In the end, just three things matter: How well have have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go. ~ Jack Kornfield

One on one End of Life Coaching

Death Doula & Vigil Services

Family Care Team Facilitation

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The process of dying is a very active experience physically as well as, emotionally, psychically, and spiritually. An end of life coach is a uniquely trained and experienced partner for a dying individual, caregivers and family members of a dying individual. End of life coaching connects individuals and families with such key resources as:

Grief and estate management support
Death plan creation and communications
Family care team formation and facilitation
Legacy project creation and implementation
Key mindfulness-based strategies for the dying process
Vigil and end of life doula services
Memorial ceremony planning and services

Danna, Family Care Team Member & Vigil Thresholder

One on one End of Life Coaching

At Thresholding, we have witnessed the profound impact having a coaching companion has on the dying person’s communication of their end of life preferences and how this clearly articulated vision nurtures their loved ones and family care team members through their grief and beyond.

Thresholding End-of-Life Coach Leigh Ann Roberts is an International End-of-Life Doula Association (INELDA) trained Death Doula and founding contributor to The Dying Well Project, a world-wide community of end-of-life professionals working to create a more death-competent culture. For centuries, death doulas have sat with and companioned the dying and their families to ease the dying process. Thresholding continues this doula legacy of wisdom and timeless technology by offering compassionate and unflinching support during the final stage of death through both in person and virtual vigil services.

Death Doula & Vigil Services

When someone actively begins their dying process, families often arrange “vigils” or intentional visits between the dying person and members of their trusted community. Ideally, great care is taken to protect the healing power of these important ceremonies for the dying and their future bereaved. Thresholding provides sensitive and skilled facilitation and support around vigils that take place either in person or virtually when being with the dying person physically isn’t possible or within their care plan. Contact Thresholding today to find out more about end of life facilitation support.

Family Care Team Facilitation

With over 20 years of experience as a high-conflict mediator, an executive trainer of conflict resolution and a health-care, workplace team facilitator, Leigh Ann Roberts brings tried-and-true best practices to facilitating family care teams during the end of life process. Professionals agree that effective conversations about death and dying with families require skilled guidance and advanced facilitation and conflict resolution skills. Leigh Ann brings her years of experience with groups and individuals to facilitate the conversations crucial for implementing a dying person’s legacy and end-of-life wishes. In addition to providing skilled companioning for the dying, Thresholding offers quality facilitation and decision-making support to caregivers and community members. Each participant receives guidance and mentoring with regard to how they best support their dying community member while also strengthening their own relationship with the death and dying process. Contact Thresholding today to find out more about end of life facilitation support.

Family Care Team Facilitation and Vigil Support

When a person actively begins their dying process, families and communities often arrange “vigils” or intentional visits between the dying person and members of their trusted and beloved community. Ideally, great care and intentionality is taken to protect the healing power of these important ceremonies for the dying and the bereaved. Thresholding provides sensitive and skilled facilitation and support around vigils that take place either in person or virtually when being with the dying person physically isn’t possible or within their care plan. Contact Thresholding today to find out more about facilitation support.

What others are saying about their Thresholding experience...

"Leigh Ann, at Thresholding, was a very calming presence not only for our dying family member but also for our family care team. She provided insight, team bonding, and clear direction. Most importantly, she was the epitome of loving kindness and compassion. Leigh Ann’s referrals for finding key service providers and resources were spot on and her advice was solid. She was a great source of comfort to my dear friend and his family, and I am grateful to her for being there and for all the many ways in which having a Thresholding facilitator made a difference."

Bill- Estate Executor and Family Care Team Member

"Recently, I have had the pleasure of working in a group facilitated by Leigh Ann. I have been so impressed by Leigh Ann's skill in creating a space that feels safe. She sets you at ease immediately. She paces the meetings well so that there is time for all the things that need to be covered. Everyone is offered an opportunity to be heard. I have spent time in many meetings, especially remote meetings in the last year and a half, and these have been some of my favorite experiences to date. When the meeting is over, I feel heard, supported, and my mood is elevated. I am grateful for her leadership and the container she creates to hold space for us all."

Jess- End of Life Doula and Grief Professional

“During our loved one's final days, Leigh Ann’s skillfulness and presence created a container of assurance and calm proving invaluable. She helped our family care team transition from a doing mode to a quality of being that facilitated a more peaceful and loving transition for our family member. Dying well is possible with someone like Leigh Ann at Thresholding shepherding a tranquil empowering experience for all involved.”

- Ella H., Family Care Team Member

"Grief is so overwhelming. I am so grateful to Leigh Ann for helping me navigate the feelings of loss I was experiencing around the decline of my loved one's health. Leigh Ann helped me to make sense of what I was feeling and to understand the best way to move through the toughest time of my life. Her guidance and partnership allowed me to be of service to my family and say goodbye with grace."

- Ashiya Swannfamily member, facilitator and educator

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals who can go at it alone. ~ Margaret Wheatley

I carry your heart with me, I carry it in my heart. I am never without it. Anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling. I fear no fate, for you are my fate, my sweet. I want no world, for beautiful you are my world, my true, and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you. Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide, and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart. I carry your heart, I carry it in my heart. ~ E.E. Cummings

If I have harmed anyone in any way either knowingly or unknowingly through my own confusions I ask their forgiveness. If anyone has harmed me in any way either knowingly or unknowingly through their own confusions I forgive them. And if there is a situation I am not yet ready to forgive I forgive myself for that. For all the ways that I harm myself, negate, doubt, belittle myself, judge or be unkind to myself through my own confusions. ~ Buddhist Prayer of Forgiveness

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now. ~ Pema Chodron

We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been - a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free. ~ Starhawk

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