The Death Worker Summit
Turn Your Calling into a Sustainable Practice
Join 20 death workers for honest conversations and practical steps to help you get hired, build meaningful relationships, and build the business around your end-of-life work.
September 24–26, 2026 Virtual Free to attend
A virtual gathering for death doulas, end-of-life educators and planners, grief workers, celebrants, funeral professionals, home funeral guides, holistic practitioners, and others whose work supports people through death, dying, grief, and remembrance.
Get your free ticketWatch the video to see what becomes possible when you have practical support for creating a practice that can support you.
Building a sustainable practice takes more than being good at the work itself.
You’re already bringing a lot to this:
- years of skill, experience, and lived knowledge.
- a real understanding of the people you want to support.
- a deep commitment to doing this work well.
You may also have spent a lot of time learning how to build the business around it.
But when all that learning is not helping you make decisions, start conversations, or get hired, it becomes harder to know what will actually move the practice forward.
Maybe right now you…
...know people need your support, but wonder whether they will pay for it.
...keep trying to explain what you do, but people still do not understand when or why they would hire you.
...find yourself spending more time trying to run or launch the business than preparing to support the people you want to serve.
...take an unanswered email, a declined proposal, or another conversation that goes nowhere as evidence that there may not be room for your work.
...have plenty of ideas, information, and tools, but are still not sure which next step will help someone understand, trust, and actually hire you.
There has got to be a better way!
You dream of seeing all your skill, care, and experience become work people understand, trust, and hire you to do.
How would it feel to…
...get hired for the work you feel called to be doing.
...talk about what you do with confidence, so people understand who you help, why it matters, and when to call you.
...see how the work you are doing can become real conversations, referrals, and paying clients.
At The Death Worker Summit, you will see how other death workers are building sustainable businesses around their end-of-life work and how you can too.
During The Death Worker Summit, you will see how death workers are turning what they know and care about into services people understand, relationships that lead somewhere, and work they are hired to do.
Across three days, twenty practitioners will take on the different parts of building that practice, including readiness, clarity, visibility, relationships, money, and the practical decisions that help the work become sustainable.
Twenty different conversations. One shared possibility: turning the work you feel called to do into a practice that can support you.
Meet the Speakers:
Twenty death workers. Twenty different practices. Twenty honest conversations about getting hired, building relationships, earning an income in this field, and creating work that can last.
Day 1:Â You're More Ready Than You Think
Recognize the value of the skills, experience, and perspective you already bring, and see how getting clearer about your work can help you stop preparing and begin putting it into practice.
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Day 2: Learn From Practitioners Who've Already Built It
See what a sustainable EOL practice actually looks like through the real, specific stories of people who've built one, and start recognizing your own next step inside theirs.
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Day 3: Make the Work Sustainable
Leave with the one clear next step that turns interest into a real conversation, a paid opportunity, and a practice that can support you.
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Some conversations will meet you exactly where you are. Others may show you possibilities you have not considered yet.
Together, they reveal what a sustainable death work practice can look like.
This is a conversation worth being part of.
MEET YOUR HOST, REENA
Reena Lazar is the co-founder of Willow End-of-Life Education and Planning and the creator of the Willow EOL Educator™ Program and Willow Workshops™.
She helps death workers turn what they know into meaningful ways to serve through practical education, clear structure, and ready-to-lead workshops.
 MEET YOUR HOST, DEBRA
Debra White has spent more than 25 years as a high-performance coach, helping people turn meaningful ideas into clear decisions and practical action.
At Willow, she helps death workers build the practice around their work so it becomes clearer, more visible, and easier for people to understand, trust, and hire.
Together
Reena helps death workers turn what they know into meaningful ways to serve.
Debra helps them build the practice that brings that work into the world.
Together, they created The Death Worker Summit to show what is possible when the work itself and the business around it are finally part of the same conversation.
What to expect at The Death Worker Summit
Practitioners Who Are Doing the Work
You will hear from people across the end-of-life field who are serving in many different ways.
Some teach. Some speak. Some work one-on-one. Some work with groups. Some combine several kinds of service into a practice that is entirely their own.
There is no single version of a death work practice. The summit gives you the chance to see how many different forms this work can take.
A Room Full of People Who Get It
Begin each day with Debra and Reena, join the live conversations around the sessions, and take part in live Q&A with people who understand both the importance of this work and the challenge of building a practice around it.
Resources You Can Use
Many speakers will share tools, guides, and practical resources connected to their sessions.
You will leave with ideas you can return to and use in your own work, rather than another notebook full of information you never touch again.
A Chance to Win
Every registrant can apply to win full scholarship to the next Vision to Venture Guided Cohort, Willow’s program for turning your vision into a clear, sustainable practice.
The winner will be announced during the summit.
Upgrade Your Summit Experience!
Your free ticket gives you access to the summit and limited-time access to the recordings.
Upgrade to the All-Access Pass to keep every session and speaker resource for life, plus receive additional summit bonuses, including time inside The Willow Grove and a special Vision to Venture discount.
There is More Than One Pathway Within This Field
You will not leave The Death Worker Summit with one formula for what your practice should look like.
You will see different ways of serving, being visible, building relationships, finding paid opportunities, and creating a business around the work that matters to you.
Some conversations will speak directly to where you are now. Others may show you a possibility you had not considered yet.
The path does not have to look the same for everyone.
It does have to help the right people find, understand, and hire you for the work you are here to do.
Before this gets lost in the other 77 tabs you have open…
We know the routine.
Open the page. Read the speakers. Think, “This looks really good.” Leave the tab open so you remember to come back.
And then life keeps moving.
Bring the practice as it is today. Bring the work already underway, the ideas in motion, and the questions you have not settled yet.
Come all the way in, and sit all the way down. Bunny slippers are welcome.
The Death Worker Summit begins September 24.
Your free ticket is waiting.
HAVE QUESTIONS?
WE’VE GOT ANSWERS
Is this really free?
Do I need to already have a business?
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The Death Worker Summit
Hosted by Willow End-of-Life Education and Planning®
September 24–26, 2026 · Virtual · Free to attend
Willow believes the end-of-life field grows stronger when it includes many traditions for grieving, remembering, and preparing for death. Death touches every community, culture, and life story, and the work of supporting people at the end of life should reflect that same range.
The Death Worker Summit welcomes speakers and participants of every race, culture, faith tradition, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, and background.
Death Workers bring different histories and different training, and each perspective adds to what the whole field can offer the people who need it.
