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Your Holistic Advance Care Plan

3-5 hours, over several weeks
These lively and interactive sessions have as many belly laughs as heartfelt tears.  More than simply writing your advance medical wishes, our heart-centred, practical process will help you create a plan that cares for your body, mind and spirit. We’ll guide you through the steps to:
  • understand your end-of-life medical care options
  • choose your preferred place for your care and death
  • identify an appropriate health representative
  • learn about advance directives and other documents to empower your decisions
  • prepare your instructions for after death/funeral
  • ​create a personal comfort plan
​​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.​
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​Personal Comfort Planning 

2-3 hours
Comfort care is an often-forgotten part of end-of-life planning. It can help to remember that one day, we must all live as we are dying. Finding ways to comfort ourselves and loved ones is essential. Using the 
​My Personal Comfort Plan guide and checklist, learn how to write personal comfort wishes that evolve with your particular needs, through your illness and end of life.
  • Find ways to bring comfort to your loved ones and yourself, using the Plan
  • Learn about essential information to share with your doctors, homecare, hospice and palliative care volunteers
  • Feel safe, supported and motivated as you explore and record you personal comfort wishes
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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.​
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Martha Okot Thomas, CircleSpace workshop participant​
Planning Ahead:
​Service Options
Hourly Rate: $100/Hour
Ideal for brief consultations or planning support

Bundled Rate: $90

Advance purchase 3 or more hours at a reduced hourly rate.
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Facing a terminal illness 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 help you navigate to the best care possible and guide you through your final months and moment to meet death with grace and dignity.

​Here are some ways we can help:
  • Soften your fears and worries using visualization, meditation and other approaches
  • Put your affairs in order so you don't leave a mess for your loved ones
  • Help you navigate to the best care possible, organize home care support and bring in other resources to help you and your loved ones
  • 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?
  • Support children/grandchildren to understand what is happening. Explore child-friendly ways to involve them in saying goodbye
  • Make your after death plans including care for your body and ceremony/funeral
  • Offer guidance to help you and your loved ones understand the physical and emotional dying process and adapt to the coming changes.
  • Create rituals: with music, readings or special objects, we'll hold space for you, your family and friends to mark milestones, ease your passage and honour your life
  • 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​. Supporting distance vigiling through the pandemic. 
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Doula Care and
​Family Caregiver Support Investment
Hourly Rate: $100/Hour
An hourly rate is ideal for achieving specific, short-term goals like completing advance care planning forms or facilitating a meeting with loved ones to talk about your wishes.

Journey Packages: Pre-paid bundles of hours for a reduced hourly rate. These packages offer greater value with more regular check-ins and support. Ideal if you want consistent  guidance over the coming months and support for your loved ones after your death. With Journey Packages , you don't need to worry about paying invoices each week.

8 hours: $720
16 hours: $1440
 
24 hours: $2160
Thanks so much for your thoughtfulness, wisdom and understanding. You are keeping me buoyed and together through this process.
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​Denise Moraze, CircleSpace client and family caregiver

​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
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I was over-the-moon with the Advance Care Planning workshop and how I felt - the content was exactly what I was looking for and more!!
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Alisa Kage, deathcaring practitioner
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Getting Comfortable with Death: A dynamic workshop to define your personal comfort wishes

Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 11am-1:30pm PST * $89
Register on Eventbrite: 
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/getting-comfortable-with-death-tickets-141984586721 
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Many people create an advance care plan. Some design their funeral. Often overlooked in the end-of-life planning process is mindfully preparing for your dying experience.

When her mum was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor, Chelsea Peddle realized she needed to know more than just her mum’s medical wishes: how could she care for her body, mind, heart and soul? Together, they created Personal Comfort Wishes, the unique things that bring physical, emotional and spiritual comfort through your final months and moments, such as:

• feeling awed by nature
• being transported to a happy memory by your favorite foods
• lovingly told what is happening even if you can’t respond
• divining a ritual to love

Through storytelling, personal reflection and an end-of-life visualization, you will discover creative ways to define your own personal comfort wishes using My Personal Comfort Plan, a beautifully-designed guide with 7 inspiring and easy-to-use checklists.

*My Personal Comfort Plan ebook is included in your ticket. For more information and to order printed My Personal Comfort Plan booklets go to https://www.circlespace.ca/store/c2/my-personal-comfort-plan#/

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Meet the Death Doulas - an online event

August 17, 2020 1:00-2:30 PST * FREE
Get to know death doulas Kate Irving, Chelsea Peddle, Jenafor Ryane and Sachi Tamura at this engaging event, from the comfort of your home! We'll demystify the role this essential member of an end-of-life care team plays by demonstrating some of the ways we support people and families including:
  • exploring your mortality and relationship with spirit
  • preparing for end-of-life
  • leaving your legacy and
  • completing your life with compassion, love and dignity
  • holding space for big emotions

Bring your questions and curiosity!

This is a free, online event for anyone who is curious about death doulas and end-of-life care.

Please register to receive the Zoom meeting link
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/meet-the-death-doulas-tickets-114615193128?fbclid=IwAR2xG5yMwUXzXAAmOw6gdNEQSqi2dqdoD1whqRWmkzofztuxjarFZ2qG6rc

Reimagine Festival: Getting Comfortable with Death - Creating Your Personal Comfort Plan

 August 27, 2020 1:00-2:30 PM PST *  FREE
How do you wish to live as you are dying? In this experiential workshop you'll visualize your final months and moments and reimagine what's possible by defining your Personal Comfort Wishes.

Many people create an advance care plan. Some design their funeral. Often overlooked in the end-of-life planning process is mindfully preparing for our dying experience.

When her mum was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor, Chelsea Peddle realized she needed to know more than just her mum’s medical wishes: how could she care for her body, mind, heart and soul? Together, they created Personal Comfort Wishes, the unique things that bring physical, emotional and spiritual comfort through your final months and moments, such as:
  • feeling awed by nature
  • being transported to a happy memory by your favourite foods
  • lovingly told what is happening even if you can’t respond
  • divining a ritual to love

Through storytelling and visualization, you will discover creative ways to define your own personal comfort wishes. NOTE: If you wish to use CircleSpace's My Personal Comfort Plan guide and checklist during the workshop, you can buy it here. 

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Reimagine: Life, Loss, & Love is a Worldwide Virtual Festival taking place from May 1 through September 1 during COVID-19, hosted by Reimagine. This collective effort is bringing communities together to confront illness, dying, grief, fear, and isolation in these challenging and uncertain times. Register today and explore the other events taking place during this ongoing virtual experience. Festival Schedule: letsreimagine.org/worldwide/schedule

Dying to Talk Speaker Series

May 28, June 4 and June 11, 2020 1:00-2:00.   
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it has taught us how precarious and precious this one life is. Loss, Grief, Death... it comes to us all, and while these may not be easy conversations, they are important ones. If not now, when? Join us online in a welcome and inclusive environment, to open a heart filled conversation about loss, grief and death with four professionals who believe in 'doing death better'.

This 3 part speakers series explores Grief, Advanced Care Planning, and Legacy Writing,

Register via ZOOM with the links provided below.

May 28th - The Ground of Grief - Exploring Embodiment and Culture in Grieving with Shauna Janz of Sacred Grief
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYuce2spzIiGdF9ttH4HvDNNpHooTYUHy_B

June 4th - Let's Get Started: Essential Tools for Holistic Advance Care Planning with Chelsea Peddle of CircleSpace
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tce6vpjstHNbxdMG_dxPJ3RLto1ZiriNB

June 11th - That Which Lasts - Leaving Your Legacy  with Linda Hunter of Dying with Grace
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkde-qpz8iGdQGKwlElkhyg9uR55Kyy0Mk
April 5, 2020, Victoria Holistic Death Care Community Gathering
Rituals for End-of-Life
Januay 19, 2020, Victoria Holistic Death Care Community Gathering
Queering Death Care
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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Free 30 Minute Consultation for End of Life Planning or Care
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