Panelists: Rev. Peter Panagore, panelist– to be announced, Father Joe Daniels, Deborah Pfeffer and moderator Kandyce Powell. The panelists represent Protestant, Judaism, Roman Catholic, and Buddhist faiths. The morning panel discussion will address how each represented belief system impacts the final illness, the dying and the funeral. The afternoon panel presentation will discuss the bereavement period in the same manner. Bring your questions.

This workshop is a time for hands on crafting of spiritual symbols. The Tibetan Prayer Flag uses prayer symbols that are printed on material & fastened together to hang outside. As they blow in the wind they send peace and prayers around the world. You will also have the opportunity to make & fashion your own prayer beads, following a particular pattern of ancient prayer, or your own spiritual pattern of prayer.

Join Hospice volunteer/dancer/dance educator, Nancy Salmon, in a gentle workshop of moving together. Drawing on her experience in dance, yoga, and meditation and choreography with people of all ages and abilities Nancy will lead us to investigate how movement helps us listen to, and hear, our own hearts and connect to the spiritual energy of the universe. Stretch, bend, wiggle, giggle and sigh as we investigate movement that moves our souls, opens our hearts and connects us to each other.

Rituals, ceremonies and celebrations are powerful ways to mark and give meaning to significant changes, passages and losses in our lives. In this workshop, we'll explore the elements of ritual---setting (or place), music, poetry, readings from spiritual teachers and texts, stories to honor people we have lost or changes we have made---and how make them personally rich and meaningful. Come with a journal and an idea for a ritual you might like to create for yourself or another person. If there's time, we'll apply some of these elements to your own ritual.