free gathering
The DEATH Deck
A live, community conversation with Lisa Pahl, creator of The Death Deck
The Death Deck is a card game designed to make talking about death easy (and fun). In this free community talk, we'll chat with Lisa Pahl, the creator of the Death Deck, to explore its origins and how deathworkers are actually using it: in hospice settings, at mixers, as a conversation starter with families and friends. Join us to learn how to bring this tool into your own practice.
Co-led by:
Lauren Carroll & LIsa Pahl
may 26 at 1pm mountain time
held on Zoom
recording available
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Lisa Pahl
Lisa Pahl, LCSW, APHSW-C, is an end-of-life educator, speaker, and CEO of The Death Deck, LLC (thedeathdeck.com), where she creates tools that help people talk about what matters most in our lives and in our deaths.
With nearly two decades of experience in hospice care and additional years in emergency medicine, Lisa supports individuals and families as they navigate illness, dying, and grief. She is also an expert contributor for Help Texts, offering grief and mental health support via text, and volunteers with the Humane Prison Hospice Project, helping bring palliative care education into correctional settings.
Lisa believes that peace at the end of life begins with meaningful conversations over time. Through her work, she invites people into these conversations with warmth, honesty, and even a bit of humor; making the hard topics feel more human, and more possible.
Lauren Carroll
Lauren Carroll, co-founder of La Mort, is a Death Educator & Holistic Funeral Director who is passionate about weaving community and family back into the death space. Her work centers around re-aligning our culture with Mother Earth and helping humans remember how to love one another. She is a former board member for the National Home Funeral Alliance and co-founded The Deathwives. She lives on an urban farm at the base of a mountain where she tends to her animals, raises her two children, and dances around bonfires on the full moon with friends while listening to Nick Cave.
Our Teaching / Learning / Creating Style at La Mort
We leave behind the polished, gate-keepy approach to education. We teach in ways that carry story and experience. We listen. We laugh (a lot). We go off-script sometimes. We cry (with you)(for those you’ve loved)(for those we’ve loved). We like science and studies and logical frameworks, but also mysticism and poetry and all that stuff. We really love to honor history and those who came before. We move through some serious curricula, but don’t take anything too seriously. We dedicate ourselves to seeing you, and want you to feel seen. We deeply honor our intuition and yours. We lead with integrity (always). And we welcome the odd-balls and misfits, because it takes one to know one.