Natural Transitions

Still Spots Natural Death Care Workshop March 23 and 24- https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/still-spots-natural-death-care-workshop

Rescheduled Natural Death Care Workshop for March 2024 - https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/march-2024-natural-death-care-workshop

This Tuesday Conservation Burial the Ultimate Green Ending? - https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/john-christian-phifer-conservation-burial

Join John Christian Phifer in the Parlour on Is Conservation Burial the Ultimate Green Ending? - https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/is-conservation-burial-the-ultimate-green-ending

Tonight is Our Last Best Act with Mallory McDuff - https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/our-last-best-act-with-mallory-mcduff-10158577

Our Last Best Act with Mallory McDuff - https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/our-last-best-act-with-mallory-mcduff

Today at 5PM Mountain How Fear and Death Denial Affect Us - https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/today-how-fear-and-death-denial-shapes-our-world-9905026

TODAY How Fear and Denial of Death Affect Our World - https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/how-fear-and-death-denial-shapes-our-world-9905014

Tuesday, February 7, 2023 in The Parlour: LGBTQ plus end of life with Ezra Salter

Ezra Salter (they/them) is a Louisiana licensed funeral director and embalmer practicing in New Orleans and a board member of Wake, a New Orleans-based deathcare non-profit. Ezra is the progenitor and co-creator of the Louisiana LGBTQ+ End of Life Planning Guide and contributor to The Order of the Good Death’s end-of life planning resources for the transgender community. Ezra's professional focus includes advocacy for q***r deathcare and green burial options in Louisiana and the preservation of historic cemeteries in New Orleans.

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Tuesday, January 3 at 5PM Mountain Time - FREE Monthly Natural Transitions Forum: The Parlour

Karen and Heather, co-hosts of The Parlour, want to take this opportunity at the outset of 2023, to find out who you are, those who come to The Parlour each month. We’re diverging from our normal format somewhat by encouraging some community sharing and connecting by having 3 breakout room sessions instead of just one.

This will be a fun exploration of the members of our Natural Transitions community. Heather and Karen will share some of their recent adventures in natural death education - Karen making documentaries, editing a magazine, teaching natural death care workshops, founding a funeral home and then moving on, and Heather, leading workshops, co-founding the National Home Funeral Alliance, writing for professional publications, and sponsoring community events.

Heather and Karen will do this to reveal a bit more of their souls and their own passions in this unique arena.

Then we’ll have a a series of 3 breakout rooms for you to connect by pondering and sharing about these questions:

3 Questions for the 1st Parlour of 2023:
Who are you?
Why are you interested in death?
What do you want us (Natural Transitions' The Parlour) to offer in 2023?

Looking forward to meeting you all!
Heather and Karen
SEE YOU THERE

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The Parlour is a FREE Zoom event. The link for each live monthly episode (the first Tuesday of the month at 5PM Mountain Time) is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81033335245?pwd=OUJQMnZoWFdrM05MaXBzd003UndKdz09

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In 2022, Natural Transitions, launched a live, monthly online forum/magazine we called The Parlour; a virtual successor to our much missed print magazine, Natural Transitions Magazine (free archival pdf copies at https://www.naturaltransitions.org/natural-transitions-magazine/).

A Union of East and West
Heather Massey from Massachusetts, Cape Cod, long-standing death care educator and home funeral guide, teamed up with Karen van Vuuren, Boulder, Colorado-based executive director of Natural Transitions, to host this new educational, community-building adventure.

Heather and Karen go back about fifteen years or more. Both were involved in the founding of the National Home Funeral Alliance, an organization dedicated to supporting the movement for family-directed after-death care.

But while that was their point of intersection, both Heather and Karen have been involved in myriad aspects of the end-of-life educational world as presenters, documentary-makers (Karen) and writers.

In this inaugural year of The Parlour, we have covered and have available for FREE on our website, the following episodes of The Parlour, accessible via our ARCHIVES PAGE:

Medical Aid in Dying (the untold story of MAID in America) with author and medical anthropologist, Anita Hannig
MAID (from the viewpoint of a spouse supporting her husband's choice) with author, Joanne Kelly
One Man's Grief Journey after the sudden death of a child with author (of I Keep Trying To Catch His Eye) Ivan Maisel
Body Composting with Seth Viddal of The Natural Funeral
Spiritual Aspects of Alzheimer's with author, Megan Carnarius
Connecting wtih Your Loved One After Death with Kelle Sutliffe, author and psychic medium
Shared Crossing Experiences (co-experiencing the journey of a loved one at death) with William Peters
Sacred Plant Medicine (mushrooms, etc.,) at end of life with author, herbalist/nutritionist, Brigitte Mars

We are excited to bring you more outstanding guests in 2023, and build more connections and community.

The Parlour is a FREE Zoom event funded by YOUR DONATIONS. We appreciate your generosity to cover our basic costs.

The link for each live monthly episode (the first Tuesday of the month at 5PM Mountain Time) is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81033335245?pwd=OUJQMnZoWFdrM05MaXBzd003UndKdz09

Today at 5PM Mountain Time Brigitte Mars Herbalist on Sacred Plant Medicine to Ease Death Fear - https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/brigitte-mars-herbalist-on-sacred-plant-medicine-to-ease-death-fear-9892102

Brigitte Mars Herbalist on Sacred Plant Medicine to Ease Death Fear - https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/brigitte-mars-herbalist-on-sacred-plant-medicine-to-ease-death-fear

Joanne Kelly is on tonight's Parlour - author of Walking Him Home about her husband's journey with illness and Medical Aid in Dying. FREE on Zoom at 5PM - Join us by filling out our contact info form on the NT website at https://www.naturaltransitions.org/contact/ and we will send you the link for this amazing event about education and community building.

Walking Him Home Author Joanne Kelly on Medical Aid In Dying - https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/walking-him-home-author-joanne-kelly-on-medical-aid-in-dying

Tuesday October 4 Spiritual Aspects of Alzheimer's - https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/spiritual-aspects-of-alzheimers-with-megan-carnarius-9807846

Spiritual Aspects of Alzheimer's with Megan Carnarius, author and dementia expert in The Parlour, Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 5PM Mountain Time. Get the zoom link by joining our community at https://www.naturaltransitions.org/contact/
and we'll send you the Zoom link for this free event. Megan Carnarius - Memory Care Consulting

Anita Hannig, The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America - https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/anita-hannig-the-untold-story-of-assisted-dying-in-america

TODAY - meet Kelle Sutliff FBI Psychic Medium in the Parlour - https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/meet-kelle-sutliff-fbi-psychic-medium-in-the-parlour-9290874

Kelle Sutliff FBI Psychic Medium in the Parlour - https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/kelle-sutliff-fbi-psychic-medium-in-the-parlour

TODAY in The Parlour meet Ivan Maisel ESPN writer and author of I Keep Trying To Catch His Eye - https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/iva-maisel-espn-writer-and-author-of-i-keep-trying-to-catch-his-eye-8997206

This Tuesday's Parlour on Human Composting in Colorado - https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/this-tuesdays-parlour-on-human-composting-in-colorado

Join April's Parlour on Body Composting - https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/join-aprils-parlour-on-body-composting

Tonight - Join us inThe Parlor Natural Transitions NEW Online Magazine - https://mailchi.mp/naturaltransitions/tonight-the-parlor-natural-transitions-new-online-magazine-8980626

The Parlor Natural Transitions NEW Online Magazine - https://mailchi.mp/87002701512e/the-parlor-natural-transitions-new-online-magazine
Tuesday, March 1 at 5PM Mountain Time is or first edition. We'll have a live guest, Natural Transitions' founder, Karen van Vuuren, breakout room discussions and conversation when we return to The Parlor. Join Us by filling out the contact form on our website at naturaltransitions.org.

https://apnews.com/article/technology-lifestyle-religion-environment-and-nature-health-014a5d0bc4f4039181d9863527334ebe?fbclid=IwAR22t5K7QLm7QprJ04gAt3OYPL8shLCI5y0vKbQq1RpaFhTCgHOl2WLTBO0

I am so proud of Seth Viddal and Chris Olachia for creating the Chrysalis - the first natural organic reduction vessel, in Colorado, built by The Natural Funeral. What a great story.

Body composting a 'green' alternative to burial, cremation LAFAYETTE, Colo. (AP) — In a suburban Denver warehouse tucked between an auto repair shop and a computer recycling business, Seth Viddal is dealing with life and death. He and one of his employees have built a “vessel” they hope will usher in a more environmentally friendly era of mortuary sci...