• Course Overview

    This course is for anyone curious about death, those wishing to prepare for their own end-of-life journey, and for end-of-life practitioners seeking more understanding and less fear of death in order to appropriately support the dying and their people.

  • Course Goals

    A Year to Live offers inspiration to live well through discussion, contemplation, meditation, and journaling in community. This course aims to support participants to prepare to die by reducing fear around death, and increasing presence, acceptance, and love. Participants will learn how to soften their belly when feeling anxious, relate to fear rather than from it, practice self-forgiveness and forgiveness of others, celebrate their life through a life review, create a personal altar, increase mindfulness, learn to keep the heart open in uncomfortable situations, and explore what happens to the body and soul after death.

  • Benefits for participants

    Participants will find a supportive community for deep discussion, contemplation, and meditation. An online classroom with additional resources, guided practices, and community discussions will support this journey. Recordings of monthly live sessions will be available, allowing for flexible engagement. The course encourages participant to live well now so that they can die well when the time comes.

Facilitator

Tracy Chalmers

Tracy Chalmers is grateful and humbled to be living on Coast Salish land known as the North Shore of Vancouver, in British Columbia. Since 2017, she has served as an end-of life doula, co-founded the End-of-Life Doula Association of Canada, founded Endwell, co-founded The Grief Well, served as a hospice volunteer and mentor, trained as a Forest Therapy guide, facilitated various training and community workshops through Endwell, written her first book, The Nature of the Journey, and facilitated the End-of-Life Doula Care program at Douglas College. A friend to grief and death and servant to many, Tracy also considers herself a perpetual student. She is of Norwegian, Swedish, Scottish, and English ancestry, and values her roles as mother, daughter, wife, sister, friend, listener, and lover of the natural world and all of life. The work that Tracy does honours and is supported by countless ancestors.

Social proof: testimonials

“"Exploring the deep end of living our finite lives has been an experience I have always sought and was immediately interested to venture with Tracy and her group "A Year to Live" on this opening of heart and mind. So much appreciation to Tracy for creating a safe space for us to companion each other in discovery and sharing. Confronting our mortality with tenderness and lightness that seems to ripple out... enhancing our experiences and relationships right now, when it matters most. I highly recommend this exploration so much so that I would gladly do it again!"”

Nadia

““I have been a part of Tracy’s beautiful AYTL group since the beginning of the year and it has been deeply impactful, revitalizing how I live every day. This book, for me, has encouraged me to wake up with gratitude for another day of LIFE, to live consciously and to be present in every moment. To embrace the challenges we can’t control and transform them into growth and expansion. I have reviewed my life with grace, forgiveness, and appreciation and have opened my heart to feel every emotion that flows through me with more ease and acceptance. Tracy is a compelling facilitator and I highly recommend this group."”

Kelli R

It always seems too soon until it's too late

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