2024 Program Leaders

Leeann Tourtillott

she/her: In Leeann’s Environmental Education career, she taught college, wrote instructional materials, did research, and consulted with nonprofits and government. Also, as an educator, she started working for Hospice, mostly in family bereavement services. In her role as an interfaith minister, she has supported families, as a loved one approaches and meets death. Assisting and coordinating home funerals are also in her death care resume. Leeann is a trained Advanced Care Directives Facilitator, presenting that information to organizations since 2017.  She consults privately, helping individuals and couples work through advance directive paperwork, getting their thoughts and priorities clarified, and documented.  After the death of her husband, Leeann and her daughter attended family camp at Indralaya for years and appreciates the processing, learning, and healing, fostered in nature and community.

Events with Leeann Tourtillott

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…