4-SESSION SERIES OVER CONSECUTIVE WEEKS

DETAILED BREAKDOWN OF AVAILABLE WILLOW WORKSHOPS

MAKING SENSE OF LIFE AND DEATH

Making sense of life and death before making practical arrangement helps ensure that end-of-life planning reflects personal values and priorities.

1) HOW TO STOP PROCRASTINATING WITH END-OF-LIFE PLANNING

Introduces Willow’s Reality of Our Mortality™ Planning Checklist to help people breakthrough barriers that hold them back from being more prepared.

Workshop members will:

• Experience how a holistic checklist moves beyond conventional end-of-life planning tasks

• Begin identifying personal end-of-life planning priorities as well as what prevents personal action on EOL planning

• Gain clarity on how to progress and feel inspired to action

2) VALUES, WISHES AND WHO AND WHAT MATTERS MOST

Uses tools from Willow’s workbook, 7 Tools for Making Sense of Life & Death, to help people identify personal values and priorities to inform end-of-life planning.

Workshop members will:

• Articulate personal core values and how they impact living and dying

• Identify hopes and fears related to end-of-life, death and dying

• Gain clarity about who and what matter most

• Feel inspired to act in ways that support living and dying well

3) CONSCIOUS HEALTH, PERSONAL CARE AND FINAL WISHES

Uses tools from Willow’s workbook, 7 Tools for Making Sense of Life & Death, to help people with thoughtful advance-care planning.

Workshop members will:

• Use past experiences with death and dying to imagine personal end-of-life plans

• Discover what is most important for personal health and care wishes

• Become inspired to articulate personal final wishes

LEGACY, LOVE LETTERS & HEART WILLS

Increasing personal awareness enables people to create meaningful legacies, that is, what is left behind after death, material things as well as an impact on both people and the planet.

4) THE 5-MINUTE LEGACY LOVE LETTER

Uses 6 meaningful prompts to help people draft lasting messages to important people in their lives.

Workshop members will:

• Explore using one of Willow’s end-of-life planning tools, The 5-Minute Legacy Love Letter™

• Experience how writing a legacy love letter prompts stronger personal relationships, even if letters are not shared or read by anyone else

• Feel calmer and more peaceful as a result of focusing on loving messages

5) WRITING YOUR HEART WILL AS A MANIFESTO FOR LIVING

Using the Heart Will as a tool to imagine an imminent death helps people clarify who and what matters most.

Workshop members will:

• Explore using one of Willow’s end-of-life tools, How to Write Your Heart Will™

• Learn about legacy writing for both oneself and for others with this tool

• Begin to discover a way to live fully and with intention

6) HOW TO CREATE AND LIVE YOUR LEGACY

Uses reflection and discussion in a thoughtful dynamic workshop that helps people imagine one’s personal legacy and the actions that will create and live that legacy.

Workshop members will:

• Explore the concept of legacy and its personal meaning

• Reflect on hopes and fears related to one’s legacy

• Identify personal hopes and beliefs about how one will be remembered by others

• Discover how to live now so there is alignment with one’s desired legacy

7) REMEMBERING AND BEING REMEMBERED

Focuses on the who, what, how and why of remembering – both remembering those who have died and being personally remembered by others.

Workshop members will:

• Explore why those who have died are remembered and what it is about being remembered that is personally important

• Consider the impact of the deceased in their lives and imagine one’s own impact after death on others

• Be inspired to honour the memory of the deceased in ways that are personally meaningful and practical

DEPARTURE DIRECTIONS

Preparing written guidelines about how one wishes to be cared for and remembered after death provides personal peace of mind as well as benefits those responsible for carrying out after-death decisions related to body disposition, ceremony, and ritual.

8) 9 THINGS TO INCLUDE IN YOUR DEPARTURE DIRECTIONS

Uses Willow’s end-of-life planning tool, 9 Things to Include in Your Departure Direction™ to introduce the idea that every act of how one is cared for after death is a potential meaningful opportunity to build, nourish and heal individuals and communities.

Workshop members will:

• Explore one of Willow’s tools, 9 Things to Include in Your Departure Directions™

• Reflect on the factors shaping one’s Departure Directions

• Begin to gain insight about who and what matter most in making personal decision about after death care

• Be inspired to act in ways that support living well and dying well

9) GREENING YOUR DEATH AND ALIGNING YOUR VALUES

Focuses on the environmental impact of what happens after death by considering different options for greening one’s death and realizing values of ecological stewardship and interconnectedness.

Workshop members will:

• Reflect on and identify what is personally meaningful about greening one’s death

• Discover the environmental impacts of different choices for after-death

• Learn about green options that may be regionally available

• Consider how to align personal values and choices for after-death

10) 5 STEPS FOR SUCCESSFUL END-OF-LIFE PLANNING CONVERSATIONS

Uses the Willow 5 Steps for Successful End-of-Life Planning Conversation to increase people’s readiness and skills to talk with others about end-of-life planning

Workshop members will:

• Explore the tool, 5 Steps for Successful End-of-Life Planning Conversation

• Learn about and recognize the challenges associated with having conversations about death in a death-phobic and death denying culture

• Increase readiness and be guided through key steps for having successful and meaningful end-of-life planning conversations

• Gain clarity about who and what matter most