming Opportunities
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Lindsey is certified ADCE proficient by National End-of-life Doula Alliance.
Recent participant testimonials:
"I so enjoyed your 3-workshop series.
You are comprehensive, clear, knowledgeable, collaborative, moral/ecological.
I learned a lot and thank you.”
-Michele Bograd, end-of-life doula
www.michelebograd.com
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Virtual On-Demand Workshop Series
Can’t make the live workshop? That’s Ok.
The series is now available to purchase for download. $60
Did you attend one of the three live online workshops? There is a discount available for those that participated in one of the live online workshops. Message me.
About:
​Reclaiming Traditions Workshop series download will give you a Youtube link to each of the 3 recorded workshops presentations, each over an hour in length, as well as 7 support PDFs.
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Explore at-home death care as an active form of grief processing. Begin to develop your own green burial and end of life care plans based on your values and priorities. Gain information to make fully informed decisions in these three workshops:
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Part 1: Explore different types of green burial options including important things to know about home burial.
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Part 2: Learn how to care for family and friends at home with after death body care tips and techniques.
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Part 3: Explore the history of shrouding through arts, music and pictures. Then examine shrouding from a modern perspective as a part of a green burial plan. Learn tips and techniques for how to shroud your loved ones at home.
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Participants receive PDFs:​​
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​VT Home funeral steps
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Supplies checklist
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Body care and shrouding tips
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Supply links
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Workshop sources
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Northeast Green Cemeteries
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Northeast Home Funeral Links
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Workshops Available for Booking
This hour long contemplative workshop examines the meaning of compassion from various angles and invites attendees to discuss. The workshop includes music and meditation to invite the participant to transition from processing with the mind to perceiving with the heart.
In this hour long workshop participants explore how to cope, grow and be strengthened from the inevitable loss and grief we encounter in life.
This workshop + demo is an introduction to a variety holistic modalities that doula Lindsey Warren uses with her self-care
clients as well as end of life clients. Learn about how she uses her frame drum, tuning forks, singing bowl and other modalities to create calm relaxation and relieve pain and anxiety. Explore your options in this experiential workshop and come away with the beginnings of your own self-care plan.
What’s the difference between palliative care and hospice? How do you qualify to use Medical Aid in Dying (Act 39)? What does an end of life doula do? Is that the same as a death midwife or death doula? What supports are in my area for aging in place?
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Learn about all of this and more in this hour long workshop that includes lots of time for Q&A.
Reclaiming Traditions workshop can be taught as a 4-hour intensive, or as separate workshops on Green & Home Burial, After Death Care, and Shrouding.
Workshop TBD…
What would you like to learn about on your journey?
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