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What does a well-lived life look like to you? What does a well-supported death look like to you? 

Please consider joining Life Transitions Doula- Colleen Corrigan, Retired Family Physician- Jay Federman, and Family Nurse Practitioner-Jennifer Phelabaum in an Advance Care Planning Informational. 

Together we will demystify the process, directives, and additional considerations that often bog down the advance care planning experience. 

What you can expect 

• Understanding the directives, when they may be applicable, resource support (living will, health care proxy, MOLST, DNR, etc) 

• Discussion regarding life sustaining treatments- the true facts and considerations (feeding tube, breathing tube, CPR) 

• Overview of end of life and after death care rights and options 

• Structured opportunities for values-based reflection 

The program begins with a stand-alone Advance Care Planning informational session, open to residents and community members, followed by an optional multi-session series for individuals who wish to engage more deeply in the planning process with Doula, Colleen Corrigan. You can sign up now for the multi-session series!

RSVP and Questions to info@sacred-explorations.com

These community conversations are grounded in the belief that wisdom is not held by experts alone—it lives within each of us and emerges when we gather, listen, reflect, and share. Together, we create a space where stories, questions, insights, and uncertainties are welcomed as valuable teachers.

• July 8th: Returning, Remembrance, Ritual- Navigating these Trying and Changing Times

  • What are five things you know to be true? Are you grieving? Who and what do you turn towards for connection? Where do you seek refuge? 

Let's learn from and lean on one another during these trying and changing times. 

• July 22nd: Community Centered Care 

  • Let’s explore how we want to navigate life’s greatest transitions and remember our inherent capacity to care for one another in a way that feels dignified and supportive. Consider joining the Vigil and Bodycare Workshops (outlined below) this Summer for hands on experience and continued conversations.

• August 5th: Living Legacy (Meet outside the Library)

  • Living from this moment, we always have the opportunity to realign with our values and goals and have our legacy come to life. Does legacy matter to you? What is your legacy and how is your life currently reflective of this? Come and share your thoughts and experiences. Consider joining the Living Legacy workshop in the fall (more information coming soon). 

• August 19th: Diversity in Death

“Remember, what we are afraid of isn’t really death but our ideas/beliefs about death.” 

• • Let’s explore seeing in diverse ways by sharing about our own beliefs and practices and pulling from the greater web of culture, beliefs, and traditions.

RSVP and Questions to info@sacred-explorations.com

Join us for a 3hour hands-on care experience as we reconnect to these ancient afterdeath care practices of vigil and body care. 

Themes: Home Funeral, Natural Burial, Vigil 

What you can expect:

• History and context of traditional and modern after death care practices

• NYS after death care rights and options 

• Storytelling 

• Experiential learning through:

  • Co-creating a soothing vigil environment 

  • Practice body care- washing, cooling, shrouding 

  • Working with ceremony 

  • Opportunity to bring resolution and healing from past loss

Your Support: $30, nobody will be turned away due to limited funds

RSVP Required - info@sacred-explorations.com

Going beyond the checklists 

Connecting to your Living Legacy now 

Leading with your Values

Within this value-based approach, we discover, discuss, document and deepen into what a well-lived life and a well-supported death look and feel like, and we connect to the well of wisdom that will continue to ripple onward.

At its core, advance care planning is not about planning for death. It’s about:

• Reorienting our relationship to mortality so that it can be naturally life-giving

• Using that awareness to clarify how they want to live now

• Translating that clarity into:

  • conversations

  • relational alignment

  • practical documentation

• And then keeping it alive, iterative, and communal

So instead of looking at this type of planning as a task, we can connect to this as a practice that remains alive. 

This is what makes these sessions and this curriculum different than other forms of advance care planning. It becomes applicable to this moment and the ways we continue to shape and support our lives. 

Questions or to get on the interest list: 

info@sacred-explorations.com

Keep an eye out for Spring 2027:)

In September or October

Date&Time TBD