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
  • ​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.​

​Personal Comfort Planning 

2 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
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
1-1 COACHING
$80/hr
​Individualized support  where we meet face-to-face or online to meet your goals. 

AROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE WORKSHOPS
$75-$175 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.
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
  • 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. Explore 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 or 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 and adapt to the coming changes.
  • 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: Starting at $1280 
This package offers greater flexibility, support and value as it allows more regular check-ins and support. 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.  
Thanks so much for your thoughtfulness, wisdom and understanding. You are keeping me buoyed and together through this process.
​
​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
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

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
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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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