The Threshold Practice: A Mortality Mindfulness Experience

Date: Saturday 21 February 2026
Time: 1:00 – 3:30pm
Venue: Heart Place Hospital, Mangawhai
Cost: $55

“This practice is not about fixing fear of death or creating a particular experience. It is about gently sitting with impermanence in a way that is safe, grounded, and respectful. People take from it what they need.”

The Threshold Practice is a non-religious, trauma-informed mortality mindfulness offering that gently invites participants to sit with impermanence, dying, and letting go, not to rehearse death, but to deepen presence and clarify what matters in living.

Guided by experienced end-of-life doula Sherie Sullivan, this practice weaves together gentle guidance, silence, sound (including crystal singing bowls), and embodied reflection to create a held, consent-based space for meeting mortality with curiosity rather than fear.

This is not therapy, spiritual instruction, or performance. It is a quiet, rigorous practice of attention, grounded in contemporary death literacy and end-of-life care principles.

What to Expect

• A clearly framed, opt-in experience with full choice respected throughout
• Gentle guidance through themes of impermanence, loss of roles, and bodily change
• Non-verbal integration through sound and silence
• No pressure to share, disclose, or “process” publicly
• A calm, respectful return to everyday awareness

Participants often report increased clarity, tenderness, and appreciation for life, though no outcome is promised or required.

Who This Is For

• People curious about death awareness and death literacy
• Health, social care, palliative care, and caregiving professionals
• Those seeking a grounded, respectful space to reflect on impermanence
• Anyone feeling called to pause, listen, and attend to what matters