Christine Hiester is a spiritual companion, supervisor, and grief companion; a retreat leader, teacher, and creative. A native of the Christian contemplative tradition, a lover of Taoist and Buddhist practice, and deeply reverent of all wisdom traditions.

Christine offers Soul Companioning, offering a place where your most authentic and whole Self has room to emerge and grow. At its most nourishing, the companioning relationship provides both a felt experience of safety and an invitation to growth, using questions, creative and contemplative practices, and a compassionate listening presence. Spiritual companionship is a form of community, a place where your soul is most welcomed, a place where relationship and awareness of Divine Compassion in daily life is nurtured.

https://www.shapingtheriver.com/about

Courtney Ronca is a hypnosis and healing arts practitioner. She has a background in grief education, companionship, and mortuary science. Courtney combines her experience in deathcare, grief and healing arts to help those navigating significant moments of transition such as end of relationships/divorce, job loss, death and moving. She also assists those navigating end of life transitions and persons struggling with death anxiety. You can get in touch with her and find out more about her work at www.threshold-hypnosis.com

Daniel Ryan BFA, MS is an expert and specialist in the art and science of Hypnosis and Regression Therapy. He has maintained full-time private practice since 2012 in New York City working with individuals, businesses, and groups. He has an MS from Columbia University in Narrative Medicine and a BFA from Emerson College in Writing and Literature. He received board certifications in Hypnotherapy, Regression Therapy, and Neuro-Linguistic Psychology. He studied and trained in techniques of meditation at the School of Practical Philosophy in New York City from 2007 to 2014 while exploring Vedic philosophy and east/west mysticism.

http://www.danielryancrt.com/

http://www.passedlivesclub.com/

Insta: @danielryan___

In addition to being the author of Abundant Joy, Kristina is a certified Spiritual Guide & Supervisor with a Doctor of Ministry in Interfaith/Interspiritual Guidance and is certified in Sound Healing and Sound Bathing. She serves as a faculty member at Spiritual Guidance Training Institute and offers retreat and speaker services as well. 

Social Media/Website Links

Website: https://www.tendingme.com/

Tending Me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565159454217

Tending Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tendingmespirituality/

ELIZABETH RITZ is a retired therapist whose specialties include: Grief work with seniors, Creative arts contemplation, Interspiritual, Spiritually Independent
​Individual and groups. In-person or virtual. 

https://www.ritzcounseling.com

Kelly Gest (she/her) is an interspiritual guide and grief companion rooted in presence, curiosity, and quiet discovery. She created In The Open Field as a sanctuary of welcome and belonging—a place where spirituality lives beyond tradition and where each person is invited to explore their own encounter with the sacred. With a compassionate heart and grounded presence, Kelly offers companionship through deep inner listening and by honoring the sacred rhythms of life and loss.

https://www.intheopenfield.com/

Lauren Kimberly Moore is an interfaith spiritual director, certified grief companion, elemental somatic guide, and ordaining minister through Feminine Healing Ministries. She companions women through the most tender thresholds of life—grief, divorce, identity shifts, and seasons of profound rebirth.

Her work blends contemplative wisdom, nervous system healing, and feminine spirituality. 

https://sacredlivingarts.com

5 Sacred Rites of Divorce Webpage

https://sacredlivingarts.com/5rites

Facebook 

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1Cov3XsR2Y/?mibextid=wwXIfr

All social platforms

@sacredlivingarts

Liza Hyatt is a spiritual companion, grief companion, dreamwork practitioner, art therapist and mental health counselor with almost 40 years of experience serving others with advanced skills for assisting trauma survivors. She offers virtual individual and group sessions in dreamwork, and creative arts as spiritual practice. She brings interspiritual and eco-spiritual perspectives into all her work. A published poet, her 5th book, Wayfaring (Fernwood Press), celebrates ordinary moments of spiritual awakening.

Website: https://lizahyatt.com/

You can also learn more about Dreamwork here:

https://www.thenaturaldream.com/

Maddy Marr is a Spiritual Director, Grief Companion, and Angelic Reiki Master Teacher. In real people words, this means: she supports people on their unique spiritual journeys through compassionate listening, developing spiritual practices and connections with The Divine and deeper self, and holds space for energetic healing/channeling. She practices with an interspiritual lens, and has a heart for people who are: deconstructing, navigating a faith shift, looking for their own path, queer, neurodivergent, and grief & trauma survivors. You can book her for virtual and in person sessions. When she’s not doing local vendor events or seeing one-on-one clients, you can usually find her either somewhere in the woods, eating gluten free ramen and watching horror movies with her partner, or curled up with her current hyper-fixation hobby. 

Website: https://www.maddymarr.com

Instagram: @griefghoul

Nancy Philpott, R.N., M.S., currently serves as the Research Manager for the Shared Crossing Project and the Shared Crossing Research Initiative. Nancy holds a B.S. in Nursing from West Texas A&M University and an M.S. in Health Administration from Southwest Texas State University.

While practicing as a health professional for 30+ years, Nancy experienced multiple Shared Death Experiences (SDEs) with patients and family members. She is passionate about assisting health professionals in understanding, applying, and integrating knowledge of SDEs to enhance their end-of-life care.

REBECCA SERPE offers spiritual direction primarily drawing from the Christian tradition and Buddhist meditation practices. Her areas of special interest include Interfaith, Times of Transition, Aging and Spirituality.

Website: 

https://www.sacredgroundchicago.org/copy-of-spiritual-directors

Rev. Wakil David Matthews, MA, is an interfaith minister ordained through the Sufi Ruhaniat International Order, a universalist and ecumenical Sufi organization. He has dedicated himself to working with those who are engaged with end-of-life work, as well as those who are engaged in social activism. He works with folks from any spiritual or religious background or who identify as spiritual but not religious. His sanctuary and place of worship is the forest! He is the cohost of the podcast, End of Life Conversations. 

Reverend Mother Annalouiza Armendariz's role as an Interfaith Chaplain stems from a deep commitment to life and death-honed since childhood. She started honoring the deceased early, burying pets and wild animals, countering her parents' advice to discard them. This early practice, along with coping with personal losses and environmental changes, shaped her understanding of grief and the significance of acknowledging both life and sorrow. She is the cohost of the podcast, "End of Life Conversations."

Sarah Hill, East Bay Doula for the Dying

As an end-of-life doula, Sarah provides support to those who are dying, and their constellation of caregivers. She approaches her work from an emotionally engaged and intuitively aware place, while also tending to the pragmatic essentials needed at the end of life. Sarah’s path to becoming a doula began in early childhood, but she resisted its pull until her forties. Sarah is humbled each day by those she encounters in her work and often marvels at the expansiveness of the human heart. Sarah began her private practice, East Bay Doula for the Dying, LLC in 2019, and is a founding member of the Bay Area End of Life Doula Alliance (ELDA).

Visit her personal website: https://www.eastbaydoulaforthedying.com/