Consent and Power in Grief, Death and Dying

Join us for a nourishing and heart-centered exploration of embodied consent and power in grief, death, and dying.
Everyone is welcome.

This offering welcomes curiosity and gentle awareness towards topics and areas that are often avoided: grief, death, and power.

We are inviting an opportunity to notice where consent may be or feel more or less accessible and available, and how to bring more care towards ourselves and others.

You are invited to explore through choice-based guided somatic practices and inquiries, supported by various expressive modalities, including dialogue, drawing, and writing.

Opening
Somatic Exploration
Domain, Boundary, Limits
Listening Turn
To what extent do you get to choose how you live and die?
Exploration of Power
Circles of Care
Death Meditation
Somatic Exploration
Closing

In-person experiential workshop
Location: Circles in the Square, Leg in Boot Square, False Creek, Vancouver
Date: Saturday February 21, 2026
Hours: 10 AM-4 PM
There are several shorter breaks throughout the days, including a 1 hour break for lunch. Tea and some snacks are provided.
Group size: Min 4**, Max 10
** Full refund offered if we have not reached our minimum of 4 registered participants by noon  Fri January 9th.

Workshop agreements
How we ask that you engage with each other:
1. Confidentiality — outside the practices and the group, share only your own experience and learnings.
2. All feelings are welcome and do not need to be justified or explained; honor the feelings that arise in others by allowing them to feel without fixing or advising.
3. Share with intention, using "I" statements. Listen with attention. Bring awareness to power. No cross talk. “in the moment,” not meant to be hard facts.
4. Orient towards care. Use the names and pronouns people request, and honor the lived experience of those in the group. Bring curiosity and set aside assumptions about people's identities and experiences (e.g. gender, racialization, sexuality, culture, etc.).

What we invite for your own experience:
1. Choosing is more important than doing. Participation can look many ways and you choose how you want to participate — actively join a dialogue/practice, witness, journal, step outside, and change your mind at any time
2. Self-care and self-regulation — take care of your needs (for water, rest, movement, emotional care, etc.)

Sliding Scale Tickets 
Ocean: $200CAD +GST (have investments (liquid or not), can afford travel/vacations)
Lake: $125CAD +GST (stable income or access to financial support)
River: $65CAD +GST (can afford occasional treats)
Stream: $25CAD +GST (closer to living wage)

Please be mindful that if you purchase a price at the lower ends of the scale when you can truthfully afford the higher ticket prices, you are limiting access to those who truly need the gift of financial flexibility. If the base rate is inaccessible for you, or you need a payment plan, or other methods of payment, contact Helena.

In acknowledging and tending the ongoing impacts of colonization, as settlers on these lands, we offer some spots in this workshop for xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ peoples as a gift. Please contact Helena to register.

Accessibility and health protocols
໑ Thank you for not wearing artificial scents (e.g. perfume, scented lotion, aftershave).
໑ The space is on the ground floor with a small step to access the space.
໑ If you do not feel well, and it may be contagious, please do not attend.
If the accessibility offered present a hardship or barrier for you to attend, or you have additional accessibility needs, please contact Helena and we will explore options for making this experience accessible for you.

Refund policy
Tickets are transferrable and not refundable. If you would like to transfer your ticket, please contact Helena so the new attendee can complete a registration form.

About the facilitators
This experiential offering is facilitated by Death Conversation Game's creator Angela Fama and Certified Wheel of Consent® facilitator Helena De Felice.
They have previously collaborated in offering DCG X Our Sacred Body: Consent, Power & Dignity in Grief, Death & Dying and multiple immersive 3-day Wheel of Consent® Workshops.

Angela Fama (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist and gendered violence prevention workshop facilitator who is trained as a death doula and has survived a near fatal car accident; all of which inform her perspectives on death and dying. Since creating Death Conversation Game over five years ago, Angela has been utilizing this tool to co-create a variety of interactive inclusive spaces for sharing and listening, to selves and each other, in relation to death, dying and grief.

Born in Tennessee (on The Farm), as a varied-generation French/Italian/Scottish/Unknown settler, Angela was raised in Ontario and Zimbabwe and now lives as a settler on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations in Vancouver, Canada.

 
Helena De Felice (she/they) is a certified facilitator of The Wheel of Consent® and has been facilitating Wheel practices since 2016.In teaching, she weaves in awareness of power, oppression, and trauma from the lineages of Process Work, Deep Democracy, Right Use of Power, and Somatic Abolitionism. In addition to public online and in person workshops in Europe and Canada, she offers tailored workshops for communities and organisations in skills for navigating embodied consent, power dynamics, and conflict.

Her facilitation is informed by years in the fields of prevention and response to relational/gender based violence, senior leadership for sexual and reproductive rights, teaching holistic peer counseling, holding space for altered states in birth and death, and erotic and entheogenic healing.
Helena calls 'home' her ancestral lands in Sweden. She lives most of the year as a settler on the unceded traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations in Vancouver, Canada.