Our Services
Life Review
A life review is a natural and organic process that occurs as we reflect on the dying person’s life. We explore the themes and events that help provide meaning, memories, and introspection. These reviews can provide a re-connection to Self through one’s experience of life, which includes all the facets and complexity that are unique to them. This can help relieve anxiety, give them new perspective, and provide an opportunity to externalize their feelings and thoughts to an unbiased, caring listener. Additionally, these explorations can also help to inform the legacy and vigil projects.
Legacy projects provide the dying person and their loved ones an opportunity to curate a project that allows them to have ownership of their story or narrative. They are ways to honor their life and contribution, provide expression of meaning, maintain a sense of hope through purpose or create a celebratory event/ritual for loved ones, either during transition or after their passing.
Legacy and Remembrance Projects
Vigil Service
The Vigil is the point during the end of life process when the person is actively dying. This can be facilitated by us to help carry out the dying person’s wishes during their transition. Vigil service includes the physical space the person is in, the atmosphere or qualitative experience within the space, what kind of sensory stimuli (music, lighting, tastes, smells) are preferred. Who does the dying person prefer in their circle of care and how do they want the nature of the interactions to proceed? These are all dynamic and subject to change as a part of the process.
Guided Imagery & Active Imagination techniques
Guided Imagery is a technique that uses mental visualizations to address emotional, physical and spiritual symptoms. This practice is an affective modality to relieve anxiety, pain and elicit feelings of belonging, calm and peacefulness.
Active imagination is a meditative technique developed by Carl Jung that creates a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious mind where narratives, symbols, archetypes and personifications can manifest in the imagination. These visualizations can have a dream like quality allowing for symbolic interpersonal resolutions, peaceful past experiences and beautiful, creative stories taking the person to an imaginative place in their mind and heart.
Reprocessing
Reprocessing meetings are set up 4 weeks after the death. They provide a chance for those that were present at the vigil, the circle care and loved ones that are processing the grief and mourning the departed. This a chance to speak openly about your experience during the death process and integrate your experience as you begin to move forward.