Hey friends,

We have a special announcement!

You'll hear Maria share that we have TWO sessions up for submission in for the 2024 SXSW programming, and we need YOUR votes! Please be sure to vote for our proposed sessions before August 20th, which is when voting closes!

Maria wants to bring these sessions to the forefront of our collective conversations and societal discussions – since grief and death literacy are life skills everyone needs – and this is one way to do it. Links to vote are below, along with a summary of each session.

Thank you for your votes and endless support 💖

VOTING LINKS

Beyond Empathy: The Superpower Skill of the Future: https://bit.ly/3P2EKcP

Good Mourning: Community Discussions Over Grief and Death: https://bit.ly/3QKN95H

SESSION DESCRIPTIONS Beyond Empathy: The Superpower Skill of the Future

This session equips leaders and organizers with the skills and resources they need to lead compassionately and with a human-centric approach to navigating death and grief-related topics. This includes burnout, layoffs, the climate crisis, the death of a loved one, and other life transitions.

Good Mourning: Community Discussions Over Grief and Death

This session is a meet-up to provide a space to lessen the tension and anxiety we feel when it comes to navigating death and grief discussions. People will be provided with prompt questions to discuss topics related to dying, grief, and death and will be encouraged to discuss these topics, which are often otherwise discouraged to discuss in most settings.