TOPIC: Writing Our Own Obituary Workshop

DATE: Thursday, June 18th

WHEN: 3-4 pm ET

WHERE: Virtual Zoom Meetings

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Get to know others in your INELDA doula community through small member groups, introduction to new tools and approaches, and shared stories. Bring your joys, fears, excitement, and curiosity. The meetups will be varied in style and include connecting in breakout groups, partner and member presentations, self-care offerings, and opportunities to practice your doula approach.

About this month’s meetup:

How do we want to be remembered, and what do or don’t want shared about ourselves after death? Join us with guest Ned Buskirk, creative writer and founder of You’re Going to Die in this hands-on writing workshop and conversation to write our own obituaries. We will consider our own mortality and use this experience to imagine how to support those we doula to write their obituaries.

Learn more about our guest Ned Buskirk and his non-profit You’re Going to Die:

In the upheaval of his mother’s death at 26, Ned Buskirk quit a promising career in business and moved to San Francisco, where he founded You’re Going to Die (YG2D), a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to bringing diverse communities into the conversation of death and dying in a creative way. YG2D offers a free creatively conscious mortality podcast, monthly live communal grief and gratitude open mics, medicinal community concerts, and grief and gratitude writing workshops.

YG2D’s hospice and music program, SONGS FOR LIFE, sends musicians to play for the dying, inspiring original songs honoring their lives and deaths. Buskirk also facilitates creative space for cancer patients with UCSF’s Art for Recovery, with workshops online and at the hospital bedside, offering a chance for healing through creative self-expression and witnessing that lets the patient be wholly and fully witnessed while facing what is often the hardest time of their lives.

Each meetup will be held for 1 hour via Zoom and led by an INELDA team member. We will meet on the 3rd Thursday of each month.

Our hour together may include a welcome ritual, interactive activities in break-out rooms to share, and collective reflection, so come ready to engage.

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TOPIC: TBD

DATE: Thursday, July 16th

WHEN: 3-4 pm ET

WHERE: Virtual Zoom Meetings

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Get to know others in your INELDA doula community through small member groups, introduction to new tools and approaches, and shared stories. Bring your joys, fears, excitement, and curiosity. The meetups will be varied in style and include connecting in breakout groups, partner and member presentations, self-care offerings, and opportunities to practice your doula approach.

About this month’s meetup:

Check back soon for this month’s topic

Each meetup will be held for 1 hour via Zoom and led by an INELDA team member. We will meet on the 3rd Thursday of each month.

Our hour together will include a welcome ritual, interactive activities in break-out rooms to share, and collective reflection, so come ready to engage.

Members can register for Community Meetups by clicking the button below.

*by registering for the Community Meetup group, you will receive access to recurring Zoom meetings and a reminder email on the day of the event. You will only have to register once. 

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TOPIC: Death and Money

DATE: Thursday, August 20th

WHEN: 3-4 pm ET

WHERE: Virtual Zoom Meetings

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Get to know others in your INELDA doula community through small member groups, introduction to new tools and approaches, and shared stories. Bring your joys, fears, excitement, and curiosity. The meetups will be varied in style and include connecting in breakout groups, partner and member presentations, self-care offerings, and opportunities to practice your doula approach.

About this month’s meetup:

Join INELDA doula Rose Zealand, founder of Golden Thread, who will guide us through a conversation at the intersection of money, meaning, and mortality.  

Each meetup will be held for 1 hour via Zoom and led by an INELDA team member. We will meet on the 3rd Thursday of each month.

Our hour together will include a welcome ritual, interactive activities in break-out rooms to share, and collective reflection, so come ready to engage.

Members can register for Community Meetups by clicking the button below.

*by registering for the Community Meetup group, you will receive access to recurring Zoom meetings and a reminder email on the day of the event. You will only have to register once. 

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TOPIC: VSED Film Screening of The Cheryl Hauser Effect and Conversation with Producer and Doula Wendy Brown

DATE: Thursday, September 17th, 2026

WHEN: 3-4 pm ET

WHERE: Virtual Zoom Meetings

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Get to know others in your INELDA doula community through small member groups, introduction to new tools and approaches, and shared stories. Bring your joys, fears, excitement, and curiosity. The meetups will be varied in style and include connecting in breakout groups, partner and member presentations, self-care offerings, and opportunities to practice your doula approach.

About this month’s meetup:

Join us with Wendy Brown, INELDA doula and film producer of The Cheryl Hauser Effect for a film screening and conversation for doulas supporting clients choosing VSED. 

Each meetup will be held for 1 hour via Zoom and led by an INELDA team member. We will meet on the 3rd Thursday of each month.

Our hour together will include a welcome ritual, interactive activities in break-out rooms to share, and collective reflection, so come ready to engage.

Members can register for Community Meetups by clicking the button below.

*by registering for the Community Meetup group, you will receive access to recurring Zoom meetings and a reminder email on the day of the event. You will only have to register once. 

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TOPIC: TBD

DATE: Thursday, October 15th, 2026

WHEN: 3-4 pm ET

WHERE: Virtual Zoom Meetings

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Get to know others in your INELDA doula community through small member groups, introduction to new tools and approaches, and shared stories. Bring your joys, fears, excitement, and curiosity. The meetups will be varied in style and include connecting in breakout groups, partner and member presentations, self-care offerings, and opportunities to practice your doula approach.

About this month’s meetup:

Check back soon for this month’s topi

Each meetup will be held for 1 hour via Zoom and led by an INELDA team member. We will meet on the 3rd Thursday of each month.

Our hour together will include a welcome ritual, interactive activities in break-out rooms to share, and collective reflection, so come ready to engage.

Members can register for Community Meetups by clicking the button below.

*by registering for the Community Meetup group, you will receive access to recurring Zoom meetings and a reminder email on the day of the event. You will only have to register once. 

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TOPIC: Conversations with Doula Collectives

DATE: Thursday, November 19th, 2026

WHEN: 3-4 pm ET

WHERE: Virtual Zoom Meetings

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Get to know others in your INELDA doula community through small member groups, introduction to new tools and approaches, and shared stories. Bring your joys, fears, excitement, and curiosity. The meetups will be varied in style and include connecting in breakout groups, partner and member presentations, self-care offerings, and opportunities to practice your doula approach.

About this month’s meetup:

Join us with founders of End-of-Life Doula Collectives to hear the stories of their beginnings and how they have evolved. Bring your curiosity and questions and leave inspired. 

Each meetup will be held for 1 hour via Zoom and led by an INELDA team member. We will meet on the 3rd Thursday of each month.

Our hour together will include a welcome ritual, interactive activities in break-out rooms to share, and collective reflection, so come ready to engage.

Members can register for Community Meetups by clicking the button below.

*by registering for the Community Meetup group, you will receive access to recurring Zoom meetings and a reminder email on the day of the event. You will only have to register once. 

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TOPIC: Honoring Our Year with Mandala Ritual

DATE: Thursday, December 17th, 2026

WHEN: 3-4 pm ET

WHERE: Virtual Zoom Meetings

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Get to know others in your INELDA doula community through small member groups, introduction to new tools and approaches, and shared stories. Bring your joys, fears, excitement, and curiosity. The meetups will be varied in style and include connecting in breakout groups, partner and member presentations, self-care offerings, and opportunities to practice your doula approach.

About this month’s meetup:

Crystal Flores, INELDA Doula of The Grateful Death, invites us into her ritual of creating botanical mandalas as a way to reflect and celebrate our year. Bring natural materials like flowers, plants, leaves, stones, twigs if you want to create your own, or simply enjoy watching Crystal create our communal mandala. 

Each meetup will be held for 1 hour via Zoom and led by an INELDA team member. We will meet on the 3rd Thursday of each month.

Our hour together will include a welcome ritual, interactive activities in break-out rooms to share, and collective reflection, so come ready to engage.

Members can register for Community Meetups by clicking the button below.

*by registering for the Community Meetup group, you will receive access to recurring Zoom meetings and a reminder email on the day of the event. You will only have to register once. 

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