What we’re about
Date with Death Club is an opportunity to explore mortality in community. Through educational discussions, conversation, and reflection, you will have space and support to learn, share, and deepen your own understanding of what death means to you and how you want to approach death — particularly your own.
Informed by spiritual sensibilities, DwDC has no specific religious dogma. The DwDC concept, branding, curriculum, and the slides we will use in the program were created by Karen G. Johnston, MSW, M.Div. To learn more about DwDC and Karen G. Johnston’s work, please see https://datewithdeathclub.com/
Date with Death Clubs are developing around the country - both online and in person. This DwDC is hosted by First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist, located on the land of the Massachusett and Pawtucket peoples, currently known as the neighborhood of Jamaica Plain in the city of Boston.
Designed as a multi-session learning experience, DwDC invites participants to attend one, many, or all of the offered sessions. Each session has been developed with an intentional anti-oppression approach and with a strong pedagogical container to help create the necessary safe[r], brave[r] space for best exploration.
DwDC is not a bereavement or grief support group. While it may be healing of the human condition, the nature of the DwDC is not specifically therapeutic.
Sessions will take place online via Zoom, starting at 2:00 pm Eastern on select Sundays, and will typically run about 2.5 hours long. Sessions will be facilitated by First Church JP’s resident death doula, Minda Sanchez Jariwala, with support from Rev. Elizabeth Bukey Saunter. The Zoom link and other information will be sent to pre-registered participants prior to each session date. To register, click here.
All sessions are free of charge. Participants are welcome to make donations to the group sponsor -- First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist -- but donations are not required to participate.