A small and intimate community event to courageously show up and face our inevitable mortality with tenderness and acceptance. This workshop will be guided by death worker Elyssa Lewis.

After a brief talk about death in our contemporary world, including where some of our traditions come from and what is becoming newly possible, we will engage in several brief writing prompts aimed to help us face our own mortality with courage and tenderness. The workshop closes with a grounding visualization. Additionally, an end of life resource list will be shared via email for those interested.

This event is free and open to the public. Please register!

Elyssa Lewis

Elyssa Lewis (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, musician, and death worker from Niwot, CO. After years of working in elder care and the nonprofit world, she has focused her attention and continuing education on providing direct end of life support and demystifying death through community engagement. In addition to her death doula certification, Elyssa is trained in advanced care planning and home funeral direction. She volunteers at the Rocky Mountain Refuge, a social model hospice in Denver serving unhoused people at end of life, and she hosts a death cafe at Mutiny Information Cafe second Mondays of the month from 5:30-7 pm. She is a published poet, a pianist, a performer, and holds an MA from New York University in Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Thought. She lives in Denver with her little black cat.