The Open Door Death Café
• – • New York, 10022
About this Club
This Open Door Death Café will provide a comfortable atmosphere where we can share open, heartfelt, and thought-provoking conversations on death, dying, grief, and loss.
A Death Café is not a grief support nor counseling session but a space for normalizing conversation that deepens our awareness about death.
Join us in a judgment-free environment where participants can share beliefs, questions, and curiosities, learn, and connect with others. We’ll enjoy delicious cake and conversation, and we will go wherever the conversation takes us.
✨WHAT TO EXPECT
Our principles are that Death Cafes are always offered:✔️ As an open, respectful and confidential space where people can express their views safely.
✔️ With no intention of leading participants to any conclusion, product or course of action.
✔️ Death Cafes aren’t an opportunity to give people information about death and dying - regardless of how good or important it is. Rather we create time to discuss death without expectations.
🎒WHAT TO KNOW OR BRING
✔️ A cuppa joe or tea, I’ll bring the cake.🍿 BYO SNACKS
We keep Clubs as free as possible to make sure anyone can attend. YAY! And… as a result, club hosts are carrying a lot of the financial weight of something like SNACKS. We know that snacks make any gathering so much fun… so we’re trying something new.👋 If you’re a snack fan, and you’d like to contribute, please bring a snack to share with your fellow Club goers. Nothing fancy. Just something that delights you. That’s it. See you there!
⏰ CLUB START TIME
We offer a 10-minute “Window of Arrival” time where you can get settled, share snacks, sign in, and chat with one another.👉 For example…If your Club start time is 1:00pm Expect to get things going around 1:10pm.
👉 We offer this flex window because we know folks are coming from many different places around town. With that said, please try your best to arrive before 10 minutes past the start time as the activities will be getting started then!
ABOUT YOUR HOST
I am a contemplative chaplain, practicing Buddhist, graphic facilitator, artist, visual storyteller, and storycatcher specializing in death literacy and end-of-life planning. My passion/work includes facilitating conversations about appreciating our lives, gratitude, death, dying, grief and loss.
Hosting a Death Cafe is another way in which I can contribute to the Death Positive movement—normalizing conversations about death and dying. My goal as Death Cafe host is 'to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives’. (https://deathcafe.com/what/) In truly understanding our mortality, we can focus on living our lives more fully every day.
