What Is Death? The Mystery of Grieving & Loving

VERNON COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS AND THE EMILY DAHL FOUNDATION ANNOUNCE KEYNOTE PRESENTATION BY DR. JOANNE CACCIATORE AT THE VERNON COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS ANNUAL FUNDRAISER TO BE HELD AT THE VERNON TOWNE THEATRE ON THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 2023——–The Emily Dahl Foundation has been working with Compassionate Friends since 2019 and supports the work that they do. Helping others understand and work through the loss of a loved one has always been a key goal of both The Emily Dahl Foundation and Compassionate Friends.Theatre Doors will open at 5pm. There will be a wine and cheese reception along with silent auction items & door prizes throughout the evening. Presentations will be begin at 6:30 PM with the virtual Keynote Presentation by Dr. Joanne Cacciatore at 7pm. Tickets for the event will be $25 and will be available online. All net proceeds from the event will go directly to The Vernon Chapter of Compassionate Friends.——–Dr. Joanne CacciatoreMISS Foundation Founder and ChairmanDr. Joanne Cacciatore is a bereaved mother and the founder of the MISS Foundation, an international NGO that serves families whose children have died, and the Selah Carefarm, a sustainable restorative community that provides aid to anyone suffering traumatic grief. She is also a Professor and Senior Scholar in the Wrigley Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, spearheading the Graduate Certificate in Trauma and Bereavement. Her best-selling book, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief, is a national award winning best seller that has helped revolutionize the way our culture thinks, and feels, about grief. She works with and counsels families from all around the world who have experienced catastrophic deaths. She served on Oprah and Prince Harry’s Mental Health Advisory Board for several years and was featured in their docuseries ‘The Me You Can’t See.” Dr. Jo, believing that current practices around food production are a social, ethical, and environmental justice issue, is a vegan and hasn’t eaten meat since 1972. She also teaches meditation, mindfulness, and compassion and ahimsa practices to students and clients from around the world. If you’re a provider seeking supervision or consultation, please contact us.——–Sherman Dahl stated:”This is something we have been working on for a number of months. It was Dr. Stan Eamon that first gave me one of Dr. Jo’s books – Grieving is Loving. This act of kindness by Stan really impacted me and it was not long after this that Joanne and I met and began to share our stories of the loss of our children. It took a few months for Joanne to fit this in her schedule, but she did, even thought she was already fully booked for 2023. She is an amazing woman, and we are so excited to announce this joint effort with Lainey, the new leader of Vernon’s Compassionate Friends. Stay tuned, we will be promoting this event over the next few months. This will help so many people. Everyone has a story of grief and the loss of a loved one, and many suffer because of a lack of proper support in this area of our lives. We have to help each other, and we must have the correct understanding of the depths of our being in order to do this.”For more information, please contact:Lainey at 587-343-1285 or Ramona at 250-308-5584, or email Vernon@tcfcanada.net