2024 Program Leaders

Hilarie Hauptman

Hilarie Hauptman, she/her: Hilarie is passionate about connecting people to resources to empower them to move toward the kind of aging and death experience they desire. Grounded in working within the aging field for 40 years as a program developer and trainer, she facilitated numerous workshops on health promotion, caregiving, and advance care planning in professional and community settings. In wanting to share more ground-breaking options, she co-founded the Green After Death Collaborative, helped plan the 2021 North American Green Burial Council Conference, and presented at the North American Jewish Cemetery Conference.  She gets her deepest nourishment from walking in nature in nourishing places like Indralaya.

Events with Hilarie Hauptman

Blessing Your Journey: Exploring and Empowering the End of LIfe
September 25 - 29, 2024

Blessing Your Journey Wednesday dinner – Sunday breakfast You are invited to a supportive, and meditative retreat in a uniquely beautiful setting to do deep work in the company of others; contemplate your own death and the death of significant others. We will listen, write, draw, sing and dance.  Prepare for guided conversations and rituals around the intimate topic of death and what most matters to us. As a group we will look at the environmental, social, and spiritual aspects of dying. Explore what happens to your body when you die. We will cover legal alternative disposition methods; Aquamation, Natural Organic Reduction, as well as…