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SUMMARY:Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death is Politically Vital book club
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in how the existential fear of death shapes society? Do you wonder how we can address injustice? Join our weekly online reading group\, Radical Mindfulness\, to explore how mindfulness can serve as a powerful tool for political transformation. Together\, we’ll build a supportive community of care and reflection. Whether you’re seeking connection\, inspiration\, or fresh perspectives\, this space offers an opportunity to learn and grow in solidarity. We meet via Zoom on Sundays. Recordings will be shared after each gathering. \n-Sundays 6:30 to 8pm ET beginning September 14th\n-Free to attend\n-Free PDF of the book from author\, James Rowe\n-Physical copy offered with a 30% discount from Routledge \nThis weekly reading and discussion of Radical Mindfulness will explore the causes of injustice and how to achieve social transformation. Drawing from scholarly literature\, the author suggests the existential fear of death is at the root of oppression\, and that meditation and ritual can be pathways to structural change. \nThis will be different from most book clubs. There is no homework; each week we pick up where we left off and read together. We will pause for questions\, reflections\, clarifications\, as ways to engage the material. We look forward to creating a community of both practice and curiosity. (We estimate 6 months of reading together!)
URL:https://www.talkdeath.com/event/radical-mindfulness-why-transforming-fear-of-death-is-politically-vital-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:A Gathering for Friend-loss Grievers
DESCRIPTION:In this online gathering\, we will share stories and have a facilitated discussion about friend-loss grief. \nThe session will be hosted and facilitated by Hannah Rumsey\, the Founder and Director of Friends Missing Friends — a community dedicated to providing support and guidance for people grieving friends. \nFriend-loss grief is widely ignored and dismissed by our society. Harold Ivan Smith\, the author of Grieving the Death of a Friend\, said it best: “The distraught close friend of someone who dies has virtually no legitimate\, public grief and mourning channels.” \nBecause of that\, friend-loss grievers have very few avenues to openly talk about their grief. In this discussion\, we are free to talk about it: the depth of our sadness\, the fears\, the anxieties\, the doubts\, the jealousies. Everything we are normally too scared to say. \nLet’s honor our friends\, make connections\, and have meaningful conversation.
URL:https://www.talkdeath.com/event/a-gathering-for-friend-loss-grievers/
CATEGORIES:Community Meet Up,Grief Group,Peer-Led Grief Support,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Good Death Book Club Experience FREE 12-Month Death and Dying Course
DESCRIPTION:According to a recent AARP study\, there are over 52 million caregivers in the United States right now—and 70% of them say they are overwhelmed. Every single day\, I receive messages from current and former caregivers who say:\n“I wish I had this knowledge when I was caring for my loved one.”\nOr:\n“The Doulagivers training is helping me more than I can say.” \nThe truth is:\nWe will all have a caregiving story. \nLet’s make sure yours is one filled with support\, empowerment\, and peace. \nThat’s why I created The GOOD DEATH BOOK CLUB Experience: Death and Dying Course—a free\, live\, 12-month educational journey through my bestselling book The Good Death: A Guide for Supporting Your Loved One Through the End of Life. \nWhat It Is:\nEach month\, we explore one chapter of The Good Death together. \nYou’ll receive:\n-A live End of life teaching course with me\, Suzanne B. O’Brien\, RN\n-A guided workbook and downloadable companion guide\n-A group discussion and experiential exercise\n-A full 12 month Death and Dying Course for free \nWho It’s For: \n-Current and future caregivers ( all of us )\n-Death Doulas\, aspiring Death Doulas\, medical professionals\n-Individuals seeking grief healing and emotional support\n-Anyone who wants spiritual inspiration and empowerment around death\, aging\, and life itself \nWhy It Matters:\nDeath is 100% guaranteed—and yet\, our modern culture has stripped away the education and sacredness that used to surround it. \nThis lack of awareness is contributing to unnecessary fear\, trauma\, and prolonged suffering and grief. \nBut death is not the enemy. \nIt is our greatest teacher about how to truly live. \nWhen we return death to its place as a natural\, sacred transition\, we begin to reclaim peace\, presence\, and purpose in our lives and communities TODAY! \nWhat You Can Do:\nJoin The Experience and Share with Your Friends!
URL:https://www.talkdeath.com/event/the-good-death-book-club-experience-free-12-month-death-and-dying-course-2-2/2025-12-11/
CATEGORIES:Community Meet Up,Education,Grief Release,Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Doulagivers Institute":MAILTO:support@doulagivers.com
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SUMMARY:"It's Complicated" Support Group
DESCRIPTION:A monthly peer-led Zoom group for people who had a strained relationship with someone who’s died. It can be tough to be in a group with other folks who were close with their parent\, sibling\, grandparent\, partner\, co-parent\, friend\, etc. As much as I like for there to be a range of experiences represented in grief groups\, so that we can hear diverse perspectives\, sometimes it is nice to be with people who “get it.” When addiction\, mental health challenges\, conflict\, estrangement\, abuse\, etc. were a part of the picture\, it can affect the grief journey in unique ways. This is a space for us.
URL:https://www.talkdeath.com/event/its-complicated-support-group-2/2025-12-11/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Grief Group,Peer-Led Grief Support,Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Dear Departures":MAILTO:tawnya@deardepartures.com
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UID:10001504-1765634400-1765638000@www.talkdeath.com
SUMMARY:TalkDeath Book Club | Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics
DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss Achille Mbembe’s Necropolitics with each other via Zoom on Saturday\, December 13th at 2pm ET/ 1pm CT/ 12pm MT/ 11am PT\nJoin TalkDeath’s Book Club as we discuss Achille Mbembe’s Necropolitics. \n“In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe\, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory\, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world\, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality\, militarization\, enmity\, and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist\, fascist\, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. He outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark side—what he calls its ‘nocturnal body’—which is based on the desires\, fears\, affects\, relations\, and violence that drove colonialism. This shift has hollowed out democracy\, thereby eroding the very values\, rights\, and freedoms liberal democracy routinely celebrates. As a result\, war has become the sacrament of our times in a conception of sovereignty that operates by annihilating all those considered enemies of the state. Despite his dire diagnosis\, Mbembe draws on post-Foucauldian debates on biopolitics\, war\, and race as well as Fanon’s notion of care as a shared vulnerability to explore how new conceptions of the human that transcend humanism might come to pass. These new conceptions would allow us to encounter the Other not as a thing to exclude but as a person with whom to build a more just world.” \nWhether you are a death care worker\, scholar\, or every day person trying to contemplate death\, dying\, and structures of power\, you are welcome. \nGuests are welcome to attend on or off camera\, to be on or off mute\, and to share as much or as little as they prefer. \nWe’ll be meeting to discuss the book with each other on Saturday\, December 13th’s we’ll meet virtually via Zoom. \nThis event is free but you must RSVP to receive the Zoom link. The Zoom link will be sent to guests 48 and 24 hours in advance\, kindly check your spam folder if you do not receive it.
URL:https://www.talkdeath.com/event/talkdeath-book-club-achille-mbembes-necropolitics/
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ORGANIZER;CN="TalkDeath":MAILTO:rian@talkdeath.com
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UID:10000355-1765819800-1765825200@www.talkdeath.com
SUMMARY:Childfree By Choice & Grieving
DESCRIPTION:It’s not a given that everyone who is childfree by choice is 100%\, unabashedly content with the decision. While we may be set in our choice\, there can still be grief there. I know there is for me. It’s a both-and/two truths situation. Many of us make this choice for a lot of unfortunate\, depressing\, and/or systemic reasons\, and I created this space where we can be with our truths\, and hurts\, around it all. \nOur monthly peer-led Zoom group is intended to be a space for people who have chosen not to have children. It is not intended to be a child-loss support group or infertility support group\, although if you have prior experience with infertility and/or pregnancy loss and have since decided to not have children (meaning you are now childfree by choice) feel free to join and see if it’s a good fit.
URL:https://www.talkdeath.com/event/childfree-by-choice-grieving/2025-12-15/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Grief Group,Peer-Led Grief Support,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Dear Departures":MAILTO:tawnya@deardepartures.com
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