Amidst life comes death.
It is quite predictable.
Even so, it is easy to avoid preparing for death - either our own or our loved ones. To even know what ‘preparation’ might mean. Confusion and overwhelm are common.
Join us to ease out of the common trap of avoidance and denial, and move into inquiry, engagement, and practical actions!
Preparing for End-Of-Life
for yourself and your loved ones
Time, Estates, Land, and Death: Sacred time between worlds
Course starts on October 13, 2026 - 1 pm ET
Infowebinar on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 1 pm to 2:15 pm ET
Compassionate accountability. A caring structure. Existential and practical questions. Lightness in the midst of hard things. Uplifting the sacred - and the mundane.
Support in going in between worlds - between paperwork and the multi-dimensional nature of reality.
Between practical engagement and existential questions.
Between yourself and your ancestors.
For yourself and for your loved ones.
This course is designed in three separate segments over three seasons - Fall, Winter, and Spring - with three classes in each segment. You can participate in one, two, or all three segments.
This course is for you if you are:
✅ Actively caretaking for someone who is nearing the end of their life and/or if you are preparing for your own end-of-life. We actively support both.
✅ An adult, regardless of your age. (ie - many people in their 20s and 30s find themselves needing to engage in these topics)
✅ Are in a leadership position/founder of your own organization that needs succession planning
✅ Interested in being part of a community engaging in these issues
✅ Interested in workshop-style classes AND some of the more existential questions
✅ Interested in big picture questions - such as the relationship between reparations and preparations; the way that preparing for end-of-life overlaps with disaster preparedness
✅ Want to save time, money, and stress - for yourself and for your loved ones
✅ Are interested in participatory style forms of learning
✅ You have a sense of humor and appreciate laughing about sometimes morbid things!
This course is NOT:
❌ Preparing for End-of-Life is an educational and reflective course. It does not provide legal, medical, financial, tax, or mental health advice, and it is not a substitute for consulting a licensed professional about your own situation. Laws on wills, trusts, health directives, and powers of attorney vary by state and country. Any decisions you make are your own. Certain decisions might benefit from consulting a qualified attorney, healthcare provider, or financial advisor.
❌ A grief therapy group. We do expect that strong emotions will arise and we are creating this container appropriately
❌ Estate planning, though it can support that larger process
❌ Teachings on Indigenous ceremonies about death or preparing to die.
❌ While we do discuss death rituals, this is not an anthropological course offering an extensive overview of death rituals from around the world.
Part I:
October 13, 20, 27
Session 1. Introduction - Time transitions, Bodies, Land and our approach to Preparing To Die
Session 2. Bodies and Papers
Health Directives and Power of Attorney
House/ Trusts, Estates, heirlooms (1): the agency of land and objects in modern society
Insights that we have gained that we think will be helpful for you
Session 3. Rooting Community/Social Care in Place
Working with and through community/social care
What are the geographies that you and/or your people are engaging in, and what difference does this make?
Land and Ancestors
Creating your plan for the next few months
Part II:
October 13, 20, 27, 2026
This segment includes a guest lecture by Rachel Hill (from the Tuscarora Nation; she is the founder of Many Rivers Law) on estate planning and land justice.
Session 1: Introduction and re-cap (including a ‘connecting the dots’ audio overview of the previous Segment)
Session 2. Intergenerational Stewardship and Inquiring into multiple dimensions of legacy
Land, Wills, and planned gifts
Heirlooms, clothing, and treasures old and new Seasons of edge walking
Inquiry about what really matters to you in the time that you have here
Death Rituals
Session 3. Seasons of edge walking
Inquiry about what really matters to you in the time that you have here
Death Rituals
Holding on and Releasing
Creating plans for the next few months
Part III:
May 4, 11, 13, 2027
1. Introduction and Re-cap (constellation audio)
Fuller content to be developed based on what emerges in the Fall and Winter segments. We know that we will be covering:
Digital spaces, phones, and different forms of communications
Frozen Terrains
Final class: what is left undone - practical and existential questions
Working and living in between worlds.
Where this course comes from:
In April 2025, Kristine Hill (a member of the Tuscarora Nation) lost two important people in her immediate family. Her community’s traditions and care carried her through the horrific experience of this loss. However, almost immediately, the paperwork and other forms of practical work related to the estates of both people took much of her time and attention. She began to develop a framework around approaching this practical work within the larger context of the interconnectedness of Time, Land and Death, and realized how much people need to be engaging with this preparatory work far more than they actually do.
Sara Jolena, as Kristine’s partner, both accompanied her during this process and collaborated in developing this framework. During 2025, she lost six important people in her life and participated in (or helped guide) their memorial services, which has informed her work in creating a guide for eco-spiritual and animist approaches to memorial services, as well as other forms of life transition. She finds that working actively with death reveals much about life, from better understanding social structures to ‘what matters’.
Together, Kristine and Sara Jolena are offering this course to support others in the practical and existential work of thinking about and actively preparing for death. We recognize that doing so is working with the sacred times between worlds - between this world and the next world. And it also entails engaging with the long legacies of colonization and living in a society wherein most of us are deeply tangled in various institutional and digital worlds.
Join the course in one, two, or all three parts.
Each segment includes practical worksheets, audio recordings, reflection questions, and curated resources to support multiple forms of preparation.
Online sessions are highly participatory; we know there is a lot of knowledge that already exists in the circle, and will encourage you to share your experiences and pre-existing resources. All sessions are recorded for registered participants only. Please note that we do request confidentiality, as participants will be sharing sensitive information!
Each zoom session will run for 75 minutes. We estimate there will be between 45-60 minutes of “homework” each week, with optional assignments that might take longer depending on what you are focusing on.
Part I:
October 13, 20, 27
Session 1. Introduction - Time transitions, Bodies, Land and our approach to Preparing To Die
Session 2. Bodies and Papers
Health Directives and Power of Attorney
House/ Trusts, Estates, heirlooms (1): the agency of land and objects in modern society
Insights that we have gained that we think will be helpful for you
Session 3. Rooting Community/Social Care in Place
Working with and through community/social care
What are the geographies that you and/or your people are engaging in, and what difference does this make?
Land and Ancestors
Creating your plan for the next few months
Part II:
February 9, 16, 23
This segment includes a guest lecture by Rachel Hill (from the Tuscarora Nation; she is the founder of Many Rivers Law) on estate planning and land justice.
Session 1: Introduction and re-cap (including a ‘connecting the dots’ audio overview of the previous Segment)
Session 2. Intergenerational Stewardship and Inquiring into multiple dimensions of legacy
Land, Wills, and planned gifts
Heirlooms, clothing, and treasures old and new Seasons of edge walking
Inquiry about what really matters to you in the time that you have here
Death Rituals
Session 3. Seasons of edge walking
Inquiry about what really matters to you in the time that you have here
Death Rituals
Holding on and Releasing
Creating plans for the next few months
Part III:
May 4, 11, 13, 2027
1. Introduction and Re-cap (constellation audio)
Fuller content to be developed based on what emerges in the Fall and Winter segments. We know that we will be covering:
Digital spaces, phones, and different forms of communications
Frozen Terrains
Final class: what is left undone - practical and existential questions
Working and living in between worlds.
Financial energy exchange
We always offer a sliding scale.
When you go to register you will be able to choose which of the three segments and where on the sliding scale you would like to contribute. We always offer a lot of energy and resources into our courses, and we encourage generosity.
As we are very small company, all sales are final.
Each Seasonal Segment:
$145 – $375 per part
All Three Segments (Bundled approach):
$380 – $900
(Save up to $225 when you sign up for all three segments)
Your Guides
Kristine Marie Hill and Rev Sara Jolena Wolcott have been co-teaching online courses, co-facilitating workshops and rituals, and generally co-creating for over five years.
Participants generally say that their joint pedagogical style is powerful, encouraging, highly engaging, filled with laughter, and mutual care.
Your Guides
Kristine Marie Hill and Rev Sara Jolena Wolcott have been co-teaching online courses, co-facilitating workshops and rituals, and generally co-creating for over five years.
Participants generally say that their joint pedagogical style is powerful, encouraging, highly engaging, filled with laughter, and mutual care.
Rev. Sara Jolena Wolcott, M.Div., founded and directs the eco-theology initiative Sequoia Samanvaya. For the last nine years, she has served leaders called forth by Earth in these precarious times at the intersections of climate change, spirituality, decolonization, and time. This includes developing tools, theologies, stories, myths, and rituals around circular/spiraling time as key to eco-spirituality. As a spiritual director, she accompanies people in deepening into their own creative selves as we individually and collectively go in between worlds, including in times of great loss and transformation. Prior to fully engaging in ministry, she worked in international development in over nine countries, which showed her that the multi-crises is fundamentally a spiritual and cultural challenge. Whilst pursuing her life-long call to ministry via Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, she learned the importance of re-originating the story of climate change into the Doctrine of Discovery/colonization (and the European witch hunts); this became her M.Div. thesis and the foundation of her online course, the ReMembering Course, and led her to start Sequoia Samanvaya after graduating from the Seminary in 2017.
Kristine Marie Hill is a member of the Beaver Clan, Tuscarora Nation, Haudenosaunee Confederacy. She has worked in education, administration, financial management, and restorative justice on and off the Tuscarora nation in western New York for 20 years. In 2020, she started working and living away from her own peoples’ lands, contributing to the wider space as an Indigenous peacemaker, restorative practitioner, team elder, financial manager, program developer, and all-around wise Auntie to many different people. She brings decades of experience as a circle keeper to this work. She recently started Strawberry Wisdom, a non-profit engaged in heart-centered healing with a focus on supporting the Tuscarora Peoples and Peoples in interconnecting circles. She currently lives on the historical eastern door of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, in Mohican/Mahican homelands, in what is now called the Hudson Valley in New York with her partner. The mother of four children, she enjoys resting, spending time with her family (especially her two grandchildren), listening to and being with land and waters, and fire.
Preparing for End-Of-Life
INFOWEBINAR
Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 1 pm to 2:15 pm ET
