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A Heart Centre for Community End-of-Life Care

Welcome to a space for reflection, learning, and remembering what it means to live well and die well.

All are welcome on this journey as we get reacquainted with the natural experience of living and dying. Together, we can write a new story, one that nourishes us as we walk alongside each other in the wilderness of life and death.

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FEATURED GUIDANCE

For Companions

For Community

For EOL Doulas

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT

For Community

For EOL Doulas

BOOK & ONLINE COURSE

For Community

For EOL Doulas

COMMUNITY SUPPORT

For Community

For EOL Doulas

BOOK JOURNEY

For Community

For EOL Doulas

COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS

For Community

For EOL Doulas

COMMUNITY EVENTS

For Community

For EOL Doulas

ONLINE COURSE

For Community

For EOL Doulas

MEDIA

For Community

For EOL Doulas

EDUCATION

For Community

For EOL Doulas

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HEART CONNECTIONS

Explore some of our upcoming offerings below.

Whether you yourself are navigating or supporting another on the end of life journey, seeking to better prepare yourself for the inevitable, or are a guide for others on the path, these heart-centred offerings seek to help you live well, love well, and die well. They provide opportunities for listening, supporting, and sharing information, deepening our connection within our hearts and the hearts of those around us.

BOOK 
JOURNEY

A Year to Live

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In A Year to Live, Stephen Levine teaches us how to live each moment, each hour, each day mindfully—as if it were all that was left. Preparing for death is one of the most rational and rewarding acts of a lifetime. It is an exercise that gives us the opportunity to deal with unfinished business and enter into a new and vibrant relationship with life.

 

Join us for a 12-month exploration of life and death as we virtually gather once a month exploring the book's practical strategies, valuable tools, and powerful guided meditations to help with this work, so that whenever the ultimate moment does arrive for each of us, we will not feel that it has come too soon.

 

Begins in January 2025

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To hear about future offerings, sign up for Endwell's seasonal newsletter.

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MEET TRACY CHALMERS

Endwell Founder, End of Life Educator & Doula, The Grief Well Co-founder, Forest Therapy Guide, Author of The Nature of the Journey

I am a mother, daughter, sister, wife, and friend.
My family and friends are the center of my universe.

I find comfort in spending time with my favourite people. Cooking for my family and friends feeds me. I am fuelled by being in nature - simply noticing the birds, the breeze, and the waves. I am also energized by moving in nature; hiking, biking, swimming, paddling, skiing — my moving meditation.

My life up until this point, both personal and professional, has led me perfectly here, to a place where I can gently encourage people to consider a different story about death. With Doula clients and with participants in workshops and courses, I support others to consider what truly makes life worth living, exploring fears, regrets, wishes for future health care, life’s shiny moments, and love. A big focus on love. I do what I can to support a life rich with connection right up until the last moments.

It is my hope to reduce suffering at the end of life by encouraging people to live well, sharing simple information about the nature of the journey, encouraging heart-centred conversations and planning, and finding as many opportunities for meaning, connection, presence, and pleasure as possible.

END OF LIFE EDUCATION

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Online Course & LiveWell Workshops

A variety of online and in-person courses and workshops are available for community members, companions, people living with a life-limiting illness, End of Life Doulas, and community death care practitioners.

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“Rooted ways embolden us to remember that with our complex minds we can feel—and live—more than one thing simultaneously.
Anxiety, difficulty, fear, despair. Yes.
Beauty, connectedness, possibility, love. Yes.”

― Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature & Spirit

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FEATURED MEDIA

Video Interviews, Podcast Episodes & More

CBC Interview with Tracy Chalmers, End of Life Doula
00:00 / 17:48
CKNW - Sara Hyde - Death Doulas
00:00 / 06:20
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HEART MUSINGS BLOG

As a deeply supportive act of self care, Tracy integrates her experiences of caring for the dying and their people through writing. Her blog will share stories from her experiences in community death care. Through sharing these stories about normal, gentle dying, Tracy hopes to help shift the narrative around death from fear based to love based, one story at a time.

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Monthly Guided Forest Walks

If you are located in Vancouver, consider joining us for a monthly guided nature walk where Tracy will guide us deeper into our senses and our connection with nature's authentic ways of being.

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WAYS TO STAY CONNECTED

Endwell's Seasonal Newsletter

Each seasonal newsletter will offer a grounding practice, a poem, information on Endwell’s upcoming offerings, and inspiring opportunities from other community death care practitioners. Tracy will share stories, helpful tips, and all things that inspire her to LiveWell and DieWell.

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