Facing Your Own Mortality
An afternoon to face what most of us spend our lives avoiding, held with care every step of the way. We'll begin indoors together, with a guided visualization, imagining what it means to let go, piece by piece, of the things, people, and roles that make up a life. You won't be doing this alone. There's room for whatever comes up, tears, quiet, even a little humor, and gentle guidance throughout to help you feel safe going there. Then we move outside onto the trails, journals in hand, walking slowly with a few reflection questions to carry alongside you. We'll close together, with space to share if you'd like, and time to land softly before you go. No experience needed, just a willingness to be met where you are.
Sunday, August 30, 3:30PM
$35 per person
Meet Your Instructor,
Shawn Carney
For more than twenty years, I led technology teams at Etsy, Spotify, Universal Music Group, and EMI. What drew me to that work was never the technology. It was people, and the question of what it means to show up for them in complexity. I've been in rooms where a lot was at stake, and I've learned, repeatedly, that how we move through uncertainty matters as much as what we decide.
I carried all of that with me when I left. I'm a certified Co-Active coach, a trained death doula, a hospice volunteer, and a Reiki practitioner. I'm also an artist, and queer, and someone who has lost family and friends. That grief lives in this work. I'm not standing outside life's passages as a neutral observer. I'm someone who has been in them, and keeps being in them.
The thread running through everything I do: transformation happens by composting what's already there. The past isn't something to discard, it's material. What has already happened in you is what makes the next thing possible.
If you are navigating a transition, know that you don't have to do so alone.