​Join us for a webinar on the Jewish approach to preplanning for death with local experts, Holly Blue Hawkins and Sally Shannon. This webinar is designed for anyone who is interested in learning more about Jewish death practices: Jews and those who love them as well as professionals that might be in the role of supporting Jewish families at the end of life.

​When our loved ones, our clergy, and our doctors understand our values and what we want for ourselves near end-of-life, they and we are better equipped to make decisions that resonate with our desires. This webinar explores the Jewish approach to this important aspect of facing death.

​
Holly Blue Hawkins

​Holly Blue Hawkins is a Natural Deathcare advocate, educator, community organizer, cemeterian, author and poet. In 2022 she co-created and launched two twelve-module courses on the subject of Natural Burial: in partnership with Lee Webster The Green Burial Master Class; and with David Zinner Jewish And Green: Cemetery Management For The 21st Century. As Gamliel Institute graduate and past faculty, Final Passages graduate, member of the Conservation Burial Alliance, Rosha Chevrah Kadisha (Head of Jewish Burial Society), past member of the Board of Trustees of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of California and independent consultant; with over 40 years of experience in end-of-life subjects, Holly Blue provides education and training to both Jewish and secular audiences. She has visited countless natural burial sites from England to Hawai'i, presented at international conferences, trained home funeral guides, consulted with cemetery management and mortuary personnel, taught community college extension courses and is a passionate advocate for environmentally sustainable and culturally-sensitive burial practices.

​Sally Shannon

​Sally Shannon was awarded an M.A. in 1983 after completing her thesis “Dying, Loss and Grief; A Holistic Curriculum Development”. She interned at the first hospice in Boston Bay Area and studied with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross as part of her job at Interface; A Holistic Education Foundation. Sally’s studies for Jewish after-death care began with completing the courses at the Gamliel Institute. She also co-presented a track at the 2016 KvN in Austin, TX. She has participated in tahara teams at three different cemeteries and mortuaries and supported the first of many home taharah teams in the East Bay/SF Bay Area. She was guest faculty for the Gamliel Institute on that same topic. She frequently sits shomer as part of her local Chevrah Kadisha.

In the last decade, Sally has completed the Final Passages Home Funeral and Doula training and went on to teach with the founder, Jerrigrace Lyons. She continues to teach at the monthly community education webinars, most recently “Advance Health Care Planning, A Gift to Your Loved Ones” and “LBGTQIA+ Representation and Respect at End of Life”. Sally has assisted with and led home funeral care in many settings, including sudden deaths and Medical Aid in Dying. She loves coaching individuals and families who are doing their End of Life planning, and especially Advance Health Care Directives and POLST/MOLST. She’s created addenda to AHCD, most recently, an addendum for COVID in the early days of the pandemic. Her current private practice, Threshold Coaching and Consulting features health care planning and animal hospice/euthanisa and grief support.

​​​The slide deck and speaker notes from this webinar will be available to attendees. 

​See the Full JADE Webinar Schedule Here.

​If you would like to request a webinar for your community on this content presented by a JADE educator, please email david@jadeinfo.org.

​​​This event is made possible by our generous JADE donors. You can help too!

​ Donate Here