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End of Life, Advance Directives, and After Death Care Planning, Grief Education and Support
End of Life Planning Made Easy
End of Life Planning Made Easy
End of Life Planning Made Easy
This 5-part webinar series will help you make informed decisions about your "Peace of Mind" End-of-Life Plan. You will come away having completed your end-of-life plan which includes the following.
End of Life Planning (1 Webinar)
- Your Legacy
- Must Have Documents
- What to Do with ALL Your Stuff
Advance Care Directives (3 Webinars)
- How to DECIDE What Your End-of-Life Wishes Are and Who Will Speak for You If You Are Unable
- How to DISCUSS Your End-of-Life Wishes with Those You Love and Your Healthcare Team
- How to DOCUMENT Your End-of-Life Wishes So EVERYONE Will Be On the Same Page - LITERALLY!
After Death Care & Grief Support (1 Webinar)
- How to Make Your Final Arrangements
- What to Do with ALL Your Stuff
- How to Create a Grief Care and Support Plan for Your Loved Ones
Dates
- Five Tuesdays | February 3 - March 3
- Five Tuesdays | April 7 - May 5
- Five Tuesdays | July 7 - August 4
- Five Tuesdays | September 1 - September 29
- Five Tuesdays | November 3 - December 1
Grief Education & Support
End of Life Planning Made Easy
End of Life Planning Made Easy
Grief education helps you recognize that the intense reactions—such as "brain fog," anger, and exhaustion—to loss are natural and normal responses to loss.
Attend the webinars below and learn that there is "no right way" to grieve and that "nothing is broken". Grief education will help soften the feelings of guilt, anger, shame, confusion, and isolation often
felt when you experience loss.
Expected Loss
Coping with Anticipatory Grief
Creating Your Grief Plan
Helping You Heal the Pain
and Live Fully While You Grieve
The Guilt, Regret, and Anger of Grief
How to Understand, Embrace, and Restoratively
Express These Emotions After a Loss
If You're Lonely
Making You Way
Men and Grief
Why Men Grieve Differently
and How to Support Them
Nature Heals
Reconciling Your Grief
Through Engaging with Nature
Finding Meaning After a Loss
Releasing the Pain and Remembering with Love
Too Much Loss
Coping with Grief Overload
FREE Anticipatory Grief Drop-In Support Groups
Tuesdays - 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm CT
If someone we love is seriously ill, or if we're concerned about upcoming hardships of any kind, we naturally begin to grieve right now. The process
Anticipatory Grief is normal, but can also be confusing and painful.
You're invited to attend one of our Anticipatory Grief Drop-In Support
Groups, where your grief will be witnessed without judgment! Where
you can befriend your grief, learn how to understand, as well
as find ways to express it as you live your daily life.
Peer Support
Donation Based Private One-on-One Support
Sometimes, a little extra support is just what you need when preparing your end-of-life documents or after a loss when navigating your way through the wilderness of grief.
Whether you’re looking for a one-time check-in or ongoing support, call or text 512-787-3402 to schedule a conversation.
Your first conversation is FREE! If you'd like to move forward with peer-to-peer support, each call is offered on a donation basis. You pay what you can; you decide what amount to donate after each conversation.
Sponsors & Friends
What a privilege to work with these organizations!
Meet Your Facilitator
Garrick Colwell
Garrick Colwell has been a Hospice Volunteer since 1987, providing respite care and as a hospice chaplain. He has also served as a volunteer on-call hospital chaplain.
Garrick is a Respecting Choices®, Person-Centered Care, First Steps®, Advance Care Planning Certified Instructor and Facilitator.
As a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist, Garrick co-created with Hospice Austin Conversations On Grief, a monthly online grief education and support program. He is a Certified Grief Educator by David Kessler at grief.com. Garrick holds a Death and Grief Studies Certification from the Center for Loss and Life Transition under the direction of Alan D Wolfelt, Ph.D.
Garrick is a widower. During his late wife, Kinsloe’s five-year illness, Garrick was her patient advocate, full-time caregiver, and end of life companion. Recently he lost his dad.
