Workshop Offerings
These are workshops I’ve led in rooms around the world, from the cliffs of Big Sur at Esalen Institute to the Philosophical Research Society and End Well in Los Angeles to communities around South Africa, Southeast Asia, the UK, and beyond. They’ve been held in natural burial grounds, farmhouses, cideries, bookstores, and on virtual screens full of strangers who stopped being strangers by the end. The settings change. What happens in the room doesn’t. People put down something they’ve been carrying. They write things they didn’t know they knew. They laugh more than they expected to.
Every workshop here can be booked for your community, conference, or organization, and shaped around the people who’ll be in the room.
Unlock the Storyteller Within
There’s a story you’ve been wanting to tell. Maybe it’s buried. Maybe it’s right there. Every story moves in an arc: something stirs, something resists, something new takes shape. Creative life works the same way. This workshop helps you work through that arc on the page, with humor, gentleness, and a lot of permission. You leave with pages, practices, and rituals you can keep using at home.
What We Leave Behind
What do we want to leave behind? What are we still carrying that was never ours to keep? What gets written down, and what disappears when we do? Through guided prompts and conversation, we explore memory, meaning, and the stories that outlast us. Ends with an open Q&A.
The Way Back
Before life got loud, you were someone. Maybe several someones. This workshop goes looking for the versions of yourself you set down somewhere and never went back for, and asks what it might mean to return.
When Everything Falls Away: A Mortality Meditation
What might change if you spent a little time sitting with your own mortality? A death meditation that walks through the gradual losses that can come with aging, illness, and the end of life: abilities, roles, possessions, pieces of who we think we are.
Healing, Rest & Embodied Liberation for Men of Color
Black men and men of color are rarely offered spaces to rest, heal, and be held. There are too few pictures of what Black male wellness even looks like. This is one of them. Through meditation, writing, and circle, we make room for what men are carrying, alone and together. It’s honest work. It’s also restorative. Most men leave with brothers they didn’t know when they arrived. (Can Include Yoga Component With Workshop Co-Lead, Danny Fluker of Black Boys Om).
Death & End-of-Life Planning Days
A day of good food, real laughs, and end-of-life planning done the way it should be: together and without dread. Everyone in the room leaves with a plan built for them. Not a template. Their wishes, their people, their words.
Children’s Storytelling, Scriptwriting & the Importance of Play!
Kids can tell when a story is talking down to them. They can also tell when it’s having fun. As an Emmy-nominated writer for shows like Blue’s Clues & You!, Karma’s World, and Work It Out Wombats!, I’ve spent years learning how to write for the smartest, most honest audience there is. This workshop covers how children’s stories are built, how a script moves from idea to screen, and why play isn’t the opposite of serious work. Often it’s the most serious work we do. We’ll write, we’ll get a little silly, and you’ll leave with a story idea and the tools to shape it.
The Art of a Peaceful End
A conversation about my book Never Can Say Goodbye that turns into a workshop on how to have the hard talks, and how to show up for each other while having them. Built for bookstores, libraries, hospices, and community events.
Why We Need to Talk About Grief & Death in Children’s Television
Children already know about loss. A grandparent dies. A pet doesn’t come home. A friend moves away and doesn’t come back. What they don’t always get is language for it. As a death doula and a writer for children’s television, I’ve seen what happens when kids are given that language, and what happens when they’re left to figure it out alone. This workshop looks at how children’s media can hold grief gently and honestly, what it takes to write those stories well, and why the shows kids love may be one of the best places for these conversations to begin.
Questions people ask
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No. Some people come in the middle of a loss. Some come because they know one is coming. Some just want to live more honestly. All of it belongs.
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No. If you can make a grocery list, you can do this.
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Never. You can write, listen, and keep every word to yourself.
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It’s open to whatever you believe, or don’t. People of every faith and no faith have sat in these rooms. We’ll talk about meaning, memory, and mortality. What you call any of it is up to you.
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Only you know that. Some people come weeks after a loss and find it’s exactly what they needed. Others wait a year. If you’re unsure, reach out and we’ll talk it through.
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Sometimes. It’ll probably also be funny. Grief and laughter use a lot of the same muscles.
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Both. Each of these can be built for the room and Zoom.
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Yes. Tell me who’ll be in the room and what they’re carrying, and we’ll build something around them. Hospices, universities, conferences, companies, and congregations have all been good homes for this work.
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It depends on the format, length, and travel. Reach out and we’ll find something that works with your budget?
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No. Any yoga or movement is for every body, at every level. You can modify anything, sit anything out, or just breathe.
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