Dying to Live

“For too long we have waited until death to know who we are.” - Zach Bush

Join this day-long experience with Hannah Fowler, a Founding Director of the Center for Conscious Living & Dying and producer of The Last Ecstatic Days

Date: August 10th, 2025
Time: 10 am to 5 pm

This offering will include:

An experiential meditation from the time of an imagined diagnosis through the last breath, closing with a ritual of deeply honoring your life

A screening of The Last Ecstatic Days film and Q/A

Discussion about the paradigm-shifting community supported end of life care model

• A conversation about the movement that is helping restore the soul of modern day culture by remembering how to tend to death – at the end of our life and the many little “deaths” in life along the way
• How to care for each other in community
• How to carry the heart of this movement to your own community

Who is this for?

This experience is for anyone who feels called to it - there are no prerequisites or requirements. You may feel called to this if you are:

• Open to embracing death to live more fully
• Willing to consider relationships and dynamics in your life calling for healing
• Longing to remember meaning and connection amidst times of change and uncertainty
• Looking for a space to grieve the many soul losses we carry as modern day human beings
• Wanting greater capacity to be with the fullness of life and the multitude of joy and grief contained within it
• Curious about inspired ways for caring for yourself and your community before, during, and after the end of life journey
• An end of life doula, hospice, or palliative care provider wanting to deepen connections to the burgeoning community-supported end of life care model

This experience is very likely to bring up grief or “difficult emotions." If you are not willing to be present in that space, this may not be for you.

If you do attend, you are encouraged to participate to the extent you’re willing and able in a way that allows you to feel safe-enough as we navigate conversations and experiences about death and dying. Although this experience will illuminate vulnerabilities, it will also reveal a renewed sense of meaning, purpose, gratitude, and connection to yourself and life itself. It is a courageous act to turn toward death before we die so we can fully live. Although it may be challenging, the reward will also be great.

The Facilitator:

Hannah Fowler is one of the Founding Directors and Director of Education for the Center for Conscious Living & Dying (CCLD) in Asheville, NC. CCLD is a non-profit organization that practices ways to embrace death and support one another with loving presence. CCLD is more than an organization, it is a way of remembering that death is a part of life, and how our lives can be transformed when we embrace death before we die. Especially when we do so with love and in community. Before CCLD, Hannah was a producer of The Last Ecstatic Days film, the origin story of the Center. Hannah is a hospice nurse, end of life doula, healer, and educator who brings conscious living and dying practices to organizations and communities around the world. Hannah is dedicated to creating learning environments and community cultures that allow for the integration of the shadow and the light, life and death both, in order to live more presently.