Die Wise: Sanity & Soul ~ Live in Malibu, CA

1 main road - actual address t.b.c,Malibu CA 90265

12 March, 2023

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(Gate opens at 9:30am/ Talk 10-3pm (~1 hour lunch break)/ Book signing until 4pm) NOTE: Stephen is also leading a presentation of Griefwalker on Saturday evening, March 11th in Malibu - event info t.b.c. An Important Note: No photography nor audio/ video recording is permitted on the premises - we ask that all phones are turned off. (This session will be professionally recorded by our host.) "A GOOD DEATH IS EVERYONE’S RIGHT.​ ​The idea makes no sense in a culture that doesn’t believe in dying at all.​ " Stephen Jenkinson is the subject of the feature length documentary film Griefwalker a portrait of his work with dying people, and caregivers. (National Film Board of Canada, 2008, dir. Tim Wilson and translated into five languages), Grief is the radical etiquette needed by a death phobic, grief illiterate time.​ ​ Dying is the fulfillment, not the end, of life.​ ​ From a young age we see around us that grief is mostly an affliction, a misery that intrudes into the life we deserve, a rupture of the natural order of things, a trauma that we need coping and management and five stages and twelve steps to get over. Here’s the revolution: What if grief is a skill, in the same way that love is a skill, something that must be learned and cultivated and taught? What if grief is the natural order of things, a way of loving life anyway? Though addicted to security, comfort and managing uncertainty, this culture could learn to honour, teach and live grief as a skill, as vital to its personal, community and spiritual life as the skill of loving. In a time like ours, grieving is a subversive act. Dying can be – and must be — the fullest expression and incarnation of what you’ve learned by living. How you die is the proving ground, the cradle, and the grave for every conviction you may have about justice and mercy, about the meaning of life, about what love should look like and what it should do. "Dying is not the end of wisdom, and wisdom is not exhausted by dying. Dying well is a spiritual obligation, and a moral obligation. If you love somebody, if you care about the world that’s to come after you, if you want somebody to be spared the lunacy of what you’ve seen, you’ve got to ‘die wise'. " This session begins to imagine a way of doing so. Die Wise book purchase link Die Wise Video Trailer MORE ABOUT STEPHEN JENKINSON ~ author - storyteller - ceremonialist/ culture activist Jenkinson teaches internationally and is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, founded in 2010, convening semi-annually in Deacon, Ontario, and in northern Europe. He has Master’s degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work). He is the author of Reckoning (co-written with Kimberly Ann Johnson (2022), A Generation’s Worth: Spirit Work While the Crisis Reigns (2021), Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble (2018), the award-winning Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul (2015 - translations in Hebrew and Turkish), Homecoming: The Haiku Sessions (a live teaching from 2013), How it All Could Be: A workbook for dying people and those who love them (2009), Homecoming – The Haiku Sessions, and Angel and Executioner: Grief and the Love of Life – (a live teaching from 2009), and Money and The Soul’s Desires: A Meditation (2002). He was a contributing author to Palliative Care – Core Skills and Clinical Competencies (2007). Stephen Jenkinson is also the subject of Lost Nation Road (2019, dir. Ian Mackenzie) a short documentary on the crafting of the Nights of Grief and Mystery tours. 2023 World Tour schedule Read more about Stephen at orphanwisdom.com/about