What if preparing for the end of life could empower you to live more fully today?

Join us for an upcoming four-part workshop:

Living Fully and Dying Prepared

  • Engaging discussions about mortality and activities that encourage insights and clarity

  • Why think about mortality? Because "it often feels too early until it's too late," and most people find the process quite rewarding.

  • What does the series entail?  A bit of reading, writing, and sharing aloud within a friendly group.  Finish with a completed Advanced Health Care Directive!


    YOU decide the direction and depth of your work and what to share.

When: Tuesdays, 7PM-8:30PM. January 14, 28 and February 11, 25, 2025

Where: Mill Valley Community Center, 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley, CA 94941

Cost: No fee for the series. You will need a copy of the Death Doula’s Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared by Francesca Lynn Arnoldy

WEEK 1

  • Orientation and introductions.

  • Developing a foundation of compassion.

WEEK 2

  • Discovering ‘death wellness’.

  • Using mortality awareness and impermanence to prepare.

  • Exploring what feels unfinished or undiscovered. 

WEEK 3

  • Discovering your authentic/core self.

  • Identifying your values to determine what means the most to you.

  • Begin drafting wishes for your care.

WEEK 4

  • Imagining your final days.

  • Documenting and sharing with loved ones.

  • Formalizing your wishes into a legal document.

About your facilitators:

Dana Tuttle, MD, is an end-of-life (EOL) doula, planner, and educator serving the Bay Area.  She is passionate about normalizing the narrative around death and dying and accompanying individuals and their loved ones through complicated illness and the dying journey.  

Dana is also a local hospice volunteer and a facilitator for the Humane Prison Hospice Project. She lives in Mill Valley with her husband and teenage son.

Jennifer George, has been a hospice and vigil volunteer for 7 years. She is a trained end-of-life doula with her own private practice, Doorways, LLC. She is honored to companion patients and their families during this most intimate time. Jen wants to normalize conversations about death to help ease fear and anxiety, allowing you to live well until the end.

Jen is excited to share her knowledge and passion about end-of-life care in her home community of Mill Valley and the greater bay area.