Facilitated by Brooke Black, BSN, RN
Pay-What-You-Wish
Laurel Hill East
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A Life, Unraveled
An immersive community experience in letting go.
What if you had to say goodbye to everything you loved… one breath at a time?
In this powerful, participatory workshop, you’ll be invited to reflect on the people, memories, dreams, and daily joys that make life meaningful — and then slowly, gently, begin to let them go. Through a guided narrative that mirrors the emotional journey of decline and dying, participants will physically release pieces of their own life story, one by one.
This is not a lecture. It’s not a performance.
It’s a space to feel, to remember, to grieve, to awaken.Whether you’ve experienced loss, work in end-of-life care, or simply want to explore your relationship with mortality, this session offers a moving, meditative invitation to explore what it means to be alive — and what it means to let go.
-No experience required
-Writing materials provided
<3 Quiet reflection and shared silence encouraged -
Brooke Black, BSN, RN, is a hospice director and death literacy advocate who has spent her career honoring the most human of thresholds — the final one. With over a decade of experience in grief support and hospice leadership, Brooke brings a rare kind of presence: one that balances deep clinical knowledge with emotional fluency and quiet reverence.
Her work is not about fixing death, but about witnessing it — tenderly, truthfully, and without flinching. She believes dying is not a medical crisis, but a deeply human, relational, and often neglected rite of passage.
As Director of Clinical Services for Humanitas Hospice and co-founder of CareNav Hospice Solutions Group, Brooke builds structures that allow people to die well — and creates access to comprehensive, compassionate end-of-life care for those who need it most. Her work lives at the intersection of systems and spirit. Whether guiding care teams, supporting grieving families, or facilitating public rituals like A Life, Unraveled, she invites people to approach death not with fear, but with honesty, softness, and awe.
Brooke works to reclaim death from bureaucracy and return it to where it belongs — to families, to communities, and to the people living it. Her approach is rooted in equity, access, and the belief that every person deserves to die with dignity, no matter their background, income, or circumstance. She holds a deep belief that death, like birth, is a sacred threshold — one worthy of preparation, presence, and honor. Though our culture often celebrates beginnings and fears endings, Brooke invites us to hold both with equal reverence.
She is based in Philadelphia, where she continues to advocate for compassionate, equitable, community-rooted approaches to death and dying — and for a culture that remembers death not as the end of the story, but as the closing of a chapter worth reading slowly.