Karen Reppen works with hospice, and facilitates workshops and classes around death, dying and bereavement. She works with Steve Spiro in A Light in the Night, a small group of facilitators focused on creating experiences and interactions for those wishing to deal with death and dying. She’s also part of a Madison, WI group called The Great Circle Collaborative, which hosts community conversations on death and dying.
You can hear Karen's interview with Anne Strainchamps in Death: The Last Moment. Karen has put together the following list of resources she recommend for people who are dealing with grief.
From Roshi Joan Halifax and Upaya Zen Center
- Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death - This includes her contemplative practices and teachings including meditation practices for people who are dying and their caregivers which can be obtained in print and as an audio book.
From Thomas Lynch
- The Good Funeral: Death Grief, and the Community of Care
- The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
From Kathleen Dowling Singh
From Stephen Levine
From Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD
From Stephen Jenkinson and the Orphan Wisdom School
- Angel and Executioner: Grief and the Love of Life (CD)
- And finally, Griefwalker, a film about Stephen and his approach to living and dying, produced by Tim Wilson, which you can watch below: