Endwell Northshore

Tracy Chalmers, Founder of Endwell, is an End of Life Doula, founding member of the End of Life Doula Association of Canada, End of Life Educator at Douglas College, Grief Educator and Tender at The Grief Well, a Certified Forest Therapy Guide, Hospice Volunteer, and the Author of The Nature of the Journey. She lives on British Columbia's Coast Salish land known as the North Shore. It is Tracy’s hope to nudge people to remember what it means to be human, through encouraging engagement with the entire experience from joy to sorrow and in life and death. This is how we are made whole, this is how we heal.

Willow is a co-founder of The Grief Well, an End of Life Doula, and a volunteer with Victoria Hospice in their Bereavement Services department. Willow works with folks in a variety of orientations including 1:1 grief companioning, small group facilitation, and grief literacy education. Willow holds the lived experience of what it is to witness what can happen when we are not given the recognition, witnessing, and permission to grieve. Her early life was shaped by unprocessed grief due to a lineage of profound loss. It is these tender roots that have led Willow down a journey of exploration, continuous healing, and a kinship with grief. Willow lives with her chosen family on the stolen traditional lands and Coast Salish territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən/Lekwungen (Songhees and Esquimalt) and W̱SÁNEĆ ((SȾÁUTW/ Tsawout, W̱JOȽEȽP/ Tsartlip, BOḰEĆEN/Pauquachin, WSIḴEM/ Tseycum, MÁLEXEȽ/ Malahat) First Nations, in what is now called Victoria B.C.