Planning for the End of Life

A  WORKSHOP  ON
Conscious and Compassionate End-of-Life Choices

with 

Ann-Ellice Parker

2-5 pm  •  Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Hillside Club

 2286 Cedar Street (at Arch), Berkeley  94709

Empower yourself and your loved ones by preparing for the eventual end of life.
Explore options—possible decisions you and/or your loved ones can make now and may
not be able to make nearer death. Living well includes preparing for a compassionate death.

The workshop will include:
    •  an overview of the key end of life issues   •   critical health decision making
    •  resolving family differences  •  advanced directives  •  home funerals and ecological burials  
    •  extensive discussion of your questions  •  time to fill out forms such as designating your Health Care Power of Attorney.

Each participant will receive a packet with facts about dying, costs, green burials, home funerals, Advanced Directives, DNRs and Living Wills.

Led by Ann-Ellice Parker, CEO of Seasons of Change and death education counselor dedicated to providing safe spaces for courageous discussions about death and dying.

Advance Registration (till February 9th):  $25 ($20 Club members)

Registration (February 10th–12th):  $30 ($25 Club members)

Tickets available at Brown Paper Tickets online and at 800-838-3006

 Also checks can be sent to:  Hillside Club c/o End of Life Workshop, 2286 Cedar St., Berkeley CA 94709

Occupy the Truth: Whistlebolowers Conference: Exploring truth and transparency in an age of terror.
 

Friday, February 17, 2012 at 6:00 PM - Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 4:00 PM (PT)

Who is the Conference for? Anyone who really cares about truth and transparency. (Practitioners and academics in the information, communication, media, computer, and library domains, members of NGOs working on civil society and good governance issues, and all who are interested in ethical, legal and regulatory aspects of information and communication.)

http://occupythetruth.eventbrite.com/