Events
ABODE Academy 6

ABODE Academy 6

ABODE Academy 6 is all about grief – how we can plan and prepare for it and how we move through it – whether it be our sadness for the loss of our loved ones or our loved ones’ sadness for, well, the loss of us!

Join us for five complimentary sessions (via Zoom) on this basic human emotion and ways we can make the most of our grief.
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Annual Spring Art Show and Sale

Annual Spring Art Show and Sale

Ready to add a signed, original Terry Gay Puckett to your art collection? Then don’t miss ABODE’s Annual Spring Art Show and Sale. Join us at Brown Hall, Church of Reconciliation, 8900 Starcrest Dr., for our two events: Saturday, May 6: Opening Reception with Silent...

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Powerful Tools for Caregivers

Powerful Tools for Caregivers

Powerful Tools for Caregivers classes help caregivers take better care of themselves while caring for a friend or relative. Join us and learn the tools and strategies that will help you better handle the unique caregiver challenges you face.
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Pull Up a Chair Dinner: Aromatherapy for Compassionate Care

Pull Up a Chair Dinner: Aromatherapy for Compassionate Care

Aromatherapy for Compassionate Care, featuring Lyn Belisle and Dr. William E. Kurtin. Join us 5-7:30 pm, Thursday, Feb. 9, in Brown Hall at the Church of Reconciliation for this lovely presentation followed by dinner catered by Frankie Boone with festive libations from Scout & Cellar.
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ABODE Book Club and Study Group

ABODE Book Club and Study Group

Looking for a good book to read during the holidays? ABODE’s International Book Club and Study Group starts Tuesday, Jan. 24. Join us 6:30-7:30 p.m., via Zoom. We’ll read and discuss When Breath Becomes Air, a New York Times No. 1 Bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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Making Your Grief Count with Emily Davis

Making Your Grief Count with Emily Davis

We are delighted to partner with Porter Loring Mortuaries for Making Your Grief Count, an eight-week grief support group that will meet 11:30 am-1 pm, each Tuesday from Jan. 24 until March 14. We'll meet at ABODE, 8619 Post Oak Lane.
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Speakers Bureau

Speakers Bureau

Looking for an expert on end of life topics? Whether you're in need of a speaker/panelist or a source for your news story or report, we can help.
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Drum Circle

Drum Circle

Here’s something new and contemplative at ABODE! At 4 pm the second Saturday of the month, Mario Aguirre and Edwin Sasek lead us in a Contemplative Drum Circle right in our backyard! So bring your drum and join in.

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Death Cafe

Death Cafe

Death Cafe is a discussion group – we welcome free-form conversation about death, whatever that means to the people in the room. There are no agendas, objectives or themes – and we are not a grief support group or educational meeting. Nothing is sold, taught or recruited for. We simply gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. Our objective is to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their lives.

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Healing Holidays, Making Your Grief Count

Healing Holidays, Making Your Grief Count

Grief during the holidays is always challenging, and even more so in this past year. This workshop will help identify internal and external resources that contribute to self-compassion and enhance resiliency. It will help families embrace their grief, while strengthening characteristics of resilience. Participants will use the holidays to discover how their loved one can live on into their life story, using this special time to continue to heal.

6-8 pm, Tuesday, Dec. 13
ABODE
8619 Post Oak Lane

Facilitated by Edwin Sasek, ABODE Co-Founder.
Sponsored by ABODE and Porter Loring Mortuaries & Cremation Services.

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