Your Holistic Advance Care Plan

4 hours, over several weeks
These lively and interactive sessions have as many belly laughs as heartfelt tears.  Our heart-centred practical process will help you make decisions from a grounded and informed place. We’ll guide you through 5 steps to:
  • soften your worries or fears of dying and death
  • understand your end-of-life medical care options
  • choose your preferred place for your death
  • identify an appropriate health representative
  • learn about advance directives and other documents to empower your decisions
​​ You’ll leave with a Holistic Advance Care Plan (instructions for the care you would or would not want if you became incapable of making decisions for yourself), and feeling confident and inspired. This session includes the Empowered Living Toolkit and Resource Guide.​
Planning Ahead:
​Service Options
1-1 COACHING
$80/hr
​Individualized support  where we meet face-to-face or via Skype to meet your goals. 

AROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE WORKSHOPS
$75-$125 per person
Gather your loved ones for a warm and dynamic experience in the comfort of your home. These workshops are ideal for doing the work with your “circle of care:” the people who will be supporting you and making decisions for you when the time comes. For 3 to 8 people of your choosing.
Your Personal Comfort Plan
Facing a terminal diagnosis can be a scary and deeply transformative experience. CircleSpace can help guide your way, offering information, companionship and support for you and your loved ones. We'll explore ways to put your affairs in order to ease the burden on your loved ones, we'll help you navigate to the best care possible, and guide you through your final months and moment to meet death with mindfulness and dignity.

​Here are some ways we can help:
  • Soften your fears and worries using visualization, meditation and other approaches
  • Create a personal comfort plan to bring physical, emotional and spiritual peace (and even joy) to your final months and moments
  • Define your legacy: what do you wish to leave for your loved ones, your community, the planet?
  • Life completion: what feels unfinished? How can you seek closure?
  • Put your affairs in order so you don't leave a mess for your loved ones
  • Support children/grandchildren to understand what is hapenning and child-friendly ways to involve them in saying goodbye
  • Make your after death plans including care for your body and ceremony/funeral
  • Create rituals: with music, readings and special objects, we'll hold space for you, your family and friends to mark milestones, ease your passage and honour your life
  • Offer information and guidance to help you and your loved ones understand the physical and emotional dying process
  • Vigiling: Siting quietly, peacefully at your bedside during the final hours of your life. We also offer guidance and support for your friends and family as they vigil​
Doula Care Investment
HOURLY RATE: $80/HOUR
An hourly rate is ideal for achieving specific, short-term goals like creating your Holistic Advance Care Plan and End-of-Life Planning (putting your affairs in order).

JOURNEY PACKAGE: $1280 
This package offers greater flexibility, support and value as it allows us to be "on-call" for you and your family. Includes full Personal Comfort Plan and Holistic Advance Care Planning services (except vigiling). 

VIGILING: $45/HOUR
Vigiling is sitting quietly, peacefully at your bedside during the final days or hours of your life to accompany you through death. We can offer your loved ones support and a steadying presence as they vigil, or provide them respite.  

​Family Caregiver​ Support

Caring for a loved one through their end-of-life can be a full time job in terms of your time and your heartspace. As a family caregiver, you must navigate health and legal systems, lead difficult conversations, schedule home care and medical appointments, cook meals and chauffeur, all while trying to spend quality time with your loved one and live your own life. CircleSpace doulas are experienced health system navigators with deep knowledge of community services and businesses. We can help you:
  • map out and prioritize your responsibilities
  • connect with supports and resources
  • create an action plan to make your job easier
  • offer regular check-ins and emotional, physical and spiritual care for you, the caregiver
The workshop was fantastic… I would highly recommend it for anyone who had ageing parents, family members or who want to make sure their values and wishes for their own affairs are known and communicated.​
Martha Okot Thomas​

Victoria Holistic Death Care Community GATHERING

Queering Death Care
Join us to explore the barriers our EOL care and medical systems put in place for people who are LGBQT+ AND how we can transform ourselves, our practice and the systems we engage with to better serve this community

January 19, 1:30-3:30 Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria
​Free
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December 21, 2019, HeartCircle: A Community Grieving Ritual
Grief needs community, especially in the holiday season. Joins us for a dedicated circle to honour those who are in our hearts, yet no longer here for a hug. 
November 20, 2019, Royal BC Museum, Victoria, BC
It's Complicated: A Conversation About Death

March 25, 2019, ​Deathly Matters Community Gathering, Victoria, BC ​​
Getting Comfortable with Death: Your Personal Care Wishes

March 3, 2019 Victoria Holistic Death Care Gathering
Music and Sound for End-of-Life Care
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I was over-the-moon with the ACP workshop and how I felt - the content was exactly what I was looking for and more!!
Alisa Kage, deathcaring practitioner
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We acknowledge and express gratitude to the first peoples on whose traditional, hereditary lands we live, work and raise our families. We strive to be aware of our own prejudices and to dismantle individual and systemic racisms.

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