EARTH HOSPICE VISION

The educational and community development work of the Sacred Circle Training Co CIC, a social enterprise, is about creating capacity, knowledge, skills, connectivity and fortitude within local communities to meet death and grief well, and together. This is the waveform of our vision: a wave of death consciousness and grief literacy in grassroots communities that ignites a remembering the simple but powerful acts of gathering, mourning and celebrating together and the sacredness of Death and Grief. 

The particle to that waveform? That is Earth Hospice. And Earth Hospice is our driving vision. This is the reason we are a Community Interest Company; so that we can hold assets for community benefit. By law our profits must be reinvested into community assets and these assets are then protected for social benefit; we can never sell them for profit. 

Earth Hospice will take form when its time is right and it is ready. The vision is of a non-medical, non-religious hospice in community settings that provides a death conscious and grief literate gathering space for people of all backgrounds and belief systems. 

Rather than comparing Earth Hospice to the modern hospice movement; consider the roots of the word Hospice as being from the ancient pilgrimage routes. The hospices along the pilgrim's ways were refuges, safe places, where you could rest and restore before continuing on your way. The root of the word is close to "hospitality" and it was colonised by the modern palliative care movement to be a place to die. Pilgrims might have died in the old hospices but that wasn't the main purpose of them. 

We imagine Earth Hospice to be a place of beauty and spirit; land based practices keep the energy earthy and humble; we would grow food and hold community meals; they will be hospice rooms for respite and for folks to die in; they could equally be used to birth in. A shared space, a relaxed, safe, community room for circles, gatherings, workshops, courses. There would be simple but comfortable pilgrims accomodation. 

Earth Hospice can be financially self supporting; no need for grants or charitable donations making it unsustainable and grant dependent. It can and must generate income in order to be independent and sustainable. Income streams would come from retreats, courses, classes, room hire, accomodation, shop and cafe. 

This is the reason we exist; it is our WHY? And it makes absolute sense that we should invest in creating community capacity first in the waveform and the physical manifestation of the particle comes later; the other way around would see Earth Hospice fail financially. 

If you are a billionaire with a conscience, an angel investor or a generous benefactor and you would put your money into earth hospice please get in touch at sacredcirclecic AT gmail.com! 

While we are waiting for the Angels to provide a large sum we continue in our community efforts and collective funding efforts, with Love.