Workshops & Retreats
Our Workshops & Retreats are open to all. Registration is required. We offer these programs on a fee-for-participation basis. No one is ever turned away due to inability to pay.
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A Day-Long Retreat at the Ocean
Saturday, November 14, 9:00 - 4:00 | Cedar Hill Retreat Center, Duxbury
Come spend the day at a beautiful retreat setting in Duxbury. In the morning, we’ll take a guided, meditative walk alongside cedar trees and the beach. Connect with yourself, with others, and with the natural world around us. Enjoy a lovingly home cooked lunch.
In the afternoon, guided mindfulness practice will invite us to consider “How do we know what we know?” We’ll explore the relationship between our own direct experiences (like walking alongside cedar trees, experiencing with our own bodies) and all the facts, stories, and traditions we encounter as we make our way through the world. How can mindfulness practice help us hold the tensions that come up between ourselves and the other beings with whom we share space? How might making simple connections, with what’s right around us, offer us support and insight?
No experience needed. If you’re new to mindfulness practice, you’ll find this an inviting and unique first-time experience. If you’ve practiced mindfully before, you’ll reconnect to something familiar and stretch in new directions.
Our Guides: Kirsten Snow, Certified Nature & Forest Therapy Guide; and Jonathan Pierce, M+ Executive Director. Learn more about our guides.
Cost: $150 per person / $120 M+ Members / $180 Benefactor
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Participation is limited to 20 people. -
Death Matters: Advanced Care and End-of Life Planning
This workshop will be rescheduled to winter 2027 with exact dates TBD. Please reach out if you would like to receive information about rescheduled dates.
Each session covers an essential aspect of care planning — and will help participants prepare to talk with loved ones about these important realities.
Topics include:
Advanced Directives and Health Care Proxies
Expenses: EOL at home, at Assisted Living, at Nursing Facilities
Family & Caregivers: Roles and Responsibilities
The Dying Process: Last Months, Weeks, Days, and what to expect
Working (or not) with a Funeral Home; Cremation vs. burial; memorial services and funerals
Grief & Self-Care
Facilitators: Danielle Burke, BSN, RN, CHPN, EOLD of Evermind Doula, LLC; and Jonathan Pierce, M.Div, M+ Executive Director, with support from other EOL Doulas. Learn more about the facilitators.
Cost: TBD
Participation is limited to 15 people.