Queer Dying Workbook: Guided Course In Community
The Queer Dying Circle
Maybe you have been thinking about death for a long time.
Maybe something has happened in your life and/or community that has you thinking and feeling more about death.
Join queer folks to explore the Queer Dying Workbook. We will gather online bi-weekly to get morbidly curious in community.
We will co-create queer culture(s) around death and dying.
You will have the opportunity to explore:
Waves- Feelings about death and dying
Bones- Some practicalities of death and dying
Wings- Communicating about death and dying
Blooms- Offerings, remembrance and ritual.
Course Content
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Waves
How we Feel about Death and Dying
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Wings
Communicating about End of Life Desires
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Blooms
Queering End of Life Ritual and Ceremony
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Bones
The Practicalities of End of Life
Here’s what you get when you SiGn Up:
Queer Dying Workbook
A print copy of the Queer Dying Workbook mailed to you
Welcome Call
A welcome and orientation call with captain
Bi-weekly Meetings
A chance to meet bi-weekly to go through the workbook together.
Bi-Weekly Explorations
Access to bi-weekly live facilitated explorations of wings, waves, bones and blooms
Supportive System
A supportive system of accountability to get your end of life planning done!
Community Access
A death care community with strong values around solidarity, community care and finding ways of being together that create alternatives to systems that cause harm.
Resources
Access to a co-created community resources page
Circle Holder
captain (they/m) I am a genderqueerdo-trans-radical-fae-witch-faggot in my mid-fifties that is currently doing art (work, life, play) with sex, joyful accountability, queer dying, poetry and embodiment. I am a scotish-english-irish settler living on the territory of the Lekwungen and WSÁNEĆ peoples on Vancouver Island in (so called Canada). My background is in social justice, street outreach, anti-violence, harm reduction, somatic sex education and writing. I have a doctorate in human sexuality and have studied in the End of Life Doula Program at Douglas College and Contemplative End of Life Care at the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Toronto.
I am at my happiest in a body of water.
Course Pricing
We meet Mondays 5:00-7:00pm Pacific Time on Zoom
(with a 15 minute hang-out time at the end as we aspire to easeful transitions)
Upon sign up you will schedule an orientation to the culture call with captain.
Next Circle begins October 26th, 2026
(every second Monday for 8 Sessions)
October 26, Nov 9,23, December 7,21, January 4, 18, February 1st
Orange
$500
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Consider this level if 1+ of the following apply: You are comfortably able to meet your basic needs as well as your basic wants, have reliable employment and/or income that gives you livelihood, own car, own a home or rent a higher end property, have access to financial savings (yours, family’s, or others’), have investments, can afford to travel every year, have expendable income.
Pink
$300
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Please Note: This is the level we need most people to choose in order to cover our expenses and pay ourselves a living wage. Consider this level if 1+ of the following apply: you meet your basic needs regularly but meet basic wants less easily, somewhat reliable employment and/or income, are able to buy some new items and thrift others, can travel every couple/few years without burden, have some debt but it does not prevent access to basic needs/wants.
Purple
$150
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Consider this level if 1+ of the following apply: have very limited expendable income, are unemployed or have unstable employment but are still able to meet basic needs, have little or no access to savings or financial support from family, have debt that requires some sacrifices on needs/wants
I like what you are doing and I would like to support it
$1,000