An intimate gathering to circle in courage, compassion and community.
May we ready ourselves for our dying with as much mindfulness
and purpose as the life we have lived.
Writing your Spiritual Care Directive
A Buddhist Plan for the Time of Dying
Intensive 1 Day Workshop
Live Online Group Session
April 19th, 2025
* * * * THIS IS A ONE DAY CONDENSED VERSION OF A 9 WEEK PROGRAM * * * * * *
This group offering will be presented from a Tibetan Buddhist perspective inviting a unique conversation and exploration in planning and training as a practitioner for the time of dying.
Using a 10 part comprehensive template, called a Spiritual Care Directive, we will start with creating a Dharma Vision and journey all the way through the 49 days following death.
This process is designed to help you write down your wishes and reflections as an act of kindness for ourselves and others.
In preparing for dying and death, we deepen and clarify our daily practice and inspire the lives we live.
As a group we will explore topics, ideas and aspirations in such a way that we seek out specific instructions from our own teachers and lineage traditions. As we may be coming from different lineages and different levels of practice, the course will offer structure and planning to be personalized by each practitioner.
As an End of Life Coach, I am here not as a teacher of the dharma, but as a gatherer of dharma friends to hold safe space to share, inspire, and develop community on the topic of dying.
Meet your End of Life Coach -Rhonda LoPresti
As an End of Life Coach, I am passionate in holding and creating sacred space, personal ritual, spiritual practice and creative choices through dying and deathcare. I believe we can learn to die and in learning to die we actually awaken to life itself.
Founder of Peacefully Prepared, I have evolved a Spiritual Care Directive for Buddhists. This 10-part personalized process guides clients in planning out their end of life practice from their Dharma Vision all the way through to the 49 Days following death. I also encourage end of life wishes and planning in my 5 chapter notebook called a Passing Plan. These spiritual and practical processes are an act of self-love in preparing for end of life and an act of kindness to ease the grief and stress of your loved ones. Continuously serving and raising awareness about the home funeral option, I also support clients in applying their spiritual practices and create auspicious conditions at the time of death. Having performed home funerals for my own family as well as clients, I am passionate about exploring and providing resources for this treasured process.
I have been a student of Tibetan Buddhist for over 35 years and serve as a Board and Volunteer Member for Rangjung Yeshe Gomde California (RYG CA). I have had the honor of developing a dying and death program for practitioners and give group talks annually. I respect the work of many Tibetan and Western Buddhist teachers and routinely seek retreat, teachings and workshops for meditation in preparation for death. It has been an honor to hold space for practitioners at RYG CA and at Tara Mandala, CO, in planning for dying by “Writing your Spiritual Care Directive for Buddhists”.
A native resident of San Diego, California, I live life with my husband and two children.
"Peacefully Prepared helped me come to terms with my passing and guided me through every step of the process of preparing. Rhonda has spent years gathering the materials, prayers and blessings to help us feel ready to release fully when the time comes. She covered both the mundane and spiritual aspects and helped me put my mind at ease knowing that my loose ends are tied up and my loved ones will not be burdened."
~ Stephen B.
"Working with Rhonda LoPresti on my end of life planning documents and my spiritual plan has been a real joy and of great benefit to me and my family. Having this binder completed with all my pertinent information as well as my spiritual directive has been such a comfort. I know things are taken care of! Having worked through my Father’s and my Partner’s death with no documents really made me realize how important making your wishes known are to the people you love. Rhonda is so skillful, helpful, and truly great at what she does. I can’t recommend her enough!"
~ Joanne B.
"I know first-hand of Rhonda's expertise as she gently navigated me through my grief and mourning process. Rhonda coaches from the heart. Her openness and unique skillset give her the ability to extraordinarily guide clients in navigating the process of end of life planning, grief, and mourning the loss of a loved one. I highly recommend Rhonda and feel blessed to have had her presence in my time of need."
~ Sandra V
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