course Topics

Please note: this is the pilot of this course so this is a draft! Participants will shape this course by sharing what topics are most relevant to them.

Early birds will also be invited to a pre-course brainstorm session to share what topics would be most supportive!

IN addition to Facilitation Modalities, practices, and approaches, we will explore…

🌹 Situating Community Death & Grief Work amidst Ecological Collapse, Rising Fascism, Militarism, and Genocide

• Community Grief and Death Work: What is it?

• The necessity of this work: the need for a proliferation of diverse, grief & trauma informed spaces

• Grief work as political work

• Against the co-optation of fear, loss, grief, and trauma

• Identifying your relationship to this work in these times

🌹 Situating and Resourcing Ourselves in this Work

• Identifying your whys, your values, your joys, your skills, and communities you might (or already) work with

• Filling your cup, finding your ecosystem: Getting clear on the practices, mentors, relationships, & systems that will support you in this work

• Setting boundaries and clear expectations for the much needed work you do, so you can keep doing it!

• Finding Ease and Joy in Grief Work

🌹 Making a Living in Care, Grief, and Death Work

• Examining “Money Mindset”, Capitalist Ideologies, and orientations towards accepting pay

• Demystifying LLCs, taxes, bookkeeping, budgeting, and financial literacy related to working for yourself

• Business models for creating access to support & resources

• Pricing structures that create access AND sustainability

• A short history of capitalism and context for un/paid care work

🌹 Honing your craft: Finding what works for you as a solo practitioner and a collaborator (a practicum)

• Practicing, reflecting, strategizing approaches to facilitation

We will also draw inspiration from Tarot and plant allies for each unit