A Heart Centre for Community End-of-Life Care
Welcome to a space for reflection, learning, and remembering what it means to live well and die well.
All are welcome on this journey as we get reacquainted with the natural experience of living and dying. Together, we can write a new story, one that nourishes us as we walk alongside each other in the wilderness of life and death.
FEATURED GUIDANCE
For Community
For EOL Doulas
HEART CONNECTIONS
Explore some of our upcoming offerings below.
Whether you yourself are navigating or supporting another on the end-of-life journey, seeking to better prepare yourself for the inevitable, or are a guide for others on the path, these heart-centred offerings seek to help you live well, love well, and die well. They provide opportunities for listening, supporting, and sharing information, deepening our connection within our hearts and the hearts of those around us.
FREE ONLINE GATHERINGS
FREE MONTHLY MENTORSHIP
Community End of Life Care Online Gatherings
Join Tracy Chalmers for community connection. This is a not-so-curated hour of insights, discussions, and mentorship.
This is your chance to connect with fellow practitioners and come together in a shared passion for community end of life care. Come with your curiosities!
Register through the links below:
FREE MONTHLY MENTORSHIP
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MEET TRACY CHALMERS
Endwell Founder, End of Life Educator & Doula, The Grief Well Co-founder, Forest Therapy Guide, Author of The Nature of the Journey
I am a mother, daughter, sister, wife, and friend.
My family and friends are the center of my universe.
I find comfort in spending time with my favourite people. Cooking for my family and friends feeds me. I am fuelled by being in nature - simply noticing the birds, the breeze, and the waves. I am also energized by moving in nature; hiking, biking, swimming, paddling, skiing — my moving meditation.
My life up until this point, both personal and professional, has led me perfectly here, to a place where I can gently encourage people to consider a different story about death. With doula clients and with participants in workshops and courses, I support others to consider what truly makes life worth living, exploring fears, regrets, wishes for future health care, life’s shiny moments, grief, and love. A big focus on love. I do what I can to support a life rich with connection right up until the last moments.
It is my hope to reduce suffering at the end of life by encouraging people to live well, sharing simple information about the nature of the journey, encouraging heart-centred conversations and planning, and finding as many opportunities for connection, awareness, meaning, pleasure, and presence as possible.
END OF LIFE EDUCATION
Online Course & LiveWell Workshops
A variety of online and in-person courses and workshops are available for community members, companions, people living with a life-limiting illness, End of life doulas, and end of life care practitioners.
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End of Life Doula MentorshipAn 8-week course for emerging End of Life Doulas. Through embodied learning, we'll explore the roots of the Doula practice and specific case studies to further prepare and support new End of Life Doulas. The intention of this offering is to alleviate the barrier of lack of experience in order to enable emerging End of Life Doulas to confidently step in and be of service. This course has been created as a substitute to shadowing clients to serve as a mastery of practice. Available January, May and October 2025
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The Nature of the JourneyA self-guided course for companions to accompany the book, The Nature of the Journey: A Guide to Companioning Your Person on the End of Life Journey. The course includes guided exercises and monthly virtual gatherings with a community of companions. Available Fall 2025
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Grief Stories Facilitator TrainingThis self-paced, 6-month training (one live session each month), will prepare facilitators to hold space during The Grief Well (TGW) Grief Stories, an 8-week gathering where participants will be exploring stories about grief through mind, body, and spirit. This space is created to encourage participants to listen to self, and others with an open mind and an open heart. There is time during each gathering for individuals to share their lived experience with grief, if they choose. The facilitator will use poetry, passages, quotes, story, writing prompts, sharing, and silence to support a kinship with grief. The role of facilitator includes: Inviting the group together, finding an appropriate space if held in person Offering radical hospitality Creating a supportive container for people to share - TGWs 5 tenets to be well together Facilitating group conversation Honoring time, being sure the gathering begin and end on time and managing time throughout the gathering Providing additional grief resources Leaning out for support if needed Coming September 2025!
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End of Life Doula MentorshipAn 8-week course for emerging End of Life Doulas. Through embodied learning, we'll explore the roots of the Doula practice and specific case studies to further prepare and support new End of Life Doulas. The intention of this offering is to alleviate the barrier of lack of experience in order to enable emerging End of Life Doulas to confidently step in and be of service. This course has been created as a substitute to shadowing clients to serve as a mastery of practice. Available January, May and October 2025
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The Nature of the JourneyA self-guided course for companions to accompany the book, The Nature of the Journey: A Guide to Companioning Your Person on the End of Life Journey. The course includes guided exercises and monthly virtual gatherings with a community of companions. Available Fall 2025
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Grief Stories Facilitator TrainingThis self-paced, 6-month training (one live session each month), will prepare facilitators to hold space during The Grief Well (TGW) Grief Stories, an 8-week gathering where participants will be exploring stories about grief through mind, body, and spirit. This space is created to encourage participants to listen to self, and others with an open mind and an open heart. There is time during each gathering for individuals to share their lived experience with grief, if they choose. The facilitator will use poetry, passages, quotes, story, writing prompts, sharing, and silence to support a kinship with grief. The role of facilitator includes: Inviting the group together, finding an appropriate space if held in person Offering radical hospitality Creating a supportive container for people to share - TGWs 5 tenets to be well together Facilitating group conversation Honoring time, being sure the gathering begin and end on time and managing time throughout the gathering Providing additional grief resources Leaning out for support if needed Coming September 2025!
“Rooted ways embolden us to remember that with our complex minds we can feel—and live—more than one thing simultaneously.
Anxiety, difficulty, fear, despair. Yes.
Beauty, connectedness, possibility, love. Yes.”
― Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature & Spirit
HEART MUSINGS BLOG
As a deeply supportive act of self care, Tracy integrates her experiences of caring for the dying and their people through writing. Her blog will share stories from her experiences in community end of life care. Through sharing these stories about normal, gentle dying, Tracy hopes to help shift the narrative around death from fear based to love based, one story at a time.
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