ABOUT THE EVENT
Angela Fama and Tracy Chalmers invite you into a facilitated online conversation exploring grief, death, and medically assisted dying using the Death Conversation Game and three newly co-created add-on questions developed through The 3UP Project. Drawing on years of shared facilitation experience and a deep commitment to community-based end-of-life care, this gathering offers a safe(r), respectful, and choice-centred space for reflection, listening, and dialogue. Participants will engage in guided conversation - together and, when appropriate, in small breakout groups - allowing the depth and direction of discussion to emerge organically from those present. Rooted in values of equity, inclusion, and relational care, this session invites participants to co-create new narratives around death and open thoughtful, compassionate dialogue about medically assisted dying.
AGENDA
WELCOME - Introductions, housekeeping
DEATH CONVERSATION GAME INTRO - Game rules, grounding in practice
INTERACTIVE CONVERSATION - We will pose three questions on assisted dying and facilitate conversation around these prompt contact information
GRATITUDE AND GOODBYE - Thanks yous, and grounding out practice
MEET YOUR HOSTS
Angela Fama
Creator of the Death Conversation Game
Angela Fama (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist and gender-based violence prevention workshop facilitator who is trained as a death doula and has survived a near fatal car accident, each of these informing her perspectives on grief, death and dying. Since creating Death Conversation Game over five years ago, Fama has been utilizing this tool to co-create a variety of interactive conversational spaces for sharing and listening in relation to death, dying and grief. Born in Tennessee, as a varied-generation French/Italian/unknown settler, Angela was raised in Ontario and Zimbabwe and now lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations (also known as Vancouver BC). Learn more about why and how Angela created Death Conversation Game through their TEDx talk.
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Tracy Chalmers
End-of-Life Doula, Author, Educator
Tracy Chalmers (she/her) 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.
What People Are Saying
See how Death Conversation Game players are benefiting from these conversations and gaining new perspectives on grief, death, and dying.
A moving and interesting experience. I expected to be more emotional - but in fact it was very healing to talk about death and all the related topics within a "hanging out" situation. It was a lot about listening, which is so beautiful and powerful.
Artist
Playing Death Conversation Game is the most I haver felt seen in my fears and my griefs about death and loss. As someone who studies how play can permit us to explore the darkest of places, I see this tool as exemplary.
Interdisciplinary artist + co-AD of It's Not A Box Theatre
Death Conversation Game is a powerful tool for unlocking deeply held ideas, wishes, and beliefs about myriad aspects of dying and death; a viabe way into conversations that tend, in my experience, to be empowering, and even exciting.
Death Doula + Educator
A moving and interesting experience. I expected to be more emotional - but in fact it was very healing to talk about death and all the related topics within a "hanging out" situation. It was a lot about listening, which is so beautiful and powerful.
Artist
Death Conversation Game is a powerful tool for unlocking deeply held ideas, wishes, and beliefs about myriad aspects of dying and death; a viabe way into conversations that tend, in my experience, to be empowering, and even exciting.
Death Doula + Educator
Playing Death Conversation Game is the most I haver felt seen in my fears and my griefs about death and loss. As someone who studies how play can permit us to explore the darkest of places, I see this tool as exemplary.
Interdisciplinary artist + co-AD of It's Not A Box Theatre
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